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.
Leaderboard — page 9 of 9 for GPT-5 Codex
RankRepoStarsScoreExternal link
257spring-projects/spring-bootGitHub81k ★
55.2
open
258apache/hudiGitHub6.2k ★
54.5
open
259firecrawl/firecrawlGitHub138.1k ★
54.1
open
260jekyll/jekyllGitHub51.5k ★
53.2
open
261redis/redisGitHub75.1k ★
51.9
open
262sindresorhus/kyGitHub16.9k ★
50.9
open
263serde-rs/serdeGitHub10.7k ★
50.7
open
264mattermost/mattermostGitHub38.2k ★
50.1
open
265postgres/postgresGitHub21.2k ★
50.0
open
266getlago/lagoGitHub10.1k ★
50.0
open
267flutter/samplesGitHub19.2k ★
49.5
open
268apple/swiftGitHub70.1k ★
49.3
open
269symfony/symfonyGitHub31.1k ★
48.0
open
270opencv/opencvGitHub89.3k ★
47.5
open
271JetBrains/kotlinGitHub53k ★
46.8
open
272karpathy/llm.cGitHub30.3k ★
46.5
open
273laravel/laravelGitHub84.6k ★
46.0
open
274expressjs/expressGitHub69.2k ★
45.6
open
275openai/openai-cookbookGitHub74.3k ★
44.7
open
276microsoft/semantic-kernelGitHub28.2k ★
44.7
open
277apache/cassandraGitHub9.8k ★
42.7
open
278stripe/aiGitHub1.6k ★
42.1
open
279karpathy/nanochatGitHub55.4k ★
41.3
open
280anthropics/claude-codeGitHub134k ★
37.2
open
281AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaGitHub31k ★
36.0
open
282farzaa/clickyGitHub6.9k ★
33.3
open
283microsoft/AIGitHub2.6k ★
26.0
open
284karpathy/nanoGPTGitHub60.1k ★
20.7
open

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