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.

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.

The Leaderboard

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harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo+10,647 this week116,433 total
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.
AI/ML
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openai/codex+10,571 this week118,053 total
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.
Dev Tools
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public-apis/public-apis+7,069 this week470,435 total
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.
Other
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AprilNEA/OpenLogi+7,019 this week16,397 total
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.
Other
5
freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2+4,341 this week17,516 total
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.
AI/ML
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volcengine/OpenViking+4,048 this week33,267 total
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.
AI/ML
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basecamp/omarchy+3,934 this week31,162 total
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.
Other
8
Alishahryar1/free-claude-code+3,877 this week49,719 total
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.
Dev Tools
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santifer/career-ops+3,794 this week68,388 total
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.
AI/ML
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mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills+2,845 this week31,114 total
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.
Security
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chaitanyagiri/munder-difflin+2,627 this week4,429 total
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.
AI/ML
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byoungd/up+2,294 this week61,501 total
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.
Other
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modular/modular+2,285 this week29,146 total
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.
AI/ML
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semantica-agi/semantica+2,235 this week10,791 total
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.
AI/ML
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cordiverse/cordis+1,972 this week7,531 total
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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