--- title: "Agents — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Agents [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › Agents Agents is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into. On Sep 27, 2026, 598 kept stories were about it (35% of the day, against a 7-day average of 30%). 5,517 stories in 7 days, up 27% on the week before. - **Stories on Sep 27:** 598 - **Share of the day:** 35% - **Share, 7-day average:** 30% - **Change vs the 7-day average:** +5.1 percentage points - **Stories in 7 days:** 5,517 - **The 7 days before:** 4,341 - **Week over week:** rising (at least 25% more than the week before) - **Hands-on share:** 55% (tutorials, show and tell, questions) ## Topics in this theme The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days: 1. [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 1,704 stories (the 7 days before: 1,424) 2. [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 1,497 stories (the 7 days before: 1,222) 3. [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) — 1,018 stories (the 7 days before: 883) 4. [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) — 752 stories (the 7 days before: 721) 5. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 409 stories (the 7 days before: 333) 6. [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) — 398 stories (the 7 days before: 115) 7. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 380 stories (the 7 days before: 330) 8. [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) — 376 stories (the 7 days before: 402) 9. [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) — 326 stories (the 7 days before: 200) 10. [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) — 316 stories (the 7 days before: 285) 11. [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — 293 stories (the 7 days before: 174) 12. [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) — 278 stories (the 7 days before: 193) Also in this theme: [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md), [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md), [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md), [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md), [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md), [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md), [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md), [SF AI hackathons and events](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_hackathons.md), [Browser Use - browser agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/browser_use.md), [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md), [Foundry](https://abovethefog.app/topics/foundry.md), [Strands](https://abovethefog.app/topics/strands.md), [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw.md), [GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt56.md), [Claude Cowork](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_cowork.md), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md), [Y Combinator](https://abovethefog.app/topics/y_combinator.md), [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md), [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md), [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md), [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md), [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md), [LangChain](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langchain.md), [LangGraph](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langgraph.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md), [Safe Superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ssi.md), [Sakana AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sakana.md), [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md), [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md), [Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_fable_mythos.md), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md). ## Companies in its stories The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (27% involve none): - Anthropic — 25% - OpenAI — 16% - Other company — 13% - Meta — 8.5% - xAI — 3.1% ## Kinds of stories - Show and tell — 33% - News — 23% - Opinion — 20% - Question — 12% - Tutorial — 9.5% - Research — 2.9% ## Where its stories come from | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Reddit | 2,484 | 45% | | Google News (RSS) | 874 | 16% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | 830 | 15% | | Hacker News | 315 | 5.7% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 304 | 5.5% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | 213 | 3.9% | | GitHub | 152 | 2.8% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | 130 | 2.4% | ## Top stories on Sep 27 1. [What tool have you built for yourself with Claude code that removes so much headache in your work or personal life?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wrckhp/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,062 · 518 comments 2. [There are no "rogue" AI agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868083) — Hacker News (eoinhiggins.substack.com) · Sep 27 · score 387 · 267 comments 3. [ChatGPT added reactions to messages just now](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wrb0q6/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 27 · score 416 · 57 comments 4. [Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867775) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (tinyaiarena.com) · Sep 27 · score 117 · 45 comments 5. [echris6/motion-video-kit: Claude Code skill kit for premium AI-assisted business videos: independent critic loop, motion principles from 28 launch films, quality bar, sound design, business offers, Three.js patterns, scripts](https://github.com/echris6/motion-video-kit) — GitHub (echris6) · Sep 27 · score 61 6. [howseen-ai/claude-motion-design: A Claude Code skill to make motion design videos in pure code: HTML + Playwright + ffmpeg. No After Effects, no Remotion license.](https://github.com/howseen-ai/claude-motion-design) — GitHub (howseen-ai) · Sep 27 · score 43 ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 598 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 652 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 870 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 862 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 865 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 887 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 783 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 529 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 413 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 830 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 756 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 649 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 579 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 585 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 464 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 434 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 505 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 539 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 578 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 566 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 534 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 478 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 534 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 535 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 503 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 457 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 457 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 419 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 366 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 379 | [Open Agents in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=agents) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)