Trending AI Agents repositories

The widest cut of the agent ecosystem on the site. The /best/ai-agents page is the curated top-N; this leaderboard is the full feed — single-agent harnesses, orchestration frameworks, runtimes, sandboxes, memory layers, MCP-connected toolboxes. Agent projects ship in noisy bursts. One Hacker News appearance can move a repo a hundred places. Fork-and-rename churn is the highest of any category here — last month's breakout reappears under five new names within the week. The ranking weights cross-source mention activity (Hacker News, Reddit, X, Bluesky, Product Hunt, Dev.to) alongside GitHub stars so the projects near the top are the ones builders are actually shipping into stacks, not the ones with the catchiest README. Categories classify automatically from GitHub topics, name, description, and owner. Misclassifications happen and self-correct over the next few collector cycles. When scanning the list, the most useful filter is fresh commit activity combined with sustained mention momentum — that's how you tell adoption from a single-day spike.