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The Most-Starred Open-Source AI Projects on GitHub

The 50 AI projects with the most stars on GitHub as of October 17, 2026. AI agents have taken over the top of the chart in 2025–26, pushing classic machine-learning frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch down the list.

Video thumbnail for an OpenClaw crash course

Pictured: video thumbnail from a beginner's crash course on OpenClaw, #1 with 392,215 GitHub stars.

Rank	Project	GitHub stars	What it is	Type	Language	License	Made by
1	OpenClaw	392,215	Self-hosted personal AI assistant that works inside your chat apps	Agent	TypeScript	MIT	OpenClaw Foundation
2	REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)	293,055	MCP server that lets coding agents reverse-engineer apps and binaries	Agent tool	TypeScript	MIT	morluto
3	Hermes Agent	254,466	Self-improving agent that writes its own skills	Agent	Python	MIT	Nous Research
4	DeepSeek Harness	251,254	Plugin-based agent harness, run as dsh	Coding agent	TypeScript	MIT	DeepSeek
5	OpenCode	214,404	Open-source coding agent for the terminal	Coding agent	TypeScript	MIT	Anomaly (SST)
6	n8n	207,731	Visual builder for AI agents and automated workflows	Agent builder	TypeScript	Sustainable Use (fair-code)	n8n
7	TensorFlow	201,061	Machine-learning framework	Framework / library	C++	Apache 2.0	Google
8	Claw Code	194,930	Rust rewrite of a Claude Code-style agent harness	Coding agent	Rust	MIT	UltraWorkers
9	Firecrawl	192,244	Turns websites into clean data for AI agents	Agent tool	TypeScript	AGPL-3.0	Firecrawl
10	AutoGPT	187,616	Platform for building and running autonomous agents	Agent builder	Python	Polyform Shield + MIT	Significant Gravitas
11	Ollama	183,508	Runs open models on your own computer	Model runner	Go	MIT	Ollama
12	Transformers	167,771	Library defining thousands of AI models	Framework / library	Python	Apache 2.0	Hugging Face
13	Stable Diffusion web UI	165,071	Browser interface for generating images	App / interface	Python	AGPL-3.0	AUTOMATIC1111
14	Dify	158,674	Platform for agent workflows and RAG apps	Agent builder	Python	Modified Apache 2.0	LangGenius
15	Open WebUI	155,937	Self-hosted chat interface for any model	App / interface	Python	Open WebUI License	Open WebUI
16	Langflow	155,762	Visual builder for AI agents and workflows	Agent builder	Python	MIT	Langflow
17	LangChain	147,952	Framework for building agents and LLM apps	Framework / library	Python	MIT	LangChain
18	CC Switch	145,266	Desktop manager for coding-agent settings and providers	Agent tool	Rust	MIT	Jason Young
19	ComfyUI	137,942	Node-based interface for image and video models	App / interface	Python	GPL-3.0	Comfy Org
20	MoneyPrinterTurbo	132,179	Makes short videos from a topic with AI	App / interface	Python	MIT	harry0703
21	llama.cpp	131,434	Runs language models in C/C++ on ordinary hardware	Model runner	C++	MIT	ggml.org
22	Codex CLI	129,552	OpenAI's coding agent for the terminal	Coding agent	Rust	Apache 2.0	OpenAI
23	Browser Use	118,226	Library that lets AI agents use a web browser	Agent tool	Python	MIT	Browser Use
24	Pi	115,770	Minimal, extensible coding-agent harness	Coding agent	TypeScript	MIT	Earendil (Mario Zechner)
25	TradingAgents	111,548	Multi-agent framework for financial trading	Agent	Python	Apache 2.0	Tauric Research
26	Whisper	110,702	Speech-recognition model and code	Model	Python	MIT	OpenAI
27	Gemini CLI	107,411	Google's coding agent for the terminal	Coding agent	TypeScript	Apache 2.0	Google
28	PyTorch	104,809	Machine-learning framework	Framework / library	Python	BSD-3-Clause	PyTorch Foundation (Meta)
29	DeepSeek-V3	104,503	Code and paper for the DeepSeek-V3 model	Model	Python	MIT (code)	DeepSeek
30	Paperclip	103,230	Runs teams of AI agents like a company	Agent builder	TypeScript	MIT	Paperclip AI
31	OpenDesign	101,678	Workspace for designing with an AI agent	App / interface	TypeScript	Apache 2.0	Nexu
32	claude-mem	101,251	Memory plugin that carries context between agent sessions	Agent tool	TypeScript	Apache 2.0	thedotmack
33	Agent Reach	98,296	Gives agents access to X, Reddit, YouTube and more	Agent tool	Python	MIT	Panniantong
34	autoresearch	98,035	Lets an agent run small AI-training experiments overnight	Agent	Python	MIT	Andrej Karpathy
35	Deep-Live-Cam	97,093	Real-time face swap from a single image	App / interface	Python	AGPL-3.0	hacksider
36	Orca	94,586	Runs several coding agents side by side	Agent tool	TypeScript	MIT	Stably AI
37	vLLM	93,959	High-throughput engine for serving language models	Model runner	Python	Apache 2.0	vLLM project
38	Odysseus	93,741	Self-hosted AI workspace for chat, agents and documents	App / interface	Python	AGPL-3.0	odysseus-dev
39	RAGFlow	92,347	Retrieval-augmented generation engine with agents	Agent builder	Go	Apache 2.0	InfiniFlow
40	MCP servers	91,317	Reference servers for the Model Context Protocol	Agent tool	JavaScript	MIT, moving to Apache 2.0	Model Context Protocol project
41	PaddleOCR	91,254	Text recognition that turns documents into data	Framework / library	Python	Apache 2.0	Baidu (PaddlePaddle)
42	OpenCV	91,205	Computer-vision library	Framework / library	C++	Apache 2.0	OpenCV.org
43	OpenHands	91,084	Open-source AI software-development agent	Coding agent	TypeScript	MIT	OpenHands
44	NextChat	88,851	Chat interface for many AI models	App / interface	TypeScript	MIT	NextChat
45	World Monitor	88,575	AI-summarized global news and monitoring dashboard	App / interface	TypeScript	AGPL-3.0	koala73
46	Understand Anything	86,672	Agent plugin that maps a codebase as a knowledge graph	Agent tool	TypeScript	MIT	Egonex AI
47	Crawl4AI	85,676	Web crawler that outputs LLM-ready text	Agent tool	Python	Apache 2.0	unclecode
48	DeerFlow	83,971	Long-running research and coding agent	Agent	Python	MIT	ByteDance
49	RTK	83,630	Proxy that cuts the tokens coding agents use	Agent tool	Rust	Apache 2.0	rtk-ai
50	LobeHub	83,281	Chat and agent workspace	App / interface	TypeScript	LobeHub Community License	LobeHub

