10 open-source repos that run AI agents while you sleep: cron, webhooks, cloud PRs
victor_explore · x · 2026-11-04
A curated GitHub list of 10 open-source repos for running AI agents unattended (stars checked Oct 2026):
- OpenClaw (394k stars): cross-platform personal assistant with cron and heartbeat
- Hermes Agent (Nous Research, 260k stars): agent schedulable in plain language
- Paperclip (99k stars): a company of agents with routines
- Kestra (29k stars): orchestrator with AI agent tasks
- Trigger.dev (16k stars): long-running agents with cron and retries
- Open SWE (LangChain, 11k stars): cloud coding agent that opens PRs
- Claude Code Action (9k stars): Claude Code inside GitHub Actions
- Cloudflare Agents (6k stars): Agents SDK with built-in scheduling
- GitHub Agentic Workflows (5k stars): Markdown-defined repo automation compiled to GitHub Actions
- Background Agents: Open-Inspect (3k stars): Ramp-style background coding agents
Common patterns covered: cron-timed wakeups, webhook triggers, cloud sandbox coding, and automated pull requests.
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