Agents and Tools
Agents and the tools they rely on, with the jobs people use them for. Open-source entries link to their ranked GitHub repository.
Open-source agent (13)
Claude Code
Anthropic · 11 use cases
Anthropic's agentic coding tool, which can also run in GitHub Actions to review PRs and answer issue requests.
Most often: Research a topic · Review pull requests · Run experiments overnight
Codex CLI
OpenAI · 4 use cases
OpenAI's command-line coding agent that reads, edits and runs code in a local repository.
Most often: Research a topic · Port or migrate code · Handle taxes and bookkeeping
AlphaEvolve
Google DeepMind · 1 use cases
Evolutionary coding agent that uses Gemini models to propose programs and automated evaluators to keep the best ones.
Most often: Discover better algorithms · Run experiments overnight
Big Sleep
Google Project Zero and Google DeepMind · 1 use cases
Research agent for vulnerability hunting that reads code, runs test inputs in a debugger and reports crashes it can reproduce.
Most often: Audit code for vulnerabilities
DeerFlow
ByteDance · 1 use cases
Open-source research and task agent harness built on LangGraph that plans work, spawns sub-agents and runs tools in a sandbox.
Most often: Research a topic
Gemini CLI
Google · 1 use cases
Google’s open-source terminal coding agent. Since June 2026 it targets Gemini Code Assist enterprise customers; individual use moved to Antigravity CLI.
Most often: Build a feature end to end · Compare coding agents
Hermes Agent
Nous Research · 1 use cases
A self-hosted agent with persistent memory, learned skills, scheduled jobs and a gateway to messaging apps.
Most often: Research a topic · Automate a workflow
Inbox Zero
Inbox Zero · 1 use cases
An open-source email assistant for Gmail and Outlook that files mail by plain-English rules, drafts replies and prepares meeting briefs; hosted or self-hosted.
Most often: Triage an inbox · Manage a calendar
OpenClaw
OpenClaw community · 1 use cases
A self-hosted personal assistant that runs on your own machine and takes instructions through chat apps such as Telegram.
Most often: Automate a workflow · Get a daily briefing
OpenCode
Anomaly (formerly SST) · 1 use cases
An open-source terminal coding agent that can be paired with many model providers, including open-weight and local models.
Most often: Compare coding agents · Build a feature end to end
OpenHands
OpenHands · 1 use cases
Open-source coding agent with a self-hosted control centre (Agent Canvas) that can also run other coding agents in local or Docker sandboxes.
Most often: Fix a reported issue · Build a feature end to end · Automate a workflow
Skyvern
Skyvern · 1 use cases
Browser automation agent that combines an LLM with computer vision and extends Playwright with AI actions.
Most often: Fill out web forms · Automate a browser task
TheoremExplainAgent
TIGER-AI-Lab · 1 use cases
Research agent that plans, writes and renders Manim animation code to make narrated theorem explanation videos.
Most often: Generate a short video
Hosted agent (23)
Claude Desktop
Anthropic · 3 use cases
Anthropic's desktop chat app, which can be extended with local MCP servers for tools like browsers and GitHub.
Most often: Test an application · Automate a browser task · Manage a calendar
Cursor
Anysphere · 2 use cases
An AI code editor with an agent that edits across a codebase, plus background agents that work on branches in the cloud.
Most often: Build a feature end to end · Fix a reported issue · Build a game
Amp
Amp (originally from Sourcegraph) · 1 use cases
A hosted agentic coding tool for editors and the terminal, with a read-only Oracle subagent for planning and review.
Most often: Build a feature end to end
ChatGPT
OpenAI · 1 use cases
OpenAI’s general assistant for writing, analysis and everyday questions, with connected apps and tools.
Most often: Buy something online · Compare products and prices
ChatGPT agent
OpenAI · 1 use cases
Agent mode in ChatGPT, launched in July 2025, which works on its own virtual computer and absorbed Operator. OpenAI now labels its launch post outdated and points to ChatGPT Work and workspace agents.
