Startup Zencoder, officially For Good AI Inc., introduced a cloud platform called Zen Agents that can be used to create coding-optimized AI agents. The new Zen Agents platform has two main components. The first is a catalog of open-source AI agents that can automate more than a half dozen programming tasks. The platform’s other component, in turn, is a tool that allows software teams to build their own custom AI agents. Developers can create an AI agent by entering a natural language description of the tasks it should perform. Zen Agents provides a collection of prepackaged AI agent integrations powered by MCP. The platform also offers access to third-party registries, or cloud services that host ready-to-use MCP connectors. The company says AI agents powered by its platform can create documentation that explains developers’ code, as well as generate new code in multiple programming languages. Software teams can also deploy AI agents that automatically test application updates for bugs. Zencoder has developed a technology it calls Repo Grokking to improve AI-generated code. It maps out the structure of an application’s code base, including details such as the programming best practices that the application’s developers follow. This information allows the AI models that power its platform to generate more relevant programming suggestions.