ByteDance's TRAE merges two AI tools, TraeWork to cease services on October 23.

Beating AI News – ByteDance has announced the official merger of its AI office tool TraeWork and programming tool TraeCode into a new product named TRAE. The two previously separate clients will be unified under a single entry, offering two modes: Agent and IDE. The Agent mode enables AI to automatically advance tasks, while the IDE mode retains full code editing and debugging capabilities. The new Agent mode supports managing multiple projects simultaneously, scheduling multiple AI agents to work in parallel, and connecting to SSH remote development environments. Users can have AI handle end-to-end workflows from requirement analysis to page design, coding, testing and delivery, and switch to the IDE mode at any time for manual code modifications. Existing features including scheduled tasks, template libraries and office capabilities are also integrated, with cross-device support for desktop, web and mobile. ByteDance stated that chat history, account information, local data, login status and business points will be automatically migrated after the upgrade. TraeWork users need to manually initiate the upgrade in the client, while TraeCode users will receive automatic updates. The official documentation clarifies that TraeWork will be discontinued on October 23, and users who fail to upgrade by then will no longer be able to access it. However, some developers have expressed dissatisfaction with the new version. Users in TRAE’s official community have reported that the software now defaults to the Agent workspace; the previously commonly used IDE mode requires manual switching, and there is currently no option to adjust the default startup mode.