GITHUB HOT REPOS · AUGUST 27, 2026

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Claude · Plugin marketplace · Apache-2.0

2,282 community plugins for Claude, all security-scanned.

ELI5

The official list of community-built plugins for Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Two commands install any of them — and every one on the list passed a security scan before it landed.

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Stars
2.4k
Language
Python
Plugins
2,282
GitHub repo card for anthropics/claude-plugins-community — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • 2,282 plugins, two commands

    claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community, then claude plugin install <name>@claude-community.

  • Everything on the list was scanned first

    Submissions go through clau.de/plugin-directory-submission, pass automated security scanning, and are approved before they appear.

  • The repo is a read-only mirror

    marketplace.json syncs nightly from Anthropic’s internal review pipeline. Pull requests opened against the repo are closed automatically.

Star growth over time for anthropics/claude-plugins-community
Thariq Shihipar of Anthropic on the ELI5 skill — the post that put this marketplace in front of people. 2.2M views.
Design · Prompt library · GPT-Image2

538 GPT-Image2 prompts, reverse-engineered into code.

ELI5

Somebody took hundreds of great AI images, worked backwards to the prompt that made each one, and rewrote them all as reusable templates instead of paragraphs you retype.

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Stars
22.7k
Language
JavaScript
Cases
538
GitHub repo card for freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2 — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • 538 cases, 20+ industrial templates

    Each one reverse-engineered from a finished image and rewritten as a reusable structure, not copied as a paragraph of prose.

  • “Prompt as Code” — an atomic schema

    Subject, lighting, materials, layout and visual detail are split into composable parts, so you swap one element without rewriting the whole prompt.

  • A browsable gallery site, no install

    gpt-image2.canghe.ai opens large previews, copies full prompts, filters by style or scenario and links back to the source case on GitHub.

Star growth over time for freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2
Trending GitHub Repositories logging the daily delta — 4,050 stars in 24 hours.
Linux · Arch + Hyprland · DHH

DHH’s Linux distro added 5,000 stars in six days.

ELI5

A ready-made Arch Linux setup from the creator of Ruby on Rails. One command turns a bare install into a fully themed, keyboard-driven desktop where every app and config is already chosen for you.

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Stars
32.4k
Language
Shell
6-day growth
+5,365
GitHub repo card for basecamp/omarchy — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Opinionated on purpose

    Window manager, terminal, editor, theme and hotkeys are decided for you — the way Rails picks defaults so you do not have to.

  • A 51-chapter manual ships in the repo

    manual/ is its authoritative source and mirrors to learn.omacom.io, covering everything from coming off a Mac to dual boot and unattended installs.

  • v4.0.1 shipped 25 August 2026

    Ten days after the 4.0 milestone — and the repo took another push the morning this was built.

Star growth over time for basecamp/omarchy
DHH on where Omarchy is heading.
NetworkChuck installs Omarchy in 1 minute 47 and interviews DHH — 1,023,012 views. DHH called it the best Omarchy intro he’s seen.
Hardware · Rust · Local-first

Your Logitech mouse, without Logitech’s software.

ELI5

Logitech’s Options+ app is heavy, wants an account, and doesn’t run on Linux. This is a Rust rewrite that talks to the mouse directly — no account, no telemetry.

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Stars
17k
Language
Rust
Age
3 months
GitHub repo card for AprilNEA/OpenLogi — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Linux is a first-class platform

    Options+ never shipped for Linux. OpenLogi runs on macOS, Linux and Windows from the same codebase.

  • Your config is one TOML file

    Every binding lives in plain text you can sync between machines however you like, and there is a real CLI alongside the GUI.

  • It drives the webcam too

    Zoom, focus, exposure and white balance are written straight to any Logitech UVC camera, so the change applies in Zoom, Meet and OBS at once.

