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The Stack · Directory

The AI agent tool directory

Every tool tracked by The Stack — frameworks, memory, vector databases, MCP servers, evals, and observability — with live GitHub data and our coverage.

Agent frameworks

Best agent frameworks →

Libraries for orchestrating LLM agents, tools, and multi-step control flow.

AutoGen

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 60k

Microsoft's framework for multi-agent conversation, with a programming model for agents that talk to each other and tools.

CrewAI

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 55k

Role-playing autonomous agents that collaborate as a 'crew' with defined roles, goals, and task delegation.

LlamaIndex

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 51k

Data framework for connecting LLMs to private data — indexing, retrieval, and agentic RAG over your documents.

Agno

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 41k

Batteries-included agent runtime — built-in memory, knowledge/RAG, and AgentOS, a control plane you run in your own cloud. Formerly Phidata.

LangGraph

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 37k

Graph-based orchestration for stateful, multi-actor agent workflows with explicit control flow and checkpointing.

DSPy

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 36k

Programming — not prompting — language models: compile declarative pipelines into optimized prompts/weights.

OpenAI Agents SDK

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 28k

OpenAI's lightweight agent framework — a small set of primitives (Agents, Handoffs, Guardrails, Sessions); provider-agnostic via LiteLLM. Evolved from Swarm.

Google ADK

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 20k

Google's Agent Development Kit — a code-first, model-agnostic toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying multi-agent systems. Optimized for Gemini.

Pydantic AI

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 18k

Type-safe agent framework from the Pydantic team — structured outputs, dependency injection, and model-agnostic agents.

Claude Agent SDK

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 7.5k

Anthropic's SDK for building agents on Claude — the harness behind Claude Code, with in-process tools, hooks, and an interactive client. Formerly the Claude Code SDK.

Strands Agents

Agent frameworks · Python
★ 6.4k

AWS's model-driven agent SDK — give it a prompt and tools and let the model plan, call tools, and reflect in a loop. First-class Bedrock, MCP-native, OpenTelemetry tracing.

Cloudflare Agents

Agent frameworks · TypeScript
★ 5.2k

TypeScript-first SDK for stateful agents where each agent is a Durable Object — embedded SQLite, WebSockets, cron scheduling, and hibernation, running globally on Cloudflare's edge.

Agent memory

Best agent memory →

Long-term and working memory for agents that persist across runs.

Mem0

Agent memory · Python
★ 60k

A memory layer for AI agents — extracts, stores, and retrieves user/agent facts across sessions.

Letta (MemGPT)

Agent memory · Python
★ 24k

Stateful agents with long-term memory and self-editing context, evolved from the MemGPT research.

Zep

Agent memory · Go
★ 4.7k

Long-term memory store for agents with a temporal knowledge graph of facts and their validity over time.

Vector databases

Best vector databases →

Embedding stores powering retrieval for RAG and agent recall.

Milvus

Vector databases · Go
★ 45k

Cloud-native vector database built for billion-scale similarity search.

DuckDB

Vector databases · C++
★ 39k

In-process analytical database whose vss extension adds an HNSW vector index — vector search alongside your columnar analytics.

Qdrant

Vector databases · Rust
★ 33k

High-performance vector search engine with rich filtering, written in Rust for production-scale retrieval.

Chroma

Vector databases · Rust
★ 29k

Open-source embedding database designed for simplicity — the default vector store for many RAG prototypes.

pgvector

Vector databases · C
★ 22k

Vector similarity search inside Postgres — keep embeddings next to your relational data.

Weaviate

Vector databases · Go
★ 17k

Open-source vector database with hybrid search and built-in modules for vectorization and RAG.

LanceDB

Vector databases · Rust
★ 11k

Embedded, in-process vector database on the columnar Lance format — versioned, updatable, larger-than-RAM retrieval with no server.

sqlite-vec

Vector databases · C
★ 7.8k

A single-file SQLite extension for vector search — exact brute-force KNN that lives inside the database you already ship.

MCP & tool servers

Best mcp & tool servers →

Model Context Protocol servers and tool-calling infrastructure.

MCP Servers

MCP & tool servers · TypeScript
★ 88k

The reference collection of Model Context Protocol servers — connect agents to files, GitHub, databases, and more.

FastMCP

MCP & tool servers · Python
★ 26k

The fast, Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients — decorators over boilerplate.

Evals & testing

Best evals & testing →

Measuring agent and LLM output quality, regressions, and safety.

promptfoo

Evals & testing · TypeScript
★ 23k

Test-driven prompt and agent development — evals, red-teaming, and side-by-side model comparison from the CLI.

DeepEval

Evals & testing · Python
★ 17k

Pytest-like framework for unit-testing LLM outputs with metrics for hallucination, relevancy, and bias.

Ragas

Evals & testing · Python
★ 15k

Evaluation toolkit for RAG pipelines — faithfulness, answer relevancy, and context metrics without ground truth.

Observability

Best observability →

Tracing, logging, and monitoring for LLM and agent systems.

Langfuse

Observability · TypeScript
★ 31k

Open-source LLM engineering platform — tracing, evals, prompt management, and metrics for agent apps.

Phoenix

Observability · Jupyter Notebook
★ 10k

Arize's open-source observability for LLM apps — OpenTelemetry-based tracing and evaluation.

Helicone

Observability · TypeScript
★ 5.9k

Open-source observability for LLM apps via a proxy — logging, caching, and cost tracking with one header.

Agent runtimes

Best agent runtimes →

Sandboxes and execution environments for running agent code/tools.

Temporal

Agent runtimes · Go
★ 21k

Durable execution platform — write long-running, failure-resilient agent workflows as ordinary code.

E2B

Agent runtimes · TypeScript
★ 13k

Secure cloud sandboxes for running AI-generated code — the runtime layer for code-executing agents.

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