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affaan-m/ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

AI dev
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2026-07-14
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-18
License
MIT
Issues
109 open
Forks
35,237
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2,260 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+1,870 +0.8%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+1 0.0%
bytedance/deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-17
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-07
License
MIT
Issues
976 open
Forks
10,502
Commits
2,650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+503 +0.7%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+117 +4.6%
crewAIInc/crewAI

Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-17
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6 list mentions
First commit
2023-10-27
License
MIT
Issues
657 open
Forks
7,860
Commits
2,656 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+342 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+18 +0.7%
aaif-goose/goose

an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-02
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6 list mentions
First commit
2024-08-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
254 open
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5,417
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4,950 commits
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No 7-day history
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chopratejas/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

AI dev
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2026-06-18
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
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Apache-2.0
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309 open
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2,361
Commits
1,640 commits
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DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp

High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.

Updated
2026-07-13
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-24
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MIT
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231 open
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2,452
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1,547 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
ComposioHQ/composio

Composio powers 1000+ toolkits, tool search, context management, authentication, and a sandboxed workbench to help you build AI agents that turn intent into action.

AI dev
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2026-07-15
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2 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-11
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MIT
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75 open
Forks
4,660
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4,411 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
topoteretes/cognee

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

AI dev
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2026-07-16
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5 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-16
License
Apache-2.0
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650 open
Forks
2,666
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8,652 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+393 +1.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+214 +2.5%
volcengine/OpenViking

Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-17
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-29
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
341 open
Forks
2,105
Commits
1,749 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+307 +1.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+67 +4.0%
promptfoo/promptfoo

Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming/pentesting/vulnerability scanning for AI. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more. Simple declarative configs with command line and CI/CD integration. Used by OpenAI and Anthropic.

AI dev
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2026-07-07
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2023-03-31
License
MIT
Issues
397 open
Forks
2,049
Commits
9,142 commits
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comet-ml/opik

Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-17
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9 list mentions
First commit
2024-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
151 open
Forks
1,612
Commits
6,432 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+111 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+56 +0.9%
google/adk-python

An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

AI dev
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2026-07-15
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3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
650 open
Forks
3,694
Commits
3,302 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
SWE-agent/SWE-agent

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]

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-16
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5 list mentions
First commit
2024-04-02
License
MIT
Issues
38 open
Forks
2,167
Commits
2,182 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+63 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+2 +0.1%
trycua/cua

Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-15
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2025-01-31
License
MIT
Issues
498 open
Forks
1,294
Commits
3,750 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
browser-use/browser-harness

Browser Harness | Self-healing harness that enables LLMs to complete any task.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-14
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-17
License
MIT
Issues
196 open
Forks
1,493
Commits
446 commits
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0 0.0%
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aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw

Fully autonomous & self-evolving research from idea to paper. Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. 🦞

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-03
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-15
License
MIT
Issues
19 open
Forks
1,617
Commits
263 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
microsoft/SkillOpt

SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen LLM agents through trajectory-driven edits, validation-gated updates, and deployable best_skill.md artifacts.

Updated
2026-07-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-05-21
License
MIT
Issues
24 open
Forks
1,054
Commits
213 commits
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traceloop/openllmetry

Open-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-13
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
596 open
Forks
1,020
Commits
1,411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+18 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-14
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2023-04-25
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
173 open
Forks
768
Commits
3,726 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
strands-agents/harness-sdk

Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any model, any cloud.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-16
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-05-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
545 open
Forks
961
Commits
2,195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+95 +1.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+34 +1.6%
microsoft/LLMLingua

[EMNLP'23, ACL'24] To speed up LLMs' inference and enhance LLM's perceive of key information, compress the prompt and KV-Cache, which achieves up to 20x compression with minimal performance loss.

Updated
2026-04-08
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2023-07-07
License
MIT
Issues
119 open
Forks
399
Commits
85 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
microsoft/TaskWeaver

The first "code-first" agent framework for seamlessly planning and executing data analytics tasks.

Archived AI dev
Updated
2026-03-23
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-11
License
MIT
Issues
53 open
Forks
780
Commits
657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
omnigent-ai/omnigent

Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from any device.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-03
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
407 open
Forks
782
Commits
1,105 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
AgentOps-AI/agentops

Python SDK for AI agent monitoring, LLM cost tracking, benchmarking, and more. Integrates with most LLMs and agent frameworks including CrewAI, Agno, OpenAI Agents SDK, Langchain, Autogen, AG2, and CamelAI

Updated
2026-06-25
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-15
License
MIT
Issues
172 open
Forks
609
Commits
811 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+18 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
agent-infra/sandbox

All-in-One Sandbox for AI Agents that combines Browser, Shell, File, MCP and VSCode Server in a single Docker container.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-09-10
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
77 open
Forks
486
Commits
123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-14
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-02
License
MIT
Issues
113 open
Forks
855
Commits
2,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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0 0.0%