AI Coding Agents
Agents and assistants that read, write, and execute code autonomously or semi-autonomously inside a developer's own environment.
Scoring method (open_source_ai_tools_v1): 40% GitHub activity (time-decay since last push) + 40% stars (log-normalized within category) + 20% license permissiveness, minus 5 points if archived. Last generated: 2026-11-08T07:01:40.632225+00:00
#1
10.0
opencode
Open-source terminal coding agent
+ 225342 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#2
9.71
OpenHands
AI agent platform for autonomous software development
+ 92919 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#3
9.55
Goose
Open-source, extensible AI agent that installs, executes, edits, and tests code
+ 56343 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#4
9.37
Continue
Open-source AI code assistant for any IDE
+ 36429 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#5
7.59
Aider
AI pair programming in your terminal
+ 50017 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
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