Agentic AI Ecosystem Map
April 9, 2026 · View on GitHub
A hand-curated taxonomy of the agentic AI ecosystem — categories, sub-areas, and representative projects as evidence that each functional slot exists. This is a classification map, not a project directory.
- Full taxonomy tree: SCHEMA.md (generated)
- Source of truth:
graph/nodes.json+graph/edges.json - Derived tree view:
ecosystem.json - Interactive 3D viz: danielrosehill.github.io/Agentic-AI-Ecosystem/viz/
- Sister project — runtime architecture model: Agentic-AI-Architecture-Visualisation
At a glance
11 top-level clusters · 435 sub-areas · 307 example projects.
Clusters
Each row is a top-level functional cluster. Sub-areas and examples are truncated — see SCHEMA.md for the complete tree.
| Cluster | What it covers | Sub-areas | Example projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agents | Agent runtimes, frameworks, harnesses, and surfaces that define, host, or coordinate individual and multi-agent systems. | Agent Clusters · Agent Collaboration · Agent to Agent · Autonomous · Autonomous Agent Creation · Backend Platforms · +25 | Xata Agent, IntentKit, AgentVerse, AgentChattr, +37 |
| Builders & Platforms | Platforms and products for building, deploying, and operating agents — the IDE and PaaS layer of the ecosystem. | Automation · Deployment Platforms · Development Platforms · Engineering Platforms · On Device Agents · Optimisation Platform · +2 | Activepieces, Flowise, Julep, Coze Studio, +8 |
| Context, Memory & Data | Everything that feeds agents with context, persistent memory, and structured data. | Context · Data · Memory | PromptX, WeKnora, context-mode, Contexto, +40 |
| Dev Tools & Skills | Tooling, reusable skills, and prompt assets that developers use to build and operate agents. | Dev Tools · Prompts · Skills | Aider, OpenDevin/OpenHands, SWE-agent, vLLora, +19 |
| Ecosystem | Meta-layer covering non-tool entities in the agentic AI landscape: organisations, destinations, and uncategorised items. | Destinations · Organisations · Publications & Newsletters · Uncategorized | Agentic AI Industry Foundation (AAIF), Agency Agents |
| Frameworks & Runtimes | Top-level domain for the software substrate that executes agents: frameworks, runtimes, harnesses, loops, and orchestration. | Environments · Frameworks · Harnesses · Loops · Orchestration · Pipelines · +2 | agent-os, Abacus Desktop, cua.ai, AgentForge, +48 |
| Interfaces | User-facing surfaces through which humans interact with agents — frontends, workspaces, UX patterns, and annotation tools. | Annotation · Control Surfaces · Frontends · UX · Workspaces | Operit, Agent UI, Goose, Agent Deck, +5 |
| Models & Inference | The model layer: base models themselves and the infrastructure that serves them to agents. | Inference · Models | Context-Gateway, LMDeploy, SGLang, Text Generation Inference, +27 |
| Observability & Evals | Telemetry, evaluation, and operational monitoring for LLM and agent systems across their lifecycle. | Agent Analytics · Benchmarks · Evals and Experiment Tracking · Operations · Research & Experimentation | RagaAI Catalyst, AICGSecEval, OSWorld, AgentBench, +22 |
| Safety & Governance | Controls, policies, and oversight mechanisms that keep agents safe, compliant, and accountable in production. | Agent in the Loop · Guardrails · Hallucination & Factuality · Human in the Loop · Identity and Auth · PII and Redaction · +3 | Shellfirm, Guardrails AI, Invariant Labs, Llama Guard, +14 |
| Tools & Integrations | Tools, actions, and integration layers that connect agents to the outside world — MCP, standards, and action surfaces. | Actions · MCP · Standards | BrowserOS, Lightpanda Browser, Steel Browser, Arcade.dev, +45 |
README generated from ecosystem.json by scripts/generate_readme.py. Full tree generated into SCHEMA.md by scripts/generate_schema.py.