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NAME
trae — Trae (The Real AI Engineer) is ByteDance's free AI-powered IDE built as a VS Code fork (v3.
METADATA
TYPE
IDE
IDE
PRICE
Free
Free
VERIFIED
2026-03-18
2026-03-18
STATUS
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
LINKS
CONFIG FILES
DESCRIPTION
Trae (The Real AI Engineer) is ByteDance's free AI-powered IDE built as a VS Code fork (v3.5.38). Features project-level MCP servers, SOLO Coder spec mode with `/plan` and `/spec` commands, and AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md integration. It uses .trae/rules/ for project-level markdown rule files with YAML frontmatter supporting alwaysApply, globs, and description fields for intelligent rule activation.
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SEE ALSO
ByteDance2026-03-18TRAE(1)