Coding Agents
67 agents tracked · Open-source-first, with limited public GitHub comparators · Ranked by trust score · Updated 2026-08-14 07:02 UTC
HVTracker independently evaluates 67 coding agents using daily signals from GitHub, package registries, and security databases. The category is open-source-first, with a limited set of public GitHub-hosted proprietary or source-available comparators when they are important ecosystem reference points. Each agent is scored on activity, adoption, transparency, safety, and identity. The top-ranked coding agent is Codex with a trust score of 93.8/100 (Grade A). Other leading projects include Cline and Qwen Code.
| # | Agent | Trust | Stars | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Codex A Listed Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal | 93.8 | 105.8k | Rust |
| 2 | Cline A Listed Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant. | 91.3 | 66.2k | TypeScript |
| 3 | Qwen Code A Listed An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal. | 90.9 | 27.0k | TypeScript |
| 4 | ECC A Listed The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development f | 90.3 | 240.0k | JavaScript |
| 5 | Hermes Agent A Listed The agent that grows with you | 86.8 | 230.3k | Python |
| 6 | Bernstein A Listed Deterministic orchestrator for CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, +40 more). No model in the coordinatio | 85.1 | 872 | Python |
| 7 | oh-my-pi A Listed ⌥ AI Coding agent for the terminal — hash-anchored edits, optimized tool harness, LSP, Python, browser, subagents, and | 85.0 | 24.7k | TypeScript |
| 8 | Mistral Vibe A Listed Minimal CLI coding agent by Mistral | 84.7 | 4.8k | Python |
| 9 | Gemini CLI B Listed An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. | 76.7 | 106.5k | TypeScript |
| 10 | Open Interpreter B Listed A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 | 74.3 | 68.0k | Rust |
| 11 | OpenHands B Listed 🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development | 72.7 | 84.0k | TypeScript |
| 12 | mini-SWE-agent B Listed The 100 line AI agent that solves GitHub issues or helps you in your command line. Radically simple, no huge configs, no | 72.6 | 6.5k | Python |
| 13 | GPTMe B Listed Your agent in your terminal, equipped with local tools: writes code, uses the terminal, browses the web. Make your own p | 72.4 | 4.4k | Python |
| 14 | CodeWhale B Listed Open-source, community-driven agent harness | 71.4 | 40.8k | Rust |
| 15 | Goose B Listed an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM | 69.4 | 52.8k | Rust |
| 16 | Open SWE B Listed An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent | 69.0 | 10.6k | Python |
| 17 | Kilo Code B Listed Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source c | 66.9 | 26.9k | TypeScript |
| 18 | Superpowers B Listed An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. | 66.0 | 271.9k | Shell |
| 19 | Crush B Listed Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘 | 65.8 | 27.4k | Go |
| 20 | SWE-agent C Listed SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for o | 64.0 | 20.1k | Python |
| 21 | Claude Code C Needs review Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster | 63.8 | 141.4k | Python |
| 22 | oh-my-openagent C Listed omo/lazycodex: The coding agent for tokenmaxxers;the one and only agent harness for complex codebases. For your Codex, f | 63.3 | 67.9k | TypeScript |
| 23 | Potpie C Listed Context Graph for AI Native SDLC | 62.2 | 5.6k | Python |
| 24 | Archon C Listed The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable. | 61.9 | 23.2k | TypeScript |
| 25 | DeepSeek-Reasonix C Listed DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running. | 61.8 | 34.5k | Go |
| 26 | Stagewise C Listed The Open Source Agentic IDE. Create and orchestrate coding agents, show app previews and run git workflows. Use your fav | 60.1 | 6.8k | TypeScript |
| 27 | Junie C Listed An AI coding agent by JetBrains that ships code from your terminal, IDE, or CI/CD pipeline - powered by any LLM you choo | 60.0 | 368 | Shell |
| 28 | GitHub Copilot CLI C Listed GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal. | 59.5 | 11.1k | Shell |
| 29 | Nanocoder C Listed An open coding agent for your terminal, built by a community collective rather than a company. Bring your own model, kee | 59.5 | 2.3k | TypeScript |
| 30 | DeepCode C Listed "DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding (Paper2Code & Text2Web & Text2Backend)" | 59.2 | 16.4k | Python |
