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.

Kimi CLIReads 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.
Leaderboard — page 11 of 11 for Kimi CLI
RankRepoStarsScoreExternal link
321karpathy/nanochatGitHub56.6k ★
42.3
open
322microsoft/semantic-kernelGitHub28.3k ★
42.3
open
323karpathy/llm.cGitHub30.6k ★
42.1
open
324ziglang/zigGitHub43.3k ★
39.3
open
325stripe/aiGitHub1.7k ★
38.7
open
326farzaa/clickyGitHub7.2k ★
33.8
open
327golang/goGitHub135.3k ★
33.5
open
328AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaGitHub31.2k ★
33.5
open
329anthropics/claude-codeGitHub138.8k ★
32.3
open
330microsoft/AIGitHub2.7k ★
24.8
open
331karpathy/nanoGPTGitHub61.4k ★
19.2
open

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