Software factories
MetaGPT
Role-based software-company simulation with explicit artifact handoffs across requirements, design, implementation and review.
Overview
Research summary
MetaGPT organizes software delivery as collaboration among role-specific agents rather than a single coding loop. Product, architecture, engineering and review responsibilities can be represented as separate roles that exchange requirements, designs, tasks and code. Its explicit software-company metaphor and artifact pipeline make it a useful reference for multi-stage AI software factories, while the underlying framework remains programmable Python rather than a fixed hosted product.
For engine design, the important boundary is between orchestration and individual model calls: the workflow owns role sequencing and artifact flow while each role performs a bounded reasoning task. The repository also exposes message routing, environment abstractions and reusable role/action primitives, making it possible to study how a software factory keeps intermediate requirements and designs explicit instead of relying on an ever-growing conversational context.
Repository summary
- Stars
- 70,367
- Open issues
- 13
- Last push
- 2026-01-21
- Commits, 90 days
- 0
- Repository activity
- Dormant · 28/100
- Version
- 0.8.1
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Classification
Pricing & services
Paid services unknown
Whether the provider offers paid products or services has not been established.
Licence scope
Implementation
Recorded implementation details and interfaces for MetaGPT.
Implementation details
Python
- Languages
- Python
- Repository type
- source
Recorded interfaces and capabilities
Licence scope
Repository
Repository snapshots, release information and recorded maintenance signals.
Repository snapshot
- Stars
- 70,367
- Open issues
- 13
- Last push
- 2026-01-21
- Commits, 90 days
- 0
- Repository activity
- Dormant · 28/100
- Archived
- No
Repository activity is a snapshot, not a quality or popularity ranking. It combines recent-push freshness (50%), 90-day commits (30%) and issue pressure (20%).
Release information
- Current version
- 0.8.1
- Version source
- github-release
- Version scope
- FoundationAgents/MetaGPT
- Version recorded
- 2026-09-14
- Latest release tag
- v0.8.1
- Release published
- 2024-04-22
- Default branch
- main
- Head commit
11cdf466d042aece04fc6cfd13b28e1a70341b1f
Maintenance and provenance
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Repository metrics recorded
- 2026-09-14
- Stars source
- GitHub snapshot
- Last push source
- GitHub snapshot
- Repository metrics stale
- No
- Snapshot repository
- FoundationAgents/MetaGPT
Documentation
Recorded references and research provenance for this entry.
Recorded sources 3
- https://github.com/FoundationAgents/MetaGPT Project page · Linked repository · Research reference · Repository metric snapshot
- https://github.com/stars/angelcervera/lists/ai Research reference
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FoundationAgents/MetaGPT/HEAD/README.md Research reference
Research metadata
- Research date
- 2026-09-14
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Repository metrics recorded
- 2026-09-14
Community & social 1 channels
Social & updates
- Xx.com/MetaGPT_Official
Link details for X
- Last checked