Star growth over time for AprilNEA/OpenLogi
GitHub Projects Community breaking down what OpenLogi actually does — 491,426 views.
ShimmyTheDev, two minutes on why you’d drop the Logitech app. Small channel, but current and accurate.
Coding agent · Rust · Apache-2.0

OpenAI’s terminal coding agent, shipping a release today.

ELI5

A coding agent that runs on your own machine from the command line. Install it, sign in with the ChatGPT account you already pay for, and it works on your codebase in your terminal.

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Stars
119k
Language
Rust
Open issues
14,097
GitHub repo card for openai/codex — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Your ChatGPT plan already covers it

    Sign in with ChatGPT on Plus, Pro, Business, Edu or Enterprise. An API key works too, but it needs extra setup.

  • One line to install, on any platform

    A curl script on Mac and Linux, a PowerShell line on Windows, or npm install -g @openai/codex / brew install --cask codex.

  • Terminal, IDE, desktop and cloud

    The same agent runs in your shell, inside VS Code, Cursor or Windsurf, as a desktop app via codex app, and as Codex Web at chatgpt.com/codex.

Star growth over time for openai/codex
Charlie Marsh — who built Ruff and uv, now at OpenAI — on making codex start 25× faster. 814,567 views.
Apna College’s 25-minute masterclass, made with OpenAI — 197,522 views.
AI agents · Local-first · Apache Incubator

The Apache Foundation is incubating its own AI agent workspace.

ELI5

A desktop app for running AI agents on your own machine, where every model message, tool call and permission decision is written to an append-only log — so you can always go back and see what the agent did.

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Stars
3.7k
Language
TypeScript
Status
Incubating
GitHub repo card for apache/maka — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • The record is kept, permanently

    Model messages, tool calls, tool results and how a turn ended are all written down. The UI is a view of that record, not the only copy.

  • Shorter context is not deleted history

    Maka can drop old tool output from the next prompt without throwing away the saved evidence, so trimming context never destroys the trail.

  • One runtime behind three surfaces

    Desktop (Electron + React), a TUI/CLI (maka, maka run) and a benchmark harness (maka eval run) all go through the same Runtime Host.

Star growth over time for apache/maka
A Maka contributor on why the append-only log matters — and where Maka and Pi made opposite crash-recovery calls.
Languages · AI compute · Mojo + MAX

Mojo hit 1.0 — the stability promise is on the table.

ELI5

Mojo is a programming language built to make AI code run fast without dropping to C++. Version 1.0 means the team is now promising parts of it won’t change under you.

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Stars
29.2k
Language
Mojo
Milestone
Mojo 1.0
GitHub repo card for modular/modular — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Mojo 1.0.0 shipped 11 August 2026

    Standard-library APIs are now being marked stable, starting with a small set that grows through the 1.x line. Stable means they won’t break.

  • Migration is mechanical, not manual

    1.0 carries more breaking changes than usual, but nearly every one ships with a deprecated alias and a compiler fix-it.

  • GPU programming moved into its own package

    std.gpu.*, std.algorithm and std.benchmark are now max.*, forming a new MAX accelerator library alongside the existing AI kernels.

Star growth over time for modular/modular
Chris Lattner — creator of LLVM, Swift and Mojo — announcing 1.0.
Cloud Codes on Mojo 1.0, the day after release — including the Oak Ridge benchmarks against CUDA.
Video · Short-form automation · MIT

Type a topic, get a finished short video.

ELI5

Give it a subject or a keyword. It writes the script, finds the footage, generates the voiceover, burns in subtitles, adds music, and hands you a finished HD short — then posts it for you.

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Stars
117k
Language
Python
Open issues
14
GitHub repo card for harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Topic in, finished short out

    Script, matched footage, voiceover, subtitles and background music, rendered to 9:16 1080×1920 or 16:9 1920×1080, in batches so you can pick the best take.

  • It publishes for you

    One-click cross-posting to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts once the video renders.

