Tools worth a look

agent-skills

Matt Pocock's composable agent skills for real engineering work, usable with any model or harness.

The repo added 2,207 stars in the last day and holds the top spot on GitHub's daily trending page, at 255,080 stars overall with 21,501 forks. The skills are deliberately small and composable, pitched against process-heavy approaches like GSD, BMAD and Spec-Kit that take control away from the engineer. The latest tagged release, v1.2.3 from 6 August, made the diagnosing-bugs skill redact secrets before showing commands and captured output. The repo was last pushed on 4 September.

agent-skill

Skill that makes coding agents write less code, measured against a bare agent on real sessions.

Ponytail gained 12,186 stars this week and 1,539 in the last day, sitting at 129,813 stars less than three months after its creation in June. Its README reports roughly 54 percent less code on average across 12 feature tasks, up to 94 percent where an agent over-builds, with every safety guard kept. The v4.9.0 release on 7 August bundled five weeks of work: a persistent default mode, Qoder support, subagent scoping and about 30 fixes across Windows, Codex and OpenCode. It is written in JavaScript and was last pushed on 4 September.

agent-harness

Harness optimisation layer adding skills, instincts, memory and security to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

ECC added 6,394 stars this week and 1,485 in the last day, reaching 251,789 stars with 37,831 forks. Version 2.2.0 shipped on 28 August with one guided installer for Claude Code, Codex and Kimi, native Antigravity 2.0 support and an opt-in Nasiko CLI lifecycle bridge. The release pipeline now requires the exact npm archive to pass lifecycle tests on Linux, macOS and Windows before the latest tag moves. The README carries an official-sources-only warning because of unofficial mirrors, which says something about its reach. Last push was 7 September.

coding-agent

Open-source terminal coding agent with a large provider list and package-manager installs on every OS.

OpenCode added 551 stars in the last day and tops GitHub's daily TypeScript trending, at 205,396 stars and 26,785 forks. Release v1.18.29 on 4 September fixed Codex OAuth model filtering so integer GPT versions like GPT-6 Astra show up for OpenAI subscription users. The project ships almost daily, with a console change published on 7 September, and installs via curl, npm, Homebrew, Scoop or Chocolatey. The README is translated into more than twenty languages, and the 5,706 open issues reflect a very large user base rather than neglect.

agent-framework

Nous Research's self-improving agent that builds skills from experience and keeps memory across sessions.

Hermes Agent added 520 stars in the last day and leads GitHub's daily Python trending at 242,682 stars with 49,914 forks. The v0.21.0 release on 31 August, called the Pantheon release, ships Bot Mode into the desktop app so named agents with their own group chats can work together. The release notes count roughly 5,800 commits, 2,475 merged PRs and 2,100 closed issues from more than 760 contributors since v0.20.0. It runs on a cheap VPS or a GPU cluster and accepts any model provider. Last push was 7 September.

agent-harness

Prime Intellect's open coding and research agent built on Recursive Language Models and a continual harness.

Prime Agent has gained 17,024 stars this month and sits at 20,074 stars four months after creation. It treats context as variables inside a persistent REPL and calls subagents like functions, and stores memories, prompts and subagent specs as durable state the agent refines over time. Release v0.9.3 on 6 September fixed ChatGPT OAuth model discovery hiding GPT-6 Astra. Written in TypeScript, MIT licensed, with only 75 open issues and a push on 7 September.

agent-runtime

Personal and team AI assistant gateway that runs on your devices and answers in your chat channels.

OpenClaw is the largest repo on this list at 389,070 stars and 81,762 forks, and still added 141 stars in the last day on TypeScript trending. The 2026.9.2 release on 5 September focused on responsiveness: chat, dashboards and sessions stay usable while long transcripts and disk usage are processed. Upgrades now keep active settings, enabled skills and default-agent ownership intact. The architecture is a trusted gateway with untrusted execution and deterministic policy, deployable for one laptop or a shared team. Last push was 7 September.

coding-agent

Coding-agent CLI for cloud and local providers with MCP, slash commands and a VS Code extension.

OpenClaude added 1,944 stars this week and sits at 32,863 stars with 9,061 forks, five months after its April creation. Release v0.30.0 on 31 August added a focused LLMTR hybrid gateway and live model lists for OpenRouter and OpenGateway. It supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, Gemini, GitHub Models, Codex OAuth, Ollama and others behind one terminal workflow. A skills guide landed in the docs on 7 September, the day of the last push.

agent-harness

Meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex adding swarms, self-learning memory and cross-machine federation.

