The 382+ best GitHub repos for AI and agent development

A GitHub repo finder is a search for open source projects worth using.

You pick what you want to build, and it shows the repos that do it, with their stars, language and license.

Start with what you want to build, then open Navid's picks for the repos I use myself.

They come first on the list.

Most are open source.

Each repo shows its license, and the License filter separates open source, source available and no license.

Look at its last update.

The Activity filter shows the repos updated recently and the ones that haven't been touched in a year.

A GitHub repository, or repo, is a project folder on GitHub that holds the code, its history, the README, the issues, the releases and the license.

Anyone can view and download a public one.

Sort by what's maintained, not by stars.

Check the last commit date, see whether anyone answers the issues, and read the first paragraph of the README.

There's none.

Repo is the short form, and GitHub uses the full word in its own interface.

No, public and open source aren't the same thing.

A repo is open source only with an OSI-approved license, like MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL or BSD.

Some popular projects are source-available instead, under licenses like BSL or SSPL, so check the license before you build on one.

An MCP server gives an AI agent a capability it doesn't have on its own, like reading a database, driving a browser or calling an API.

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol.

The MCP servers topic lists the ones I'd run.

Stars measure attention, not quality, and they never go down.

Treat them as a rough popularity signal, and weigh the last commit date, the open issues and the number of contributors more.

Read the README first and follow its install steps.

Where a repo has a 1-line install, its page here shows the command to copy.

To get the code, run git clone with the repo's URL, or download the ZIP from GitHub's green Code button.

I only list a repo I've used or read properly.

That's why the list is short, not everything on GitHub.

I did.

I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the GitHub repo finder as one of my free tools on navid.me.

More about me.