Category dossiers / Six operating shapes

Evaluate the system around the feature.

Each dossier names the decision, evidence, warning signs, and smallest useful test for one resource category. It does not rank vendors.

AI-assisted coding environments

Editors, agents, and review systems that help people design, write, test, and maintain software.

Interfaces for testing models, structured output, tool use, retrieval, and production calls.

Tools that move data and actions between systems through triggers, steps, branches, and approvals.

Systems for test cases, traces, quality review, cost inspection, regressions, and operating feedback.

Pipelines and stores that help an AI workflow find approved organizational knowledge.

Hosting, storage, identity, queues, and operational services that turn a build into a maintained product.