Glossary term

AI coding agent

A model-driven assistant that reads and edits files, runs commands and calls tools in a project — Claude Code, Codex and Cursor are examples.

Definition

An AI coding agent is a language-model assistant that works inside a project: it reads files, edits them, runs shell commands and calls external tools. Claude Code and Codex run in the terminal; Cursor embeds the same loop in an editor. What makes it an agent rather than a chat is the loop — it decides the next step from what it observed.

Coding agents are not browser agents by default. They gain browser control through an integration such as an MCP server that exposes a Chrome instance as tools.

Example

A solo founder in Manchester already uses Claude Code for her SaaS. She clones LaunchRepo into a folder, pastes the one-paragraph start prompt, and the agent interviews her about the product and fills the product context file. Before the first directory it needs a browser, so she connects Chrome DevTools MCP; from then on she watches the agent fill forms in her own Chrome.

After each platform the agent writes one tracker row with the observed state and a note on what to check next. When she opens a new session two days later, the agent reads those files and continues where it stopped instead of starting over.

Why it matters for a directory launch

A directory launch is file reading, form filling and record keeping — exactly the shape of task a coding agent already does in your repository. Using the agent you already pay for means no new subscription, no upload of your product to a third party and a visible browser you supervise. It also means the agent has to be told the rules: no spending, no evasion of platform controls, honest states.

How LaunchRepo handles it

LaunchRepo is written for any coding agent that reads Markdown, runs Python 3.10+ scripts and can drive a browser through an MCP server. AGENTS.md carries the rules every returning agent must follow; the start prompt is one paragraph. The agent pages on this site cover Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, ChatGPT agent and browser agents. Agent usage is billed by your provider and is not part of the license.

Go deeper

Agent setup pages

One page per agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and more — with the MCP configuration for that agent and what to do when the connection fails.

See the term in the repository

LaunchRepo is 299 directory playbooks, a product context file and a submission tracker your own agent runs. Pay €119.00 once; use it for every product you own.

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