Ruflo added 276 stars in the last day and is at 71,092 stars with 8,448 forks. One ruflo init gives Claude Code more than 100 specialised agents, coordinated swarms and memory that persists across sessions, with federation to talk to agents on other machines. Release v3.38.21 on 2 September fixed memory persistence across MCP HTTP bridge restarts, a bug where entries were written to the wrong database path. The last commit on 5 September wired embedding cosine similarity into retrieval.

token-proxy

Rust CLI proxy that filters and compresses command output before it reaches the agent's context window.

RTK added 1,318 stars this week and 390 in the last day, reaching 79,150 stars on Rust trending. It sits between the agent and the shell, trimming up to 90 percent of bash output across more than 100 supported commands, as a single dependency-free binary installed with Homebrew. Release v0.48.0 on 4 September added Bun and Deno runtime support and routes bun x through the bunx filters. Apache-2.0 licensed, last pushed on 7 September.

coding-agent

Coding agent with LSP and DAP wired in, forked from Pi, with 60+ providers and a Rust core.

Oh My Pi added 175 stars in the last day and is at 29,882 stars with 3,045 forks. It exposes 31 built-in tools, 14 LSP operations and 28 debug-adapter operations on top of about 80,000 lines of Rust. Release v18.1.13 on 7 September fixed child shell environment filtering and notification delivery inside Herdr panes. Pull requests are temporarily open to everyone as a trial after a previous vouch-only policy. Last push was 7 September.

mcp-server

Google's MCP server giving coding agents control of a live Chrome with DevTools inspection and profiling.

Chrome DevTools MCP added 965 stars this week and sits at 51,210 stars with only 101 open issues. It lets Antigravity, Claude, Cursor or Copilot drive a real Chrome, inspect the DOM, read console messages and capture performance traces, with a CLI for use without MCP. Version 1.8.0 on 25 August added parameters to heap snapshot edges and optional stack traces on console messages. The repo is Apache-2.0 licensed and was pushed on 7 September.

agent-security

NVIDIA's scanner for prompt injection, exfiltration and supply-chain risk in agent skills before install.

SkillSpector added 1,104 stars this week on Python trending and is at 16,440 stars. The README cites research that 26.1 percent of agent skills contain vulnerabilities and 5.2 percent show likely malicious intent, which is the problem it targets for Claude Code, Codex and MCP skills. Version 2.11.0 on 28 August extended supply-chain checks to installed npm dependency versions and bundled lifecycle hooks, and removed two false positives. It is part of the NVIDIA Verified Skills pipeline. Last push was 6 September.

inference-server

Inference server that profiles your hardware, picks local models that fit and plugs into your agent.

Magnitude added 1,961 stars this week and 604 in the last day, reaching 3,793 stars less than three months after creation. It downloads, tunes and serves local models and works with Pi, OpenCode, Hermes, OpenClaw, Codex, Claude Code, Oh My Pi and Cline, or its own built-in harness. The CLI 0.0.11 release on 2 September added more robust service health checks and clearer errors when context length is exceeded. Apache-2.0, TypeScript, 20 open issues, last pushed on 6 September.

model-router

Drop-in proxy that routes each request to the right Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini model in under 50ms.

Weave's router added 983 stars this week on Go trending and is at 4,038 stars. It uses a small on-box embedder and a cluster scorer derived from the Avengers-Pro paper to pick a model per request, claiming 40 to 70 percent cost cuts from an endpoint change. Point Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or your own app at localhost:8080. The latest tag is router-v0.2.15 and the last commit on 6 September added more OpenTelemetry spans.

context-management

MCP server that sandboxes tool output and persists session memory to stop context window bloat.

Context Mode added 85 stars in the last day and is at 20,503 stars with 1,511 forks. Its pitch is concrete: a Playwright snapshot costs 56 KB, twenty GitHub issues 59 KB, and after 30 minutes 40 percent of context is gone. It keeps raw tool output out of the window, claiming a 98 percent reduction, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP and hooks. Release v1.0.169 aligned local savings reporting with its Insight platform. Last push was 6 September.

agent-harness

Apache-incubating agent workspace that publishes benchmark runs and keeps an append-only log of everything.

