ECOSYSTEM - Rig — ContextQMD

This file is intended to showcase some of the activity within the Rig ecosystem.

Interested in having your project added here? Feel free to open an issue or PR.

Community-maintained companion crates

clipbud - a cross platform util that interacts with your system clipboard and augments it with AI capabilities.
Litho (deepwiki-rs) - an AI-powered documentation engine that builds out your docs using your codebase.
git-iris - an AI-powered tool to help automate Git workflows
VT Code - a (currently research-preview) terminal coding agent
rv - a non-invasive AI code review tool
Cortex Memory - The production-ready memory system for intelligent agents. A complete solution for memory management, from extraction and vector search to automated optimization, with a REST API, MCP, CLI, and insights dashboard out-of-the-box.
ChatShell - an open-source agentic desktop AI client built on rig-core and Tauri 2. 9 built-in tools (web search, bash, file ops, grep), 40+ AI providers, MCP integration, and a composable skills system — all zero-config out of the box.

Nothing here yet. Maybe you'd like to be the first person to add something here?

Rust and Rig: Building for Stability in a Rapidly Changing AI Landscape - a talk by Joshua Mo (previous lead Rig maintainer)
Is Rig better than Langchain? - a video by Francesco Ciulla on Rig (and talking about Rust vs Python)
Building the Rig AI Framework with Rust - a podcast episode by Coding Chats on Rig
Rust Crate of the Year, IMO - a video by Code to the Moon introducing Rig and its core features

HelixDB - Using Rig as part of a new internal project as well as using Rust internally, extensively
Coral Protocol - Using Rig for their Rust SDK as well as some other things internally
St Jude - Using Rig as part of a chatbot tool for proteinpaint, their genomics visualisation tool
Neon - using Rig for their V2 of app.build
Syncable - using Rig for their CLI
Refresh Agent - an AI agent heavily using Rig for SEO/marketing analysis. Relevant article
nitpik - AI code reviews. Uses Rig under the hood.