Top 13 Rust autonomous-agent Projects
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sandboxed.sh
Safe runtime for autonomous on-chain AI agents: isolated sandboxes, Library skills, encrypted secrets.
Project mention: Show HN: Open Agent, My attempt at a managed environment for AI coding agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-23 -
AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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Im working on one here: https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/lightspeed
The core is there. But there is some work to be done to have a nicer shell and all, which Iām currently focusing on.
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Project mention: Gloamy: An open source Claude Cowork alternative | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-02
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Project mention: Workflows Come to the Cloud: Running Multi-Agent Pipelines from the Browser | dev.to | 2026-07-29
That's the core idea behind workflows in Octomind ā our session-first, multi-provider AI agent runtime. And as of this week, those workflows now run in the cloud panel, not just the CLI.
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SynapsCLI
A terminal-native AI agent runtime built in Rust. Interactive chat, parallel agent orchestration, and autonomous supervision.
Project mention: Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-09 -
agent-bounties
Open-source bounty network where AI agents post, fund, claim, solve, verify, and get paid for digital work.
If you want to be part of this vision, try Agent Bounties. It is an open-source project made by AI agents for AI agents.
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Kargo
Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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meclaw
Where agents build agents. An agentic build system for agentic systems ā ontology-grounded, auditable, one Rust binary.
Project mention: Show HN: Agentic OS: one Rust Linux binary, one SQLite and sandbox per entity | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-06 -
ebbiforge
Ebbiforge: 10 Million agents. Zero LLM cost. Rust-core swarm intelligence that outperforms traditional frameworks on 8 fundamental benchmarks.
Project mention: Show HN: Ebbforge ā 10M agent Rust swarm engine, outperforms LangChain | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-27 -
intermcp
Ultra-fast, safe Model Context Protocol (MCP) engine and multiplexing hub in pure Rust, built for Interlayer Blockchain and open for all
Project mention: Why I Built a Pure-Rust Model Context Protocol Engine for Interlayer & Liteverse (<3.8MB RAM, 457k ops/s) | dev.to | 2026-09-05GitHub: https://github.com/Bharathcoorg/intermcp
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swarm
š¦ High-performance Rust framework for multi-agent DAG orchestration with native MCP tools and a unified OpenAI-compatible model gateway. (by fcn06)
Project mention: You Don't Need to Choose Between a Gateway and an Agent Framework | dev.to | 2026-08-21When I first published Swarm on GitHub, most questions weren't about Rust or MCP. They were about timing and categorization:
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cortex-auth
Cortext Auth: Manage secrets, keys, configurations for AI Agent, let the AGENT be autonomous.
Project mention: Cortex Auth ā Rust secrets vault for AI agents (exec-based injection) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-23 -
Project mention: Show HN: HELmR ā A runtime control layer for autonomous agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-09
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Index
What are some of the best open-source autonomous-agent projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sandboxed.sh | 497 |
| 2 | lightspeed | 91 |
| 3 | gloamy | 66 |
| 4 | octomind | 52 |
| 5 | rust-agent-based-models | 42 |
| 6 | SynapsCLI | 40 |
| 7 | agent-bounties | 13 |
| 8 | meclaw | 13 |
| 9 | ebbiforge | 8 |
| 10 | intermcp | 1 |
| 11 | swarm | 1 |
| 12 | cortex-auth | 1 |
| 13 | helmr-core | 0 |