Best Coding Agent Top 20
Top 20 most popular open-source Coding Agent projects, ranked by GitHub Stars.
Superpowers
272.8k StarsAn agentic skills framework and software development methodology that provides reusable skill modules and engineered workflows for AI coding agents.
Everything Claude Code
240.5k StarsThe agent harness performance optimization system with skills, instincts, memory, security and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
Hermes Agent
231.5k StarsAn autonomous AI agent framework from NousResearch that supports multiple LLM backends and grows with user needs.
OpenCode
198.1k StarsOpenCode is an open-source terminal coding agent that supports multiple LLM providers, offering AI-powered code generation and editing in the terminal.
Anthropic Agent Skills
169.8k StarsOfficial Anthropic repository for Agent Skills, providing ready-to-use Claude agent skill examples and templates.
Claude Code
141.7k StarsClaude Code is an agentic coding tool by Anthropic that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster through natural language commands.
Spec Kit
129.6k StarsGitHub's official open-source Spec-Driven Development toolkit that flips traditional software development — specifications become executable artifacts that directly generate working implementations, integrating with Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents.
CC Switch
127.6k StarsA cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant tool for managing Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw and Gemini CLI agents in one place.
Awesome DESIGN.md
108.8k StarsAwesome DESIGN.md is a collection of DESIGN.md files inspired by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matching UI, providing design system references for AI coding agents.
Gemini CLI
106.5k StarsGemini CLI is a terminal-based AI agent tool from Google that supports code generation, file operations, and multi-turn conversations with a free usage tier.
Codex CLI
106.3k StarsCodex CLI is OpenAI's open-source coding-agent command-line tool for code understanding, refactoring, generation, and terminal collaboration in developer workflows.
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%.
caveman
98.5k Starscaveman is a bare-bones Claude Code TUI client, dependency-light and built for blazing-fast terminal coding.
AutoResearch
94.0k StarsAI research automation agent by Andrej Karpathy that automatically runs nanochat training research experiments on a single GPU.
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.
Claude Mem
90.9k StarsA Claude Code plugin that automatically captures coding session context, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions for persistent memory.
Zed
88.7k StarsHigh-performance multi-cursor editor with built-in AI and real-time collab.
Agent Skills
87.8k StarsAgent Skills is a curated collection of production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents, maintained by Addy Osmani, providing battle-tested best practices and operational conventions.
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.
Taste-Skill
77.1k StarsSkill that gives your AI good taste, stopping agents from generating boring, generic slop content.
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