







The five open source projects that best show what agent-engineered software can become.

Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges of one billion users. Details from inside OpenAI

OpenCode Zen | A curated set of reliable optimized models for coding agents
OpenCode - The open source coding agent.

Codex | AI Coding Partner from OpenAI
The best way to build with agents. Codex accelerates real engineering work, from planning and building features to refactors, reviews, and releases—working seamlessly across your tools.

Open Coding Agents: Fast, accessible coding agents that adapt to any repo | Ai2
SERA is the first in our family of Open Coding Agents, achieving state-of-the-art performance at low cost.

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Mario Zechner created the Pi agent framework used by OpenClaw, giving considerable credibility to his opinions on current trends in agentic engineering. He's not impressed: We have basically given up …
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents v2
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact

Cline - AI Coding, Open Source and Uncompromised
Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 5M+ developers worldwide.

Exclusive: Codex agents are inching into the mainstream
OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform is growing, according to a new report from the company.

Impressions from visiting OpenAI, Anthropic, & Cursor
A peek into where software engineering is headed from inside the sector’s leading AI labs. Agents running in the cloud are a major trend, while coding harnesses are spreading beyond the craft

OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation
OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation and donates AGENTS.md to support open, interoperable standards for safe agentic AI.

AI agents team up in Agent Laboratory to speed scientific research
Johns Hopkins University and AMD have developed Agent Laboratory, a new open-source framework that pairs human creativity with AI-powered workflows.

From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative...
AI development is embracing open-source paradigm, but the fundamental distinction between AI models and traditional software artifacts may lead to a divergent open-source development paradigm with...

New tools for building agents

Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
A gentle introduction to the Pi coding agent and why I think it’s a glimpse into the future of software.

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
