🤖Open Agents
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An open source template for building cloud agents.
⭐ Popular: 6k stars, gaining about 12 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- Gives developers a working starting point for chat-driven coding agents that clone a repo, run shell and file tools, and open pull requests, rather than building the plumbing from scratch.
- Targets teams already on Vercel, offering one-click deploy with an auto-provisioned Neon Postgres database and GitHub OAuth out of the box.
- Ships as MIT-licensed TypeScript, so the whole agent, sandbox, and web stack can be forked and modified.
under the hood
- Splits into three layers, a Next.js web app for auth, sessions, and streaming chat, an agent runtime on Vercel's Workflow SDK, and an isolated sandbox VM for code execution.
- Runs the agent outside the sandbox and has it drive the VM through file, search, shell, task, skill, and web tools, keeping execution and lifecycle separate.
- Uses durable workflow-backed runs with streaming, cancellation, and snapshot-based sandbox hibernation and resume, organized as a Turbo monorepo with pnpm across apps/web and packages for agent, sandbox, and shared code.
Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources
star history
- PR#32 2k 2026-04-22
- now 6k + 4k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
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Reference architecture for cloud agents
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