Ecosystem Map
A curated directory of the layer above frontier models — the frameworks, orchestration, marketplaces, and providers ClawBlog covers. Interactive directory of tools, services, integrations.
Curated snapshot — figures as of mid-2026.
The open-source runtimes that turn a frontier model into an agent that acts in the world.
The open-source AI-agent framework that defined the category — operated through messaging platforms (Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram) with 100+ AgentSkills. v2026415 ships native Claude Opus 4.7 integration; a non-profit foundation now stewards the project.
347K+ stars — most-starred repo in GitHub history
Nous Research’s self-improving agent with persistent memory. MIT-licensed, runs on five backends (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal), and was the fastest-growing agent framework of 2026 by early-adoption metrics.
95K+ stars — MIT-licensed
The layer above a single agent — coordinating many agents, enforcing budgets, keeping the lights on.
Run-it-for-you agent infrastructure — the hosted alternative to standing up your own runtime.
Where agent capabilities are published, discovered, and — as the ClawHavoc incident showed — attacked.
The frontier labs whose models sit underneath every agent in this directory.
Maker of the Claude model family (Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5) and Claude Managed Agents — the models most agent frameworks in this directory reach for first.
Claude Opus 4.7 · Sonnet 4.6
Maker of the GPT-5.4 model family, including the GPT-5.4 Image 2 generation model widely used across the agent tooling ecosystem.
GPT-5.4 model family
Maker of the Gemini family and the Nano Banana image models — including the high-fidelity Nano Banana Pro released April 2026.
Gemini 3 · Nano Banana Pro
Agents are graduating from API calls to direct computer control. A new infrastructure layer is forming underneath them, and it's quietly rewriting what the word 'agent' means.
Arize Phoenix v16.0.0 ships Code Evaluators that let users write their own scoring logic in the UI, no deployment required. The real story is what this admits about the state of agent evaluation.
Mastra's new fine-grained access control and favorites system signals that agent frameworks are moving beyond single-user experimentation into multi-tenant governance.
Google's Agent Development Kit reaching general availability marks a turning point in multi-agent orchestration, but enterprises face three key gaps that none of the major platforms—Google, Anthropic, or OpenAI—have yet solved.
Hugging Face's smolagents v1.25.0 adds MLflow integration and refactors core agent workflows, showcasing a shift from experimentation to production-grade observability in lightweight agent frameworks.
A wave of recent patches across major agent frameworks reveals an unexpected pattern: minor fixes are reshaping ecosystem trust and accelerating modular adoption.
Hermes Agent's rapid adoption alongside OpenClaw suggests these platforms solve distinct problems — and their coexistence reveals a broader shift in agent architecture.
Claude Code's new plugin dependency enforcement reveals a deeper shift in agent ecosystems: architectures optimized for isolation are giving way to those designed for interdependence.
Mastra's new ACP-compatible coding agents challenge the traditional centrality of monolithic agents by enabling lightweight, composable subagents.
