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/cliGitLab1k ★
97.7
open
2axios/axiosGitHubBadge109.1k ★
97.2
open
3ggml-org/llama.cppGitHub117.3k ★
96.7
open
4surrealdb/surrealdbGitHub32.4k ★
96.7
open
5weaviate/weaviateGitHub16.4k ★
96.7
open
6wormhole-foundation/wormhole-connectGitHub114 ★
96.3
open
7hsnice16/agent-friendly-codeGitHubBadge2 ★
96.3
open
8excalidraw/excalidrawGitHub125.6k ★
95.5
open
9scikit-learn/scikit-learnGitHub66.4k ★
95.5
open
10apache/supersetGitHub73.4k ★
94.7
open
11streamlit/streamlitGitHub45k ★
94.7
open
12milvus-io/milvusGitHub44.8k ★
94.7
open
13pingcap/tidbGitHub40.2k ★
94.7
open
14sqlfluff/sqlfluffGitHub9.8k ★
94.7
open
15cli/cliGitHub44.9k ★
93.3
open
16discourse/discourseGitHub47.3k ★
91.9
open
17getsentry/sentryGitHub44.1k ★
91.9
open
18earendil-works/piGitHub64k ★
91.7
open
19grafana/grafanaGitHub74.5k ★
91.5
open
20astral-sh/ruffGitHub48.1k ★
91.5
open
21apache/airflowGitHub45.9k ★
91.5
open
22nrwl/nxGitHub29k ★
91.5
open
23wagtail/wagtailGitHub20.4k ★
91.5
open
24vitessio/vitessGitHub21k ★
91.3
open
25strapi/strapiGitHub72.4k ★
90.9
open
26prometheus/prometheusGitHub64.6k ★
90.1
open
27google/osv-scannerGitHub10.5k ★
90.1
open
28chakra-ui/chakra-uiGitHub40.4k ★
89.7
open
29gitlab-org/gitlab-runnerGitLab2.6k ★
89.6
open
30denoland/denoGitHub107.2k ★
89.3
open
31oven-sh/bunGitHub93.3k ★
89.3
open
32ghostty-org/ghosttyGitHub56.7k ★
89.3
open

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