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282 agents checkedSources linkedNo paid rankingsUpdated Oct 2, 2026

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Hermes Agent

Nous Research

250.6k
Strong general-purpose option

A self-hostable personal agent that can plan, use tools, remember context, and delegate work to subagents.

deepseek-harness

deepseek-ai

241.8k
Popular general purpose project

DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

OpenCode

Anomaly

211.3k
Excellent terminal-first coding choice

An open-source coding agent available in the terminal, desktop app, and editor-oriented workflows.

AutoGPT

Significant Gravitas

187.7k
Established autonomous-agent project

The MIT-licensed original standalone AutoGPT agent for planning and completing multi-step tasks with tools.

firecrawl

firecrawl

187.6k
Popular general purpose project

The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥

langflow

langflow-ai

155.4k
Curated workflow automation project

Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.

langchain

langchain-ai

147.4k
Curated knowledge work project

The agent engineering platform.

Codex

OpenAI

127.6k
Strong local coding agent

OpenAI's coding agent for terminal, IDE, desktop, and cloud workflows, with local repository tools and sandbox controls.

Browser Use

Browser Use

117k
Best-known browser automation base

A Python agent and tooling layer for navigating websites, filling forms, extracting information, and completing browser tasks.

Pi Coding Agent

Earendil Works

111.3k
Flexible choice for power users

A compact terminal coding agent and TypeScript toolkit with multi-provider models, extensions, and optional isolation.

TradingAgents

Tauric Research

109.5k
Useful research demo, not an adviser

A multi-agent financial research system that assigns analyst, researcher, trader, and risk roles to discuss market decisions.

Gemini CLI

Google

107.2k
Good free starting point for coding

Google's open-source terminal agent for coding, research, file operations, and tool-based workflows with Gemini models.

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