smolagents

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public(github.com/huggingface/smolagents)

core-gated

ungated

Fully OSI-licensed (Apache-2.0), entire library public, no proprietary/managed core, top openness.

• https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents recorded 2026-08-13

  Apache-2.0 license, full public source for the code-agent framework, 28.8k stars and 2.9k forks; no enterprise directory and no paid tier

653,459 PyPI downloads in the trailing 30 days for smolagents, from the pypistats API, which bands at level 3 (100K-1M) on the software adoption scale - meaningful, but below the heavyweight framework anchors. smolagents is the declared and primary channel, so this measures the product itself rather than standing in for it.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/smolagents/recent recorded 2026-08-13

  653,459 downloads in the trailing 30 days for smolagents

• https://pypistats.org/packages/smolagents recorded 2026-08-13

  the rendered pypistats page for the same package, kept as the original citation

• https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents recorded 2026-08-13

  28.8k stars, 2.9k forks (corroborating, not the basis)

Deliberately lightweight: strong on model-agnosticism, tool-use, and sandboxing but thinner orchestration/eval surface than heavier frameworks; no benchmark, scored 3 on feature matrix.

• https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents recorded 2026-08-13

  code-action agents, sandboxed execution, MCP and LangChain tool import, multi-model support; no benchmark figure published