# Agent Frameworks & MCP

> Developer tooling to build and run agents: agent frameworks and SDKs, runtimes and sandboxes, MCP servers and registries, agent skills, agent security and governance.

- Parent category: [AI](https://devshelf.io/category/ai.md)
- DevShelf page: https://devshelf.io/category/agent-frameworks-mcp

## Resources (23)

- [agent-skills](https://devshelf.io/resource/agent-skills.md): Production-grade engineering workflows, quality gates, and structured skills package for AI coding agents to ensure consistent development practices. (pricing: Free)
- [AI SDK](https://devshelf.io/resource/ai-sdk.md): Unified TypeScript SDK for building AI applications with streaming, model fallbacks, and multi-provider support. (pricing: Free)
- [AI Skills for Real Engineers](https://devshelf.io/resource/ai-skills-for-real-engineers.md): A collection of practical slash commands and instructions for coding agents, designed to help engineers integrate AI into their development workflows. (pricing: Free)
- [Awesome LLM Apps](https://devshelf.io/resource/awesome-llm-apps.md): Collection of over 100 open-source AI agents, agent skills, and RAG applications built with end-to-end testing and Apache-2.0 license. (pricing: Free)
- [Awesome MCP Servers](https://devshelf.io/resource/awesome-mcp-servers.md): A curated directory and collection of servers for the Model Context Protocol, connecting AI agents to various tools, APIs, and services. (pricing: Free)
- [Causeway](https://devshelf.io/resource/causeway.md): Rust binary bridging AI models via Model Context Protocol and real browsers via Chrome DevTools Protocol for complete browser control. (pricing: Free)
- [Context Data](https://devshelf.io/resource/context-data.md): InterLock: open-source (Apache 2.0) proxy between AI agents and data sources, with RBAC, redaction, approvals, and logs. In public beta. (pricing: Free)
- [FluentEDI](https://devshelf.io/resource/fluentedi.md): Public HTTP API of deterministic utility tools designed for AI agents, including time, math, cryptography, parsing, and X12 retail EDI support. (pricing: Free)
- [Fly.io Sprites](https://devshelf.io/resource/fly-io-sprites.md): Hardware-isolated Linux computers and microVMs designed for AI coding agents, personal agents, and MCP servers with persistent storage. (pricing: Pay-as-you-go)
- [KitOps](https://devshelf.io/resource/kitops.md): Open source tool for packaging and versioning AI models, datasets, and agent components as OCI artifacts for secure, standardized deployment. (pricing: Free)
- [LangChain](https://devshelf.io/resource/langchain.md): An open agent platform and framework for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered applications and autonomous agents. (pricing: Freemium, Pay-as-you-go)
- [Langflow](https://devshelf.io/resource/langflow.md): Low-code visual framework for building and deploying AI agents, RAG applications, and MCP servers with major LLMs and vector databases. (pricing: Freemium)
- [MCP Market](https://devshelf.io/resource/mcp-market.md): Directory and marketplace for discovering Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and agent skills to connect AI models with tools. (pricing: Freemium)
- [NeuralTrust](https://devshelf.io/resource/neuraltrust.md): Centralized security and governance platform for AI agents, offering runtime protection, gateway management, and posture assessment. (pricing: Freemium)
- [Omnara](https://devshelf.io/resource/omnara.md): Open-source (Apache 2.0) API for running AI agents in production, handling state, execution, and approvals. Self-hosted or Omnara Cloud. (pricing: Free, Pay-as-you-go)
- [Ona](https://devshelf.io/resource/ona.md): Ona, formerly Gitpod, runs background coding agents in the cloud with governance and security controls. Part of OpenAI. (pricing: Paid)
- [Open-Source MCP Servers](https://devshelf.io/resource/open-source-mcp-servers.md): Registry of open-source Model Context Protocol servers for AI agents, providing tools for data retrieval, automation, and API integrations. (pricing: Free)
- [OpenHands](https://devshelf.io/resource/openhands.md): Open source AI agent platform for software development, executing autonomous tasks across codebases. (pricing: Freemium)
- [Skills Board](https://devshelf.io/resource/skills-board.md): An agent-native skills registry for teams to collect, search, and share AI skills with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. (pricing: Free)
- [Speakeasy](https://devshelf.io/resource/speakeasy.md): Enterprise AI control plane providing centralized governance, security, identity management, and real-time policy enforcement for AI agents and MCP servers. (pricing: not verified)
- [Trigger.dev](https://devshelf.io/resource/trigger-dev.md): Platform for building durable background tasks and AI workflows in TypeScript with automatic retries, queues, and elastic scaling. (pricing: Pay-as-you-go)
- [Tura](https://devshelf.io/resource/tura.md): Open-source agent runtime harness for executing and managing AI agents. (pricing: not verified)
- [Warp](https://devshelf.io/resource/warp.md): An open platform for automating software development workflows, orchestrating AI agents, and managing engineering factories. (pricing: Freemium, Pay-as-you-go)

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