Maka has gained 3,647 stars this month and is at 4,848 stars three months after creation. It is measured rather than marketed: every harness comparison runs the same model with the official verifier and ships per-task results in the repo. Every model message, tool call and permission decision is an append-only ledger, so the log is the runtime. Development builds land daily, with a checkpoint fix pushed on 7 September. Apache-2.0, TypeScript.

browser-agent

Python library that lets an agent open pages, click, type and fill forms like a person would.

Browser Use added 231 stars in the last day and is at 112,809 stars with 12,432 forks. Release 0.13.10 on 4 September upgraded the browser harness, pinned every runtime and build dependency exactly, migrated to MCP Python SDK 2.1.1 and cleared three pypdf advisories. Unknown MCP tool calls are now reported as errors instead of successes. MIT licensed with 393 open issues, last pushed on 5 September.

agent-memory

Long-term memory that follows you across twenty-plus coding agents and lets you hand off mid-task.

ai-memory has gained 4,490 stars this month and is at 5,913 stars with only 6 open issues. The use case is quitting Claude Code mid-task and continuing in Codex in the same directory without re-explaining the architecture or failed approaches. Version 2.1.0 on 6 September added ordered LLM provider fallback chains that advance on 429s, 5xx and timeouts while preserving the original request. Written in Rust, MIT licensed, pushed on 6 September.

model-surgery

Automatic removal of safety alignment from transformer models using directional ablation and Optuna.

Heretic added 1,655 stars this week on Python trending and is at 30,752 stars with 3,406 forks. It combines abliteration with a TPE parameter optimiser so the process runs without manual tuning. Version 1.4.0 added reproducing a model from a reproduce.json file and plain-text prompt datasets, and a 5 September commit improved detection of thinking prefixes in responses. AGPL-3.0 licensed with 81 open issues.

fine-tuning

Fine-tune and post-train LLMs from one YAML, streaming layers so an 8B model fits a 4 GB laptop GPU.

Soup added 1,641 stars this week and is at 5,567 stars. Layer streaming keeps the frozen base out of VRAM and feeds it to the GPU one decoder layer at a time, measured on an RTX 3050 laptop at 119.6 tokens per second for Llama 3.1 8B with NF4. Release v0.74.0 on 4 September fixed the frozen base being loaded in fp32, and 116 of its 120 merged PRs came from 25 outside contributors. Apache-2.0, Python, pushed on 7 September.

model-router

Programmable mixture-of-models routing layer that picks a model path per request by signals and policy.

The vLLM project's semantic router added 198 stars this week and is at 5,630 stars with 917 forks. It evaluates request signals, user preferences and application policies to route across heterogeneous inference infrastructure without hard-coding logic in apps. Release v0.3.0 shipped immutable GHCR images for the extproc, dashboard and operator, and a 7 September commit moved response jailbreak detection into a response-stage signal. Go, Apache-2.0.

web-crawler

Web crawler that turns pages into clean, LLM-ready Markdown for RAG, agents and data pipelines.

Crawl4AI added 1,703 stars this week on Python trending and is at 81,841 stars with 8,442 forks. Version 0.9.3 on 31 August is a security release closing five coordinated-disclosure advisories, available on PyPI and as a Docker image. A cloud API is in closed beta. Apache-2.0 licensed with 175 open issues, last pushed on 1 September.

headless-browser

Headless browser written from scratch in Zig for AI agents and automation, not a Chromium fork.

Lightpanda added 297 stars this week on Zig trending and is at 34,604 stars with only 98 open issues. Its published benchmark on 933 real pages from an m5.large reports 123 MB peak memory against 2 GB for headless Chrome, and 5 seconds against 46 for 100 pages. Commits land daily, with the latest merge on 6 September. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

inference-server

Zig inference server for Apple Silicon with OpenAI and Anthropic compatible APIs and no Python.

mlx-serve added 185 stars this week on Zig trending and is at 1,149 stars. It runs MLX and GGUF models on one local port that both OpenAI and Anthropic clients understand, and claims faster throughput than LM Studio on identical MLX weights. Release v26.9.1 on 3 September moved terminals into the chat sidebar, added 1M context and sped up Flash Next. A 7 September commit added OpenRouter-style external providers.

networking

Netcat over Tailscale's WireGuard data plane, with connection metadata exchanged out of band.