  • Stock footage or generated footage

    Free HD clips from Pexels, Pixabay and Coverr, your own files, or brand-new visuals generated from your script’s keywords by WaveSpeed AI.

Star growth over time for harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo
The full pipeline as a list. Low reach, but it’s the only English post that describes the repo correctly.
Code With Robby runs the whole thing in Google Colab with free Gemini and Pexels keys — no local install.
Infrastructure · LLM router · MIT

Stack 34 free AI tiers into 7.4 billion tokens a month.

ELI5

Every AI company gives away a small free tier. Alone each one is a toy. This bolts 34 of them together behind a single endpoint and switches providers automatically when one runs out.

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Stars
20.9k
Language
TypeScript
Providers
34
GitHub repo card for tashfeenahmed/freellmapi — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • 34 providers, 635 endpoints, one /v1

    Point any OpenAI-compatible client at your local server and it routes across every provider you’ve added a key for. 474 model families in the catalog.

  • It fails over so you don’t notice

    The router picks the best available model, moves on when one rate-limits, and tracks usage per key so you stay under every free-tier cap.

  • The catalog updates itself

    A signed feed delivers new models and quota changes without a git pull, because the free-tier landscape shifts weekly.

Star growth over time for tashfeenahmed/freellmapi
Alvaro Cintas when it was 14 providers and ~800M tokens. It’s 34 providers and 7.4B now — the post is an early reaction, not a current spec.
AI BrainBox sets it up key by key on Windows — 81,280 views. Also from the 14-provider era.
Finance · Self-hosted · Privacy-first

Your net worth on your own server, wired to 2,500 banks.

ELI5

A personal finance app you run yourself. It pulls in your real bank transactions, categorises them, and shows your net worth — and none of it leaves a machine you control.

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Stars
2.3k
Language
Python
Licence
AGPL-3.0
GitHub repo card for securo-finance/securo — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • One command, then localhost:3000

    curl -fsSL https://usesecuro.com/install.sh | bash installs Docker if you don’t have it. Windows runs docker compose up --build.

  • Real bank sync, not just CSV

    Enable Banking covers ~2,500 European PSD2 banks, SimpleFIN covers US and international, Pluggy covers Brazil. Plus OFX, QIF, CAMT and CSV import.

  • Optional AI agents over your own data

    A self-hosted LLM chat with tool-use across your transactions, plus a per-agent RAG knowledge base — running on your infrastructure, not a vendor’s.

Star growth over time for securo-finance/securo
Dark Web Informer on Securo. Low reach — it’s the only English post found.

First Stars

FROM THE AUDIENCE

A coding agent that reviews its own session.

WHAT IT IS

A self-improvement skill for AI coding assistants. At the end of a session it reads back the tasks, corrections and dead ends, then keeps only the lessons that would change how future work gets handled.

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Stars
3
Language
Markdown
Licence
MIT
Sent in by Jeffrey

I built Hindsight as a self-improvement skill for AI coding assistants. At the end of a session it reviews the tasks, corrections, and dead ends, then keeps only the lessons that would change how future work gets handled.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

See how much of your AI subscriptions you have actually left.

WHAT IT IS

A menu bar app showing what’s left of your Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions, broken down by project, session and task, so you can see what’s burning through the usage.

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Stars
5
Language
JavaScript
Platform
macOS menu bar
Sent in by Tim

I watch nearly every episode, and ModelDeck is a menu bar app that cleanly shows how much of your Claude, ChatGPT, and soon Grok subscriptions you have left, plus a breakdown by project, session, and task so you can see what’s burning through usage and stretch it further.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

An AI memory system and codebase analyzer.

WHAT IT IS

A memory system and codebase analyzer built to make long agent sessions more reliable, with an integration for people already using graphify.

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Stars
1
Language
Rust
Started
Aug 2026
Sent in by Alan

I finally have this AI memory system and codebase analyzer to a point it’s legitimately helping my sessions be more successful, efficient, and reliable. It has a little integration with graphify for people using that as well.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

Project memory so a new session doesn’t start from scratch.

