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A List of Agentic Frameworks and Tools

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I've collected the following list of Agentic Frameworks and Tools over time. Instead of them occupying 8,749 browser tabs, I made this list so I can find it myself again and hopefully someone else finds it useful.

GitHub Repos

Skyvern

github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern

Traditional approaches to browser automations required writing custom scripts for websites, often relying on DOM parsing and XPath-based interactions which would break whenever the website layouts changed. Skyvern relies on prompts in addition to computer vision and LLMs to parse items in the viewport in real-time.

My Take: I am keen to test this one. Given their commercial/cloud offering, I suspect the repo by itself would be limited to incentivize users toward the commercial offering.

OpenAI Swarm

github.com/openai/swarm

The primary goal of Swarm is to showcase the handoff & routines patterns. It is not meant as a standalone library, and is primarily for educational purposes.

My Take: I've started building some example workflows with Swarm and it's very easy to understand and implement. Great to prove a concept, but would need additional tooling for production deployment.

AutoGPT

github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT

AutoGPT is a powerful platform that allows you to create, deploy, and manage continuous AI agents that automate complex workflows. 167,000 Stars on GitHub shows the massive attention it received.

CrewAI

github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI

CrewAI is designed to enable AI agents to assume roles, share goals, and operate in a cohesive unit. Useful for solving complex problems by allowing smaller, specialized models to tackle sections of a problem.

MetaGPT

github.com/geekan/MetaGPT

Software Company as Multi-Agent System. MetaGPT takes a one-line requirement as input and outputs user stories, competitive analysis, requirements, data structures, APIs, and documents.

Camel AI

github.com/camel-ai/camel

Very active project exploring the potential of building scalable techniques to facilitate autonomous cooperation among communicative agents. Could be a useful way to get advanced reasoning results using smaller models.

Academic Research


September 2026 update: for a more focused look at the harnesses I'd evaluate today, see The Best Open-Source Agent Harnesses in 2026.

Niël Malan

The Practical Futurist