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NAME
trae — Trae (The Real AI Engineer) is ByteDance's free AI-powered IDE built as a VS Code fork.
METADATA
TYPE
IDE
IDE
PRICE
Free
Free
VERIFIED
2026-03-16
2026-03-16
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. It uses .trae/rules/ for project-level markdown rule files with YAML frontmatter supporting alwaysApply, globs, and description fields for intelligent rule activation. Also reads AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md from the project root for cross-tool compatibility.
SEE ALSO
ByteDance2026-03-16TRAE(1)