| 31 | Kimi Code C Listed Kimi Code CLI — The Starting Point for Next-Gen Agents | 59.1 | 6.6k | TypeScript |
| 32 | Symphony C Listed Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supe | 58.8 | 26.6k | Elixir |
| 33 | Pi C Listed AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI | 57.8 | 90.0k | TypeScript |
| 34 | Ponytail C Listed Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. | 57.5 | 102.3k | JavaScript |
| 35 | OpenCursor C Listed Open-source Cursor-like AI coding agent for VS Code — agentic chat, multi-provider LLMs (OpenAI, Ollama, llama.cpp), sem | 56.5 | 6.0k | TypeScript |
| 36 | Aider C Listed aider is AI pair programming in your terminal | 55.6 | 48.2k | Python |
| 37 | Tabby C Listed Self-hosted AI coding assistant | 52.9 | 33.8k | Rust |
| 38 | Grok Build C Listed SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible. | 51.6 | 25.1k | Rust |
| 39 | Grok CLI C Listed An open-source coding agent for the Grok API | 50.0 | 3.4k | TypeScript |
| 40 | HumanLayer D Listed The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases. | 49.7 | 11.3k | TypeScript |
| 41 | Roo Code D Needs review Roo Code gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor. | 49.1 | 24.3k | TypeScript |
| 42 | opencode D Listed The open source coding agent. | 46.6 | 197.2k | TypeScript |
| 43 | Stakpak Agent D Listed Ship your code, on autopilot. An open source agent that lives on your machines 24/7 and keeps your apps running. 🦀 | 45.6 | 1.7k | Rust |
| 44 | Vibe Kanban D Listed Get 10X more out of Claude Code, Codex or any coding agent | 45.3 | 27.8k | Rust |
| 45 | Integuru D Listed The first AI agent that builds permissionless integrations through reverse engineering platforms' internal APIs. | 44.8 | 4.8k | Python |
| 46 | GPT Pilot D Listed The first real AI developer | 43.3 | 33.7k | Python |
| 47 | Sweep D Listed Sweep: AI coding assistant for JetBrains | 41.6 | 7.7k | Jupyter Notebook |
| 48 | Antigravity CLI D Listed Antigravity CLI brings the reasoning, execution, and orchestration capabilities of Antigravity agent harness directly in | 41.3 | 1.9k | — |
| 49 | RA.Aid D Listed Develop software autonomously. | 39.6 | 2.2k | Python |
| 50 | Whale D Listed Whale — blazingly fast, terminal-first AI coding agent for DeepSeek. ~98% prompt cache hit rate, 1M context, MCP tools, | 37.5 | 937 | Go |
| 51 | Devika D Listed Devika is the first open-source implementation of an Agentic Software Engineer. Initially started as an open-source alte | 36.2 | 19.6k | Python |
| 52 | Tura D Listed Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results. | 35.9 | 585 | Rust |
| 53 | Continue D Listed open-source coding agent | 34.6 | 35.5k | TypeScript |
| 54 | PearAI D Needs review Master Repo For PearAI | 33.2 | 765 | Shell |
| 55 | zerostack D Listed Lightweight coding agent written in Rust, optimized for memory footprint and performance | 26.2 | 1.6k | Rust |
| 56 | prime-agent D Listed A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. | 25.1 | 15.6k | TypeScript |
| 57 | zeroshot D Listed Independent executor–verifier orchestration for software changes. | 25.0 | 1.7k | JavaScript |
| 58 | dao-code D Listed Open-source TypeScript terminal coding agent for DeepSeek-V4 — builds on DeepSeek's strong price-performance and ultra-c | 24.9 | 1.3k | TypeScript |
| 59 | MonkeyCode D Listed AI coding platform for teams | 24.5 | 4.4k | TypeScript |
| 60 | freebuff D Listed The free coding agent | 24.4 | 9.2k | TypeScript |
| 61 | loushang D Listed AI-native agent harness for coding workflows by python: multi-model LLM orchestration, stateful sessions, tool governanc | 23.0 | 1.1k | Python |
| 62 | Plandex D Listed Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks. | 22.5 | 15.6k | Go |
| 63 | jcode D Listed The most RAM efficient harness | 22.2 | 17.5k | Rust |
| 64 | SWE-AF D Listed Autonomous software engineering fleet of AI agents for production-grade PRs on AgentField: plan, code, test, and ship. | 21.0 | 971 | Go |
| 65 | Kodu D Needs review Kodu is an autonomous coding agent that lives in your IDE. It is a VSCode extension that can help you build your dream p | 19.6 | 5.2k | TypeScript |
| 66 | 10x D Listed ⚡️ 10x - Up to 20x faster AI coding with multi-step Superpowers. Open-source agent with smart model routing, BYOK, fully | 12.6 | 1.4k | TypeScript |
| 67 | typedai D Listed TypeScript AI platform with AI chat, Autonomous agents, Software developer agents, chatbots and more | 8.9 | 1.2k | TypeScript |
Grade = trust band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50 — methodology