Quarterly report

State of New AI Agents

What is actually being built: how many open-source AI agents launch each quarter, in which categories and languages, which gain traction and how quickly the rest fade. Built from the same data as The New 100.

First edition: Q4 2026, publishing January 2027.

A preview from the data

1,509
agentic repositories created on GitHub in the last 30 days
613
agents have made The New 100 since August 2026
39%
of the 514 that have left the board were listed for a single week
62%
of this week's board is Coding & Software Engineering

Computed from the published board and its archive. Method: Methodology.

What the report covers

  • Launch volume, by week and by category
  • Languages, and what new agents are built on
  • Which launches gain traction, and how concentrated attention is
  • How long agents stay on the board, and what the ones that last have in common
  • What became of the quarter's biggest launches

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