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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.

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Signals

SignalReads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months2,815 storiesAdoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months1,515 papersAdoption
Product releases naming it658 since Feb 19, 2026Adoption
GitHub repositories65,459Adoption
Funding rounds naming it6, $2.2B in allAdoption
Conferences about it1Adoption

Trending terms

TermPeak
Claude CodeAnthropic's coding agent that works in the terminal and the editor.48 days, last Nov 8 yesterday34
CodexOpenAI's coding agent.29 days, last Nov 3 6 days ago39
GitHub CopilotGitHub's AI coding assistant.7 days, last Oct 31 9 days ago22
CursorAn AI code editor built on VS Code.6 days, last Oct 30 10 days ago37
WindsurfAn AI code editor, now part of Cognition.1 day, last Sep 11 8 weeks ago15
Gemini CLIGoogle's open-source coding agent for the terminal.1 day, last Sep 5 2 months ago22

Companies

Releases

658 releases since Feb 19, 2026
Name
Claude Code 2.1.316Anthropic · Oct 31, 2026 9 days ago
Claude Code 2.1.314Anthropic · Oct 30, 2026 10 days ago
CoCo Desktop v1.23.1Snowflake · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by DefendersMistral AI · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Dynatrace unifies AI Observability ingest across coding agents, OneAgent, and OpenInferenceDynatrace · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Qwen Code Desktop v0.26.4Alibaba · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Qwen Code Release v0.26.4Alibaba · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Qwen Code SDK TypeScript Release v0.1.26Alibaba · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago

Models

Papers

Name
Self-Evolving Coding Agents via Harness-Policy OptimizationMicrosoft · Oct 16, 2026 3 weeks ago
Last Secure Code Benchmark: Is the Code You Vibe Secure?Alibaba (Qwen) · Oct 10, 2026 4 weeks ago
LEGO-Anything: Coding Agents for 3D Scene ReconstructionAWS · Sep 28, 2026 6 weeks ago
SoL-Pi: Recursively Scaling Auto-Research Loops for Efficient Agent HarnessNVIDIA · Sep 17, 2026 7 weeks ago
Agent Lightning v1.0: Towards Harnessed Agentic RLMicrosoft · Aug 18, 2026 2 months ago
SWE-INTERACT: Reimagining SWE Benchmarks as User-Driven Long-Horizon Coding SessionsScale AI · Jun 29, 2026 4 months ago
The Verification Horizon: No Silver Bullet for Coding Agent RewardsAlibaba (Qwen) · Jun 24, 2026 4 months ago
FastContext: Training Efficient Repository Explorer for Coding AgentsMicrosoft · Jun 12, 2026 5 months ago

GitHub projects

65,459 repositories
NameStars
anomalyco/opencodeThe open source coding agent. · Apr 30, 2025 1 year ago211,423
openai/codexLightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal · Apr 13, 2025 1 year ago127,603
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 ago119,244
earendil-works/piAI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI · Aug 9, 2025 1 year ago111,599
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 ago108,873
addyosmani/agent-skillsProduction-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. · Feb 15, 2026 8 months ago100,439

Funding

6 rounds
NameAmount
CognitionSeries E · Sep 8, 2026 2 months ago$2,000M
ReflectionSeries A · Mar 7, 2025 1 year ago$105M
ReflectionSeed · Mar 7, 2025 1 year ago$25M
FactorySeries A · Jun 18, 2024 2 years ago$15M
RWXSeries A · Aug 4, 2026 3 months ago$12M
MechanizeUndisclosed · Apr 24, 2026 6 months ago$9M

Partnerships

Name
MongoDB, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Cognition: Atlas in coding agentsAug 13, 2026 2 months ago
GitHub, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI: Agent HQOct 28, 2025 1 year ago

Conferences

1 conference
Name
AI Engineer Code Summit 2026San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Nov 10, 2026 tomorrow
MovementStage
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

ChangeSep 24, 2026Tracking started: emerged February 2025, rising, 4 other names recorded
DateWhat changed
Sep 24, 2026Tracking 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.