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Agentic-coding projects on GitHub

AI agents autonomously writing and editing code

As of , the most-starred Agentic-coding projects on GitHub are ponytail (165.2K stars), rtk (83.7K stars) and claude-code-best-practice (67.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 46 Agentic-coding repositories with 754.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ponytail, with +758 stars in a day.

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+758

ponytail

DietrichGebert/ponytail · ★ 165.2K

Ponytail is a skill for AI coding agents that channels the laziest senior dev in the room: the agent writes only what the task needs, on the belief that the best code is the code you never wrote.

+118

rtk

rtk-ai/rtk · ★ 83.7K

rtk is a CLI proxy that filters and compresses command outputs before they reach your LLM context, cutting 60-90% of the bash output your coding agent reads and lowering token costs.

+115

learn-harness-engineering

walkinglabs/learn-harness-engineering · ★ 20K

A free, project-based course on harness engineering: building the environment, state management, verification and control that make AI coding agents complete real repo work reliably. It has lectures, hands-on projects and a template library, translated into 15 languages.

+83

awesome-claude-code

hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code · ★ 55.9K

A hand-picked, curated collection of resources for Claude Code (Anthropic's coding agent) — covering skills, subagents, status lines, plugins, developer tooling, security reviews, and more, organized into categorized sections.

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46 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · DietrichGebert/ponytail

    ponytail

    Ponytail is a skill for AI coding agents that channels the laziest senior dev in the room: the agent writes only what the task needs, on the belief that the best code is the code you never wrote.

    165.2K
  2. #2 · rtk-ai/rtk

    rtk

    rtk is a CLI proxy that filters and compresses command outputs before they reach your LLM context, cutting 60-90% of the bash output your coding agent reads and lowering token costs.

    83.7K
  3. #3 · shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice

    claude-code-best-practice

    A curated reference and knowledge base documenting Claude Code's features and best practices, covering agents, commands, skills, workflows, hooks, MCP servers, and more, organized as linked tables rather than a single tutorial.

    67.7K
  1. 4

    awesome-claude-code

    55.9Khesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code · Python

    A hand-picked, curated collection of resources for Claude Code (Anthropic's coding agent) — covering skills, subagents, status lines, plugins, developer tooling, security reviews, and more, organized into categorized sections.

  2. 5

    claude-howto

    41.9Kluongnv89/claude-howto · Python

    A free, open-source guide to Claude Code: 10 visual tutorial modules with Mermaid diagrams and copy-paste templates that take you from your first slash command to advanced agent setups in 11-13 hours.

  3. 6

    oh-my-claudecode

    40KYeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode · TypeScript

    oh-my-claudecode (OMC) is a multi-agent orchestration layer for Claude Code that lets teams of agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Grok, Antigravity) plan, execute, and verify coding tasks with little manual setup.

  4. 7

    crush

    28.7Kcharmbracelet/crush · Go

    A terminal-based AI coding agent from Charm: it wires your tools, code, and workflows into the LLM of your choice and works as a coding partner right in your terminal.

  5. 8

    vibe-coding-cn

    23.1K2025Emma/vibe-coding-cn · Python

    A Chinese-language guide to vibe coding — a planning-driven workflow for building software by pair programming with AI, covering the whole path from project idea and tech choice to development, debugging and scaling.

  6. 9

    ralph

    22Ksnarktank/ralph · TypeScript

    Ralph is an autonomous AI agent loop that runs AI coding tools (Amp or Claude Code) over and over until every item in your PRD is done. Each iteration starts a fresh instance with clean context.

  7. 10

    learn-harness-engineering

    20Kwalkinglabs/learn-harness-engineering · TypeScript

    A free, project-based course on harness engineering: building the environment, state management, verification and control that make AI coding agents complete real repo work reliably. It has lectures, hands-on projects and a template library, translated into 15 languages.

  8. 11

    pua

    19.7Ktanweai/pua · Python

    A skill plugin for AI coding agents that pressures the model with corporate PUA / PIP rhetoric so it exhausts every possible solution before giving up instead of surrendering after a couple of failed attempts.

  9. 12

    Qwen3-Coder

    16.8KQwenLM/Qwen3-Coder · Python

    Qwen3-Coder is the code-focused branch of the Qwen3 large language model family from the Qwen team — open-weight models built for coding and agentic tasks, available in several sizes.

