Reason

Reason is an autonomous AI coding agent that connects to GitHub, takes assigned issues, and returns pull requests.

  • Web app · Desktop
  • Verified 20 Oct 2026

What Reason does

The tool takes assigned GitHub issues and returns pull requests with supporting test results. Users can assign it tasks from a web interface and follow the work in a session view. It can split a performance investigation into parallel parts and report a benchmark result. It can also be asked in team chat to prepare reports, slide decks and data files.

Key features

  • Connects to GitHub and works on assigned issues
  • Runs cloud coding sessions with a live app preview
  • Splits larger tasks across parallel subagents
  • Builds slide decks and exports CSV data files
  • Responds to requests inside team chat threads

Pros

Pros

  • Pull requests come with test results for the changes made.
  • Work can be started and checked from a phone.

Where Reason is listed

Reason is listed under AI coding agents in AI coding tools.

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