Which public repos are friendliest to an AI coding agent?

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

Looking up a dependency? Check any npm / PyPI / Cargo package by name.

GPT-5 CodexReads AGENTS.md before doing any work per OpenAI's Codex docs. Hierarchical (per-directory) AGENTS.md and AGENTS.override.md are first-class.
Leaderboard — page 1 of 11 for GPT-5 Codex
RankRepoStarsScoreExternal link
1gitlab-org/cliGitLab1.1k ★
97.7
open
2axios/axiosGitHubBadge109.2k ★
97.2
open
3aio-libs/aiohttpGitHub16.5k ★
97.2
open
4ggml-org/llama.cppGitHub123.2k ★
96.7
open
5surrealdb/surrealdbGitHub32.8k ★
96.7
open
6GreptimeTeam/greptimedbGitHub6.5k ★
96.7
open
7wormhole-foundation/wormhole-connectGitHub115 ★
96.3
open
8hsnice16/agent-friendly-codeGitHubBadge2 ★
96.3
open
9excalidraw/excalidrawGitHub129.2k ★
95.5
open
10scikit-learn/scikit-learnGitHub67k ★
95.5
open
11apache/supersetGitHub74.2k ★
94.7
open
12milvus-io/milvusGitHub45.6k ★
94.7
open
13streamlit/streamlitGitHub45.5k ★
94.7
open
14pingcap/tidbGitHub40.4k ★
94.7
open
15weaviate/weaviateGitHub16.7k ★
94.7
open
16sqlfluff/sqlfluffGitHub9.9k ★
94.7
open
17cli/cliGitHub45.7k ★
93.3
open
18discourse/discourseGitHub47.6k ★
91.9
open
19getsentry/sentryGitHub44.5k ★
91.9
open
20krakenfx/kraken-cliGitHub681 ★
91.9
open
21earendil-works/piGitHub85.7k ★
91.7
open
22grafana/grafanaGitHub76.2k ★
91.5
open
23astral-sh/ruffGitHub49.1k ★
91.5
open
24apache/airflowGitHub46.4k ★
91.5
open
25nrwl/nxGitHub29.2k ★
91.5
open
26QwenLM/qwen-codeGitHub26.9k ★
91.5
open
27wagtail/wagtailGitHub20.4k ★
91.5
open
28vitessio/vitessGitHub21.2k ★
91.3
open
29strapi/strapiGitHub72.8k ★
90.9
open
30webpack/webpackGitHub66k ★
90.9
open
31rollup/rollupGitHub26.3k ★
90.9
open
32nautechsystems/nautilus_traderGitHub25.4k ★
90.7
open

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