Tailcat added 2,467 stars this week and tops GitHub's weekly Go trending, at 6,597 stars. It reuses magicsock and DERP for NAT traversal and relaying but drops the control plane entirely, so you swap connection details however you like. Release v0.6.0 on 4 September added application-layer UDP including SOCKS5 UDP ASSOCIATE and SSH public key authentication. A 5 September commit added an exec service and SSH forced commands. BSD-3-Clause, 16 open issues.

sandboxing

Open-source Rust container and VM runtime for macOS, a Docker Desktop and OrbStack alternative.

ArcBox added 361 stars in the last day on Rust trending and is at 3,484 stars. It is its own VMM with VirtIO devices, filesystem sharing and network datapath, running Docker workloads, agent sandboxes, Kubernetes and full Linux and macOS VMs from one daemon. Release v0.7.0 on 15 August changed MachineService.Start to return only when the machine is usable, fixing a network race. Apache-2.0, last pushed on 31 August.

sandboxing

Tencent Cloud's KVM-based sandbox service for agents, E2B-compatible, booting in under 60ms.

CubeSandbox added 434 stars this week on Go trending and is at 11,828 stars with 1,099 forks. Built on rust-vmm and KVM, it creates a hardware-isolated sandbox in under 60ms with under 5 MB overhead and scales from one node to a cluster. Version 0.7.0 on 28 August, with 239 commits from 57 contributors, added cross-node pause and resume with an S3 backend and component multi-versioning. Last push was 6 September.

overlay-network

Slack's overlay networking tool with certificates and security groups, from a handful of hosts to tens of thousands.

Nebula added 642 stars this week on Go trending and is at 18,301 stars. It combines encryption, security groups, certificates and tunnelling into one portable binary for Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Release v1.11.1 on 21 August improved IPv6 classification of protocols Nebula does not parse, and a 4 September commit dropped host queries to overlay addresses. MIT licensed, 104 open issues.

overlay-network

WireGuard-based private network with SSO, MFA and access control, now with an agent network beta.

NetBird added 219 stars this week and is at 28,965 stars with 1,658 forks. The new Agent Network beta gives AI agents identity-aware, keyless access to LLM APIs and private resources over the encrypted tunnel. Release v0.78.1 on 4 September serves networks with peer-based routers from the SQLite network map, and the same day's commit added a managed proxy to the API spec. Go, last pushed on 5 September.

bot-protection

Proof-of-work challenge proxy that shields small sites and forges from floods of AI scraper traffic.

Anubis added 330 stars this week on Go trending and is at 22,202 stars. It sits in front of upstream resources and weighs each connection with a challenge, designed to be cheap enough that small communities can run it. Version 1.27.0 on 8 August added Windows Server support, dynamic cookie names to avoid infinite challenge loops and two localisations. MIT licensed, last pushed on 7 September.

monitoring

Lightweight server monitoring hub with Docker stats, ZFS, historical data and alerts.

Beszel added 279 stars this week and is at 25,141 stars. Version 0.19.0 on 3 September added ZFS pool and dataset monitoring, container health alerts with log excerpts, alerts for failed systemd services and CPU I/O wait, and agents now verify HTTPS certificates, which can break self-signed setups without a CA_CERT_FILE. A 6 September fix bounded realtime metric fetching and enforced per-system access control. Go, MIT.

microvm

AWS's microVM monitor for secure multi-tenant container and function workloads, now the base of agent sandboxes.

Firecracker added 200 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 36,585 stars, unusual velocity for a project created in 2017. Its relevance is the agent sandbox wave: most of this week's sandboxing tools are built on it or on the same rust-vmm foundations. Release v1.16.1 fixed vsock timeouts after snapshot restore, and the version bump to 1.18.0-dev landed on 4 September. Apache-2.0, 103 open issues.

ai-gateway

Envoy Gateway extension giving unified, policy-controlled access to generative AI providers and self-hosted models.

Envoy AI Gateway is at 2,001 stars and its v1.1.0 release on 21 August is the first minor on the stable 1.x API. It added token counting across providers, per-request upstream credentials, stream idle timeout with failover, MCP hostname routing, CEL backend selection, optional OpenTelemetry GenAI tracing and HTTP CONNECT egress, with no CRD migrations from 1.0. The two-tier pattern separates a central entry gateway from a self-hosted model-serving gateway. Go, Apache-2.0, pushed on 4 September.

kubernetes-tui

Async-first Kubernetes TUI in Rust on kube-rs and ratatui, so the UI never blocks on the cluster.

sofka added 139 stars in the last day on Rust trending and is at 611 stars two months after creation. Release v0.24.5 on 6 September added node labels in wide mode, a Ctrl+Z pod faults filter and a sanitize core plugin, and fixed log following waiting for container startup. Releases are frequent and small. Apache-2.0, 26 open issues.

local-networking

Replaces localhost port numbers with stable named .localhost URLs over HTTPS, for humans and agents.

