Best Coding Agent Top 20
Top 20 most popular open-source Coding Agent projects, ranked by GitHub Stars.
Superpowers
242.6k StarsAn agentic skills framework and software development methodology that provides reusable skill modules and engineered workflows for AI coding agents.
Everything Claude Code
224.1k 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
206.5k StarsAn autonomous AI agent framework from NousResearch that supports multiple LLM backends and grows with user needs.
OpenCode
180.9k StarsOpenCode is an open-source terminal coding agent that supports multiple LLM providers, offering AI-powered code generation and editing in the terminal.
opencode
180.9k StarsOpenCode is an open-source terminal-based coding agent, cross-platform and compatible with Claude, OpenAI, and many other LLMs, offering an interactive TUI and extensible AI coding experience.
Anthropic Agent Skills
157.0k StarsOfficial Anthropic repository for Agent Skills, providing ready-to-use Claude agent skill examples and templates.
Claude Code
135.2k 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
116.7k 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
111.3k StarsA cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant tool for managing Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw and Gemini CLI agents in one place.
Gemini CLI
105.7k 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.
browser-use
101.8k StarsPython library that lets LLMs drive browsers via natural language.
Awesome DESIGN.md
94.7k 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.
Codex CLI
94.7k StarsCodex CLI is OpenAI's open-source coding-agent command-line tool for code understanding, refactoring, generation, and terminal collaboration in developer workflows.
AutoResearch
89.3k StarsAI research automation agent by Andrej Karpathy that automatically runs nanochat training research experiments on a single GPU.
Zed
86.3k StarsHigh-performance multi-cursor editor with built-in AI and real-time collab.
Claude Mem
85.2k 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.
OpenHands
78.9k StarsOpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is an autonomous AI agent platform for software development that independently completes code changes, bug fixes, and feature work end-to-end.
Screenshot to Code
73.1k StarsTurn screenshots, mockups, and Figma designs into clean code using AI models. Supports HTML/Tailwind, React, Vue, and other frontend frameworks.
GPT Academic
71.0k StarsMulti-functional interface for GPT/GLM LLMs with optimized academic paper reading, polishing and writing. Supports multi-model parallel, plugin extensions and local deployment.
Learn Claude Code
69.3k StarsA nano claude code-like agent harness built from scratch, demonstrating how to build AI coding assistants from zero to one.
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