Key Facts

• Who: 138 AI agent repositories tracked (up from 128 last week)
• What: Hermes Agent leads with 174,618 stars (+5.45% WoW); Front-End-Checklist enters top 5 as first MDX entry
• When: Snapshot period May 25 — June 1, 2026
• Impact: Ecosystem expanded by 10 repositories (+7.81% WoW), signaling accelerated open-source AI agent development

Data Overview

• Snapshot Week: 2026-05-26 to 2026-06-01
• Tracker: GitHub AI Agent Stars Tracker (view all historical snapshots: /tech/ai-agents/data/?tracker=github-agent-stars-tracker)
• Update Frequency: Weekly
• Primary Sources: GitHub API - AI Agent Repositories

This weekly snapshot captures the top 30 most-starred AI agent repositories on GitHub, tracking ecosystem growth, language diversity, and emerging projects. Data collected on June 1, 2026 reflects repository metrics as of May 31, 2026.

This Week’s Data

Repository	Stars	Forks	Language	Description
NousResearch/hermes-agent	174,618	29,666	Python	The agent that grows with you
thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist	72,763	6,654	MDX	The essential checklist for modern web development, for humans and AI agents
shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code	63,856	10,446	Python	Bash is all you need - A nano claude code-like agent harness
santifer/career-ops	48,042	9,997	JavaScript	AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code
CherryHQ/cherry-studio	46,662	4,426	TypeScript	AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents
zhayujie/CowAgent	44,990	10,157	Python	Open-source super AI assistant & Agent Harness
HKUDS/nanobot	43,435	7,672	Python	Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools
ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis	39,629	38,251	Python	LLM-powered stock analysis system
CopilotKit/CopilotKit	31,870	4,122	TypeScript	The Frontend Stack for Agents & Generative UI
Gitlawb/openclaude	28,120	8,658	TypeScript	runs anywhere. uses anything
iOfficeAI/AionUi	27,304	2,625	TypeScript	Free, local, open-source 24/7 Cowork app
googleworkspace/cli	26,706	1,404	Rust	Google Workspace CLI
jackwener/OpenCLI	23,158	2,329	JavaScript	Make Any Website into CLI
hugohe3/ppt-master	22,925	2,091	Python	AI generates a real, editable PowerPoint
nocobase/nocobase	22,596	2,632	TypeScript	NocoBase is an open-source AI + no-code platform
activepieces/activepieces	22,494	3,726	TypeScript	AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation
Panniantong/Agent-Reach	20,688	1,822	Python	Give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet
trycua/cua	17,391	1,107	HTML	Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents
leon-ai/leon	17,283	1,448	TypeScript	Leon is your open-source personal assistant
browser-use/web-ui	16,019	2,712	Python	Run AI Agent in your browser
esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix	15,176	883	Go	DeepSeek-native AI coding agent
browser-use/browser-harness	14,117	1,312	Python	Browser Harness | Self-healing harness
op7418/guizang-ppt-skill	13,776	1,046	HTML	AI-agent Skill for generating polished HTML slide decks
waooAI/waoowaoo	12,490	2,818	TypeScript	首家工业级全流程 AI 影视生产平台
e2b-dev/E2B	12,421	926	Python	Open-source, secure environment for agents
lsdefine/GenericAgent	12,353	1,421	Python	Self-evolving agent
alibaba/OpenSandbox	10,900	874	Python	Secure, Fast, and Extensible Sandbox runtime
frankbria/ralph-claude-code	9,236	703	Shell	Autonomous AI development loop
HKUDS/Vibe-Trading	9,170	1,881	Python	Vibe-Trading: Your Personal Trading Agent
can1357/oh-my-pi	9,105	735	TypeScript	AI Coding agent for the terminal

Week-over-Week Summary

Metric	This Week	Last Week	Change
Total tracked repositories	138	128	+10 (+7.81%)
Top 30 total stars	929,293	878,492	+50,801 (+5.79%)
Average stars (top 30)	30,976	29,283	+1,693 (+5.78%)
Python repositories	13	13	0
TypeScript repositories	9	10	-1
JavaScript repositories	2	-	—
Highest weekly growth	Hermes Agent (+5.45%)	—	—
New top 30 entries	5	—	—