Portless added 814 stars this week on TypeScript trending and is at 12,212 stars. Wrapping a dev command gives you https://myapp.localhost with HTTP/2 instead of a port. Version 0.15.6 on 24 August exposed Markdown docs and an llms.txt index so agents can read the documentation, and passed port flags through to frameworks that ignore PORT. It is pre-1.0 and the state directory format may change. Apache-2.0, last pushed on 29 August.

context-database

ByteDance's context database that stores agent memory, knowledge and skills as one virtual filesystem.

OpenViking has gained 7,895 stars this month and is at 35,832 stars with 2,731 forks. Memories, resources and skills live under a viking:// protocol so an agent browses its own context with ls and tree instead of vector queries alone. Release v0.4.17.1 on 31 August adapted to the AnyDoc 0.2 document model, and a Codex plugin hook fix landed on 7 September. AGPL-3.0, Python, 663 open issues.

in-memory-store

Multi-threaded Redis and Memcached replacement with tiered disk offload and a much higher per-node ceiling.

Dragonfly added 398 stars this week on C++ trending and is at 31,441 stars. Release v1.40.2 on 3 September fixed tiered storage so values loaded during full sync or RDB load are no longer pushed into the cool tier. Commits land daily, with a CI change on 7 September. The core is source-available under a custom licence rather than OSI-approved, worth knowing before adopting.

analytical-db

In-process analytical SQL database with a rich dialect, nested types and an extension ecosystem.

DuckDB added 233 stars this week on C++ trending and is at 41,042 stars with 3,728 forks. Version 1.5.5 backported out-of-bounds security fixes, and main is pushed daily, with a snapshot visibility rule documented on 4 September. It supports arbitrary correlated subqueries, window functions and complex types, and remains the default embedded engine for local analytics. MIT licensed.

message-streaming

Persistent message streaming platform in Rust over QUIC, WebSocket and a custom TCP protocol.

Iggy added 193 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 4,810 stars. It is incubating at the Apache Software Foundation, with server 0.8.0 as the latest tagged release and daily commits, including protobuf field length validation in connectors on 7 September. Client SDKs publish to crates.io. Apache-2.0, 185 open issues.

object-storage

One binary serving S3 object storage, a POSIX filesystem and Iceberg tables over the same data.

SeaweedFS added 134 stars this week and is at 34,498 stars. Release 4.45 on 31 August ships the new Rust maintenance worker with the release, and a 7 September fix installed a rustls crypto provider to stop a TLS panic in that worker. Each blob is one disk read away and capacity grows by adding volume servers. Go, Apache-2.0, 762 open issues.

observability-db

Columnar database for metrics, logs and traces on object storage, with an Apache-2.0 core.

GreptimeDB added 13 stars in the last day on Rust trending and is at 6,647 stars. Version 1.1.4 on 24 July fixed streaming Flow expiration and MySQL timestamp presentation, and a 7 September commit isolated internal Flight authentication in the frontend. It publishes a 2026 roadmap and separates stable, canary and nightly channels. 248 open issues.

incremental-indexing

Incremental engine that keeps codebases, docs and chat as continuously fresh context for agents.

CocoIndex added 20 stars in the last day on Rust trending and is at 11,497 stars with 898 forks. Release v1.0.21 on 5 September wired a tree-sitter Lua grammar for syntax-aware splitting and gave target sinks value-based identity. The pitch is no stale batches: sources are re-processed incrementally so agent context stays current. Apache-2.0, 76 open issues.

code-graph

Parses a multi-language monorepo with Tree-sitter into a Memgraph knowledge graph you can query and edit.

Code-Graph-RAG has gained 2,504 stars this month and is at 5,044 stars. Release v0.0.845 on 2 September closed an EXECUTE_SHELL allowlist bypass where generic run-anything commands let an attacker-controlled repo reach unconfined execution. Versions bump several times a day, with 0.0.882 tagged on 7 September. MIT, Python, 96 open issues.

rag-platform

Tencent's knowledge platform turning documents into a queryable RAG, a reasoning agent and an auto-wiki.

