MetaGPT
byMetaGPT teamlisted Jun 3, 2026
MetaGPT is a multi-agent framework that simulates a software company, assigning specialized roles — Product Manager, Architect, Engineer, QA — to different LLM agents that collaborate on software development projects. Its SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) approach reduces hallucinations by structuring inter-agent communication as structured documents rather than freeform chat. MetaGPT is popular in research settings for studying how social structures improve AI agent performance.
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- Open-source and free to self-host; you pay for your own LLM API keys
- Model backbone
- GPT-4o, Claude (user-configurable)
- Setup complexity
- Complex setup
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