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 3 of 11 for Kimi CLI
RankRepoStarsScoreExternal link
65moby/mobyGitHub71.9k ★
84.9
open
66Textualize/richGitHub56.9k ★
84.8
open
67sqlalchemy/sqlalchemyGitHub12k ★
84.8
open
68novuhq/novuGitHub39.3k ★
84.5
open
69sst/opencodeGitHub188.8k ★
84.1
open
70ollama/ollamaGitHub176.7k ★
83.7
open
71colinhacks/zodGitHub43.3k ★
83.7
open
72zed-industries/zedGitHub87.4k ★
83.5
open
73langflow-ai/langflowGitHub152.2k ★
83.2
open
74All-Hands-AI/OpenHandsGitHub81.8k ★
83.1
open
75withastro/astroGitHub61.2k ★
83.1
open
76appwrite/appwriteGitHub56.6k ★
83.1
open
77apache/flinkGitHub26.2k ★
83.1
open
78microsoft/onnxruntimeGitHub21.2k ★
83.1
open
79TanStack/routerGitHub14.8k ★
83.1
open
80cloudflare/vinextGitHub8.5k ★
83.1
open
81inngest/inngestGitHub5.6k ★
83.1
open
82BerriAI/litellmGitHub54.4k ★
82.8
open
83warpdotdev/warpGitHub63.6k ★
82.7
open
84statelyai/xstateGitHub29.9k ★
82.7
open
85labstack/echoGitHub32.5k ★
82.0
open
86scrapy/scrapyGitHub63.3k ★
81.8
open
87crewAIInc/crewAIGitHub56k ★
81.8
open
88apache/sparkGitHub43.7k ★
81.8
open
89ray-project/rayGitHub43.3k ★
81.8
open
90apache/kafkaGitHub33.3k ★
81.8
open
91pydantic/pydanticGitHub28.4k ★
81.8
open
92biomejs/biomeGitHub25.3k ★
81.8
open
93apache/pulsarGitHub15.3k ★
81.8
open
94risingwavelabs/risingwaveGitHub9.2k ★
81.8
open
95nushell/nushellGitHub40.1k ★
81.7
open
96neovim/neovimGitHub101.3k ★
81.5
open

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