Tech Radar: Tools

Adopt — Axe-core

Accessibility testing library for web applications. Automatically finds accessibility issues during development.

Adopt — Claude Code

Anthropic AI coding assistant that runs in the terminal. Excellent for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and automation.

Adopt — Cursor

AI-first code editor built on VS Code. One of the most productive AI IDEs available today.

Adopt — Kafbat UI

Web UI for managing Apache Kafka clusters. Makes Kafka topics, consumers and messages much easier to inspect.

Adopt — mise

Universal runtime and version manager. Replaces tools like asdf, pyenv, and nvm.

Trial — Cargo-mutants

Mutation testing tool for Rust. Automatically injects small bugs to verify your tests actually detect bugs.

Trial — Claude Code plugin marketplace

Ecosystem of plugins for Claude code. Lets Claude interact with external tools and workflows.

Trial — Dev Containers

Standardized development environments using containers. Every developer gets the exact same setup.

Trial — Figma Make

AI-assisted generation from Figma. Speeds up turning designs into working interfaces.

Trial — OpenAI Codex

OpenAI's coding agent for software development. Powerful coding assistant worth evaluating as agent capabilities mature.

Trial — Typst

Modern type settings language designed to replace LaTeX for many use cases. Simpler syntax while producing high-quality documents.

Assess — Agent Scan

Security scanner for AI agents. Helps identify vulnerabilities in agent systems.

Assess — Beads

Tool for organizing AI workflow and execution. Interesting approach to agent orchestration.

Assess — Bloom

AI development tool/framework. Emerging ecosystem worth watching.

Assess — CDK Terrain

Infrastructure visualization for AWS CDK projects. Makes cloud infrastructure easier to understand.

Assess — CodeScene

Code health and technical debt analysis. Finds risky parts of a codebase using behavioral analysis.

Assess — ConfIT

AI-assisted configuration management. Simplifies working with complex configuration files.

Assess — Entire CLI

AI-native command-line. Explores new ways of interacting with developer tools.

Assess — Git AI

AI-powered git operations. Assists with commits, merges, repository management.

Assess — Google Antigravity

Google tool for AI-assisted software engineering. Early but promising AI development workflow.

Assess — Google Mainframe Assessment Tool

Analyzes legacy mainframe applications. Helps estimate modernization effort.

Assess — OpenCode

Open-source AI coding assistant. Alternative to proprietary coding tools.

Assess — OpenSpec

Specification-first software development. Uses structured specifications to guide AI coding agents.

Assess — PageIndex

Improves retrieval of documentation and large codebases. Gives AI better context.

Assess — Pencil

AI-assisted software design and development tool. Explores new design-to-code workflows.

Assess — Pi

Tool for evaluating prompts and AI interactions. Helps improve LLM quality.

Assess — Qwen 3 TTS

Alibaba's tts model. High-quality open speech generation.

Assess — SGLang

High-performance framework for serving LLMs. Makes AI inference faster and more efficient.

Assess — ty

Extremely fast Python type checker. Improves Python development speed.

Assess — Warp

AI-powered modern terminal. Adds collaboration and AI assistance to the command line.

Assess — WuppieFuzz

API fuzz testing tool. Automatically discovers bugs and security issues in APIs.

Caution — OpenClaw

Open-source framework for autonomous computer. Demonstrates powerful capabilities but highlights risks of giving AI agents unrestricted control over systems.