Daily ecosystem watch

What developers are building with AI.

Adoption signals for public AI projects, measured from GitHub activity and npm usage where those signals are available. Popularity and momentum are separate readings.

Last collected Sep 13, 2026 · 43 source signals · 20 tracked entities

Agents

Ranked on adoption, recent growth and developer activity

browser-usedeveloper · researcher

Library for enabling agents to control browsers.

browsing · agents · automation

Adoption: 84%
Momentum: 54%
Signals: 2

OpenHandsdeveloper · researcher

Open-source platform for software-development agents.

coding · agents

Adoption: 82%
Momentum: 57%
Signals: 2

Aiderdeveloper

Terminal pair-programming agent for codebases.

coding · agents

Adoption: 78%
Momentum: 36%
Signals: 2

Applications

Ranked on adoption, recent growth and developer activity

Open WebUIgeneral-user · developer · business

Self-hosted web interface for AI models.

chat · local-ai

Adoption: 86%
Momentum: 52%
Signals: 2

LibreChatgeneral-user · developer · business

Multi-provider conversational AI application.

chat · applications

Adoption: 77%
Momentum: 44%
Signals: 2

Continuedeveloper

Open-source AI code assistant for developer environments.

coding · agents

Adoption: 76%
Momentum: 36%
Signals: 2

Frameworks

Ranked on adoption, recent growth and developer activity

Mastradeveloper · business

TypeScript framework for AI agents and workflows.

agents · workflows

Adoption: 76%
Momentum: 100%
Signals: 3

LangChaindeveloper · business

Framework for building applications with language models.

agents · rag · orchestration

Adoption: 86%
Momentum: 47%
Signals: 3

Vercel AI SDKdeveloper · business

TypeScript toolkit for building AI-powered applications.

applications · agents · streaming

Adoption: 91%
Momentum: 38%
Signals: 3

CrewAIdeveloper · business

Framework for orchestrating collaborative agents.

agents · automation

Adoption: 79%
Momentum: 45%
Signals: 2

AutoGendeveloper · researcher

Framework for multi-agent applications.

agents · research

Adoption: 80%
Momentum: 36%
Signals: 2

LlamaIndexdeveloper · researcher

Data and retrieval framework for LLM applications.

rag · agents · data

Adoption: 79%
Momentum: 37%
Signals: 3

DSPydeveloper · researcher

Programming framework for declarative language-model systems.

optimization · research

Adoption: 76%
Momentum: 42%
Signals: 2

Haystackdeveloper · business

Open-source framework for production search and RAG systems.

rag · search

Adoption: 74%
Momentum: 34%
Signals: 2

LangGraphdeveloper · business

Graph-based orchestration for stateful agents.

agents · orchestration

Adoption: 80%
Momentum: 22%
Signals: 3

Semantic Kerneldeveloper · business

Microsoft SDK for integrating AI models into applications.

agents · enterprise

Adoption: 74%
Momentum: 17%
Signals: 2

Infrastructure

Ranked on adoption, recent growth and developer activity

Ollamadeveloper · general-user · researcher

Local runtime for running open models.

local-ai · self-hosting

Adoption: 88%
Momentum: 50%
Signals: 2

vLLMdeveloper · business · researcher

High-throughput serving engine for language models.

serving · self-hosting

Adoption: 83%
Momentum: 52%
Signals: 2

LiteLLMdeveloper · business

Unified interface and gateway for language-model providers.

gateway · observability

Adoption: 79%
Momentum: 50%
Signals: 2

Method: GitHub stars and forks measure public developer adoption; npm weekly downloads measure package usage. Scores are category-neutral discovery signals, not quality or purchase recommendations.

The machine-readable dataset is available at /api/ecosystem.json.