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Agentic coding

Rising · emerged February 2025 · high August 2026 · -6% on the month before · 231 mentions on Trending in 14 days

Origin

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
049982026Origin

Signals

SignalReads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months2,339 storiesAdoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months977 papersAdoption
Product releases naming it383 since Sep 1, 2025Adoption
GitHub repositories62,346Adoption
Funding rounds naming it2, $2.0B in allAdoption
Conferences about it1Adoption

Trending terms

TermPeak
Claude Code19 days, last Sep 23 2 days ago37
Codex12 days, last Sep 12 13 days ago48
Cursor5 days, last Sep 11 2 weeks ago48
Windsurf1 day, last Sep 11 2 weeks ago24
Gemini CLI1 day, last Sep 5 2 weeks ago29

Companies

NameMentions
GitHub120
Vercel59
Snowflake21
Anthropic13
Cursor12
Cloudflare10
Microsoft7
Shopify7

Releases

383 releases since Sep 1, 2025
Name
New panel query errors and notices UIGrafana Labs · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday
New controls for Linear coding agentLinear · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday
Install ngrok skills from Cursor's plugin marketplacengrok · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday
Retool CLIRetool · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday
Ollama 0.34.4Ollama · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday
huggingface_hub [v1.33.0] Better UX on large uploads and simpler skills installsHugging Face · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday
Announcing Snyk CLI v1.1307.4Snyk · Sep 23, 2026 2 days ago
Mem0 OpenCode Plugin (v0.4.1)Mem0 · Sep 23, 2026 2 days ago

Models

Name
Codex MiniOpenAI
GPT 5.1 CodexOpenAI
Claude Opus 5Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic
Qwen3-Coder 480B/A35B InstructAlibaba

GitHub projects

62,346 repositories
NameStars
anomalyco/opencodeThe open source coding agent. · Apr 30, 2025 1 year ago209,887
openai/codexLightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal · Apr 13, 2025 1 year ago126,347
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 5 months ago117,731
earendil-works/piAI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI · Aug 9, 2025 1 year ago109,177
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 5 months ago107,711
addyosmani/agent-skillsProduction-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. · Feb 15, 2026 7 months ago98,888

Funding

2 rounds
NameAmount
CognitionSeries E · Sep 8, 2026 2 weeks ago$2,000M
RWXSeries A · Aug 4, 2026 7 weeks ago$12M

Conferences

1 conference
Name
AI Engineer Code Summit 2026San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Nov 10, 2026 in 6 weeks

Related movements

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.Peak
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

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 Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.

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