State of the AI agent ecosystem
The numbers behind What's Trending in AI — updated weekly from daily snapshots. Data as of 2026-07-19.
Tracked projects
1,575
Combined stars
4,506,017
Stars gained / wk
53,930
Trending
30
Emerging
36
Declining
0
By category
| Category | Projects | Trending | Emerging | ★ gained / wk | Growth / wk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP servers | 1,260 | 11 | 16 | +18,655 | 1.38% |
| Agent frameworks | 67 | 5 | 1 | +8,311 | 0.86% |
| Agent SDKs | 25 | 0 | 0 | +611 | 0.27% |
| AI agents | 189 | 10 | 16 | +15,076 | 1.04% |
| AI infrastructure | 34 | 4 | 3 | +10,541 | 2.04% |
Fastest growing right now
Codebase Memory — top mcp server
microsoft/markitdown — top agent framework
OpenAI Agents SDK — top agent sdk
loop-engineering — top ai agent
Firecrawl — top ai infrastructure
How these numbers are produced: daily snapshots, weekly scoring, explicit thresholds — see the methodology. The dataset is append-only and collected since 2026.