Basis and caveats: GitHub star counts as of October 17, 2026, taken from EvanLi's daily Github-Ranking lists, which read GitHub's own figures. Stars are a bookmark anyone with a GitHub account can add, so they measure attention, not how many people actually use a project, and the new viral repos are moving fast (REA gained about 59,000 stars in the three days before this snapshot). Only software counts: apps, agents, frameworks, libraries and model code that you install and run, whose own description presents it as AI software. Left out are agent “skill” packs, CLAUDE.md files and prompt collections (several of which have more stars than anything here, such as obra/superpowers), curated lists, courses and tutorials, and repositories that don't hold the product's own source (anthropics/claude-code mostly holds issues and plugins). Any license counts as long as the code is public, so source-available projects such as n8n are included; the License filter separates “Permissive” (MIT, Apache, BSD), “Copyleft” (GPL, AGPL) and “Restricted” (fair-code or custom terms). Just below the cut is MinerU, a document-to-Markdown converter for AI (81,878). Beware look-alike repositories: a fake copy of REA was found spreading malware.^[1][3]

The Top 10

OpenClaw — 392,215 stars

Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer who founded PSPDFKit, launched the project in November 2025 as Clawdbot. After Anthropic raised trademark concerns it briefly became Moltbot, then settled on OpenClaw. It's an assistant that runs on your own computer and answers in the chat apps you already use (Discord, iMessage, Slack, Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp and 20-plus others), with the AI model behind it swappable as a plugin. It went viral in early 2026 and drew about 2 million visitors in a single week. When Steinberger joined OpenAI that February, the project moved to an independent foundation; the copyright in its MIT license now belongs to the OpenClaw Foundation.^[2]

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) — 293,055

REA plugs into coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI as an MCP server. With it, an agent can work out how an app or website does something without having its source code, from JavaScript and Electron apps to .NET programs and native binaries. The analysis runs on your own machine. Created on April 14, 2026, it reportedly gained nearly 70,000 stars in two days in early October; on October 14 it stood at 234,477, about 59,000 fewer than three days later. Its fame also spawned a fake copy under a look-alike account that shipped a trojan, so the project says to download it only from morluto/rea, rea.tools or the rea-agents npm package.^[3]

