# VoltAgent/awesome-ai-agent-papers

A curated collection of AI agent research papers released in 2026, covering agent engineering, memory, evaluation, workflows, and autonomous systems.

Repository: https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-ai-agent-papers
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-ai-agent-papers
Homepage: https://starterkit.getdesign.md/
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai-agents, llm-agents, memory, rag, research-paper, llm, awesome, awesome-list
Last push: 2026-08-21T10:52:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 59/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 14
- inputs: {"age_days": 204, "days_push": 12, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1724, forks 182 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.009695+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of 360+ AI agent research papers published in 2026, sourced weekly from arXiv and organized into categories like multi-agent coordination, memory & RAG, evaluation & observability, agent tooling, and security. It is a reading resource, not software, aimed at engineers and researchers building LLM-based agent systems.

## Use cases
- find recent research papers on ai agents
- stay up to date on llm agent research from arxiv
- read papers about multi-agent coordination
- learn about agent memory and rag techniques
- research agent evaluation and observability methods
- find papers on ai agent security
- discover agent tooling research for building llm agents

## When to choose
- you want a hand-filtered, categorized reading list of 2026 agent papers instead of raw arXiv search
- you are an AI engineer or researcher tracking the agent ecosystem
- you need curated references on memory, RAG, evaluation, or agent security

## When to avoid
- you need runnable code or a library rather than paper references
- you need papers from before 2026
- you want exhaustive coverage rather than a curated selection

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, awesome-lists
- platform: -
- tags: awesome-list, research-papers, arxiv, multi-agent, agent-memory, agent-evaluation, agent-security, curated-list, ai-agents, retrieval-augmented-generation, web-server

## Member repositories
- VoltAgent/awesome-ai-agent-papers (main) score 59

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.009695+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:33:54.070438+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-ai-agent-papers (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.009695+00:00, sha 9d82c90db098)
  - homepage: https://starterkit.getdesign.md/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:43.320536+00:00, sha a7444fa2f619)
  - site_page: https://starterkit.getdesign.md/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:09:43.329929+00:00, sha 01e346995f54)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.