agent-lightning
Reinforcement-learning trainer of about 3,500 lines that trains models behind agents run in their own harnesses, locally or as Kubernetes jobs.
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Use cases: model-inference
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Fact sheet
- Languages
- PythonREADME
- Deploys to
- kubernetesREADME
- Maturity
- Stablegithub.com
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- Stars
- 18,800
- Forks
- 1,693
- Open issues
- 104
- Last commit
- Oct 20, 2026 (11 days ago)
- Last release
- Sep 29, 2026 (1 month ago)
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Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- READMEgithub-graphql
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agent-lightning. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/harnesses/agent-lightning (last updated 2026-10-24)