  10. 13

    DeepCode

    16.7KHKUDS/DeepCode · Python

    An open agentic coding platform from HKUDS: a multi-agent harness that turns natural language and even research papers into production-ready code, working directly in your repository.

  11. 14

    plandex

    15.7Kplandex-ai/plandex · Go

    Plandex is an open source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal. It plans and executes large coding tasks spanning many steps and dozens of files, built for real-world projects.

  12. 15

    awesome-claude-skills

    15.4Ktravisvn/awesome-claude-skills

    A curated list (awesome-list) of Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows, especially Claude Code.

  13. 16

    Trellis

    15Kmindfold-ai/Trellis · TypeScript

    Trellis is an out-of-the-box engineering framework for AI coding. It persists specs, tasks, and project memory in your repo, so any coding agent works to your conventions instead of starting every session from scratch.

  14. 17

    context-engineering-intro

    13.9Kcoleam00/context-engineering-intro · Python

    A comprehensive template for practicing context engineering: giving AI coding assistants like Claude Code the documentation, examples and rules they need to finish features end to end.

  15. 18

    opencode

    13.8Kopencode-ai/opencode · Go

    It's an AI coding agent for your terminal: a Go CLI with an interactive TUI where AI models help you code, debug and run commands without leaving the shell.

  16. 19

    PocketFlow

    11.3KThe-Pocket/PocketFlow · Python

    Pocket Flow is a minimalist 100-line LLM framework built around a single Graph abstraction, letting you build agents, workflows, and RAG pipelines without heavy dependencies or vendor lock-in.

  17. 20

    claurst

    10.3KKuberwastaken/claurst · Rust

    Claurst is an open-source, multi-provider terminal coding agent written in Rust. It began as a clean-room reimplementation of Claude Code and grew into a TUI pair programmer with a plugin system, chat forking, memory consolidation and a companion named Rustle.

  18. 21

    claude-code-tips

    10.2Kykdojo/claude-code-tips · HTML

    A collection of 45+ tips for getting the most out of Claude Code, the terminal-based AI coding agent — from basics to advanced. It also includes a custom status line script, Claude Code running itself in a container, and the dx plugin.

  19. 22

    superpowers-zh

    8.3KjnMetaCode/superpowers-zh · JavaScript

    The Chinese community edition of superpowers — a skills framework for AI coding tools. It installs 20 battle-tested workflow skills (brainstorming, planning, TDD, debugging, code review) into 26 AI coding agents so they follow proven work methods.

  20. 23

    firstmate

    8Kkunchenguid/firstmate · Shell

    firstmate is an agent distro: you talk to one 'first mate' agent that spawns and supervises a crew of parallel coding agents, handing you finished PRs, approved local merges, or investigation reports.

  21. 24

    claude-code-ultimate-guide

    6.2KFlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide · Python

    A deep, 430K+ line guide to Claude Code covering agentic workflows, hooks, skills, MCP servers, security, and production practices, paired with runnable templates and quizzes to learn from.

  22. 25

    router

    5.6Kweave-os/router · Go

    A drop-in proxy that routes every prompt from your coding agent or app to the best available model across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and OSS models via OpenRouter, cutting inference costs by 40-70% just by swapping the API endpoint.

  23. 26

    gnhf

    4.2Kkunchenguid/gnhf · TypeScript

    gnhf is an overnight orchestrator for AI coding agents: you give it an objective before bed and it loops autonomously, with each iteration making one small, committed, documented change toward the goal. You wake up to a branch of clean work and a log of everything that happened.

  24. 27

    lean-ctx

    3.9Kyvgude/lean-ctx · Rust

    LeanCTX is a 'Context Gateway' that runs locally alongside your AI coding agent, deciding what context the model actually sees, compressing it, and tracking the cost and outcome of that work.

  25. 28

    vibe-wise

    3.7Knykooi1/vibe-wise · Python

    VibeWise is a Claude Code plugin that keeps you in the driver's seat while learning to build software: you design the approach, Claude asks questions and explains unfamiliar concepts, and only writes code once you've worked through the decisions.

