MetaGPT
A multi-agent framework that assigns software-company roles to LLM agents to turn a requirement into a project.
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Experimenting with role-based multi-agent collaboration for software and document generation.
About MetaGPT
MetaGPT assigns different roles, such as product manager, architect, project manager and engineer, to LLM agents that collaborate on complex tasks. From a one-line requirement it produces user stories, competitive analysis, requirements, data structures, APIs and documents. The team behind it also publishes research such as AFlow and runs the commercial MGX product.
MetaGPT is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 71k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in January 2026.
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