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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
MnemoBrain GITHUB 24 2026-09-12
awesome-harness-evolution GITHUB 23 2026-09-12
bricks GITHUB 23 2026-09-25
ReasonBlocks - Stop your AI agents from burning money re-learning what they already know. YC 23 2026-04-27
Nit HN 23 2026-03-26
I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel HN 23 2026-02-17
bighelp GITHUB 23 2026-09-26
GovGuard — Automating government workflows, starting with FOIA 🏛️ YC 23 2026-04-22
DORA GITHUB 22 2026-09-25
yan GITHUB 22 2026-09-20
OSS Cross-Harness self hosted registry and analytics for AI Agents HN 22 2026-07-21
OrdinConn GITHUB 21 2026-09-20
ai-agent-langgraph-main GITHUB 21 2026-09-11
Trellis: Autonomous Agents for Short Term Rentals YC 21 2026-04-22
Beacon HN 21 2026-05-18
Haladir: Building Operational Superintelligence YC 21 2026-03-08
Part_HackBench GITHUB 21 2026-09-10
Sixtyfour - People Intelligence Infrastructure YC 21 2026-05-27
Inkbox: Give your AI agents email, phone, iMessage, and an internet address YC 21 2026-07-08
Open Bias HN 21 2026-04-28
redis-guard GITHUB 20 2026-09-25
Kestrel - AI Agents for Platform Engineering YC 20 2026-07-01
Castari - Vercel for AI Agents YC 20 2025-11-17
MCPBastion GITHUB 20 2026-09-22
ai-girlfriend-pc GITHUB 20 2026-09-26
A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions HN 20 2026-08-09
Noisegate HN 19 2026-07-30
21st - Infrastructure for AI agents YC 19 2026-03-16
jcr GITHUB 19 2026-09-20
Terminal Use: Vercel for background agents YC 19 2026-02-17
mojito GITHUB 19 2026-09-29
octop-gateway GITHUB 18 2026-09-24
HART OS HN 18 2026-07-26
eleven_ai_agents_for_begineers_to_advance_level_developers GITHUB 18 2026-09-13
Agentic Fabriq: Okta for Agents YC 18 2025-11-06
Mutiny: Your AI Agent for Creating Anything Customer-Facing (used by Uber & Rippling) YC 18 2026-04-15
Phantom HN 18 2026-03-30
Tracer: Fable-level AI at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models YC 18 2026-07-31
Rindler - Turn Any Website Into An API For AI Agents YC 17 2026-07-09
Vela: AI Scheduling That Adapts to How You Work YC 17 2026-02-06
Proxis: AI Email Agents with Your Context YC 17 2025-11-07
AgentSight HN 17 2026-08-21
CoreTex HN 17 2026-05-27
Remix 🎨 Auto-generate social content with your existing data YC 16 2026-03-23
AI Operator from Hell HN 16 2025-11-01
A Local-First Agentic Knowledge Manager HN 16 2026-05-08
OrcaPromptVault GITHUB 16 2026-09-15
Deeptrace - AI agents for on-call YC 16 2025-11-12
bricka GITHUB 16 2026-09-28
StackAI: Enterprise AI Agents in Seconds YC 16 2026-01-07