Prime Agent by Prime Intellect
A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks.
Terminal coding agents
Proprietary
Recently added on Oct 10, 2026. The description, category and pricing were filled in from public metadata and have not been checked by an editor yet.
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Popularity
#23 in Terminal
Gid Score 28 / 100 · #212 of 378 overall
Trend
Gaining stars
about +31 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 0.10.0, yesterday
Community
21.7K GitHub stars
public signals
What Prime Agent does
Key facts
| Maker | Prime Intellect |
|---|---|
| First released | May 2026 |
| License | — |
| Main language | Rust |
| Open issues and PRs | 126 |
Pricing
We have not verified pricing for Prime Agent yet.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Unknown
- Open source?No
- Closest alternativeOpenAI Codex · all alternatives
Prime Agent alternatives
Best Prime Agent alternatives compared · All terminal coding agents
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OpenAI CodexOpenAI |
84 | 21.2M | down 17.3% | up 25.8% | 15.3M | 128K+148/day | 0.162.02d ago | Free + $8/mo | ||
| 3 |
Claude CodeAnthropic |
80 | 11.7M | down 20.3% | down 29.7% | 27.3M | 150K+170/day | 2.1.2952d ago | $20/mo | ||
| 8 |
PiEarendil Inc. (created by Mario Zechner) |
75 | 4.4M | down 3.3% | up 64.7% | — | 114K+334/day | 1.1.03d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| 9 |
OpenCodeAnomaly (SST team) |
74 | 3.1M | up 7.0% | up 17.7% | 1.2M | 212K+184/day | 1.18.354d ago | Free + $10/mo | ||
| 37 |
Gemini CLIGoogle |
57 | 378K | down 19.3% | up 13.2% | 1.1M | 107K+22/day | 0.63.04d ago | Varies | ||
| 41 |
Oh My PiStencil Labs (Can Bölük) |
56 | 203K | down 22.0% | up 65.4% | — | 34.7K+104/day | 18.8.62d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
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Prime Agent news
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74 agents added to AgentGid
Symphony, OpenShell, Codex Security, NemoClaw, Agent Browser, Opensre, Caveman, Brag, Open Code Review, Understand-Anything, Codegraph, BrowserSkill and 62 more
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Prime Agent 0.10.0 released
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Prime Agent 0.9.8 released
Fixed Codex subscription model discovery to claim the current stable Codex CLI release (0.159.0, up from 0.153.4): ChatGPT gates the discovery endpoint on clientversion, and the stale pin hid…; Fixed the model picker showing a stale model list for up to a…
What changed: recent Prime Agent releases
24 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- Fixed Codex subscription model discovery to claim the current stable Codex CLI release (0.159.0, up from 0.153.4): ChatGPT gates the discovery endpoint on clientversion, and the stale pin hid…
- Fixed the model picker showing a stale model list for up to a minute when opened without a search term (Ctrl+L or plain /model); it now always refreshes the catalog on open
- Changed the continual-harness kernel surface back to the twelve per-kind CRUD methods on rlm.harness (creatememory/updatememory/deletememory plus the skill, subagent, and promptnote methods), the…
- Fixed harness state persisted while the grouping was spelled topic losing that grouping after the revert: entries migrate to path when they load, and rolling back a refinement recorded in that…
- Fixed the conversation detail level resetting to Details every time you open, resume, or attach to a chat: the level you pick with Ctrl+O is now saved as the chatDetail setting and reused for…
- Fixed Option+S not toggling the model selector scope on macOS terminals that type ß instead of sending Option as Meta; the character no longer lands in the search field.
- Fixed old sessions showing as running in the agents view as soon as you open them, even though nothing is running: a session now counts as running only while it is doing work, not while its status…
- Fixed host stalls while a kernel cell sends a multi-megabyte display output (such as a large image) or host request: the host now reads kernel output in linear time instead of rescanning the…
- Added daemon incident notices to the agents view: recent worker crashes, command-timeout bursts, and update restarts surface as a dismissible status line pointing at prime-agent incident.
- The Anthropic subscription-auth warning now names the risk: subscription requests identify as Claude Code, which may violate Anthropic's terms and can get the account restricted or banned; an API…
- Branch summaries now run through the auxiliaryModel setting, not just refinement and compaction passes. Branch summarization fires at a tree-navigation context boundary and the summarizer uses its…
- Capped the spawning cell source attached to kernel host requests at 2KB with a truncation marker, so oversized cells stop re-shipping their full source on every spawn/progress-note/collect round…
- Changed bundled model and MCP catalog assets to be generated during build and release instead of committed snapshots.
- Added bundled model and MCP catalog snapshots with hourly background refresh and last-good disk caches.
- Removed the inactive-session collapse (Alt+I): inactive sessions always render in the agents view, and search remains the filter.
- Changed the default Prime Inference model from GLM 5.2 to GLM 5.3.
- Changed Agents View session statistics to use muted secondary text while preserving the available details (ENG-6000).
- Changed Agents View session search to inline editable text without an input background or border (ENG-6001).
- Changed refinement delivery to preserve the provider prefix cache: applying a refinement no longer rebuilds or swaps the system prompt. Applied edits now reach the model as a durable in-context…
- Fixed prompt templates altering literal dollar sequences and expanding placeholders inside user arguments.
- A Python kernel that dies after a successful startup is restarted on the next use instead of every call being handed the dead kernel forever, and skill-MCP tools advertise their real input schemas…
- Moved the semantic-edge ledger's append and replay IO onto the shared event-log substrate. One behavior unified across both ledgers: an unterminated final line is an uncommitted append — skipped…
- Made every durable JSON/JSONL state write crash-safe through one shared atomic-write owner (temp file + rename, Windows rename retry): auth.json is no longer written in place (an interrupted write…
- Fixed unbounded session-journal growth from derived bookkeeping: child usage attribution now flushes one entry per child turn instead of one per model request, and idle status sweeps no longer…
- Fixed session-list refreshes re-reading entire session files on every change: metadata scans now resume from the last scanned byte offset, stop at the file size seen at scan start, and concurrent…
- Fixed daemon request latency on large agent trees: the passive-subagent topology is derived once and memoized, with every consumer (session list, snapshots, cron recovery, agent messaging,…
Prime Agent popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 21.7K stars, 1,384 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.10.0, published Oct 9, 2026; there were 5 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 3 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: prime-agent.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption—
Community56
Attention0
Momentum53
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
Prime Agent FAQ
Is Prime Agent open source?
No. Prime Agent is a proprietary product from Prime Intellect.
How popular is Prime Agent?
The GitHub repository has 21.7K stars, 1,384 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.10.0, published Oct 9, 2026; there were 5 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 3 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
What is the latest version of Prime Agent?
The latest stable release we track is 0.10.0, published on Oct 9, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Prime Agent?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Pi, OpenCode.
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