Agentic coding
Rising · emerged February 2025 · high October 2026 · +35% on the month before · 840 mentions on Trending in 14 days
Coding agents that read a repository, run commands and tests, and change code across files on their own. Named by Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code (Feb 24, 2025). Also called Coding agents, AI coding agent, Agentic coding tools, Background agents.
Index 0 to 100, monthly
Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months2,815 stories
arXiv papers, last 12 months1,515 papers
Product releases naming it658 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories65,459Funding rounds naming it6, $2.2B in allConferences about it1| Signal | Reads as | |
|---|---|---|
| Hacker News stories, last 12 months2,815 stories | 2,815 stories | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months1,515 papers | 1,515 papers | Adoption |
| Product releases naming it658 since Feb 19, 2026 | 658 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories65,459 | 65,459 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it6, $2.2B in all | 6, $2.2B in all | Adoption |
| Conferences about it1 | 1 | Adoption |
Trending terms
| Term | PeakPeak score | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8yesterday | 48 | 34 | |
| Nov 36 days ago | 29 | 39 | |
| GitHub CopilotGitHub's AI coding assistant.AI product7 days, last Oct 31 9 days ago | Oct 319 days ago | 7 | 22 |
| Oct 3010 days ago | 6 | 37 | |
| Sep 118 weeks ago | 1 | 15 | |
| Sep 52 months ago | 1 | 22 |
Companies
Releases
658 releases since Feb 19, 2026| Name | |
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| Oct 31, 20269 days ago | |
| Oct 30, 202610 days ago | |
| Oct 29, 202611 days ago | |
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Models
Codex MiniOpenAIGPT 5.1 CodexOpenAIClaude Opus 5.5AnthropicClaude Opus 5AnthropicQwen3-Coder 480B/A35B InstructAlibaba
| Name |
|---|
| Codex MiniOpenAI |
| GPT 5.1 CodexOpenAI |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic |
| Claude Opus 5Anthropic |
| Qwen3-Coder 480B/A35B InstructAlibaba |
Papers
GitHub projects
65,459 repositoriesanomalyco/opencodeThe open source coding agent.openai/codexLightweight coding agent that runs in your terminalVoltAgent/awesome-design-mdA collection of DESIGN.md files analysis by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matchiearendil-works/piAI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLIJuliusBrussee/caveman🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman.addyosmani/agent-skillsProduction-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
| Name | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| anomalyco/opencodeThe open source coding agent. · Apr 30, 2025 1 year ago | Apr 30, 20251 year ago | 211,423 |
| openai/codexLightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal · Apr 13, 2025 1 year ago | Apr 13, 20251 year ago | 127,603 |
| VoltAgent/awesome-design-mdA collection of DESIGN.md files analysis by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matchi · Mar 31, 2026 7 months ago | Mar 31, 20267 months ago | 119,244 |
| earendil-works/piAI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI · Aug 9, 2025 1 year ago | Aug 9, 20251 year ago | 111,599 |
| JuliusBrussee/caveman🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman. · Apr 4, 2026 7 months ago | Apr 4, 20267 months ago | 108,873 |
| addyosmani/agent-skillsProduction-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. · Feb 15, 2026 8 months ago | Feb 15, 20268 months ago | 100,439 |
Funding
6 rounds| Name | Amount | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 20262 months ago | $2,000M | |
| Mar 7, 20251 year ago | $105M | |
| Mar 7, 20251 year ago | $25M | |
| Jun 18, 20242 years ago | $15M | |
| Aug 4, 20263 months ago | $12M | |
| Apr 24, 20266 months ago | $9M |
Partnerships
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Aug 13, 20262 months ago | |
| Oct 28, 20251 year ago |
Conferences
1 conference| Name | |
|---|---|
| AI Engineer Code Summit 2026San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Nov 10, 2026 tomorrow | Nov 10, 2026tomorrow |
Related movements
Vibe codingBuilding software by describing it to a model and accepting what it writes, without reading the code closely.AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.MCPModel Context Protocol: an open standard for connecting models and agents to tools and data sources.Context engineeringDeciding what goes into a model's context window, and in what order: instructions, retrieved documents, tools and memory.
| Movement | Stage |
|---|---|
| Vibe codingBuilding software by describing it to a model and accepting what it writes, without reading the code closely. | Plateau |
| AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done. | Rising |
| MCPModel Context Protocol: an open standard for connecting models and agents to tools and data sources. | Peak |
| Context engineeringDeciding what goes into a model's context window, and in what order: instructions, retrieved documents, tools and memory. | Plateau |
History
Tracking started: emerged February 2025, rising, 4 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged February 2025, rising, 4 other names recorded |
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.