ECOSYSTEM · NEX
The Repo Atlas.
202 open-source projects, mapped into 19 categories — the tools the workshop builds on and the ones worth knowing. From agent frameworks to local inference, training, evaluation, vector databases, coding agents, and creative models. Every link goes straight to the source.
Agents · 30
Frameworks and platforms for building autonomous and multi-agent systems.
AutoGen →
Microsoft's multi-agent conversation framework.
AG2 →
Community fork of AutoGen (AgentOS).
CrewAI →
Role-playing collaborative agent crews.
LangGraph →
Stateful, graph-based multi-agent orchestration.
CAMEL →
Communicative agents for scaling role-play.
IoA (Internet of Agents) →
Framework for agents from different ecosystems to collaborate.
SuperAGI →
Dev-first autonomous agent framework.
LangChain →
The foundational LLM application framework.
LlamaIndex →
Data framework for RAG and knowledge agents.
Semantic Kernel →
Microsoft SDK to embed LLMs into apps.
phidata / Agno →
Build agents with memory, tools, and knowledge.
Haystack →
LLM orchestration and RAG pipeline framework.
Odysseus →
Autonomous agent experiment.
AutoGPT →
The original autonomous-agent platform.
BabyAGI →
Minimal task-driven autonomous agent.
MetaGPT →
A multi-agent software company in code.
OpenHands →
Autonomous AI software engineer (ex-OpenDevin).
Agent-Reach →
Agent outreach/automation project.
agency-agents →
Agent agency experiments.
Social-GPT agent →
Autonomous social-media agent.
E2B →
Secure cloud sandboxes for AI agents and code.
ai-agents-frameworks →
Comparison of agent frameworks.
Moltbot →
OpenClaw-family personal assistant bot.
career-ops →
Agent-driven career operations.
karpathy/skills →
Andrej Karpathy's agent skills collection.
Trellis →
Structured agent workflows.
smolagents →
Hugging Face's minimal agent library.
ml-intern →
Hugging Face ML intern agent.
TradingAgents →
Multi-agent LLM financial-trading framework.
pi-mono →
Agent tooling monorepo (Mario Zechner).
Inference & Infrastructure · 7
Serve and run models — from a laptop to a datacenter.
llama.cpp →
The foundational C/C++ local inference engine.
Ollama →
Run open models locally with one command.
vLLM →
High-throughput production inference server.
TensorRT-LLM →
NVIDIA's optimized LLM inference toolkit.
Text Generation Inference →
Hugging Face's production inference server.
Valkey →
Open in-memory key/value store (Redis fork).
DeepSeek-V3 →
Frontier-class open-weight model.
Training & Fine-tuning · 7
Teach models new tricks — fine-tunes, LoRA, and large-scale training.
Unsloth →
Fast, memory-light LoRA fine-tuning.
Axolotl →
Config-driven fine-tuning for many models.
LLaMA-Factory →
Unified fine-tuning for 100+ LLMs.
TRL →
Transformer reinforcement learning (SFT, DPO, PPO).
DeepSpeed →
Microsoft's large-scale training optimizer.
PEFT →
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods.
ColossalAI →
Toolkit for large-model parallel training.
Evaluation · 6
Measure whether the model actually works.
lm-evaluation-harness →
The standard open LLM benchmark harness.
promptfoo →
Test and evaluate prompts and models.
HELM →
Stanford's holistic model evaluation.
Chatbot Arena →
LMSYS human-preference model ranking.
BIG-bench →
Google's collaborative benchmark suite.
chatbot_arena_conversations →
Open dataset of Arena battles.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) · 9
Servers and tools for the open protocol that connects agents to everything.
MCP servers →
The official reference MCP server collection.
n8n-mcp →
MCP server exposing n8n workflows.
higgsfield-mcp →
MCP server for Higgsfield.
blender-mcp →
Drive Blender from an AI agent via MCP.
claude-mem →
Persistent memory for Claude via MCP.
anthropic-mcp-servers →
A collection of Anthropic MCP servers.
claude-context →
Codebase context for Claude via MCP.
awesome-mcp-servers →
Curated list of MCP servers.
roundtable →
Multi-agent MCP roundtable.
Vector & RAG · 7
Store embeddings and retrieve knowledge for grounded answers.
Chroma →
Developer-friendly open embedding database.
Qdrant →
High-performance Rust vector database.
Weaviate →
Open vector database with hybrid search.
