Layer / How work is routed
Orchestration
The control plane that sequences agents, assigns models, retries failed steps, and keeps a run moving without a human babysitting every tool call.
- Agent Development Kit
Google’s open kit for building Gemini-centered agents.
- Agno
Python multi-agent framework (formerly Phidata).
- Amp
Sourcegraph’s agent-native coding product, successor energy to Cody.
- Claude Code
Anthropic's coding agent across terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser.
- Cloudflare Agents
Agents SDK on Durable Objects — this site’s own job runtime.
- CrewAI
Role-playing multi-agent framework with a commercial control plane.
- Cursor
An agent-native IDE with cloud agents that run in isolated VMs.
- Dagger
Programmable CI/CD engine agents can call as a tool.
- Devin
Cognition’s cloud software engineer; Windsurf is now Devin Desktop.
- DSPy
Stanford’s framework for programming — not prompting — LMs.
- Factory
Droids across the SDLC, sold as a software factory.
- Goose
Block’s local-first, open-source agent with recipes.
- Graphite
Stacked PRs plus AI review, aimed at a faster merge path.
- Hatchet
Open task queue aimed at durable, observable background jobs.
- Haystack
deepset’s open framework for pipelines, RAG, and agents.
- Inngest
Event-driven durable functions for product and agent jobs.
- Kilo
Open agent across IDE and CLI, plus a zero-markup model gateway.
- LangGraph
Graph runtime for agents, from the LangChain project.
- Letta
Stateful agents with memory, from the MemGPT lineage.
- Linear
Issue tracker that became an intent API for coding agents.
- LlamaIndex
Data framework for LLM apps that grew workflows and agents.
- Mastra
TypeScript agent framework with workflows and evals attached.
- Mergify
Merge queue and automation rules for GitHub.
- Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft’s successor surface for AutoGen-style multi-agent apps.
- n8n
Open workflow automation that now grows agent nodes.
- Northflank
Workloads and sandboxes on your cloud, with an agent-aware pitch.
- OpenAI Agents SDK
OpenAI’s official Python/TS SDK for agent loops.
- OpenAI Codex
OpenAI’s coding agent across CLI, IDE, and cloud tasks.
- OpenHands
Open software-agent runtime with a computer you can watch.
- OpenRouter
Multi-provider inference router used by many coding agents.
- Plandex
Open terminal agent that plans large diffs in a sandbox.
- Portkey
AI gateway: routing, guardrails, and observability in one proxy.
- Prefect
Python workflow orchestrator used to schedule agent jobs.
- Pydantic AI
Typed Python agents from the Pydantic team.
- Roo Code
Cline fork aimed at modes, automation, and teams.
- smolagents
Hugging Face’s small, first-class code-agent library.
- Temporal
Durable workflow engine that can sequence factory steps.
- Trevize
Shared cloud workspaces where teams and agents close the loop.
- Trigger.dev
Background jobs for TypeScript apps, including long agent runs.
- Vercel AI SDK
TypeScript SDK for streaming model UIs and tool-calling apps.
- Warp
Open terminal, multi-model agents, and factories in early access.