Guides
Practical guides on MCP, AI agent frameworks and AI developer tools. Each guide is based on the projects' own documentation and links to the tools discussed.
How to Choose an MCP Server: A Practical Evaluation Checklist
A checklist for judging MCP servers before you connect them to your AI tools — maintenance, permissions, transport, credentials, licensing and context cost — plus well-established picks by use case.
Updated 2026-10-07
Choosing a Multi-Agent Framework in 2026: CrewAI, AutoGen, MetaGPT, DeerFlow and More
How the most popular open-source multi-agent frameworks differ, which ones are actively developed, and a decision table for picking one based on what you are building.
Updated 2026-10-07
New on AgentIndex: 13 Tools Worth a Look (September–October 2026)
A curated look at the most interesting open-source AI agent tools added to AgentIndex between September 7 and October 7, 2026 — coding agent memory, document conversion, web scraping, security and more.
Updated 2026-10-07
Terminal AI Coding Agents Compared: Gemini CLI, Open Interpreter and the Tools Around Them
How open-source terminal coding agents differ on models, pricing, sandboxing and extensibility, plus the companion tools that make any coding agent more reliable.
Updated 2026-10-07
What Is MCP? A Practical Introduction to the Model Context Protocol
What the Model Context Protocol is, how hosts, clients and servers fit together, and how to connect your first MCP servers to Claude Code, Cursor and other AI tools safely.
Updated 2026-10-07