WHAT IT IS

Local-first project memory for coding agents. It indexes repository evidence, preserves decisions and checkpoints with provenance, and prepares focused context for the next session.

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Stars
4
Language
Python
Licence
MIT
Sent in by Sulabh

I follow your GitHub repo breakdowns, especially the episodes on local AI tools and practical agent workflows. Rta-Smriti Brain is an MIT-licensed, local-first project memory for coding agents. It indexes repository evidence, preserves decisions and checkpoints with provenance, and prepares focused context so a new session doesn’t have to reconstruct the project again.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

Turn 41 YouTube subscriptions into searchable local notes.

WHAT IT IS

Pulls your subscriptions into a local staging folder and turns them into structured Markdown — full descriptions, transcripts and clickable timestamps — then lets you search locally instead of spending tokens. The first ingest did 11,500 videos from 41 channels in ten minutes.

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Stars
2
Language
Python
First ingest
11,500 videos
Sent in by Jeffrey

This is my first GitHub submission. I’m new to the AI space — I learned GitHub a couple of weeks ago and spent about four weeks immersed in tutorials before building this to solve my own struggle with managing YouTube subscriptions. It uses Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Wiki framework: raw data into a local staging folder, processed into structured Markdown, with a prompt asking whether you want a local search to cut the token overhead.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

A redesign skill that reads your file instead of inventing a vibe.

WHAT IT IS

A client-installable agent skill, not a SaaS dashboard. /reimagine-it reads the source file and redesigns from its own nouns, dates and colors.

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Stars
6
Language
HTML
Licence
MIT
Sent in by Kazim

You asked publicly for GitHub repos and creators worth featuring. This is a client-installable agent skill, not a SaaS dashboard: /reimagine-it reads the source file and redesigns from its own nouns, dates, and colors instead of inventing a vibe.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

Multiple AI agents in one shared conversation.

WHAT IT IS

A native Mac app where several agents share one conversation and consult each other mid-task, backed by a server you can reach from your phone. Signs in with subscriptions instead of API keys, and runs local models with no key at all.

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Stars
0
Language
JavaScript
Platform
native macOS
Sent in by Tony

Radiant is a native Mac app where multiple AI agents share one conversation and consult each other mid-task, backed by a server you can reach from your phone and other Macs. It signs in with subscriptions instead of API keys, runs local models with no key at all, and connects to Hermes and OpenClaw agents already on your machine.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

System-wide dictation and meeting capture, with no account.

WHAT IT IS

A free, fully local voice-intelligence app for macOS — dictation, meeting capture, transcription and voice creation in one tool. Unlike subscription dictation apps, it needs no account and keeps speech and transcripts on your Mac.

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Stars
0
Language
Swift
Platform
macOS, local
Sent in by Tony

Kiki is a free, fully local voice-intelligence app for macOS that combines system-wide dictation, meeting capture, recording transcription, and voice creation in one private tool. Unlike subscription dictation apps such as Wispr Flow, it requires no account and keeps speech and transcripts on your Mac.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

Everyone says “autonomous.” This one puts a number on it.

WHAT IT IS

A rubric that scores an agent across seven dimensions, twice: once while it’s engaged with you (Active), once across idle periods when nothing triggered it (Ambient). The two are reported side by side and never averaged — the spread is the point.

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Stars
4
Language
Python
Claude Code
2.29 / 0.57
Sent in by Samuel

Everyone in the agent space says “autonomous” and nobody defines it. AAS scores a system on a 0–5 scale twice — Active and Ambient — and reports them side by side. Claude Code comes out at 2.29 active and 0.57 ambient; Manus at 2.43 and 0.71; Siri at 1.71 and 0.29. The tools that feel the most agentic in use are the ones that go closest to zero the moment you stop typing. It’s designed to be rated independently — if you score something and land somewhere different than I did, I want to hear it.

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