| Scenario| Description| Examples| Tools|

|------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

|**Automating actions in the IDE**| Supplement tedious development with agents| Small refactors, generating unit tests, writing inline documentation, code search and navigation|[IDE Agents](./ide-agents.md) in Workspaces|

|**Developer-led investigation and setup**| Developers delegate research and initial implementation to AI, then take over in their preferred IDE to complete the work| Bug triage and analysis, exploring technical approaches, understanding legacy code, creating starter implementations|[Tasks](./tasks.md), to a full IDE with[Workspaces](./workspaces.md)|

|**Developer-led investigation and setup**| Developers delegate research and initial implementation to AI, then take over in their preferred IDE to complete the work| Bug triage and analysis, exploring technical approaches, understanding legacy code, creating starter implementations|[Tasks](./tasks.md), to a full IDE with[Workspaces](../user-guides/workspace-access/index.md)|

|**Prototyping & Business Applications**| User-friendly interface for engineers and non-technical users to build and prototype within new or existing codebases| Creating dashboards, building simple web apps, data analysis workflows, proof-of-concept development|[Tasks](./tasks.md)|

|**Full background jobs & long-running agents**| Agents that run independently without user interaction for extended periods of time| Automated code reviews, scheduled data processing, continuous integration tasks, monitoring and alerting|[Tasks](./tasks.md) API*(in development)*|

- A Coder deployment with v2.21 or later

- A[Coder workspace / template](./create-template.md)

- A[Coder workspace / template](../admin/templates/creating-templates.md)

- A custom agent that supports Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Most[agents](./agents.md) can be configured to either use a local LLM (e.g.

Most agents can be configured to either use a local LLM (e.g.

llama3), an agent proxy (e.g. OpenRouter), or a Cloud-Provided LLM (e.g. AWS

Bedrock). Research which models you are comfortable with and configure your

Coder templates to use those.