Autonomous agents: 7 GitHub repos for delegating tasks to AI

What you'll see in this lesson

1. Autonomous agents: from chatting to delegating

   An agent doesn't just answer: it plans, uses tools and finishes whole tasks. GitHub has open projects for setting one up yourself.

2. nanobot: your personal agent on Telegram

   A lightweight, self-hosted agent you use from the browser or your chat apps. Almost 50,000 stars for how easy it is to get started.

3. DeepSeek Harness: GitHub's record-breaking agent

   DeepSeek's open agent harness: a local website where the agent reads files and runs tasks. Almost 250,000 stars, a record.

4. AutoGPT: the pioneer, now with a visual builder

   The project that made autonomous agents popular is now a platform for building them with blocks. More than 185,000 stars.

5. Paperclip: run agents as if they were your company

   An open dashboard for organizing agents with an org chart, goals and budgets. More than 100,000 stars: the «company without humans».

6. CrewAI: crews of agents in Python

   A framework for several agents with roles, like researcher, writer or analyst, to work together on a task. Almost 60,000 stars.

7. DeerFlow: ByteDance's research superagent

   It researches the web, codes and creates content by coordinating subagents, memory and an isolated environment. More than 80,000 stars.

8. MiroFish: rehearse the future with thousands of agents

   It builds a simulated world with thousands of agents from a document and predicts how people would react. Almost 80,000 stars.

9. Summary: choose the agent for your level

   Start simple, limit permissions and spending, and level up only when you need to.