An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.
Market Signal
Why It Has Market Pull
DeerFlow is ByteDance's open-source SuperAgent harness that gives each agent its own sandboxed computer to research, code, and create across multi-hour tasks. Backed by ByteDance and propelled to the top of GitHub Trending on launch, it has become one of the most-watched agent frameworks of the year.
- 72,338 GitHub stars and 9,811 forks since the May 2025 launch
- Roughly 280 contributors with same-day commit activity
- Reached the top of GitHub Trending within 24 hours of the 2.0 open-sourcing
- Model-agnostic: runs OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek and ByteDance Doubao via YAML config
- Each agent runs in an isolated Docker sandbox with filesystem, shell, and package install
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What People Are Saying
"The open-source AI agent that actually works."YouTube video title
"FULLY free local deep research agent - it can do almost anything."YouTube video title
"Responses sometimes cut off mid-stream and fail to render."Hands-on review
"I couldn't find a scenario where it was the only viable option versus Claude Code."Hands-on review
"Schema migrations aren't wired up: create_all can't add columns to existing DBs."GitHub issue
"Docs introduction page returns a 404."GitHub issue




















