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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
I Built a Sandbox for Agents HN 31 2026-01-28
Kastor HN 33 2026-07-08
Lua AI- the unified agent platform for mid-market enterprises YC 34 2025-11-12
OpenWar3AI GITHUB 36 2026-09-28
Kestrel: AI Copilot for Kubernetes Ops & Security YC 37 2025-11-09
agentic-ai-system-design-primer-zh GITHUB 38 2026-09-25
Loss. a tiny satire about AI progress HN 38 2026-09-15
nautilo GITHUB 38 2026-09-16
Avoice: Harvey for Architecture YC 38 2026-03-08
AgenticBigBang GITHUB 40 2026-09-21
Output.ai HN 40 2026-04-07
JevTown GITHUB 40 2026-09-22
deployment-checklist GITHUB 41 2026-09-26
Id-agent HN 42 2026-05-19
Sqlsure HN 43 2026-07-11
Artie - Real-time data replication to your data warehouse YC 43 2026-06-09
novel-agent-studio GITHUB 43 2026-09-09
Polymath YC 43 2026-02-26
Agent Kernel HN 44 2026-03-23
solve-lite GITHUB 46 2026-09-25
polox_ai GITHUB 46 2026-09-09
TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs HN 52 2026-04-08
ctx HN 53 2026-04-03
FlashREINFORCE GITHUB 56 2026-09-14
Carson: More secure than OpenClaw, More capable than Cowork YC 57 2026-02-26
ai-landing-consultant GITHUB 59 2026-09-16
Egoist Machines: user-owned hyper-personalisation infrastructure for Web 4.0 YC 59 2026-08-18
Archal: API sandboxes, built for AI agents YC 60 2026-08-22
Cortico GITHUB 60 2026-09-13
Allowance: Virtual cards for AI agents YC 62 2026-05-22
Skrun HN 62 2026-04-08
Belvedir: Making private AI models cheap and easy so the world can have trillions of them YC 64 2026-08-11
Dayjob: AI Agents for Industrial Logistics YC 65 2026-04-23
aibuildai-llm-posttrain-agent GITHUB 66 2026-09-16
Lossless-memory HN 67 2026-09-21
Simreal-MLBench GITHUB 71 2026-09-21
AstrLink GITHUB 74 2026-09-22
QAgent PH 76 2026-09-17
Agent-skills-eval HN 79 2026-05-07
Hephaestus HN 81 2025-11-03
BentoLabs AI: Monitoring and Learning layer for long-running agents YC 83 2026-06-01
Locus – Payment infrastructure for AI agents YC 84 2025-10-31
Clam: Semantic Firewall meets OpenClaw YC 84 2026-02-14
agent-tincan GITHUB 84 2026-09-22
roblox-game-boilerplate GITHUB 85 2026-09-24
StarSling Runners - Self-Driving CI YC 85 2026-06-29
A public AI whose memory is shared across all users HN 86 2026-08-16
jo 1.0 - a personal AI that actually knows you YC 90 2026-03-01
Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built HN 91 2026-02-10
museai GITHUB 93 2026-09-29