Model Context Protocol, a Series of LF Projects, LLC (originated by Anthropic) · Agent frameworks & orchestration
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Open JSON-RPC standard for connecting AI applications to tools, data and prompts through servers, now stewarded under the Linux Foundation with SDKs in many languages
Open sourceOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026
React framework from Vercel for full-stack web applications with file-based routing, server components, server-side rendering, static generation and API route handlers
Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models
Universal document converter that translates between Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, Typst, Jupyter and dozens of other formats, with citeproc and Lua filters
Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Data collection & crawling
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Node.js library from the Chrome team for controlling Chrome and Firefox over the DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi, used for scraping, screenshots, PDFs and testing
Open-source scientific publishing system from Posit that renders Markdown with executable Python, R, Julia or Observable code to HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books via Pandoc
Ray project (Anyscale and contributors) · Distributed & parallel computing
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Open-source Python framework for distributing tasks, actors and ML workloads across a cluster, with libraries for data processing, training, tuning, serving and reinforcement learning
Scrapy developers (maintained with Zyte) · Data collection & crawling
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Mature open-source Python framework for writing crawlers (spiders) that fetch pages asynchronously, extract structured items and export them through pipelines