AI editors

Modiqo has wired its Rote capture-and-replay platform into nine AI coding environments, including Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Kimi and Visual Studio Code, with four releases shipping in the final week of August alone. The Rote tool records what an AI agent actually did during a successful run and compiles it into a deterministic, replayable Play — the vendor’s benchmark puts a replay at roughly 300 tokens against 14,900 for the original discovery run. This piece covers the multi-editor rollout, how capture and replay work, how Plays compare with prompts, skills and workflows, pricing from free to $799 a month, and the limits worth knowing before the Rote Playoffs hackathon stress-tests it all.