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agent-lightning
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microsoft / agent-lightning

agent-lightning

The absolute trainer to light up AI agents.

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
19KGitHub stars
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What it is

The absolute trainer to light up AI agents.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-08-11 07:59:40 UTC to 2026-08-25 05:45:52 UTC.

0122025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2026

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Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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I'm just exhausted. So I've today now learned about four new harness: https://github.com/exoharness/exo/ https://github.com/laude-institute/headlong https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning and now https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent Of course the don't have exactly the same scopes but they are in general all about persistent memory and / or continous agent loops. Like I miss those times where only once a week a new js framework was promoted.
In Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents
I trained the agent itself to write SQL, run it, check results, then rewrite until correct. The write and rewrite policies are optimized with RL, using a client–server setup in Agent Lightning and a LangGraph state machine. On a 500-sample Spider eval subset, Qwen2.5-Coder-3B with 4096 context reaches 80.4% at three turns of write and rewrite, 80.2% at one turn. After training, model Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B can be even better than Qwen2.5-Coder-3B (untrained). I have compared multiple models and settings, hoping to shed light on tuning AI agents. Full article: https://medium.com/@yugez/training-ai-agents-to-write-and-se... Related projects: - Agent Lightning as the glue: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning - verl for RL algorithms: https://github.com/volcengine/verl - vLLM for efficient rollouts: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm -
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AgentOps for collecting training data (telemetry): https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/agentops - LangGraph for agent orchestration: https://www.langchain.com/langgraph
In Tune self-correct SQL agent with RL: AgentLightning+verl+vLLM+AgentOps+LangGraph

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