Awesome Coding Agents

Curated ranking of AI agent coding tools, sorted by GitHub stars. Updated daily by GitHub Actions.

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Last updated: 2026-09-12 03:41 UTC · Tracked: 40 repos Top 7-day mover: anomalyco/opencode (+2598 stars)

#	Repo	Stars	Δ7d	Language	Last push	Description
1	deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	220.7k	—	TypeScript	2026-09-11	DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
2	anomalyco/opencode	206.8k	+2598	TypeScript	2026-09-12	The open source coding agent.
3	anthropics/claude-code	144.8k	+688	Python	2026-09-11	Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
4	openai/codex	123.4k	+1859	Rust	2026-09-12	Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
5	google-gemini/gemini-cli	106.9k	+111	TypeScript	2026-09-12	An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
6	earendil-works/pi	104.2k	+2318	TypeScript	2026-09-11	AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
7	zed-industries/zed	90.1k	+349	Rust	2026-09-12	Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
8	OpenHands/OpenHands	87.6k	+1378	TypeScript	2026-09-12	🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development
9	openinterpreter/openinterpreter	68.3k	—	Rust	2026-09-09	A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3
10	cline/cline	67.9k	+365	TypeScript	2026-09-12	Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
11	warpdotdev/warp	65.0k	+161	Rust	2026-09-12	Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
12	AntonOsika/gpt-engineer	55.1k	-4	Python	2025-05-14	CLI platform to experiment with codegen. Precursor to: https://lovable.dev
13	aaif-goose/goose	54.1k	+221	Rust	2026-09-11	an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
14	Aider-AI/aider	48.9k	+165	Python	2026-05-22	aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
15	Hmbown/Codewhale	41.0k	—	Rust	2026-09-12	Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.
16	continuedev/continue	35.9k	+111	TypeScript	2026-09-11	open-source coding agent
17	esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix	35.5k	—	Go	2026-09-12	DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.
18	TabbyML/tabby	33.9k	+13	Rust	2026-06-30	Self-hosted AI coding assistant
19	Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot	33.7k	+4	Python	2026-06-18	The first real AI developer
20	Gitlawb/openclaude	33.2k	—	TypeScript	2026-09-12	runs anywhere. uses anything
21	can1357/oh-my-pi	30.7k	—	TypeScript	2026-09-12	⌥ Coding agent with the IDE wired in
22	voideditor/void	28.8k	-14	TypeScript	2026-06-02
23	charmbracelet/crush	28.0k	+108	Go	2026-09-12	Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘
24	QwenLM/qwen-code	27.8k	+123	TypeScript	2026-09-12	An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.
25	Kilo-Org/kilocode	27.3k	+87	TypeScript	2026-09-11	Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.
26	onlook-dev/onlook	26.7k	+80	TypeScript	2026-08-25	The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI
27	xai-org/grok-build	26.7k	—	Rust	2026-09-09	SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible.
28	RooCodeInc/Roo-Code	24.3k	-8	TypeScript	2026-05-15	Roo Code gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor.
29	alibaba/open-code-review	22.3k	—	Go	2026-09-11	Fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible.
30	dyad-sh/dyad	21.5k	+98	TypeScript	2026-09-11	Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!
31	PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent	20.6k	—	TypeScript	2026-09-12	A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks.
32	SWE-agent/SWE-agent	20.3k	+82	Python	2026-09-07	SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024]
33	kortix-ai/suna	20.2k	+24	TypeScript	2026-09-11	The open-source AI Management System
34	1jehuang/jcode	19.5k	—	Rust	2026-09-12	The most RAM efficient harness
35	avante-corp/avante.nvim	18.2k	+10	Lua	2026-09-09	Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE!
36	HKUDS/DeepCode	16.5k	—	Python	2026-09-09	"DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding (Agent Harness & Loop Engineering & Multi-Agent Orchestration)"
37	CodebuffAI/freebuff	12.0k	—	TypeScript	2026-09-12	The free coding agent
38	MoonshotAI/kimi-cli	11.3k	—	Python	2026-09-01	Kimi Code CLI is your next CLI agent.
39	github/copilot-cli	11.2k	+28	Shell	2026-09-11	GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.
40	Kuberwastaken/claurst	10.3k	—	Rust	2026-09-02	Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship

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How it works

1. data/agents.yml is the curated source list.
2. A daily GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/update.yml) runs the Go updater.
3. The updater fetches live repo metadata via the GitHub GraphQL API in one batched query.
4. Star counts are appended to data/history.jsonl for 7-day delta computation.
5. This README.md is regenerated from templates/readme.tmpl and committed back to the repo.
6. site/data.json is regenerated and the dashboard (site/index.html) is redeployed to GitHub Pages.

Δ7d: Change in stars over the past 7 days; — means fewer than 7 days of history.

Contributing

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.
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.

Archived or abandoned repos are kept only when they are historically significant, and are marked as such in data/agents.yml.

Add an agent to data/agents.yml:

agents:
  - owner: github-username-or-org
    repo: repository-name
    tags: [terminal, byo-model, interactive, community]

Tags describe a tool across five facets — the dashboard filters on them, OR within a facet and AND across facets:

Facet	Tags
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
Integration	mcp · acp · headless
Origin (at most one)	vendor · community

Apply a tag only when the repo's own README, docs, or topics back it up. See docs/CONTRIBUTING.md for what each tag means.

Open a PR. The next daily run picks it up automatically.

PRs are validated automatically by CI (go run . -check): owner/repo must be non-empty and look like a real GitHub slug, every tag must come from the vocabulary above with at least one surface tag and at most one origin tag, and duplicates (case-insensitive) are rejected.

License

Apache-2.0