Supported agents
Vector doesn’t hard-wire itself to one agent — each tab spawns a PTY running whichever CLI you pick, rendered into the same xterm.js surface. The built-in list:
- Claude Code (
claude) - Codex (
codex) - Cursor Agent (
cursor-agent) - GitHub Copilot CLI (
copilot/gh-copilot) - Aider (
aider) - Gemini CLI (
gemini) - Amazon Q (
q) - OpenCode (
opencode) - Crush (
crush) - Goose (
goose) - Amp (
amp) - Plandex (
plandex) - Continue (
continue/cn) - Qodo (
qodo/qodo-gen)
…plus a raw shell option, for when you just want a terminal tab with no agent at all.
Auto-detect installed agents
Section titled “Auto-detect installed agents”Vector scans your PATH for each of these binaries at startup and only lists the ones you actually have installed — no need to manually enable or disable agents you don’t use. If a CLI has more than one possible binary name (e.g. copilot vs gh-copilot), Vector picks whichever one it finds first.
You can switch an existing tab’s agent from the topbar dropdown at any time; the session restarts cleanly with the new agent.
Don’t see an agent you use? See Add a custom agent — Vector will merge any CLI you point it at into this same list.