A local reference collection of open-source AI agent projects and supporting libraries, cloned for study and experimentation.
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
reference/agent |
Agent frameworks and harnesses (see below) |
reference/support |
Supporting libraries (see below) |
reference/agent/README.md |
Per-repo details and update commands |
Both reference folders are gitignored (see .gitignore) so the clones stay local and don't pollute this repo's history.
| Directory | Repo | Notes |
|---|---|---|
codex |
openai/codex | OpenAI's local coding agent CLI |
pi |
earendil-works/pi | Pi agent harness: coding agent, runtime, multi-provider LLM API |
hermes-agent |
nousresearch/hermes-agent | Self-improving agent by Nous Research with a learning loop |
jcode |
1jehuang/jcode | RAM-efficient coding agent harness |
prime-agent |
PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent | Self-improving RLM coding and research agent |
deepseek-harness |
deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Plugin-based agent harness ("everything is a plugin") |
meta-harness |
stanford-iris-lab/meta-harness | Stanford IRIS Lab framework for automated search over task-specific model harnesses (paper: arXiv 2603.28052) |
headlong |
laude-institute/headlong | Laude Institute's <10K-line Bash agent microharness with persistent agency — the agent keeps thinking between external interactions and decides when to respond |
maka |
apache/maka | Apache Software Foundation (incubating) local-first agent workspace — desktop + CLI + eval, all sharing one Runtime Host that records model messages and tool calls as recoverable execution facts |
loop-engineering |
cobusgreyling/loop-engineering | Patterns and tooling for designing agent loops |
loopx |
huangruiteng/loopx | Open, provider-neutral, local-first control plane for long-horizon agents (sits on top of Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, dsh) |
| Directory | Repo | Notes |
|---|---|---|
turbovec |
ryancodrai/turbovec | Memory-efficient Rust vector search (TurboQuant) with Python bindings |
PageIndex |
VectifyAI/PageIndex | Reasoning-based, vectorless RAG with an agentic tree index |
OpenViking |
volcengine/OpenViking | Context/memory database for AI agents |
graphiti |
getzep/graphiti | Temporal knowledge graphs built from conversations |
Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE.