Trending Movers — 2026-09-15

As of: 2026-09-15 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

This week's trending pages skew almost entirely toward AI agent tooling — skills, harnesses, orchestrators, and one humanizer skill built specifically to scrub AI writing tells out of text. Ten of the fifteen leaderboard entries fall under Dev Tools, which is less a filtering choice than an accurate read of what actually gained stars between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-15. ayghri/i-have-adhd ran away with the week: its 17,658-star gain is larger than the total star count of all but four other repos on this list. Three names return from earlier in the archive — stablyai/orca, Panniantong/Agent-Reach, and asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks — each now carrying a real weekly figure instead of the placeholder zero this stream used to publish before its source was fixed. Outside the agent-tooling cluster, a satellite globe, a local voice-cloning suite, and two offensive-security skill libraries kept the week from being a complete monoculture.

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The Leaderboard

1. ayghri/i-have-adhd

• Stars this week: +17,658
• Stars: 45,898
• Category: Dev Tools

A skill for coding agents that forces the answer to the top of the reply instead of burying it under paragraphs of exploratory reasoning first. It topped the week by a wide margin: the +17,658 gain is more than a third of the repo's entire 45,898-star history, arriving inside seven days.

2. bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view

• Stars this week: +14,403
• Stars: 34,202
• Category: Web

Real, publicly available satellite and open-source intelligence feeds get projected onto a photorealistic 3D globe you can fly around in a browser tab. The "spy satellite simulator" description undersells it a little — none of the imagery is fictional.

3. tt-a1i/archify

• Stars this week: +9,868
• Stars: 63,017
• Category: Dev Tools

Built as an agent skill rather than a standalone app, archify turns a codebase into architecture, sequence, and data-flow diagrams rendered as animated, self-contained HTML instead of static images.

4. debpalash/VoiceStudio

• Stars this week: +8,295
• Stars: 30,227
• Category: AI/ML

Its pitch is a fully local, open alternative to ElevenLabs: voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, and audiobook narration across 646 languages, with nothing sent to a cloud API.

5. DietrichGebert/ponytail

• Stars this week: +7,722
• Stars: 139,000
• Category: Dev Tools

Already sitting at 139,000 stars before this week started, ponytail added another 7,722 — an unusually large jump for a repo this established. The premise is a coding-agent prompt built around restraint: the best line of code is the one never written.

6. affaan-m/ECC

• Stars this week: +6,085
• Stars: 258,761
• Category: Dev Tools

ECC layers skills, memory, and security scaffolding onto Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other agent harnesses rather than replacing any of them. The project's total is the largest in this week's list, just under 259,000 stars, and it added 6,085 more in the past seven days.

7. stablyai/orca

• Stars this week: +5,360
• Stars: 69,163
• Category: Dev Tools

orca returns to this leaderboard after last appearing back in July — this time with a real weekly figure attached, rather than the placeholder zero this stream used to publish before its source got fixed. It's a workspace for running several coding agents in parallel, each in its own worktree, from one interface across desktop, mobile, and a remote runtime.

8. JustVugg/colibri

• Stars this week: +5,084
• Stars: 33,065
• Category: AI/ML

Written in plain C with zero dependencies, colibri streams a mixture-of-experts model's experts off disk rather than holding the whole thing in memory, which is how it gets a frontier-scale model running on hardware that couldn't otherwise fit it.

9. heygen-com/hyperframes

• Stars this week: +5,052
• Stars: 50,266
• Category: Dev Tools

hyperframes takes HTML as input and renders it out as video — built by HeyGen, aimed at agents that can write markup easily but have no native way to produce a video file.

10. microsoft/markitdown

• Stars this week: +4,604
• Stars: 184,195
• Category: Dev Tools

Office documents, PDFs, and Word files go in; Markdown comes out. It's Microsoft's own converter for feeding real-world documents into an LLM pipeline that only wants plain text.

11. obra/superpowers

• Stars this week: +4,124
• Stars: 286,948
• Category: Dev Tools

obra pairs a software-development methodology with the agent skills to carry it out, and the combination is already the single most-starred repo on this week's list — 286,948 stars total, plus 4,124 more this week.

12. THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC

• Stars this week: +3,950
• Stars: 37,018
• Category: AI/ML

Tsinghua's multi-agent interactive classroom spins up a set of cooperating agents to run an immersive lesson from a single click, built for educators rather than developers.

13. TauricResearch/TradingAgents

• Stars this week: +3,396
• Stars: 106,502
• Category: AI/ML

Each agent in TauricResearch's framework plays a distinct role — analyst, risk manager, trader — and the group has to agree before a position gets opened, modeling a trading desk rather than a single autonomous bot.

14. blader/humanizer

• Stars this week: +3,201
• Stars: 48,363
• Category: Dev Tools

It strips the same tells — inflated significance, rule-of-three lists, em-dash overuse — that this digest was itself edited to avoid, packaged as a skill an agent can run on its own output before publishing.

15. Panniantong/Agent-Reach

• Stars this week: +3,184
• Stars: 81,845
• Category: Dev Tools

Agent-Reach reappears after stints in this digest's Also Climbing section back in June and July. It gives an agent one CLI to read and search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, and Xiaohongshu, instead of paying for each platform's API individually.

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Also Climbing

• github/spec-kit — +2,952 this week — GitHub's own toolkit for spec-driven development, where the spec rather than the prompt is the source of truth an agent builds from.
• arcboxlabs/arcbox — +2,719 this week — a Rust project that boots AI agents on isolated machines, each with its own kernel, filesystem, and network, in under 100 milliseconds.
• alibaba/open-code-review — +2,709 this week — Alibaba's production code-review tool, mixing deterministic rule pipelines with an LLM agent for line-level comments.
• tonhowtf/omniget — +2,603 this week — a desktop downloader for Udemy and Hotmart courses, YouTube, and more, built on yt-dlp with no terminal required.
• asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks — +2,426 this week — a running collection of extracted system prompts from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others, making its third appearance in this digest since June.
• coreyhaines31/marketingskills — +2,344 this week — a set of marketing skills, copywriting, SEO, CRO, written for Claude Code and similar agents rather than for people.
• mksglu/context-mode — +2,241 this week — sandboxes tool output to cut context usage by a claimed 98% and persists session memory across 17 agent platforms.
• SnailSploit/Claude-Red — +2,100 this week — a curated library of offensive-security skills for the Claude skills system, covering everything from SQL injection to exploit development.

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Sources

• GitHub Trending (weekly) — https://github.com/trending?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending Python (weekly) — https://github.com/trending/python?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending TypeScript (weekly) — https://github.com/trending/typescript?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending JavaScript (weekly) — https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending Rust (weekly) — https://github.com/trending/rust?since=weekly
• GitHub Trending Go (weekly) — https://github.com/trending/go?since=weekly
• https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd
• https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view
• https://github.com/tt-a1i/archify
• https://github.com/debpalash/VoiceStudio
• https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
• https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC
• https://github.com/stablyai/orca
• https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
• https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes
• https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
• https://github.com/obra/superpowers
• https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
• https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents
• https://github.com/blader/humanizer
• https://github.com/Panniantong/Agent-Reach
• https://github.com/github/spec-kit
• https://github.com/arcboxlabs/arcbox
• https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review
• https://github.com/tonhowtf/omniget
• https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks
• https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills
• https://github.com/mksglu/context-mode
• https://github.com/SnailSploit/Claude-Red