Modo: An Open-Source AI IDE That Plans Before Coding
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mohshomis
Hot, fresh, and worth queueing round the block for.
Summary
Modo is an open-source AI-powered IDE that uses structured planning before coding. The creator built it as a fork of the Void editor (itself a VS Code fork) to address the lack of feature suggestion capabilities in existing AI coding tools like Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf. The project achieved 60-70% of the functionality of commercial tools in a short development period and is released under MIT License with contributions welcome.
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I wanted a small feature in an AI coding tool. Couldn't find a way to suggest it. So I asked myself: how hard is it to actually build something like Kiro, Cursor, or Windsurf?
Turns out — not as hard as you'd think. Starting from the Void editor (itself a fork of VS Code), I got to roughly 60–70% of what those tools offer in a short stretch of building.
This is Modo. A standalone desktop IDE where prompts become structured plans before they become code.
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