Milvus →
Cloud-native vector database at scale.
pgvector →
Vector search inside PostgreSQL.
PageIndex →
Reasoning-based document indexing for RAG.
RAGFlow →
Deep-document-understanding RAG engine.
Observability · 6
See what your agents and models are actually doing.
Langfuse →
Open-source LLM tracing and analytics.
LangSmith →
LangChain's tracing and eval platform.
Helicone →
Open observability proxy for LLM calls.
Weights & Biases →
Experiment tracking for ML/AI.
Netdata →
Real-time infrastructure monitoring.
agent-orchestrator →
Composio's agent orchestration layer.
Automation · 5
Wire tools together — visual workflow builders and low-code glue.
n8n →
Fair-code workflow automation with AI nodes.
Flowise →
Drag-and-drop LLM app builder.
Langflow →
Visual builder for LangChain flows.
Activepieces →
Open-source no-code automation.
Node-RED →
Flow-based programming for events and IoT.
Coding Agents & Tools · 16
AI that writes, reviews, and runs code.
GitHub Copilot →
GitHub's AI pair programmer.
Cursor →
The AI-first code editor.
Cody →
Sourcegraph's codebase-aware AI assistant.
Continue →
Open-source AI code assistant for any IDE.
Cline →
Autonomous coding agent in your editor.
Codex →
OpenAI's coding agent CLI.
Aider →
AI pair programming in your terminal.
Open Interpreter →
Natural-language code execution locally.
CopilotKit →
Build in-app AI copilots and agents.
codegraph →
Graph-based code understanding.
Claude Code →
Anthropic's official coding agent CLI.
kimi-cli →
Moonshot Kimi coding CLI.
pixel-agents →
Agent tooling for builders.
bloop →
Fast code search with natural language.
Gemini CLI →
Google's Gemini coding CLI.
Goose →
Block's open, extensible AI agent.
Creative & Media · 21
Image, video, audio, and voice generation.
ComfyUI →
Node-based diffusion workflow engine.
Stable Diffusion WebUI →
The classic image-generation UI.
FLUX →
Black Forest Labs' image models.
Stable Diffusion →
Stability AI's diffusion models.
HunyuanVideo →
Tencent's open video generation model.
HunyuanVideo 1.5 →
Next-gen Hunyuan video model.
HunyuanVideo-I2V →
Image-to-video from Hunyuan.
NVIDIA Cosmos →
World-foundation models for physical AI.
VideoCrafter2 →
Open text-to-video generation.
LTX-Video →
Lightricks' fast video generation.
Remotion →
Make videos programmatically in React.
Awesome-Suno →
Curated Suno AI music resources.
suno-ai →
Suno AI music tooling.
Bark →
Suno's text-to-audio / TTS model.
Amphion →
Open audio, music, and speech toolkit.
MoneyPrinterTurbo →
Auto-generate short videos with AI.
Qwen3-TTS →
Alibaba Qwen text-to-speech.
Qwen3-ASR →
Alibaba Qwen speech recognition.
VALL-E Voice →
Microsoft neural codec voice model.
stable-worldmodel →
Open world-model research.
Pixelle-Video →
AIDC-AI video generation.
Multimodal · 4
Models that see as well as read.
LLaVA →
Large language-and-vision assistant.
Qwen-VL →
Alibaba's vision-language models.
InternVL →
Open multimodal foundation models.
comfyui_qwen2vl-flux →
Qwen2-VL + FLUX ComfyUI nodes.
Private / Local Assistants · 6
Own-your-data chat and assistants that run on your hardware.
GPT4All →
Run local chatbots on consumer hardware.
LocalAI →
Drop-in local OpenAI-compatible API.
Jan →
Offline, open-source ChatGPT alternative.
llamafile →
Run an LLM as a single executable file.
privateGPT →
Ask questions of your documents offline.
h2oGPT →
Private local GPT with document Q&A.
AI Security & Guardrails · 6
Keep models and agents safe, aligned, and un-jailbroken.
NeMo Guardrails →
NVIDIA toolkit for LLM guardrails.
LLM Guard →
Security toolkit for LLM interactions.
aiguard-nemo-guardrails →
Zscaler AI guardrails integration.
airs-nemo-guardrails →
Palo Alto AI runtime security.
Semgrep →
Fast static analysis for finding bugs.
bumblebee →
Perplexity security tooling.
