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Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

by The Armature team armature.tech published 2026-09-036 min read

We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions instead of just recommending one.

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