"LLM Brains" is a JetBrains IDE plugin (for e.g. usage in PhpStorm) to open any (popular) CLI coding agent in a new terminal window. Tested with PhpStorm 2025.2.1 (Build #PS-252.25557.128) and requires the 252.* platform family. It's like the Claude Code button but also provides OpenAI Codex and Google's Gemini CLI, and maybe more in the future.
It shows the 🫴 icon in the top right corner of the IDE. When you click on it, it gives you the following options:
- "Claude Code" ⇒ run 'claude' in an IDE terminal window with title '🫴 Claude'
- "Codex CLI" ⇒ run 'codex' in an IDE terminal window with title '🫴 Codex'
- "Gemini CLI" ⇒ run 'gemini' in an IDE terminal window with title '🫴 Gemini'
- "Qodo Command" ⇒ run 'qodo' in an IDE terminal window with title '🫴 Qodo'
- "Check what's installed" ⇒ run a bash script in an IDE terminal window: for each of the CLI programs above: if it's installed, show the version. If it's not, show how to install it.