  26. 29

    CLM

    3.1KContrastive-LM/CLM · Python

    CLM (Contrastive Language Models) is a 'System One' model trained with a contrastive learning objective that connects states and actions, served behind a TypeSafe-compatible API as CLM-8B. It is meant to be plugged into agents as a fast scorer/verifier for decisions, tool calls, and best-of-N candidates.

  27. 30

    Autoloom

    1KGanyuanRan/Autoloom · JavaScript

    Autoloom is a desktop AI coding client that bakes Aegis engineering-governance methods right into the agent's execution loop, so code changes are checked for necessity, reviewed for complexity and diagnosed with evidence before being delivered.

  28. 31

    nvx

    404microsoft/nvx · Python

    NVX is an ultra-light micro-VM sandbox for running untrusted workloads with hardware-enforced isolation, built on OpenVMM and running Linux as the guest OS.

  29. 32

    Harness_ru

    315justxor/Harness_ru · Shell

    A complete course (written in Russian) on harness engineering: how to design the system around an AI coding agent - instructions, tools, environment, state and verification - so it writes code reliably.

  30. 33

    riso-windowseat

    297sevenevesai/riso-windowseat · HTML

    Procedural risograph-style animated films, each a single self-contained HTML file of Canvas 2D and Web Audio, plus the Claude Code skills, craft docs and tools used to make them.

  31. 34

    nobuzz

    278adnanakil/nobuzz

    NoBuzz is a Claude Code skill that adds a /debuzz command: it takes Claude's last response and pipes it through Gemini via Google's Antigravity CLI (agy) to turn clickbait speak into regular English.

  32. 35

    moyai

    266BerriAI/moyai · Python

    Moyai is a self-hosted coding agent for background work: give it a task from your browser or Slack, and it edits code, runs tests, and opens a pull request for you to review.

  33. 36

    acryl

    257acryldev/acryl · TypeScript

    ACRYL (Agent Context Relay Yielding Lifecycles) is an agent-agnostic Agentic Development Environment and continuity layer: it keeps one persistent workspace and project context while coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI act as replaceable workers that enter and leave the project.

  34. 37

    zuse

    232swarajbachu/zuse · TypeScript

    Zuse is a chat-first desktop app that wraps multiple AI coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi) in one persistent, project-aware interface, with chat history, a file viewer, an integrated terminal, and git worktrees, all stored locally.

  35. 38

    limen

    230overment/limen · HTML

    limen is a minimal one-human-many-agents harness built from files, Git, and one CLI: you talk to a single coordinator that starts OMP or Pi coding agents as workers and reviewers in isolated Git worktrees.

  36. 39

    procoder

    211azrtydxb/procoder · Go

    A discipline layer for AI coding agents: one Go binary that gives the agent a commit gate it cannot talk its way past, quality controllers that refuse to call unfinished work done, and a self-learning loop for escaped bugs.

  37. 40

    ordewell

    202ordewell/ordewell · TypeScript

    Multi-agent task orchestration for coding agents: you describe one goal and it becomes an ordered plan of tasks, each executed by its own Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode session, then verified.

  38. 41

    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.

  39. 42

    cocode

    165cocode-agency/cocode · TypeScript

    A ready-to-run distribution of the DeepSeek Harness coding agent: a desktop workspace app plus a terminal client, working out of the box but open to inspection and change.

  40. 43

    diffle

    161moritzwilksch/diffle · TypeScript

    Diffle is a keyboard-first diff viewer that opens Git diffs in your browser, lets you comment on lines, blocks, or whole files, and then hands those comments to an AI agent as a prompt or pushes them to GitHub as a pending review.

  41. 44

    th08

    117N0zoM1z0/th08 · C++

    A from-scratch C++ source reconstruction of the original Japanese 1.00d executable of Touhou 08 (Imperishable Night), rebuilt function-by-function until it matches the compiled game binary.

  42. 45

    datapages

    114romshark/datapages · Go

    Datapages is a web framework and toolset for building GUI and web apps in pure Go on a Templ + Go + Datastar stack — real-time collaborative web apps, simple server-rendered sites, or installable local-first GUI apps.

  43. 46

    Relentless

    98ArvorCo/Relentless · TypeScript

    A CLI orchestrator that runs your AI coding agent in a loop until every task is done — each iteration starts a fresh agent with clean context, while memory persists through git commits and progress files.

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