Universal Dynamic Curated DirectoryUDCD MVP
← Back to home Archive

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: 2026-09-13T07:03:13.193747+00:00

#1 10.0

opencode

Open-source terminal coding agent

+ 206981 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#2 9.72

OpenHands

AI agent platform for autonomous software development

+ 87704 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (MIT)
#3 9.54

Goose

Open-source, extensible AI agent that installs, executes, edits, and tests code

+ 54179 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#4 9.42

Continue

Open-source AI code assistant for any IDE

+ 35886 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#5 8.11

Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal

+ 48921 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)

No tools match your filter.