Semantic Kernel
Microsoft's SDK for integrating LLMs into applications
Trending Now
What's gaining momentum right now — worth paying attention to today.
Agent Orchestration Harnesses
There’s growing focus on the control layer for agents—scheduling, parallelism, reliability, and microservice-like orchestration—indicating an emergent pattern distinct from individual agent frameworks.
LlamaIndex
Data framework for LLM applications to ingest and query data
ChromaDB
Open-source embedding database for AI applications
Agent Skills and Plugins (MCP Ecosystem)
Multiple independent releases and roundups highlight rapid growth of pluggable ‘skills’ for agents (often MCP servers), enabling specialized capabilities (testing, accessibility, webhooks, infra). This is forming a distinct ecosystem beyond any single tool.
On the Rise
New tools and frameworks gaining early traction.
LM Studio
Desktop app for running local LLMs with a friendly UI
Pinecone
Managed vector database for AI applications
AutoGen
Microsoft framework for building multi-agent conversational systems
Agent Security & Sandboxing
Growing emphasis on isolating agent capabilities, secret protection, and assessing third-party MCP servers—plus concrete sandboxing fixes in widely used tooling—show a clear, cross-source push toward hardened agent runtimes.
Foundation
Battle-tested, high adoption — the safe bets.
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Open protocol for connecting AI assistants to external data and tools
Codex CLI
OpenAI's lightweight CLI coding agent
LangChain
Framework for developing applications powered by language models
vLLM
High-throughput LLM serving engine