What it does

Amp presents itself as a coding agent and development environment for working from anywhere. Every agent gets its own orb, so work carries on when you close your laptop. You can send a prompt, step away, then pick the thread up again from your phone or share it with teammates. The homepage is mostly a long walkthrough video and transcript of a developer's working day in Amp. In it, agents fix bugs from user reports, act on a screen recording of a UI glitch, preview a front-end change in a portal pane, ship a change from a Changes tab, and then check a rollout on a timer. The walkthrough also shows orbs being granted or denied access to production logs, agents reading project guidance from an AGENTS.md file, an MCP connection used to post to Slack, and a command-line tool with both a terminal interface and a headless mode.

Capabilities

Each agent runs in its own orb and keeps going when your laptop is closed
Threads can be continued from a phone or shared with teammates
Automations let an agent wake itself on a schedule to check on a rollout
Works with MCP servers, skills and AGENTS.md project guidance
Command-line tool with a terminal interface and a headless mode
Accepts screen recordings and dictated prompts as input

When to use it

You want agents to keep working while you are away from your machine
You want an agent to watch a deployment or production signals over time
Your team wants to hand coding threads between people and devices