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MetaGPT

Role-based software-company simulation with explicit artifact handoffs across requirements, design, implementation and review.

70,367 stars

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

FoundationAgents/MetaGPT ↗

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

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Research metadata

Research date
2026-09-14
Catalogue snapshot
2026-10-06
Repository metrics recorded
2026-09-14

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