The state of agentic coding tools
Every number below is computed from the full catalog of 41,734 tracked tools — agent skills, MCP servers, Claude Code plugins and agentic loops — harvested from GitHub and public registries. Nothing here is estimated, and nothing is entered by hand.
Data as of 2026-07-23
- Tools tracked
- 41,734
- Maintainers
- 16,302
- No declared license
- 69%
- Stars held by top 1%
- 36%
Scale, by category
| Category | Tracked | Meets listing threshold |
|---|---|---|
| Skills | 23,995 | 1,741 (7%) |
| MCP Servers | 5,625 | 1,446 (26%) |
| Loops | 2,438 | 182 (7%) |
| Plugins | 9,676 | 621 (6%) |
| Total | 41,734 | 3,990 (10%) |
Not every tracked tool is listed. Entries below our fame threshold stay out of the index until they earn their way in — the methodology is public.
Attention is extremely concentrated
Of the 20,347 tools with at least one GitHub star, the top 1% — just 203 tools — hold 36% of all 136.9M stars. The median tool has 45 stars, and 51% of the catalog (21,387 tools) has none at all.
This is the single most useful fact about the ecosystem: it is a long tail with a very short head. Directory listings and "awesome" lists tend to describe the head as if it were the whole distribution.
Most of the ecosystem is unlicensed
28,699 of 41,734 tools (69%) declare no license at all — no explicit permission to use, modify or redistribute them. For anything heading into a commercial codebase, that is a real procurement problem hiding in plain sight.
| License | Tools | Share |
|---|---|---|
MIT | 9,016 | 22% |
Apache-2.0 | 2,441 | 6% |
NOASSERTION | 971 | 2% |
GPL-3.0 | 150 | 0% |
CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 84 | 0% |
AGPL-3.0 | 78 | 0% |
| None declared | 28,699 | 69% |
Freshness
Across the 20,609 tools with a known upstream push date, 4,673 were pushed in the last 7 days and 10,904 in the last 30. Only 42 have gone more than a year without a push — this is a young ecosystem, not an abandoned one.
Upstream push dates are not yet harvested for every source, so this section covers 49% of the catalog. See recently updated for the live list.
Use these numbers
The full catalog is published as machine-readable JSON, so every figure on this page can be recomputed from source rather than taken on trust:
/data/skills.json— SKILL.md packages that give agents new capabilities./data/mcp.json— Model Context Protocol servers that connect agents to the world./data/loops.json— Repeatable agent workflows that iterate until an exit condition./data/plugins.json— Claude Code plugins bundling commands, agents, and hooks.
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Frequently asked questions
How many agentic coding tools exist?
41,734 are tracked here as of 2026-07-23: 23,995 skills, 5,625 servers, 2,438 loops, 9,676 plugins. They are maintained by 16,302 distinct GitHub owners, an average of 2.6 tools each.
How concentrated is the agentic coding ecosystem?
Heavily. Of the 20,347 tools with at least one GitHub star, the top 1% (203 tools) account for 36% of all 136.9M stars. The median tool has 45 stars, and 51% of the catalog has none at all.
What licenses do agentic coding tools use?
69% (28,699 of 41,734) declare no license at all, which means no explicit permission to use, modify or redistribute them. Among those that do declare one, MIT leads with 9,016, followed by Apache-2.0, NOASSERTION, GPL-3.0.
Where does this data come from?
Harvested from GitHub and public package registries — never entered by hand and never estimated. The full catalog is published as machine-readable JSON at getagentictools.com/data/skills.json (and mcp, plugins, loops), so any figure on this page can be recomputed from source.