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ai agent infrastructure and tooling

Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-25 → 2026-09-29), compared with the prior 5.2 months.

horizontal · 584 members · Data as of 2026-10-02

These products provide developer frameworks, evaluation suites, guardrails, and runtime environments for building and deploying autonomous AI agents. They are primarily used by software engineers, technical founders, and product teams deploying agentic workflows into production. The cluster is distinguished by its focus on the underlying developer stack and observability tools needed to run agents reliably, rather than just delivering vertical end-user applications.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
326
Prior count
232
Total count
584
Momentum
40.52
Attention
0.54
Crowding
0.98
Concentration
0.84
Opportunity
0.27

Opportunity components

Attention
0.54
Low crowding
0.02
Momentum (normalized)
0.35
Low concentration
0.16

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
16 (0.05)
hn
163 (0.50)
ph
146 (0.45)
yc
1 (0.00)

Dominant source: hn · Divergence: 0.50

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
127 PRs to Prod this wknd with 18 AI agents: metaswarm. MIT licensed HN 5 2026-02-03
Praxos HN 5 2026-08-20
A2A protocol for Elixir with GenServer-like ergonomics HN 5 2026-03-05
James Library HN 5 2026-03-06
I built the first scripting language for multiplayer game dev HN 5 2026-03-06
GCI, Fly.io like deployments with any VM HN 5 2026-03-08
Hibana HN 5 2026-02-07
K9 Audit HN 5 2026-03-12
Nemo HN 5 2026-05-15
I threw away my analytics dashboard and replaced it with 42 MCP tools HN 5 2026-05-22
jj-benchmark HN 5 2026-03-12
Agent Forge, an agent framework, heuristic routing and graph execution HN 5 2026-03-27
Levi HN 5 2026-06-08
OpenClix, Agent friendly, open-source retention tooling HN 5 2026-03-09
key-carousel HN 5 2026-03-06
Dex HN 5 2026-07-08
/slot-machine development (CC vs. Codex; CE vs. superpowers) HN 5 2026-03-29
Strudai, browser based agentic wrapper around Strudel HN 5 2026-05-31
OpenClaw and Hermes Agent call each other via XMPP HN 5 2026-06-10
Codelegate, keyboard-driven coding agent orchestrator GUI for Mac/Linux HN 5 2026-03-12
ClawSoc HN 5 2026-03-11
1Baton HN 5 2026-09-13
Multi-Agent Code Review HN 5 2025-11-04
I built Comrade HN 5 2026-04-20
BrainGrid HN 5 2026-02-10
Supervisor IDE: Not your usual IDE, create a team, run tasks flow HN 5 2026-03-02
New eval from SWE-bench team evalutes LMs based on goals not tickets HN 5 2025-11-05
Agentspace HN 5 2026-06-17
My agent started its own online store HN 5 2026-02-13
Turn OpenClaw in a high performing development team with DevClaw HN 5 2026-02-14
AI-Evals.io HN 5 2026-02-15
AILA HN 5 2026-02-16
Identa HN 5 2026-04-05
Corral HN 5 2026-02-17
AI Council HN 5 2026-02-21
Wazear HN 5 2026-04-03
I spent $100 in Claude tokens and 1k battles training my AI tank HN 5 2026-05-13
microide, a 100% vibecoded IDE that LLM agents can drive HN 5 2026-07-05
acorn HN 5 2026-02-24
OpenHive HN 5 2026-05-29
Agint Flow HN 5 2026-01-16
Egregore HN 5 2026-04-17
OpenSOP, We got tired of agents lying to us, so we built them a harness HN 5 2026-06-03
Benchmark: AI doesn't find bugs unless you tell it what's wrong HN 5 2026-10-01
I made Claude play Minecraft using Agent SDK HN 5 2026-01-19
Made Our BI v7 HN 5 2026-08-04
R3 HN 5 2026-07-10
A coding-agent workbench built around Matt Pocock's coding workflow HN 5 2026-08-21
Most products have no idea what their AI agents did yesterday HN 5 2026-04-02
Building a full agentic harness around a 4B model is hard HN 5 2026-08-19