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AI agent tools for agent orchestration
Short answer: Our top pick for agent orchestration: Paperclip, with the highest AgentPick Score (93/100) among tools tagged "agent-orchestration". Runners-up: AnythingLLM (92) and Codewhale (89). Compare what each does, its license and how recently it was updated below.
| # | Tool | What it does | Score | Stars | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Paperclip | The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work | 93/100 | ★ 102k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #2 | AnythingLLM | Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience | 92/100 | ★ 67k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #3 | Codewhale | Open-source Rust agent engine and terminal client for Codewhale, with provider choice, tools, approvals and receipts. | 89/100 | ★ 41k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #4 | herdr | the runtime your coding agents live on | 88/100 | ★ 44k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #5 | openhuman | The fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness. Run more than 500 agents on a $10 VPS. | 88/100 | ★ 42k | GPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #6 | happy | Orchestrate Claude, Codex and Grok in one app. Open-source (MIT), reuses the subscriptions you already pay for. | 85/100 | ★ 24k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #7 | omnigent | Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without… | 84/100 | ★ 11k | Apache-2.0 | 15 Oct 2026 |
| #8 | agent-orchestrator | Run and supervise teams of coding agents from planning to merge. Any harness (Claude code, codex, +25 more). Desktop, web, mobile, and cloud agents. | 83/100 | ★ 13k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #9 | openrig | Build your own network of agents from Claude Code, Codex and Pi: persistent teams with roles, shared context and owned work. | 80/100 | ★ 7.5k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #10 | open-multi-agent | Self-hosted TypeScript agent runtime with durable approvals and verifiable run records. Own it, approve it, audit it. | 80/100 | ★ 7k | MIT | 11 Oct 2026 |
| #11 | superset | Superset is an agentic IDE to orchestrate 100+ coding agents in parallel. Run any agent with your own subscription. | 79/100 | ★ 15k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #12 | munder-difflin | an open-source alternative to the dots, bots and muses of the world, run an office of claude code/codex like agents on your laptop, sandboxes or anywh… | 78/100 | ★ 8.8k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #13 | jarvis-registry | Connect any AI copilot or autonomous agent to your enterprise tools — through a single, secure MCP/Agent gateway with built-in identity, access contro… | 76/100 | ★ 3.6k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #14 | superplane | Open source factory for one-shot engineering | 75/100 | ★ 7.7k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #15 | agenta | Agenta is a workspace where you and your team build agents and automations. | 74/100 | ★ 4.8k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #16 | yao | ✨ All your agents and workspaces in one place, on every device you own. Track tasks on a board, accessible from desktop, mobile, browser, or API. Self… | 73/100 | ★ 8.1k | See repo | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #17 | agent-teams-ai | You're the boss, agents are your team. They handle tasks on their own, message each other, and review each other's work. You just watch the kanban boa… | 72/100 | ★ 2.3k | AGPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #18 | devspace | Minimal Coding Agent Harness on MCP for ChatGPT, Claude, Hermes, Grok Bot, OpenClaw | 71/100 | ★ 5.2k | MIT | 12 Oct 2026 |
| #19 | tutti | Where people and agents build in tune. | 70/100 | ★ 3.8k | Apache-2.0 | 8 Oct 2026 |
| #20 | agency-orchestrator | 🚀 One sentence → your one-person company of AI experts → complete deliverable in minutes. 276 CN + 184 EN + 5 more languages (ko/ru/pt-BR/id/ar) · ze… | 70/100 | ★ 2.4k | Apache-2.0 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #21 | Orkas | Orkas is an open-source, local-first AI desktop app: a commander LLM directs specialist sub-agents, and runs your installed coding CLIs — Claude Code,… | 70/100 | ★ 2.2k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #22 | nodeterm | Node-based terminal manager for AI coding agents — tmux-backed terminals and parallel agent sessions as draggable nodes on an infinite pan/zoom canvas… | 69/100 | ★ 2k | See repo | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #23 | mission-control | Self-hosted control plane for AI agents: dispatch tasks, review runs, track spend, and operate OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and other runtimes. | 68/100 | ★ 6.4k | MIT | 12 Oct 2026 |
| #24 | kungfu | Your agents don’t hand off the work. Kungfu keeps the same Work moving across Codex, Claude, OpenCode, and your own execution surface. | 68/100 | ★ 4.5k | Apache-2.0 | 3 Oct 2026 |
| #25 | goclaw | GoClaw - GoClaw is OpenClaw rebuilt in Go — with multi-tenant isolation, 5-layer security, and native concurrency. Deploy AI agent teams at scale with… | 68/100 | ★ 3.7k | See repo | 4 Oct 2026 |
| #26 | Bindu | Bindu: The identity, communication, and payments layer for AI agents. | 62/100 | ★ 10k | See repo | 6 Sept 2026 |
| #27 | AgentsMesh | The AI Agent Workforce Platform. Run a hundred AI coding agents across your own machines — schedule, isolate, and steer them all from one console. | 62/100 | ★ 2.4k | See repo | 23 Sept 2026 |
| #28 | pro-workflow | Claude Code learns from your corrections: self-correcting memory that compounds over 50+ sessions. Context engineering, parallel worktrees, agent team… | 55/100 | ★ 2.9k | See repo | 29 Sept 2026 |
| #29 | FrontierAgent | 🧩 FrontierAgent, our agent framework, open-sourced alongside it — native command-line TUI, ReAct and Agent Team modes, one command on macOS and Linux… | 52/100 | ★ 5.3k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #30 | sprix-sage-router | Sprix AI at 屿智同行 — state-aware SELF/COLLABORATE/HANDOFF routing for A2A agent networks. | 50/100 | ★ 3.6k | MIT | 28 Aug 2026 |
Source: each project's public GitHub repository (description, stars, license, last push). Listed tools aren't tested or ranked by AgentPick.
How to choose
- Check which models and providers it supports.
- Prefer tools that show diffs and ask before running commands.
- Look for recent commits: coding agents change fast.
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