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: 2026-08-23 01:26 UTC · Tracked: 29 repos Top 7-day mover: openai/codex (+7298 stars)

#	Repo	Stars	Δ7d	Language	Last push	Description
1	anomalyco/opencode	200.4k	+2551	TypeScript	2026-08-23	The open source coding agent.
2	anthropics/claude-code	142.5k	+972	Python	2026-08-23	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.
3	openai/codex	113.4k	+7298	Rust	2026-08-23	Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
4	google-gemini/gemini-cli	106.6k	+89	TypeScript	2026-08-23	An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
5	earendil-works/pi	95.5k	+4602	TypeScript	2026-08-22	AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
6	zed-industries/zed	89.1k	+401	Rust	2026-08-23	Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
7	OpenHands/OpenHands	84.8k	+658	TypeScript	2026-08-22	🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development
8	cline/cline	66.7k	+435	TypeScript	2026-08-22	Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
9	warpdotdev/warp	64.5k	+210	Rust	2026-08-23	Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
10	AntonOsika/gpt-engineer	55.1k	-17	Python	2025-05-14	CLI platform to experiment with codegen. Precursor to: https://lovable.dev
11	aaif-goose/goose	53.3k	+416	Rust	2026-08-22	an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
12	Aider-AI/aider	48.4k	+158	Python	2026-05-22	aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
13	continuedev/continue	35.6k	+102	TypeScript	2026-08-22	open-source coding agent
14	TabbyML/tabby	33.8k	+7	Rust	2026-06-30	Self-hosted AI coding assistant
15	Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot	33.7k	-12	Python	2026-06-18	The first real AI developer
16	voideditor/void	28.8k	-10	TypeScript	2026-06-02
17	charmbracelet/crush	27.6k	+182	Go	2026-08-23	Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘
18	QwenLM/qwen-code	27.3k	+245	TypeScript	2026-08-23	An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.
19	Kilo-Org/kilocode	27.0k	+86	TypeScript	2026-08-22	Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.
20	onlook-dev/onlook	26.5k	+42	TypeScript	2026-07-22	The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI
21	RooCodeInc/Roo-Code	24.3k	-14	TypeScript	2026-05-15	Roo Code gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor.
22	dyad-sh/dyad	21.3k	+50	TypeScript	2026-08-22	Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!
23	kortix-ai/suna	20.1k	+29	TypeScript	2026-08-23	The open-source AI Management System
24	SWE-agent/SWE-agent	20.1k	+47	Python	2026-08-17	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]
25	avante-corp/avante.nvim	18.1k	+13	Lua	2026-08-22	Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE!
26	stackblitz/bolt.new	16.5k	+10	TypeScript	2024-12-17	Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications. -- bolt.new -- Help Center: https://support.bolt.new/ -- Community Support: https://discord.com/invite/stackblitz
27	plandex-ai/plandex	15.6k	+6	Go	2025-10-03	Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.
28	bytedance/trae-agent	12.0k	+27	Python	2026-02-05	Trae Agent is an LLM-based agent for general purpose software engineering tasks.
29	github/copilot-cli	11.1k	+12	Shell	2026-08-21	GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.

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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 (archived repos are kept only for historical significance, marked as such).

Add an agent to data/agents.yml:

agents:
  - owner: github-username-or-org
    repo: repository-name
    category: cli   # cli | ide | extension | library | research | web

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, category must be one of the values above, and duplicates (case-insensitive) are rejected.

License

Apache-2.0