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#1

Stagewise

Similarity 147Trust 97Excellent 100

The Open Source Agentic IDE. Create and orchestrate coding agents, show app previews and run git workflows. Use your favorite models across all providers.

6.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add stagewise-io/stagewise
#2

Opencode

Similarity 142Trust 95Excellent 100

The open source coding agent.

175K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add anomalyco/opencode
#3

Cline

Similarity 142Trust 93Excellent 100

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

63K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add cline/cline
#4

Pi

Similarity 141Trust 92Excellent 100

AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI

63K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add earendil-works/pi
#5

Design.Md

Similarity 141Trust 98Excellent 100

A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.

16K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add google-labs-code/design.md
#6

Qwen Code

Similarity 141Trust 93Excellent 100

An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add QwenLM/qwen-code
#7

Kilocode

Similarity 141Trust 95Excellent 100

Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

20K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilocode
#8

Sandcastle

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

Orchestrate sandboxed coding agents in TypeScript with sandcastle.run()

6.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add mattpocock/sandcastle
#9

Emdash

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment (🧡 YC W26). Run multiple coding agents in parallel. Use any provider.

4.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add generalaction/emdash
#10

Letta Code

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

The memory-first coding agent

2.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add letta-ai/letta-code
#11

Dirac

Similarity 136Trust 95Excellent 100

Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency and context curation. Reduces API costs by 50-80% vs other agent AND improves the code quality at the same time. Uses Hash Anchored edits, massively parallel operations, AST manipulation and many many other optimizations. https://dirac.run/

1.3K starsJun 13, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add dirac-run/dirac
#12

Kimchi

Similarity 136Trust 91Excellent 100

Terminal coding agent powered by Kimchi's multi-model orchestration

1.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add getkimchi/kimchi
#13

Archon

Similarity 135Trust 95Excellent 100

The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable.

22K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add coleam00/Archon
#14

Open Swe

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 100

An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent

10.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add langchain-ai/open-swe
#15

Agentmemory

Similarity 133Trust 95Excellent 100

#1 Persistent memory for AI coding agents based on real-world benchmarks

23K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add rohitg00/agentmemory
#16

Clawcodex

Similarity 132Trust 84Excellent 85

Claude Code full Python rebuild. AI Coding Agent in 230K LoC pure Python!

614 starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add agentforce314/clawcodex

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