Hermes Agent
Nous Research
A self-hostable personal agent that can plan, use tools, remember context, and delegate work to subagents.
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Nous Research
A self-hostable personal agent that can plan, use tools, remember context, and delegate work to subagents.
deepseek-ai
DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
Anomaly
An open-source coding agent available in the terminal, desktop app, and editor-oriented workflows.
Significant Gravitas
The MIT-licensed original standalone AutoGPT agent for planning and completing multi-step tasks with tools.
firecrawl
The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
langflow-ai
Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.
langchain-ai
The agent engineering platform.
OpenAI
OpenAI's coding agent for terminal, IDE, desktop, and cloud workflows, with local repository tools and sandbox controls.
Browser Use
A Python agent and tooling layer for navigating websites, filling forms, extracting information, and completing browser tasks.
Earendil Works
A compact terminal coding agent and TypeScript toolkit with multi-provider models, extensions, and optional isolation.
Tauric Research
A multi-agent financial research system that assigns analyst, researcher, trader, and risk roles to discuss market decisions.
Google's open-source terminal agent for coding, research, file operations, and tool-based workflows with Gemini models.
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