Frameworks for building agents
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LangGraph is a toolkit for programmers to build AI helper programs that keep track of their own progress and memory over long tasks. It is meant for software developers who build AI agents.
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How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Its code changed within the last year, so someone is still looking after it.
Does the whole job.
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CrewAI is a free, open-source Python toolkit for building teams of AI assistants that work together on tasks. It is aimed at programmers and companies who want to automate multi-step work with AI.
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How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Its code changed within the last year, so someone is still looking after it.
Does the whole job.
Ordered by how fully it replaces the app, Verified, setup and, when there are enough, people's votes.
Pydantic AI is a free Python toolkit for building AI assistants, called agents, that can use tools, return structured results, and run in a browser, terminal, voice call or background job. It is aimed at Python programmers who build AI features into their own software.
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How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Its code changed within the last year, so someone is still looking after it.
Does the whole job.
Ordered by how fully it replaces the app, Verified, setup and, when there are enough, people's votes.
Mastra is a free toolkit that programmers use to build AI-powered apps and assistants (called agents) in the TypeScript programming language. It is aimed at software developers who want to take an AI project from prototype to a production app.
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How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Its code changed within the last year, so someone is still looking after it.
Does the whole job.
Ordered by how fully it replaces the app, Verified, setup and, when there are enough, people's votes.
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