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Agent-runtime projects on GitHub

Runtimes that host, schedule, and manage the lifecycle of autonomous AI agents.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Agent-runtime projects on GitHub are brigade (11.3K stars), astrid (10.3K stars) and maka (5.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Agent-runtime repositories with 32.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was task-state-guard, with +20 stars in a day.

9Projects

32.1KStars in total

+48Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+20

task-state-guard

MaxHu-xuan/task-state-guard · ★ 895

TaskStateGuard is an embedded SQLite reconciliation guardrail that fixes stuck task and delivery states after an AI agent, worker, or local workflow restarts, so you never have to guess whether work actually succeeded or was delivered.

maka

apache/maka · ★ 5.8K

Apache Maka (Incubating) is a high-performance agent workspace that records everything it does as an append-only event log, usable through a Desktop app, a terminal TUI, or a CLI.

cayu

cayu-dev/cayu · ★ 904

Cayu is an open-source Python framework for building and running domain-specific long-horizon AI agents, with a durable runtime built in that handles sessions, task dispatch, recovery, approvals, and observability.

brigade

spinabot/brigade · ★ 11.3K

Brigade is a self-hosted personal AI crew: a team of agents that share one long-term memory (Tideline), delegate tasks to each other on a real org chart, and act across 1,000+ apps you already use.

The all-time top

9 projects · by stars

#1 · spinabot/brigade
brigade
Brigade is a self-hosted personal AI crew: a team of agents that share one long-term memory (Tideline), delegate tasks to each other on a real org chart, and act across 1,000+ apps you already use.
11.3K
#2 · astrid-runtime/astrid
astrid
Astrid is a portable, capability-secure operating system for composable software: apps are sandboxed WebAssembly capsules that connect through typed interfaces, each with its own capabilities and durable state.
10.3K
#3 · apache/maka
maka
Apache Maka (Incubating) is a high-performance agent workspace that records everything it does as an append-only event log, usable through a Desktop app, a terminal TUI, or a CLI.
5.8K

4
unreal-agent
2.2Kunreallabsai/unreal-agent · Go
Unreal Agent is an async-first agent harness written in Go — a toolkit for running LLM agents with persistent, forkable sessions, tool calling, and durable background work.
5
cayu
904cayu-dev/cayu · Python
Cayu is an open-source Python framework for building and running domain-specific long-horizon AI agents, with a durable runtime built in that handles sessions, task dispatch, recovery, approvals, and observability.
6
task-state-guard
895MaxHu-xuan/task-state-guard · Python
TaskStateGuard is an embedded SQLite reconciliation guardrail that fixes stuck task and delivery states after an AI agent, worker, or local workflow restarts, so you never have to guess whether work actually succeeded or was delivered.
7
deepseek-harness-handbook
234sandbaseai/deepseek-harness-handbook · HTML
A community-maintained, agent-first handbook for DeepSeek Harness: 173 source-backed guides on running, debugging, and extending the agent runtime, plus a curated 79-entry ecosystem map. English is canonical, with 202 localized documents including reviewed Simplified Chinese.
8
OpenAgentCore
233MiniMax-AI/OpenAgentCore · Go
OpenAgentCore is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the OpenAI Agents API that lets you run AI agents on your own infrastructure using pluggable native harnesses like Codex, Claude Code or MiniMax Code.
9
oar
198botiverse/oar · TypeScript
OAR (Open Agent Runtime) is a provider-independent programming interface for coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, so you build one integration instead of writing separate harness logic for each agent.