Below are common scenarios where AI coding agents provide the most impact, along with the right tools for each use case:

| 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|

| 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](../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)*|

|**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)*|