Trending Movers — 2026-08-25

As of: 2026-08-25 Focus: The GitHub repos gaining the most stars this week — momentum and breakouts across open source. Method: Ranked by stars gained over the past week, scraped from GitHub's weekly trending pages.

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Overview

The top two entries are separated by just 76 stars: harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo's AI video generator and OpenAI's own Codex CLI are effectively tied for first, with Codex shipping three alpha builds in a single day this week. Chinese-language projects take up an unusually large share of the list this time — a video generator, a prompt library, a subscription relay, a mouse driver — a market this leaderboard doesn't usually represent so heavily in one week. Agent infrastructure fills out most of the rest: memory layers, multi-agent orchestration, career-search automation, and a cybersecurity skills pack. Several names are repeats from recent weeks (MoneyPrinterTurbo, OpenViking, omarchy, modular, semantica, needle, unsloth), which points to sustained interest rather than one-off spikes for that group.

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The Leaderboard

1. harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo

• Stars this week: +10,647
• Stars: 116,433
• Category: AI/ML

Point it at a topic and it writes the script, sources stock footage, adds captions and a soundtrack, and renders a finished short video without any editing software involved. It shipped v1.3.5 on August 22, and this is its second straight week near the top of this leaderboard — momentum that's outpacing any single release, more in line with the broader wave of AI short-video tooling coming out of China right now.

2. openai/codex

• Stars this week: +10,571
• Stars: 118,053
• Category: Dev Tools

OpenAI's terminal-based coding agent pushed three alpha builds in a single day this week — 0.150.0-alpha.9 through -11 — a release cadence that roughly matches its star trajectory. It's the most direct rival to Claude Code and Cursor in the CLI coding-agent space, and right now the shipping pace looks like as much of a story as any individual feature.

3. public-apis/public-apis

• Stars this week: +7,069
• Stars: 470,435
• Category: Other

The internet's long-running reference list of free APIs, still adding entries after years of continuous community maintenance. It has no single launch moment — it just keeps getting rediscovered by people starting side projects, and that's probably why it resurfaces on this list every few weeks; this is its second appearance in three.

4. AprilNEA/OpenLogi

• Stars this week: +7,019
• Stars: 16,397
• Category: Other

A local-first stand-in for Logitech's Options+ software, remapping buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++ without an account or telemetry. It pushed two releases in three days this week — v0.7.7 on August 23 and v0.8.0 on August 25 — and its second appearance on this leaderboard suggests people are installing it, not just starring it.

5. freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2

• Stars this week: +4,341
• Stars: 17,516
• Category: AI/ML

A Chinese-language prompt library for GPT-Image-2, built from more than 530 reverse-engineered examples and organized into over 20 reusable templates. It's a snapshot of how quickly prompt-engineering know-how for one model can turn into a shared reference once enough people start experimenting with it at the same time.

6. volcengine/OpenViking

• Stars this week: +4,048
• Stars: 33,267
• Category: AI/ML

ByteDance's context database for AI agents, meant to unify long-term memory, retrieval, and skills behind one storage layer instead of stitching together separate vector stores and caches. It shipped a Python SDK update on August 24, and this is its second consecutive week on the leaderboard as agent-memory infrastructure keeps pulling attention.

7. basecamp/omarchy

• Stars this week: +3,934
• Stars: 31,162
• Category: Other

DHH's opinionated Linux distribution, built on Arch and tuned for a specific look and workflow rather than broad hardware compatibility. It cut a major v4.0.0 release on August 14 and followed with a v4.0.1 patch on August 25, and the star gains have kept pace with that release cycle for a second straight week.

8. Alishahryar1/free-claude-code

• Stars this week: +3,877
• Stars: 49,719
• Category: Dev Tools

A pass-through that runs Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode against a pool the author says totals over 1.3 billion free tokens, reachable from a terminal, an app, an IDE, or a phone. The pitch is entirely about the cost of running these coding agents rather than their capability, so it makes sense that it's spreading fastest among people who already use the tools it wraps.

9. santifer/career-ops

• Stars this week: +3,794
• Stars: 68,388
• Category: AI/ML

An open-source job-search agent that scans listings, scores each one A through H, tailors a resume to match, and tracks applications, run locally from inside a coding CLI like Claude Code or Codex. Both its web and core packages shipped new releases on August 25, the same day the star count spiked, which points to the release itself as the trigger.

10. mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

• Stars this week: +2,845
• Stars: 31,114
• Category: Security

A library of 817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents, mapped against MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND, the NIST AI RMF, and MITRE F3, built to the agentskills.io standard so it works across Claude Code, Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, and other agent platforms. Its last tagged release was back in June, so this week's jump reads more like discovery than a launch.

11. chaitanyagiri/munder-difflin

• Stars this week: +2,627
• Stars: 4,429
• Category: AI/ML

An Electron desktop app that turns several coding-agent CLIs — Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, Grok — into a coordinated team, complete with persistent memory, an inter-agent mailbox, and a "GOD agent" that routes tasks and only escalates critical decisions to a human. It shipped v0.4.5 on August 22 with fixes to cost reporting and Apple Silicon memory embeddings, so the surge lines up with active, visible development rather than a single headline feature.

12. byoungd/up

• Stars this week: +2,294
• Stars: 61,501
• Category: Other

Not software at all: a long, Chinese-language guide to lifelong learning in the AI era, moving from English study through project-based work to personal reflection, built around the line "AI is making answers cheap, but what remains scarce is knowing which questions matter." Its presence here is the interesting part — a reminder that this leaderboard's weekly momentum isn't limited to code.

13. modular/modular

• Stars this week: +2,285
• Stars: 29,146
• Category: AI/ML

Modular's open-source platform bundles the Mojo language with the MAX framework for model serving, aimed at closing the gap between Python's ease of use and lower-level languages' performance on AI workloads. It's back on this leaderboard for a second week, and with no major release logged in this period, the gain looks like sustained interest in Mojo rather than a single event.

14. semantica-agi/semantica

• Stars this week: +2,235
• Stars: 10,791
• Category: AI/ML

Graph infrastructure for giving AI agents accountable context: it ingests enterprise data into a knowledge graph, then layers causal reasoning and decision provenance on top so a system's outputs can be traced back to their sources. The project bills itself as an open-source alternative to Palantir's agent tooling, and this is its third straight week on the list as that pitch keeps finding an audience.

15. cordiverse/cordis

• Stars this week: +1,972
• Stars: 7,531
• Category: Dev Tools

A TypeScript meta-framework built around what its maintainers call "spatiotemporal composability," backed by a peer-reviewed paper on the underlying programming model. The API is explicitly marked unstable, which makes a 2,000-star week for a framework still in flux the more notable part of its story.

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Also Climbing

• nautechsystems/nautilus_trader — +1,944 this week — a production-grade, Rust-native algorithmic trading engine with a deterministic, event-driven architecture.
• cactus-compute/needle — +1,897 this week — a 45M-parameter model compressed to a 14MB binary for tool-calling on phones and wearables; its third straight week on this list.
• Wei-Shaw/sub2api — +1,872 this week — a Chinese open-source relay that lets Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok subscriptions be pooled and shared to cut per-seat cost.
• cursor/plugins — +1,832 this week — Cursor's own plugin specification plus its first set of official plugins.
• AlexsJones/llmfit — +1,749 this week — one command that checks which of hundreds of local models and providers will actually run on your hardware, benchmarking real tokens per second in a TUI.
• jundot/omlx — +1,689 this week — an LLM inference server for Apple Silicon with continuous batching and SSD caching, managed from the macOS menu bar.
• agalwood/Motrix — +1,619 this week — a full-featured, general-purpose download manager, unrelated to the AI tooling that dominates the rest of this week's list.
• unslothai/unsloth — +1,576 this week — Unsloth's first desktop app for running and training local models, including Qwen3.8, Kimi K3, and DeepSeek-V4; its second week on this leaderboard.

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Sources

• GitHub Trending (weekly) — https://github.com/trending?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending, Python — https://github.com/trending/python?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending, TypeScript — https://github.com/trending/typescript?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending, JavaScript — https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending, Rust — https://github.com/trending/rust?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending, Go — https://github.com/trending/go?since=weekly
• https://github.com/harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo
• https://github.com/openai/codex
• https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
• https://github.com/AprilNEA/OpenLogi
• https://github.com/freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2
• https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking
• https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy
• https://github.com/Alishahryar1/free-claude-code
• https://github.com/santifer/career-ops
• https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
• https://github.com/chaitanyagiri/munder-difflin
• https://github.com/byoungd/up
• https://github.com/modular/modular
• https://github.com/semantica-agi/semantica
• https://github.com/cordiverse/cordis
• https://github.com/nautechsystems/nautilus_trader
• https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
• https://github.com/Wei-Shaw/sub2api
• https://github.com/cursor/plugins
• https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit
• https://github.com/jundot/omlx
• https://github.com/agalwood/Motrix
• https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth