Which public repos are friendliest to an AI coding agent?

Ranked per model across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket — because agents aren't interchangeable.

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GPT-5 CodexReads AGENTS.md before doing any work per OpenAI's Codex docs — the strictest AGENTS.md adherent of any agent here. Hierarchical (per-directory) AGENTS.md and AGENTS.override.md are first-class.
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RankRepoStarsScoreExternal link
1gitlab-org/cliGitLab972 ★
97.7
open
2ggml-org/llama.cppGitHub107.3k ★
96.7
open
3wormhole-foundation/wormhole-connectGitHub114 ★
96.3
open
4hsnice16/agent-friendly-codeGitHub0 ★
96.3
open
5scikit-learn/scikit-learnGitHub65.9k ★
95.5
open
6openclaw/openclawGitHub366k ★
94.7
open
7apache/supersetGitHub72.6k ★
94.7
open
8streamlit/streamlitGitHub44.4k ★
94.7
open
9getsentry/sentryGitHub43.7k ★
94.7
open
10pingcap/tidbGitHub40k ★
94.7
open
11cli/cliGitHub44.1k ★
93.3
open
12gitlab-org/gitlab-runnerGitLab2.6k ★
92.4
open
13vercel/next.jsGitHub139.2k ★
91.9
open
14grafana/grafanaGitHub73.5k ★
91.5
open
15astral-sh/ruffGitHub47.3k ★
91.5
open
16prometheus/prometheusGitHub63.8k ★
90.1
open
17denoland/denoGitHub106.6k ★
89.3
open
18oven-sh/bunGitHub89.4k ★
89.3
open
19BerriAI/litellmGitHub45.1k ★
89.3
open
20n8n-io/n8nGitHub186k ★
88.7
open
21PostHog/posthogGitHub34.1k ★
88.7
open
22vercel/turborepoGitHub30.3k ★
88.7
open
23gradio-app/gradioGitHub42.5k ★
88.5
open
24microsoft/playwrightGitHub87.6k ★
87.6
open
25vllm-project/vllmGitHub78.5k ★
87.3
open
26meilisearch/meilisearchGitHub57.3k ★
87.3
open
27pydantic/pydanticGitHub27.6k ★
86.7
open
28sveltejs/kitGitHub20.5k ★
86.4
open
29apache/airflowGitHub45.2k ★
86.1
open
30labstack/echoGitHub32.4k ★
86.1
open
31sst/opencodeGitHub151.5k ★
85.9
open
32calcom/cal.diyGitHub42.2k ★
85.3
open

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