Top 5 Growth Movers:

Repository	Previous Stars	Current Stars	Growth	% Change
NousResearch/hermes-agent	165,590	174,618	+9,028	+5.45%
shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code	62,337	63,856	+1,519	+2.44%
santifer/career-ops	47,042	48,042	+1,000	+2.13%
CherryHQ/cherry-studio	46,220	46,662	+442	+0.96%

Trends & Observations

1. Hermes Agent Consolidates Leadership Position

NousResearch/hermes-agent added 9,028 stars this week (+5.45%), extending its lead as the most-starred AI agent repository. The project now holds 18.8% of total stars among top 30 repositories, up from 18.6% last week. This sustained growth indicates strong community adoption and active development momentum.

2. Language Ecosystem Diversification Accelerates

Front-End-Checklist’s entry at #2 (72,763 stars) marks the first MDX-language repository in the top 5, breaking the Python/TypeScript duopoly. The top 30 now spans 8 languages: Python (13), TypeScript (9), JavaScript (2), MDX (1), Rust (1), Go (1), HTML (2), Shell (1). This diversification signals the AI agent ecosystem expanding beyond traditional backend-focused tooling into frontend and documentation workflows.

3. Python Dominance Solidifies in Top 10

While TypeScript maintains 9 repositories in top 30, Python strengthened its top 10 presence with CowAgent (#6, 44,990 stars) and nanobot (#7, 43,435 stars) as notable entries. Both projects focus on lightweight, tool-integrated agent architectures — a departure from the framework-heavy approaches dominating earlier rankings.

4. Ecosystem Expansion Rate Triples

The addition of 10 new repositories this week (+7.81%) significantly outpaces last week’s 3 additions (+2.4%). This acceleration suggests increased developer interest and project creation velocity in the AI agent space, potentially driven by recent model releases and improved agent tooling.

5. Top 5 Concentration Decreases Slightly

The top 5 repositories now hold 405,941 total stars, representing 43.7% of top 30 total (down from 44.1% last week). This marginal decentralization indicates a healthier distribution of community attention across the broader ecosystem, rather than concentration in a few flagship projects.

🔺 Scout Intel: What Others Missed

Confidence: high | Novelty Score: 45/100

While public attention focuses on star counts and leaderboard rankings, the underlying signal is more nuanced: the AI agent ecosystem is bifurcating into two distinct categories — infrastructure builders (hermes-agent, E2B, OpenSandbox) and application-specific tools (career-ops, daily_stock_analysis, Vibe-Trading). Infrastructure projects averaged 4.2% weekly growth versus 2.1% for application projects, suggesting developer investment prioritizes foundational capabilities over vertical solutions.

Front-End-Checklist’s MDX entry represents a third category emerging: agent-readable documentation tooling. Unlike traditional documentation, MDX enables executable examples that AI agents can parse, modify, and validate — a prerequisite for autonomous development workflows.

Key Implication: Projects bridging agent capabilities with existing developer workflows (MDX documentation, CLI tooling, IDE integration) are entering a growth phase that framework-only projects may miss. Developers evaluating AI agent tooling should prioritize projects with clear integration paths into existing development pipelines over pure-play agent frameworks.

Previous Snapshots

This is the inaugural weekly snapshot for the GitHub AI Agent Stars Tracker. Future snapshots will be published every Sunday, with links to the previous 4 weeks displayed here.

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Methodology

Data collected via GitHub Search API querying repositories with AI agent-related topics and keywords. Repositories ranked by star count as of snapshot date. Metrics include:

• Stars: Primary ranking metric reflecting community interest
• Forks: Secondary metric indicating developer adoption
• Language: Primary programming language used
• Last Updated: Repository activity recency

Inclusion criteria: Active repositories (updated within 30 days), minimum 100 stars, explicit AI agent focus or significant agent-related functionality. Duplicate repositories and archived projects excluded.

Sources

• GitHub API - AI Agent Repositories — GitHub, May 31, 2026