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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Kimi CLI — Reads AGENTS.md as its native instruction surface (root or `.kimi-code/AGENTS.md`) per Moonshot's Kimi Code docs, and `/init` generates one — the strictest AGENTS.md-only adherent here, with no CLAUDE.md fallback. Runs shell commands step-by-step under an approval gate rather than a sandbox VM, and dispatches `explore` sub-agents with isolated contexts to map a codebase, so a large tree costs it less than a single-context agent.
| Rank | Repo | Stars | Score | External link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 321 | karpathy/nanochatGitHub | 56.6k ★ | open | |
| 322 | microsoft/semantic-kernelGitHub | 28.3k ★ | open | |
| 323 | karpathy/llm.cGitHub | 30.6k ★ | open | |
| 324 | ziglang/zigGitHub | 43.3k ★ | open | |
| 325 | stripe/aiGitHub | 1.7k ★ | open | |
| 326 | farzaa/clickyGitHub | 7.2k ★ | open | |
| 327 | golang/goGitHub | 135.3k ★ | open | |
| 328 | AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaGitHub | 31.2k ★ | open | |
| 329 | anthropics/claude-codeGitHub | 138.8k ★ | open | |
| 330 | microsoft/AIGitHub | 2.7k ★ | open | |
| 331 | karpathy/nanoGPTGitHub | 61.4k ★ | open |
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