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LLM application frameworks · Apache 2.0 (open source) · 26,897 stars

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Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

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Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2019.

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No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

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Repository
deepset-ai/haystack · created Nov 14, 2019
Website
haystack.deepset.ai
Language
Python
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
Apache-2.0
Stars per week
61 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Oct 26, 202626,897
Oct 19, 202626,809
Oct 12, 202626,734
Sep 28, 202626,646
Sep 21, 202626,594

Changes

Stars per weekNov 1, 2026

Gains about 61 stars a week, up from 54.

Stars per weekOct 22, 2026

Gains about 54 stars a week, up from 47.

Stars per weekOct 13, 2026

Gains about 47 stars a week, down from 52.

Stars per weekOct 3, 2026

Gains about 52 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from deepset-ai/haystack on GitHub.