Qodo's Agentic Toolbox overview - Qodo Documentation

Beta The Qodo Agentic Toolbox brings Qodo’s code understanding, coding standards, and review capabilities into your existing coding agent. It does not replace your coding agent or require you to interact with Qodo directly; it extends your agent with Qodo capabilities that support key stages of your agentic workflow. After you install the Agentic Toolbox, continue working with your coding agent as usual. The Agentic Toolbox enables your agent to automatically apply Qodo capabilities for understanding your codebase, applying team standards, reviewing changes, and resolving findings. The Agentic Toolbox is a new product, not a rename of the legacy Qodo Command (@qodo/command) or Qodo Gen CLI. Those were code-generation agents you drove directly; the Agentic Toolbox is a set of tools your agent calls on its own. If you have an existing Qodo Command installation, installing the Agentic Toolbox replaces it automatically. There’s no separate uninstall step.

Qodo technologies powering the Agentic Toolbox

Code review: Powers review for local and pull request changes.
Codebase knowledge: Provides understanding of code, dependencies, relationships, and history.
Cross-repository relationship mapping: Connects related code and dependencies across repositories.
Pull request history: Provides context from previous pull requests and changes.
Rules: Provides the standards and rules used to guide implementation and review.

The Agentic Toolbox extends Qodo Code Review into your local development workflow. After you open a pull request, Qodo Code Review continues to provide automated review and collaboration directly in your pull request workflow.

Supported interfaces

The Agentic Toolbox is available through the following interfaces.

Interface	Description
CLI	Use Qodo tools from the command line and scripts.
Agent skills	Use Qodo tools from supported coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex, and Kiro, through agent skills.
Claude Code plugin	Access Qodo tools directly from Claude Code.
Codex plugin	Access Qodo tools directly from Codex.
Kiro plugin	Access Qodo tools directly from Kiro.
MCP Server	Connect any MCP-compatible client or coding agent.

Agentic Toolbox tools

The Agentic Toolbox provides tools for different stages of your agentic workflow. Your coding agent accesses these tools through agent skills.

Tool	Stage	Description
Codebase Wisdom	Understand	Provides your agent with codebase context to understand dependencies, impact, and recent changes before implementation.
Get Rules	Write	Retrieves the rules that apply to the current task before code is generated.
Review	Review	Runs Qodo Review on local changes using the same review engine used for pull request reviews.
Review Resolver	Resolve	Retrieves and resolves Qodo Review findings directly from the agent workflow.
Manage Standards	Govern	Lets you manage your organization’s Review Standards, including creating, updating, retiring, re-scoping, and triaging rule suggestions.

Install the Agentic Toolbox

Prerequisite

Node.js 20 or later.

macOS/ Linux (including Git Bash and WSL)

curl -fsSL https://get.qodo.ai | sh

Windows PowerShell

no administrator privileges required

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "irm https://get.qodo.ai/install.ps1 | iex"

The installer installs the toolbox and configures the available Qodo tools for supported agent environments. You can install the Agentic Toolbox without a Qodo account, but you’ll need to sign up or log in to Qodo before your agent can actually run any of the tools.

How Agentic Toolbox skills stay up to date

Agentic Toolbox skills are included with your Agentic Toolbox installation. During interactive use, the Agentic Toolbox periodically checks for updates and installs a newer version in the background when one is available. The updated version is used the next time you run a qodo command. After the Agentic Toolbox updates, the next qodo command refreshes installed, Qodo-managed skills from the skill set included with the installed version. You can also run qodo update to check for and install an update manually. By default, the Agentic Toolbox also adds newly released recommended skills to coding agent environments where you already installed Qodo skills. It does not add skills to environments where you have not installed any Qodo skills, and it does not overwrite skills that you own or have customized.

Configure coding agent instructions

Coding agents can use the Agentic Toolbox more effectively when its instructions are included in their agent instruction file. Add the Qodo Agentic Toolbox instructions below to your agent instruction file, such as AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, to help the agent use the Toolbox effectively throughout its workflow.

For coding agents

Read the [Default template](/agentic-toolbox/agentic-toolbox-overview#default-template) before using the Agentic Toolbox. Add the template's instructions to the appropriate agent instruction file, then follow those instructions throughout your workflow.

Default template

Copy the following into your agent instruction file:

## Qodo Agentic Toolbox

- Use the installed Qodo skills whenever they are relevant or can provide useful context; let the skill choose the current Qodo commands and flags.
- For coding or code-review tasks, load relevant Qodo Review Standards when they can affect the work. Apply the rules that fit this repository and stack, and do not fetch them again in the same session if already loaded.
- When an answer depends on unfamiliar code, debugging or regression analysis, historical precedent, cross-repository impact, or technical documentation that describes real behavior, do not guess—check using Qodo's codebase and pull-request knowledge. Cite the repository, file/line, pull request, or commit behind important claims; distinguish verified facts from inference.
- Before opening a pull request, run Qodo's local pre-PR review with context describing what changed, why, key decisions, and links to the ticket or design. Evaluate every finding against the code and intent; fix only findings that are sound and in scope.
- After a pull request exists, use Qodo's structured PR review findings rather than scraping rendered review comments. Confirm the review is complete and covers the relevant commit, then apply the findings in the context of the code, task intent, and user direction. Explain what you fix and anything you deliberately leave unchanged.
- Perform one review-and-fix pass by default. Continue with another round when it is useful to validate meaningful fixes or when the user requests it, within an agreed limit. Finish when the applicable findings are addressed or another round would not produce meaningful progress, and report what remains.
- Use read-only Qodo discovery autonomously when relevant. When the work reveals a durable convention, offer to contribute it as a Qodo Review Standard; non-admin contributions become pending suggestions for admin review. Ask before creating a suggestion, administering standards, or performing forge mutations.
- On authentication errors, run `qodo whoami` to diagnose the current identity/session and run `qodo login` when authentication is missing or invalid. If Qodo remains unavailable, gated, or rate-limited, report that clearly and continue with local evidence when safe; do not retry in a loop.

Next steps

Start using the Agentic Toolbox with these tools and workflows:

Suggested workflows: See example workflows for building features, debugging issues, and combining Agentic Toolbox capabilities into a repeatable development process.
Codebase Wisdom: Gives your agent context about your codebase, including dependencies, cross-repository relationships, and recent changes.
Get Rules: Retrieves the coding rules and standards that apply to the current task.
Review: Reviews your local changes using the same Qodo Review capabilities used for pull request reviews.
Review Resolver: Retrieves and resolves Qodo Review findings from your agent workflow.
Manage Standards: Lets authorized users manage review standards and rule suggestions directly from their agent.

​Qodo technologies powering the Agentic Toolbox

​Supported interfaces

​Agentic Toolbox tools

​Install the Agentic Toolbox

​Prerequisite

​macOS/ Linux (including Git Bash and WSL)

​Windows PowerShell

​How Agentic Toolbox skills stay up to date

​Configure coding agent instructions

​For coding agents

​Default template

​Next steps

Qodo technologies powering the Agentic Toolbox

Supported interfaces

Agentic Toolbox tools

Install the Agentic Toolbox

Prerequisite

macOS/ Linux (including Git Bash and WSL)

Windows PowerShell

How Agentic Toolbox skills stay up to date

Configure coding agent instructions

For coding agents

Default template

Next steps