External agents

Delegate to the agent you trust.

ADO Code orchestrates external coding agents instead of competing with them — pick the right tool for the task, straight from the chat.

Claude Code

Full agentic coding with Anthropic models, driven by natural-language prompts.

Codex

OpenAI's CLI agent for focused, file-level implementation work.

OpenCode

Open-source terminal agent — bring your own model and workflow.

Hermes

Nous Research's agent platform, orchestrated right from the chat.

Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes, Pi and DeepSeek Harness (dsh) are detected out of the box — add your own via adoCode.agents.enabled, each declared by binary, supported modes and CLI arguments, with a details panel. Delegating a parent item runs its whole subtree in one worktree, with a numbered delivery checklist the agent must sign off in a ## Delivery Report — and with adoCode.agents.autoCompleteChildren on, done children transition to their terminal state automatically.