Quantization & Optimization · 5
Make models smaller and faster.
bitsandbytes →
8-bit and 4-bit quantization for PyTorch.
AutoGPTQ →
GPTQ quantization toolkit.
AutoAWQ →
Activation-aware weight quantization.
HQQ →
Half-quadratic fast quantization.
BitNet →
Microsoft's 1-bit LLM inference.
Prompting & Programming LLMs · 4
Move beyond prompt strings to structured, testable programs.
DSPy →
Program — don't prompt — language models.
Guidance →
Constrained generation and control.
prompttools →
Test and experiment with prompts.
Prompt Engineering Guide →
The reference guide to prompting.
Learning & Awesome Lists · 25
Where to start and how to go deep — curated lists, books, and courses in code.
awesome →
The awesome list of awesome lists.
Awesome-LLM →
Curated LLM papers, models, and tools.
awesome-agents →
Curated AI-agent projects.
Awesome-AI-Agents →
Another strong agents list.
awesome-ai-agents →
Agent frameworks and resources.
Awesome-LLMOps →
Curated LLMOps tooling.
awesome-llm-and-aigc →
LLM and generative-AI resources.
awesome-python →
Curated Python frameworks and libraries.
awesome-machine-learning →
Curated ML frameworks by language.
awesome-datascience →
Data-science learning roadmap.
awesome-mlops →
Curated MLOps references.
awesome-generative-ai-guide →
GenAI courses, papers, and interviews.
developer-roadmap →
Roadmaps to becoming a developer.
PythonDataScienceHandbook →
Jake VanderPlas's full book in notebooks.
handson-ml3 →
Géron's Hands-On ML, 3rd edition.
dmls-book →
Chip Huyen's Designing ML Systems.
nn-zero-to-hero →
Karpathy: build neural nets from scratch.
minGPT →
A minimal, readable GPT implementation.
nanochat →
Karpathy's minimal ChatGPT clone.
project-based-learning →
Learn by building real projects.
build-your-own-x →
Recreate the tech you love, from scratch.
Made-With-ML →
Design, build, and deploy ML in production.
awesome-indie-hackers-tools →
Tools for solo builders.
indie-dev-toolkit →
Curated indie-developer toolkit.
awesome-ai-agents-2026 →
2026 agents roundup.
Scraping & Data Collection · 3
Feed your agents the web.
Scrapling →
Adaptive, stealthy Python web scraping.
Crawlee (Python) →
Reliable crawling and scraping library.
Firecrawl →
Turn websites into LLM-ready data.
Utilities & Tools · 28
The odds and ends that make everything else easier.
MarkItDown →
Convert files to Markdown for LLMs.
notebooklm-py →
NotebookLM-style workflows in Python.
browser-use →
Let agents control a real browser.
taste-skill →
An agent 'taste' skill.
openai/plugins →
OpenAI plugin examples.
pm-skills →
Product-management agent skills.
last30days-skill →
Recent-activity agent skill.
ui-ux-pro-max-skill →
UI/UX design agent skill.
superpowers →
A framework of agent skills.
open-notebook →
Open-source NotebookLM alternative.
obsidian-releases →
Obsidian plugins and themes registry.
apple/container →
Apple's Linux container runtime for macOS.
rilable →
Builder utility.
tolaria →
Refactoring tooling.
ian-xiaohei-illustrations →
Open illustration set.
headroom →
Context/'headroom' utility.
impeccable →
Frontend design-quality skill.
heretic →
Model-abliteration research tool.
OpenViking →
Volcengine open project.
MiroFish →
Open utility project.
caveman →
Minimalist dev tool.
ECC →
Engineering command-center agent toolkit.
Factory →
Agent-driven software delivery.
liteparse →
Lightweight document parsing (LlamaIndex).
beautiful-mermaid →
Nicer Mermaid diagram rendering.
Twenty →
Open-source CRM.
DeepSeek-OCR-2 →
Open OCR model.
memU →
Memory layer for agents.
Platforms & UIs · 7
Full products and hubs you can self-host or build on.
Hugging Face Hub →
The hub client for models and datasets.
Replicate →
Run open models with one API call.
Supabase →
Open-source Firebase alternative.
v0 →
Vercel's generative UI tool.
Lobe Chat →
Polished open-source AI chat UI.
Open WebUI →
Self-hosted UI for local models.
AnythingLLM →
All-in-one private RAG desktop app.