Hermes Agent — 254,466

Nous Research, best known for its Hermes family of open models, launched Hermes Agent in February 2026. It sells itself as a self-improving agent: it turns what it does into reusable skills, refines them as it goes and remembers across sessions. You can put any model behind it, from Nous Portal and OpenRouter to OpenAI or your own server. It went from zero to about 212,000 stars in five months.^[4]

DeepSeek Harness — 251,254

The Chinese lab behind the DeepSeek models released its own agent harness, run as dsh, on August 13, 2026, as an MIT-licensed developer preview. Everything in it is a swappable plugin, including the model connection, the tools and the agent loop itself, built on the Cordis framework. It passed 200,000 stars in just over two weeks. DeepSeek says it can't accept outside code contributions yet and warns that updates will break compatibility.^[5]

OpenCode — 214,404

OpenCode is an open-source coding agent for the terminal, also available as a desktop app. It's built by Anomaly, the team behind the SST developer framework, and the repository moved from sst/opencode to anomalyco/opencode. It works with more than 75 AI model providers. The code is MIT-licensed, and Anomaly sells paid add-ons for hosted model access.^[6]

n8n — 207,731

n8n began as a workflow-automation tool and now calls itself “the platform for AI agents and workflow automation.” It combines a visual canvas with custom code, more than 1,500 integrations and over 9,000 templates, and runs self-hosted or in n8n's cloud. It's “fair-code” rather than open source in the strict sense: anyone can read the code and self-host it, but its Sustainable Use License limits commercial use, and some enterprise features carry a separate license.^[7]

TensorFlow — 201,061

Google open-sourced TensorFlow, the machine-learning framework built by its Google Brain team, in November 2015, and for years it was one of the most-starred projects on all of GitHub. The 2025–26 wave of agent software has pushed it down to seventh. Even so, it is still the most-starred machine-learning framework, ahead of Hugging Face's Transformers (#12) and PyTorch (#28).^[8]

Claw Code — 194,930

Claw Code started on March 31, 2026, the day Claude Code's source was reportedly exposed, as a clean-room rewrite of its agent harness: built from scratch to work the same way, without copying the code. Its README claimed it passed 50,000 stars in about two hours. Today it's a Rust implementation of a claw command-line agent. The repository calls itself “closer to a museum exhibit than a product pitch”, maintained by agents, and points anyone who wants to get real work done to sister projects.^[9]

Firecrawl — 192,244

Firecrawl turns websites into clean Markdown or structured data that AI models can use. It deals with the hard parts of scraping, such as JavaScript-heavy pages, proxies and rate limits, and connects to agents as an MCP server. The code is under the AGPL-3.0 license, and the company also sells a hosted version.^[10]

#10

AutoGPT — 187,616

AutoGPT was the breakout hit of spring 2023: an experimental app that chained GPT-4 calls together so it could chase a goal on its own, and one of the fastest-growing projects GitHub had seen. It has since become a platform for building, deploying and running AI agents, with a visual builder. The original “classic” agent is MIT-licensed; the newer platform uses the Polyform Shield license, which bars using it to build a competing product.^[11]

Sources

EvanLi, Github-Ranking: daily GitHub star rankings, overall Top 100 and per-language Top 100s, updated 2026-10-17T04:07Z — github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking
OpenClaw README and license — github.com/openclaw/openclaw; Tenten, "OpenClaw history" — tenten.co; Trending Topics, "OpenClaw: 2 million visitors in a week" — trendingtopics.eu
REA README — github.com/morluto/rea; 36Kr on REA's growth — eu.36kr.com; Pasquale Pillitteri, "REA: Reverse Engineer Anything, true or false" — pasqualepillitteri.it
Hermes Agent README — github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent; Gradually, "Hermes Agent statistics" — gradually.ai
DeepSeek Harness README — github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness; The New Stack, "DeepSeek Harness" — thenewstack.io; Pasquale Pillitteri, "DeepSeek Harness tops 200K GitHub stars" — pasqualepillitteri.it
OpenCode README — github.com/anomalyco/opencode; Ry Walker, "OpenCode" — rywalker.com
n8n README and LICENSE.md — github.com/n8n-io/n8n
TensorFlow repository — github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
Claw Code README — github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code; Ben's Bites, "Claw Code: open-source AI coding agent framework" — news.bensbites.co
Firecrawl README and license — github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
AutoGPT README and license — github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT
Ranks 11–50: each project's GitHub repository (linked from its name in the table) and its LICENSE file, read October 17, 2026.