Best Agent Tools Top 20
Top 20 most popular open-source Agent Tools projects, ranked by GitHub Stars.
OpenClaw
386.5k StarsOpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant platform supporting 25+ messaging channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, etc.) with multi-LLM integration and personal knowledge management.
ECC
240.5k StarsAgent harness operating system providing skills, instincts, memory optimization, continuous learning, and security scanning.
Ollama
178.7k StarsLocal LLM runner: open-source models callable as a single CLI binary.
Firecrawl
168.2k StarsFirecrawl is a web scraping and search engine designed for AI agents, converting any webpage into structured Markdown data with search, scrape, and clean capabilities for building web-data-powered AI applications.
Excalidraw
129.8k StarsOpen-source hand-drawn whiteboard tool. Combines with AI for diagram / flowchart generation, often used in Agent UI display.
llama.cpp
124.2k Starsllama.cpp is a lightweight C/C++ inference engine that runs a wide range of open-source large language models efficiently on consumer hardware.
Whisper
107.4k StarsOpenAI Whisper is a multilingual speech recognition foundation model that performs high-quality English and multilingual transcription, translation and language identification locally.
Ponytail
104.1k StarsSkill pack that makes your AI agent write minimal code like a lazy senior dev, cutting code by 54% and cost by 20%.
Pi Mono
91.5k StarsPi Mono is a comprehensive AI agent toolkit including a coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI and web UI libraries, Slack bot, and vLLM pod management for end-to-end agent development.
Pi
91.5k StarsPi is a full-stack AI agent toolkit featuring a coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI and Web UI libraries, Slack bot, and vLLM inference pods.
vLLM
89.2k StarsA high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs, featuring PagedAttention, continuous batching, and optimized KV cache management for production deployments.
PaddleOCR
87.7k StarsPaddleOCR is Baidu's open-source multilingual OCR and document-AI toolkit supporting 80+ languages and PP-Structure layout analysis.
Open Design
87.5k Starsopen-design is an AI co-design platform for designers and developers, unifying Figma, drawing and code workflows into agent tasks.
Odysseus
85.5k Starsodysseus is a macOS-native AI browser automation agent that drives Chrome with natural language to complete everyday workflows.
WorldMonitor
82.4k Starsworldmonitor is an AI global event monitoring dashboard aggregating news, geopolitics, energy and market data with auto-generated briefings.
Netdata
80.2k StarsNetdata is an open-source real-time observability platform with second-resolution metrics, AI health checks and zero-config deployment, widely used for monitoring AI agent services.
DeerFlow
80.1k StarsAn open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness by ByteDance that researches, codes, and creates with sandboxes, memories, tools, skills, subagents and message gateway for complex tasks.
Paperclip
78.5k Starspaperclip is an AI agent team orchestration and scheduling platform, managing task assignment, collaboration and state across many agents.
Taste-Skill
77.1k StarsSkill that gives your AI good taste, stopping agents from generating boring, generic slop content.
AppFlowy
75.6k StarsAppFlowy is an open-source Notion alternative with AI workflows, knowledge base, kanban and multi-device sync, usable as agent long-term memory.
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