Top 20 AI agent frameworks on GitHub

The stars race between agent toolkits

Updated 12 min ago · GitHub stars (stars)

Why these 20

Ranked by GitHub stars: how many developers bookmarked the project. Stars measure attention, not quality, so each row also shows forks, open issues, licence and the last push.

1

morluto/rea

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

335,503 stars 84,763 forks1,252 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
2

affaan-m/ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode,...

284,001 stars 42,186 forks247 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
3

NousResearch/hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you

255,246 stars 55,559 forks50,039 open issuesPythonlast push 2026-10-19MIT
4

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

254,404 stars 30,742 forks0 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-17MIT
5

firecrawl/firecrawl

Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥

193,077 stars 10,194 forks628 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19AGPL-3.0
6

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

167,982 stars 9,132 forks37 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-18MIT
7

langchain-ai/langchain

The agent engineering platform.

148,090 stars 24,856 forks664 open issuesPythonlast push 2026-10-19MIT
8

Graphify-Labs/graphify

Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and...

129,072 stars 12,448 forks1,562 open issuesPythonlast push 2026-10-16Apache-2.0
9

browser-use/browser-use

Open-source Python library for AI browser agents, plus Browser Use Cloud: stealth browsers and a hosted agent API.

118,532 stars 13,156 forks559 open issuesPythonlast push 2026-10-17MIT
10

google-gemini/gemini-cli

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.

107,456 stars 14,746 forks750 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19Apache-2.0
11

paperclipai/paperclip

The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

104,664 stars 17,453 forks6,221 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
12

thedotmack/claude-mem

Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant...

101,791 stars 8,957 forks90 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19Apache-2.0
13

Leonxlnx/taste-skill

Agent skills that give coding agents taste: art direction, reference images and a browser check instead of generic AI pages

99,306 stars 6,755 forks3 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
14

stablyai/orca

Orca is the place for working with a fleet of agents (e.g. Grok Bot, Claude Code). Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop,...

98,085 stars 6,250 forks8,626 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
15

infiniflow/ragflow

RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior...

92,481 stars 11,038 forks1,385 open issuesGolast push 2026-10-19Apache-2.0
16

unclecode/crawl4ai

Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key.

85,854 stars 8,925 forks268 open issuesPythonlast push 2026-10-19Apache-2.0
17

tt-a1i/archify

Turn any idea, plan, or codebase into a beautiful interactive diagram. An agent skill for Claude Code, Codex, and more.

85,815 stars 5,842 forks257 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
18

bytedance/deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and...

84,151 stars 11,750 forks961 open issuesPythonlast push 2026-10-19MIT
19

dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents.

79,341 stars 8,712 forks288 open issuesMDXlast push 2026-03-11MIT
20

diegosouzapw/OmniRoute

Never stop coding. Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 375 providers (150+ free), 1,400+ models Kimi, Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax. Works with...

78,493 stars 11,408 forks285 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT