MetaGPT: One Line In, A Whole Software Company Out
Give it one line and it runs your idea through an actual software company: a product manager, an architect and engineers, each doing their own job before passing the work on
What this actually is
FoundationAgents/MetaGPT is an open source multi-agent framework on GitHub. Verified 2026-09-04 against the GitHub API: 70,211 stars, 8,924 forks, MIT licence, Python.
Its own description is "The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming", and the core idea is written in the README as a formula: Code = SOP(Team). It takes a standard operating procedure, the kind a real software company runs on, and hands each step to a different LLM role.
You give it one line of requirement. It gives you back a repo, plus the documents a team would have produced on the way there.
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