feat: admit agent development environments; add Orca and Paseo

Criterion 1 previously excluded "workspaces for agents", which ruled out
the ADE category entirely. ADEs are the surface a developer actually works
in, the same way a coding agent is, so they now qualify on their own terms.
Libraries, SDKs, skill collections and observability-only layers stay out.

- Widen inclusion criterion 1 in templates/readme.tmpl and document the
  two admitted kinds in docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.
- Add `orchestration` to the Workflow facet in validate.go so ADEs are
  filterable as a distinct class on the dashboard.
- Add stablyai/orca (70.0k) and getpaseo/paseo (17.5k).

README.md is regenerated from the template by the daily run; its
Contributing section is updated here so it is not stale in the meantime.

go run . -check: 43 agents valid. go test ./...: ok.

README.md

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
 **Inclusion criteria** — a repo belongs on this list when it is:
 
-1. **An AI coding agent or assistant itself** — a tool that autonomously writes, edits, or reviews code. Frameworks, wrappers, observability layers, and workspaces *for* agents are out of scope.
+1. **An AI coding agent, or an environment for running them** — either a tool that autonomously writes, edits, or reviews code, or an *agent development environment* (ADE) that runs and coordinates those agents as its primary purpose. Libraries, SDKs, prompt/skill collections, and observability-only layers remain out of scope.
 2. **Notable**: roughly **10,000+ GitHub stars** (the current list floor).
 3. **Open source and actively maintained** — no push in **6 months** means the entry is dropped. The daily run flags anything past **3 months** for review, so the ranking reflects tools people can actually use today.
 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ agents:
 |-------|------|
 | Surface (at least one) | `terminal` · `editor-plugin` · `ide` · `desktop` · `web` · `self-hosted` |
 | Model access | `byo-model` · `single-vendor` · `local-models` |
-| Workflow | `interactive` · `autonomous` · `review` · `app-builder` · `research` |
+| Workflow | `interactive` · `autonomous` · `review` · `app-builder` · `research` · `orchestration` |
 | Integration | `mcp` · `acp` · `headless` |
 | Origin (at most one) | `vendor` · `community` |
 

data/agents.yml

@@ -143,3 +143,11 @@ agents:
     repo: Orkas
     tags: [desktop, byo-model, interactive, community]
     notes: "Open-source, local-first desktop AI workforce coordinated by a Commander through one chat; supports local coding-agent workflows."
+  - owner: stablyai
+    repo: orca
+    tags: [desktop, terminal, byo-model, orchestration, headless, community]
+    notes: "ADE: runs Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode and Pi side-by-side, each in its own git worktree, with a mobile companion app."
+  - owner: getpaseo
+    repo: paseo
+    tags: [desktop, web, terminal, self-hosted, byo-model, orchestration, headless, community]
+    notes: "ADE: self-hosted daemon that runs Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode and Pi on your own machines, driven from desktop, mobile, web or CLI."

docs/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -24,6 +24,23 @@ Optional fields: `notes` (for clarifications or caveats)
 | `tags` | list | Yes | Tags from the vocabulary below; at least one surface tag, at most one origin tag |
 | `notes` | string | No | Additional context or disclaimers |
 
+## Scope
+
+Two kinds of project belong here:
+
+1. **Coding agents** — they write, edit, or review code themselves.
+2. **Agent development environments (ADEs)** — their primary purpose is running and
+   coordinating those agents: parallel worktrees, session management, remote or mobile
+   control. Tag these `orchestration`.
+
+An ADE earns a row because it is the surface a developer actually works in, the same way
+a coding agent is. What stays out is anything that only *assists* agents without being a
+place you run them: libraries and SDKs, prompt or skill collections, dashboards and
+observability-only layers, and single-purpose wrappers around one agent's config.
+
+The other two criteria in the [README](../README.md#contributing) — roughly 10,000+ stars
+and active maintenance — apply to both kinds equally.
+
 ## Tag Vocabulary
 
 Tags replaced the old single-select `category` field, because one slot cannot
@@ -55,6 +72,7 @@ lives in `tagVocabulary` (`validate.go`) and reaches the dashboard through
 - **review** — reviews diffs or existing code rather than writing it
 - **app-builder** — prompt-to-app scaffolding, with preview and deploy
 - **research** — published as a research artifact or proof of concept
+- **orchestration** — runs and coordinates *other* coding agents as its primary purpose (an ADE), rather than editing code itself
 
 **Integration** — what it plugs into.
 

templates/readme.tmpl

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 **Inclusion criteria** — a repo belongs on this list when it is:
 
-1. **An AI coding agent or assistant itself** — a tool that autonomously writes, edits, or reviews code. Frameworks, wrappers, observability layers, and workspaces *for* agents are out of scope.
+1. **An AI coding agent, or an environment for running them** — either a tool that autonomously writes, edits, or reviews code, or an *agent development environment* (ADE) that runs and coordinates those agents as its primary purpose. Libraries, SDKs, prompt/skill collections, and observability-only layers remain out of scope.
 2. **Notable**: roughly **10,000+ GitHub stars** (the current list floor).
 3. **Open source and actively maintained** — no push in **6 months** means the entry is dropped. The daily run flags anything past **3 months** for review, so the ranking reflects tools people can actually use today.
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ agents:
 |-------|------|
 | Surface (at least one) | `terminal` · `editor-plugin` · `ide` · `desktop` · `web` · `self-hosted` |
 | Model access | `byo-model` · `single-vendor` · `local-models` |
-| Workflow | `interactive` · `autonomous` · `review` · `app-builder` · `research` |
+| Workflow | `interactive` · `autonomous` · `review` · `app-builder` · `research` · `orchestration` |
 | Integration | `mcp` · `acp` · `headless` |
 | Origin (at most one) | `vendor` · `community` |
 

validate.go

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ var repoPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$`)
 var tagVocabulary = []tagFacet{
 	{ID: facetSurface, Label: "Surface", Tags: []string{"terminal", "editor-plugin", "ide", "desktop", "web", "self-hosted"}},
 	{ID: facetModel, Label: "Model access", Tags: []string{"byo-model", "single-vendor", "local-models"}},
-	{ID: facetWorkflow, Label: "Workflow", Tags: []string{"interactive", "autonomous", "review", "app-builder", "research"}},
+	{ID: facetWorkflow, Label: "Workflow", Tags: []string{"interactive", "autonomous", "review", "app-builder", "research", "orchestration"}},
 	{ID: facetIntegration, Label: "Integration", Tags: []string{"mcp", "acp", "headless"}},
 	{ID: facetOrigin, Label: "Origin", Tags: []string{"vendor", "community"}},
 }