Across GitHub and within organizations, teams are recreating similar agents in silos. One team builds a simple calculator agent. Another team extends it into a more advanced version. A third team tackles the same problem but in a different framework or orchestrator.
The result? Duplication of effort, inconsistent implementations, and missed opportunities for reuse.
This raises a fundamental question: Why should teams rebuild what others have already built and tested?
The Vision: Cognitrail
My long-term vision is Cognitrail — a system designed to sense, map, and recommend agents across an organization (or even the open-source ecosystem).
Why This Matters
Unifying agentic frameworks with Cognitrail can unlock several benefits:
Reduce duplication — stop reinventing the wheel. Promote reuse — teams can discover and leverage well-tested agents. Encourage standardization — similar functionality can be mapped and compared across frameworks. Accelerate development — less time spent building from scratch, more time spent innovating.
In short, Cognitrail can help teams move faster, build smarter, and collaborate more effectively.
What’s Next? Right now, Cognitrail is an idea—a vision for how we can make agentic development more connected and standardized. The first step is building a proof-of-concept that:
I’d love to hear from the community: Do you face this problem of duplicated agent development? Would a tool like Cognitrail help in your workflows? Are there collaborators or open-source contributors interested in bringing this vision to life? Together, we can build the foundation for Cognitrail — and unify the future of agentic development.