A living ranking of AI coding agents and agent orchestrators, sorted by a blend of GitHub popularity and growth momentum. Agents that Irrlicht already monitors are marked live, upcoming integrations are planned. Agents first tracked less than 3 months ago are marked NEW.
See detailed comparison with all metrics →Growth measured from snapshots closest to 1 month and 3 months before 2026-05-15.
| # | Name | Stars | Recent growth | Irrlicht | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Claw Code | 191,505 | +3,455 (+1.8%) | not tracked | Rust CLI agent harness that wraps Claude via the Anthropic API; star count inflated by viral self-promotion in the README ("fastest repo to 100K stars"). |
| #2 | OpenCode | 160,573 | +11,826 (+8.0%) | live | The open source coding agent. |
| #3 | Claude Code | 123,761 | +6,208 (+5.3%) | live | Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands. |
| #4 | Gemini CLI | 104,022 | +1,718 (+1.7%) | planned | An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. |
| #5 | OpenAI Codex | 82,811 | +5,243 (+6.8%) | live | Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal |
| #6 | OpenHands | 73,613 | +1,628 (+2.3%) | not tracked | 🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development |
| #7 | Cline | 61,809 | +860 (+1.4%) | not tracked | Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant. |
| #8 | Warp | 58,530 | +32,029 (+120.9%) | not tracked | Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal. |
| #9 | Pi | 49,664 | +10,291 (+26.1%) | live | Mario Zechner's AI agent toolkit (CLI coding agent, unified LLM API, TUI/web libraries, Slack bot, vLLM pods); repo and `@earendil-works/*` packages moved to `earendil-works/pi` in v0.74. |
| #10 | Goose | 45,230 | +2,091 (+4.8%) | planned | Extensible open-source agent (install/execute/edit/test with any LLM); originated at Block before transfer to the `aaif-goose` org. |
| #11 | Aider | 44,842 | +968 (+2.2%) | live | aider is AI pair programming in your terminal |
| #12 | Continue | 33,196 | +426 (+1.3%) | planned | ⏩ Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI. Powered by the open-source Continue CLI |
| #13 | Cursor | 32,875 | +182 (+0.6%) | planned | Proprietary AI-first code editor (the GitHub repo hosts issues only; editor source is closed). |
| #14 | Void | 28,752 | +108 (+0.4%) | not tracked | Open-source AI code editor (VS Code fork). |
| #15 | Qwen CodeNEW | 24,401 | +588 (+2.5%) | planned | An open-source AI agent that lives in your terminal. |
| #16 | CrushNEW | 24,298 | +880 (+3.8%) | planned | Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘 |
| #17 | Roo Code | 24,073 | +728 (+3.1%) | not tracked | Roo Code gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor. |
| #18 | Kilo Code | 19,304 | +799 (+4.3%) | planned | Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent. |
| #19 | SWE-agent | 19,225 | +175 (+0.9%) | planned | SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024] |
| #20 | PlandexNEW | 15,365 | +76 (+0.5%) | not tracked | Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks. |
| #21 | Open SWE | 9,802 | +160 (+1.7%) | not tracked | An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent |
| #22 | Sweep | 7,713 | +8 (+0.1%) | not tracked | Sweep: AI coding assistant for JetBrains |
| #23 | Forge Code | 7,295 | +370 (+5.3%) | not tracked | AI enabled pair programmer for Claude, GPT, O Series, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and 300+ models |
| #24 | RA.Aid | 2,224 | +1 (+0.0%) | not tracked | Develop software autonomously. |
| #25 | Factory | 876 | +82 (+10.3%) | not tracked | Factory - Agent-Native Software Development |
| #26 | Pear AI | 689 | +13 (+1.9%) | not tracked | PearAI: Open Source AI Code Editor (Fork of VSCode). The PearAI Submodule (https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule) is a fork of Continue. |
| #27 | Codegen | 521 | 0 (0.0%) | not tracked | Python wrapper for the Codegen API - run code agents at scale |
| No public repo — popularity via funding / users | |||||
| — | Amazon Q Developer | — | — | not tracked | AWS's AI coding assistant (completions, transformations, agentic refactors). |
| — | Amp | — | — | planned | Agentic coding agent spinning out from Sourcegraph as a standalone company in 2026 (formerly Sourcegraph Cody); CLI + VS Code extension. |
| — | Augment Code | $252M raised | — | not tracked | AI coding agent with deep codebase understanding and enterprise context retrieval. |
| — | Codebuff | — | — | not tracked | AI coding agent for the terminal. |
| — | CodeGPT | — | — | not tracked | Full-stack AI agent platform with a codebase knowledge graph. |
| — | Cosine Genie | — | — | not tracked | Fully autonomous AI software engineer using Cosine's proprietary Genie model. |
| — | Devin | $696M raised | — | not tracked | Cognition AI's autonomous software-engineer agent; parent company merged Windsurf (Cascade IDE) into its stack in 2025. |
| — | GitHub Copilot | 20.0M users | — | not tracked | GitHub's AI pair programmer (completion + chat + coding agent). |
| — | KiroNEW | — | — | not tracked | AWS-backed agentic IDE with spec-driven development and autonomous task execution. |
| — | MorphLLM | — | — | not tracked | Subagent infrastructure: Fast Apply, WarpGrep, context compression. |
| — | Poolside | $626M raised | — | not tracked | Enterprise AI coding platform with custom foundation models. |
| — | Qodo | $120M raised | — | not tracked | Agentic code-integrity platform for review, testing, and governance (formerly CodiumAI). |
| — | Tabnine | $102M raised | — | not tracked | AI code completion, chat, and code-review agent with on-prem/private deployment options. |
| — | Windsurf | $250M acquisition | — | not tracked | Agentic AI IDE (Cascade). Acquired by Cognition AI from Codeium in December 2025 for ~$250M; brand continues under Cognition. |
| — | Zencoder | — | — | not tracked | AI coding agent with repo-wide context indexing. |
Growth measured from snapshots closest to 1 month and 3 months before 2026-05-15.
| # | Name | Stars | Recent growth | Irrlicht | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | PaperclipNEW | 65,560 | +7,177 (+12.3%) | planned | The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work |
| #2 | Ruflo | 51,261 | +18,182 (+55.0%) | planned | Agent orchestration platform for Claude: multi-agent swarms, RAG integration, Claude Code / Codex integration. |
| #3 | Agno | 40,134 | +486 (+1.2%) | not tracked | Build, run, and manage agent platforms. |
| #4 | ChatDev | 33,093 | +246 (+0.7%) | not tracked | ChatDev 2.0: Dev All through LLM-powered Multi-Agent Collaboration |
| #5 | Devika | 19,507 | +5 (+0.0%) | not tracked | Open-source agentic software engineer (originally an open alternative to Devin). |
| #6 | Gas Town | 15,195 | +615 (+4.2%) | live | Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager |
| #7 | Claude Squad | 7,475 | +330 (+4.6%) | planned | Manage multiple AI terminal agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp. |
| #8 | Composio | 7,047 | +573 (+8.9%) | not tracked | Agentic orchestrator for parallel coding agents — plans tasks, spawns agents, and autonomously handles CI fixes, merge conflicts, and code reviews. |
| #9 | Multiclaude | 548 | +9 (+1.7%) | planned | Parallel Claude Code instances in tmux with a Brownian-ratchet CI model. |
| #10 | Stoneforge | 143 | +13 (+10.0%) | not tracked | A web dashboard and runtime for orchestrating AI coding agents |
| #11 | Forge Orchestrator | 116 | +7 (+6.4%) | not tracked | Rust-based multi-AI task orchestrator with file locking and drift detection. |