Most often: Compare products and prices · Buy something online
Claude Cowork
Anthropic · 1 use cases
Anthropic’s desktop agent for everyday knowledge work, which can use files, connected apps and a browser to finish multi-step tasks.
Most often: Delegate tasks in the background · Research a topic
Claude in Chrome
Anthropic · 1 use cases
A Chrome extension that lets Claude read pages, click and fill forms in your browser, asking before sensitive actions.
Most often: Compare products and prices · Automate a browser task
Devin
Cognition · 1 use cases
A hosted software engineering agent that takes tickets, works in its own environment and opens pull requests for review.
Most often: Port or migrate code · Test an application
GitHub Copilot
GitHub · 1 use cases
GitHub's AI pair programmer with chat and agent modes inside editors such as VS Code.
Most often: Plan a feature before coding
Google AI Mode
Google · 1 use cases
The conversational mode of Google Search; a Labs experiment lets it check table availability across booking sites and link to the booking page.
Most often: Book a table, trip or appointment
Grok Bot
xAI · 1 use cases
Always-on agents from xAI, launched in beta in August 2026, that you assign work like a teammate and that run in their own cloud environment.
Most often: Delegate tasks in the background · Automate a workflow
Lindy
Lindy · 1 use cases
A no-code builder for business assistants that handle email, meetings, support and outreach through connected apps.
Most often: Prepare for meetings
Manus
Manus · 1 use cases
A general-purpose autonomous agent that plans and carries out research, browsing and building tasks in a cloud workspace.
Most often: Build and tune AI agents
Meta Muse
Meta · 1 use cases
Meta’s personal agent, launched in September 2026, that can email, book, fill in forms and buy things after your approval.
Most often: Delegate tasks in the background · Buy something online
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft · 1 use cases
Microsoft’s assistant inside the Office apps, whose Agent Mode builds and checks spreadsheets and documents step by step.
Most often: Build a spreadsheet
Microsoft Scout
Microsoft · 1 use cases
A proactive work agent for Microsoft 365, announced at Build 2026 for Frontier customers, built on OpenClaw and Work IQ.
Most often: Prepare for meetings · Manage a calendar
OpenAI o3
OpenAI · 1 use cases
A hosted OpenAI reasoning model, used here directly through the API without an agent wrapper.
Most often: Audit code for vulnerabilities
Perplexity Comet
Perplexity · 1 use cases
Perplexity’s browser with a built-in assistant that can read, compare and act on the pages you have open.
Most often: Compare products and prices · Buy something online
Replit Agent
Replit · 1 use cases
Replit’s agent that builds, runs and deploys apps from a chat description inside the Replit workspace.
Most often: Build a feature end to end
Zapier Agents
Zapier · 1 use cases
Zapier’s agents for business automation, which act across the apps already connected to a Zapier account.
Most often: Research and qualify sales leads
Alexa+
Amazon · 0 use cases
Amazon’s generative Alexa, which can take actions such as booking, ordering and controlling the smart home on request.
No use cases indexed yet
dots
OpenAI · 0 use cases
Always-on agents in ChatGPT, announced in September 2026, each with its own cloud computer and browser, that keep working on assigned goals and report back.
No use cases indexed yet
Gemini
Google · 0 use cases
Google’s assistant, including agent features that browse and complete multi-step tasks for you.
No use cases indexed yet
Agent framework (8)
AP2
Google · 1 use cases
Open protocol and SDK for agent-led payments that records signed user mandates for intent and cart approval.
Most often: Buy something online
Browser Use
Browser Use · 1 use cases
A Python library that lets an LLM agent operate a real browser to complete tasks described in plain language.
Most often: Automate a browser task
Dify
LangGenius · 1 use cases
Open-source platform for building LLM apps with visual workflows, RAG knowledge bases, agents and an API for every app.
Most often: Answer support tickets · Build a knowledge base
Make
Make · 1 use cases
A visual workflow automation platform with AI agent steps, used to connect apps without writing code.
