been tracking the github ecosystem around AI agents for a few months and the gap between what people think is possible with open source vs what actually exists has closed significantly hermes agent - persistent memory, runs locally, connects to messaging apps, learns your context across sessions. 24k stars, MIT license, actively maintained by nous research dify - visual workflow builder for AI applications. 130k stars, raised $30M, self hostable. production companies are running this in prod onyx - private enterprise search powered by AI. connects to 25+ data sources, runs on your own servers. 17k stars everything claude code - 27 agents, 64 skills, 33 commands. the most comprehensive open source skill library for AI coding assistants. 128k stars repomix - solves the context window problem by packing entire codebases into single AI readable files. 21k stars the narrative that open source AI tools are toy versions of commercial products stopped being true sometime in 2025. the tooling is genuinely production ready now submitted by /u/virtualunc
Originally posted by u/virtualunc on r/ArtificialInteligence