microsoft/RD-Agent

Research and development (R&D) is crucial for the enhancement of industrial productivity, especially in the AI era, where the core aspects of R&D are mainly focused on data and models. We are committed to automating these high-value generic R&D processes through R&D-Agent, which lets AI drive data-driven AI. 🔗https://aka.ms/RD-Agent-Tech-Report

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Implements a dual-agent architecture combining research and development roles: the Research Agent explores ML solutions with reasoning-intensive models while the Development Agent refines implementations with cost-effective models, enabling efficient collaboration across model backends via LiteLLM. Provides specialized agents for machine learning engineering (MLE-bench leader), quantitative finance with factor-model optimization, and general data science tasks, with a web UI for real-time interaction and execution tracing.

11,731 stars. Actively maintained with 13 commits in the last 30 days.

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Maintenance 20 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 16 / 25
Community 21 / 25

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Python

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MIT

Last pushed

Mar 13, 2026

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