Most often: Research and qualify sales leads · Triage an inbox
n8n
n8n · 1 use cases
A fair-code workflow automation platform for building AI agent workflows on a visual canvas with code.
Most often: Automate a workflow
Pipecat
pipecat-ai · 1 use cases
Open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, with transports for WebRTC and telephony providers.
Most often: Make and answer phone calls
RAGFlow
InfiniFlow · 1 use cases
A self-hosted retrieval engine with document parsing, chunking and cited, agentic question answering.
Most often: Build a knowledge base · Research a topic
TradingAgents
Tauric Research · 1 use cases
A research framework where LLM agents in trading-firm roles analyse and debate a market decision.
Most often: Research stocks and markets · Research a topic
Agent tool (17)
Ollama
Ollama · 4 use cases
A local runtime and API for downloading and running open-weight language models on your own hardware.
Most often: Run models locally · Convert documents to Markdown · Take meeting notes
Whisper
OpenAI · 2 use cases
A speech recognition model for multilingual transcription, English translation and language detection.
Most often: Transcribe audio · Take meeting notes
changedetection.io
dgtlmoon · 1 use cases
Self-hosted web page change monitor with price tracking, browser steps, alerts and optional LLM change summaries.
Most often: Monitor websites and competitors · Scrape a website for AI use
Claude computer use
Anthropic · 1 use cases
An API tool that lets Claude operate a desktop through screenshots, mouse and keyboard, inside an environment the developer provides.
Most often: Automate a browser task · Automate a workflow
Crawl4AI
unclecode · 1 use cases
Open-source crawler that turns web pages into LLM-ready Markdown or structured JSON, with deep crawling, a Docker API and an MCP option.
Most often: Scrape a website for AI use · Monitor websites and competitors
Firecrawl
Firecrawl · 1 use cases
A web data API that searches, scrapes, crawls and maps sites into Markdown or JSON for AI agents.
Most often: Scrape a website for AI use · Build a knowledge base
GhidraMCP
LaurieWired · 1 use cases
MCP server, packaged as a Ghidra extension, that lets an agent decompile, list and rename code in Ghidra.
Most often: Reverse engineer software · Audit code for vulnerabilities
godot-mcp
Coding-Solo · 1 use cases
MCP server that lets an agent launch the Godot editor, run projects, read debug output and edit scenes.
Most often: Build a game
Google Workspace MCP
Taylor Wilsdon (community) · 1 use cases
An open-source MCP server that gives any MCP client tools for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs and other Google Workspace apps, using your own OAuth client.
Most often: Manage a calendar · Triage an inbox
Home Assistant
Open Home Foundation · 1 use cases
Local-first home automation software that can use an LLM conversation agent to control exposed devices.
Most often: Control a smart home · Run models locally
MarkItDown
Microsoft · 1 use cases
A Python converter that turns PDFs, Office files and other formats into Markdown for language models.
Most often: Convert documents to Markdown · Extract text from scans
Mealie
Mealie · 1 use cases
Self-hosted recipe manager, meal planner and shopping list with optional AI import, parsing and translation through an OpenAI-compatible provider.
Most often: Plan meals and shopping lists
Meetily
Zackriya Solutions · 1 use cases
Desktop meeting recorder that transcribes on the device and writes summaries with a local or cloud model.
Most often: Take meeting notes · Transcribe audio
MoneyPrinterTurbo
harry0703 · 1 use cases
An automated pipeline that turns a topic into a narrated, subtitled short video from stock footage.
Most often: Generate a short video
PaddleOCR
PaddlePaddle · 1 use cases
An OCR and document parsing toolkit that turns scans and PDFs into structured Markdown or JSON.
Most often: Extract text from scans · Convert documents to Markdown
paperless-ai
clusterzx · 1 use cases
Add-on for Paperless-ngx that uses an LLM to suggest document titles, tags and correspondents and to answer questions about the archive.
Most often: Track receipts and expenses · Extract text from scans
Spec Kit
GitHub · 1 use cases
A toolkit of templates and slash commands that guides coding agents through spec-driven development.
Most often: Plan a feature before coding