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ai agent infrastructure and tooling

Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior 5.2 months.

horizontal · 476 members · Data as of 2026-09-30

These products provide developer frameworks, runtimes, evaluation harnesses, and memory layers for building and operating autonomous AI agents. They are primarily adopted by software engineers, AI researchers, and technical product teams deploying agentic systems. This cluster is distinguished by its focus on backend infrastructure and agent lifecycle management rather than standalone consumer AI applications.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
332
Prior count
107
Total count
476
Momentum
210.28
Attention
0.42
Crowding
0.98
Concentration
0.86
Opportunity
0.34

Opportunity components

Attention
0.42
Low crowding
0.02
Momentum (normalized)
0.78
Low concentration
0.14

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
108 (0.33)
hn
133 (0.40)
ph
48 (0.14)
yc
43 (0.13)

Dominant source: hn · Divergence: 0.27

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
TermHub HN 5 2026-04-05
Autoliner HN 5 2026-02-02
tpmjs HN 5 2025-12-28
Smux HN 5 2026-03-10
SwarmClaw HN 5 2026-03-01
Enforra HN 5 2026-05-19
Agent Office HN 5 2026-03-06
A game/benchmark where AI bots hunt each other HN 5 2026-01-08
Bare-Metal AI HN 5 2026-09-14
RiskKernel, kill -9 an AI agent and resume it without paying twice HN 5 2026-06-10
AgentSearch HN 5 2026-04-23
AI agents deploy apps autonomously (no accounts, no API keys) HN 5 2026-04-21
Aurict HN 5 2026-09-04
AgentVerse HN 5 2026-03-21
Pacific Slate: a self-hosted, model-agnostic multi-agent AI assistant HN 5 2026-08-09
SwarmFeed HN 5 2026-04-04
Crux, a personal AI on your computer you can reach from anywhere HN 5 2026-07-17
Pay.sh HN 5 2026-05-06
Vehla HN 5 2026-09-13
Velt Activity Logs: Audit trail for humans and AI agents YC 5 2026-04-02
Wozz HN 5 2025-11-26
Contral HN 5 2026-05-08
Wasmer SDK HN 5 2026-09-01
A pre-execution guard that stops AI agents running destructive commands HN 5 2026-08-16
KillClawd HN 5 2026-05-09
Hivemind turns agent traces into skills and shares with your team HN 5 2026-05-11
Containarium HN 5 2026-05-14
The Three Idempotencies of an Agent HN 5 2026-06-30
Free.ai HN 5 2026-03-28
Agentic product discovery for AI apps and shopping agents HN 5 2026-05-15
Agent Chat Bridge HN 5 2026-05-21
Declarative, reproducible configuration materializer for AI agents HN 5 2026-08-23
I open-sourced two AI agents with real memory (chat and voice, MIT) HN 5 2026-05-26
Autonomy HN 5 2026-06-20
Execution Intelligence AI Accelerator HN 5 2026-08-12
Architectural Guardrails for AI native development HN 5 2026-09-20
evepad HN 5 2026-08-20
We made a back end agnostic SDK for Agent Memory HN 5 2026-05-15
My AI keeps getting smarter. I don't. So I built Engram HN 5 2026-07-30
AletheionAGI HN 5 2026-08-14
Faaah HN 5 2026-08-08
Future Crew's 1993 Second Reality, rebuilt by AI agents, no emulation HN 5 2026-08-20
Selvedge HN 5 2026-05-08
ClawFinder, an open-source discovery and negotiation layer for agents HN 5 2026-03-25
MemoryOps HN 5 2026-06-22
Forth MCP HN 5 2026-08-28
GladeKit: AI agent for game development YC 5 2026-03-12
Agentsnap HN 5 2026-07-29
Multi Agent Protocol for AI Scientist by Hexo Labs HN 5 2026-06-25
The Extensible, Multi-Agent Personal AI Sidekick HN 5 2026-02-18