State of AI Assets — Q1 2026
The first open census of the AI agent ecosystem. 5M+ assets. 143K agents & tools. All trust scored.
We built Nerq to answer a simple question: what's actually out there in the AI agent ecosystem, and how much of it can you trust?
After crawling six registries — GitHub, npm, PyPI, HuggingFace, Docker Hub, and MCP registries — we now have an answer. Here's what we found.
The numbers
4,919,620 AI assets indexed. Of those, 143,642 are the executable components — agents, tools, and MCP servers — that power the emerging agentic economy.
Every asset receives a Trust Score (0–100) based on security, maintenance, popularity, documentation, and ecosystem signals.
| Total AI assets | 4,919,620 |
| Agents & tools | 143,642 |
| MCP servers | 17,468 |
| Avg trust score | 65.5 / 100 |
| High trust (70+) | 12.9% |
What's in the index
Most of the 4.9M assets are ML models (2.6M), HuggingFace Spaces (1M), and datasets (795K). The actionable layer — what actually does things — is smaller but growing fast:
- 66,092 agents (autonomous software that acts)
- 60,082 tools (packages agents use)
- 17,468 MCP servers (tool servers for LLMs)
What agents do
Coding dominates. Infrastructure and DevOps are second and third — agents are increasingly used for operational automation, not just chat.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Coding | 10,939 |
| Infrastructure | 3,552 |
| DevOps | 3,524 |
| Communication | 2,955 |
| AI tool | 2,262 |
| Finance | 2,132 |
| Research | 1,909 |
| Content | 1,277 |
| Marketing | 1,253 |
| Data | 1,199 |
| Security | 1,160 |
| Healthcare | 791 |
| Education | 751 |
| Productivity | 718 |
How they're built
Anthropic SDK leads. OpenAI is close behind. LangChain is the dominant orchestration framework. MCP (Model Context Protocol) already ranks 4th — a strong adoption signal for Anthropic's tool protocol.
| Framework | Agents |
|---|---|
| Anthropic | 7,072 |
| OpenAI | 5,927 |
| LangChain | 2,546 |
| MCP | 1,932 |
| Ollama | 1,785 |
| HuggingFace | 1,126 |
| AutoGen | 1,065 |
| CrewAI | 780 |
| LlamaIndex | 424 |
Python dominates at 51% of agents with known languages. TypeScript is second at 22%, driven by MCP server development and npm packages.
Where they come from
| Registry | Share |
|---|---|
| HuggingFace | 35.5% |
| GitHub | 21.4% |
| npm | 21.4% |
| PyPI | 17.3% |
| MCP registries | 1.4% |
Trust & quality
12.9% of agents score 70+ (high trust). 87.1% score 40–69 (medium). Almost none score below 40.
The average trust score is 65.5 / 100 — decent but with significant room for improvement across the ecosystem.
Trust is computed from five pillars:
- Security (30%) — vulnerabilities, dependency audit, code patterns
- Maintenance (25%) — commit recency, release frequency, issue response
- Popularity (20%) — stars, downloads, forks, community size
- Documentation (15%) — README quality, API docs, examples
- Ecosystem (10%) — protocol support, integrations, interoperability
Top 10 most trusted agents
| Agent | Score | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-agent/SWE-agent | 92.5 | 18,516 |
| microsoft/qlib | 92.4 | 37,615 |
| nanoclaw | 92.1 | 7,735 |
| FunnyWolf/agentic-soc-platform | 91.3 | 579 |
| ccmanager | 90.9 | 831 |
| microsoft/azure-devops-mcp | 90.3 | 1,291 |
| opal | 90.2 | 5,422 |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/agent-starter-pack | 90.1 | 5,761 |
| QwenLM/qwen-code | 89.7 | 20,060 |
| RooCodeInc/Roo-Code | 89.5 | 22,330 |
Top 10 MCP servers
| Server | Score | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| williamzujkowski/strudel-mcp-server | 92.9 | 158 |
| laravel/boost | 91.2 | 3,275 |
| harbor | 90.5 | 2,424 |
| laravel/mcp | 90.0 | 679 |
| CursorTouch/Windows-MCP | 89.0 | 4,390 |
| Ansvar-Systems/EU_compliance_MCP | 88.8 | 45 |
| 54yyyu/zotero-mcp | 88.1 | 1,461 |
| tavily-ai/tavily-mcp | 88.1 | 1,218 |
| cyproxio/mcp-for-security | 88.1 | 553 |
| minecraft-mcp-server | 87.8 | 467 |
Try it
All data is free, no auth required.
Search agents:
curl https://nerq.ai/v1/agent/search?q=langchain&min_trust=60
Check trust on any agent:
curl https://nerq.ai/v1/agent/kya/SWE-agent
Get ecosystem stats:
curl https://nerq.ai/v1/agent/stats
Benchmark a category:
curl https://nerq.ai/v1/agent/benchmark/coding
Links
- nerq.ai — search the index
- API docs
- KYA — Know Your Agent — due diligence reports
- Live stats
- Full report with all 20 top agents
- MCP server on Smithery
Data as of 2026-03-09. Nerq indexes continuously — numbers update daily.
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