WeKnora added 601 stars this week and 116 in the last day on Go trending, reaching 21,613 stars with 3,128 forks. Version 0.8.0 on 3 September added auto-tagging and hardened tenant handling after member removal. It is built for enterprise document sets and ships English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean docs. Last push was 7 September, 687 open issues.

financial-db

Zig database for financial transactions, built around debit and credit primitives and strict safety.

TigerBeetle added 36 stars this week on Zig trending and is at 16,965 stars. Release 0.17.9 supports upgrading replicas from 0.17.5 and clients from 0.16.4 without downtime, and a 31 August merge added fractional amounts to the Ruby client. It targets OLTP at a new order of magnitude and documents its design in a QCon talk. Apache-2.0, 103 open issues.

runtime

All-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner and package manager as a drop-in Node replacement.

Bun added 15 stars in the last day on Rust trending and is at 95,896 stars with 8,996 open issues. Version 1.4.2 shipped on 5 September and installs via curl, npm or PowerShell. Commits land daily, including an aarch64 glibc ASan build fix on 7 September. The runtime is now written in Rust, a change worth noting for anyone tracking the codebase.

c++-library

Modern C++ formatting library, now with a C11 API that outperforms printf.

fmt added 1,885 stars this week, one of the larger jumps on GitHub's weekly trending page, and is at 25,630 stars with only 17 open issues. Release 12.2.0 on 16 June added a fmt-c library using _Generic dispatch to bring type-safe formatting to C. A 6 September commit built the nolocale test with /utf-8 on MSVC. MIT licensed, fuzzed on OSS-Fuzz.

serialization

Google's language-neutral serialisation format and code-generation toolchain, still shipping a new release every month.

Protobuf added 158 stars this week on C++ trending and is at 72,000 stars with 16,273 forks. Version 36.1 shipped on 31 August with C# custom JSON enum alias fixes, and a Kotlin diamond dependency regression test landed on 7 September. Release cadence is monthly and the project is a dependency of most of this list. 314 open issues.

validation

TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference, the usual choice for typed agent tool definitions.

Zod added 277 stars this week on TypeScript trending and is at 43,867 stars with 59 open issues. Version 4.5.4 on 29 August stopped the cycle walk firing a default factory, and a 2 September fix keeps format checks from overwriting tighter min and max bounds. It remains the de-facto schema layer for tool definitions in TypeScript agent code. MIT licensed.

distributed-runtime

Portable sidecar runtime for durable execution, workflows, agents and secure distributed applications across clouds.

Dapr added 35 stars this week and is at 26,081 stars with 2,145 forks. Runtime 1.18.3 on 14 August fixed actor state stores not hot reloading and sidecars disconnecting from Placement when one sidecar dropped. A 4 September chart change restored the Scheduler fsGroup default so its volume is writable. The README now leads with durable execution and AI agents. Go, Apache-2.0.

mail-server

All-in-one Rust mail and collaboration server speaking IMAP, JMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV.

Stalwart added 142 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 14,560 stars with 67 open issues. Version 0.16.21 on 6 September is a binary swap for 0.16.x users, and the same day's commit fixed JMAP calendar synthetic ids when expanding recurrences. Releases are frequent point versions. It is the most complete self-hosted mail stack written in Rust.

messaging-gateway

Self-hosted WhatsApp API gateway with pluggable SQLite or Postgres storage and S3 backups.

OpenWA added 442 stars this week on TypeScript trending and is at 13,858 stars with 3,209 forks, seven months after creation. Release v0.23.4 on 5 September added mute expiration to the chats endpoint. Only 5 open issues remain against a large user base. MIT licensed, last pushed on 6 September.

ai-runtime

Open-source components of Modular's MAX inference framework and the Mojo language, now past 1.0.

Modular has gained 3,000 stars this month and is at 29,584 stars. The MAX 26.5 release on 11 August coincided with Mojo 1.0.0 and moved GPU programming APIs out of the standard library into a top-level max package. Lockfiles were pinned to Mojo 1.1.0 dev builds on 7 September. 1,139 open issues, custom licence.

service-composition

One live system for queues, cron, HTTP, state, observability, agents and sandboxes in a backend.

iii added 45 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 18,678 stars with 1,254 forks. Release 0.23.0 on 1 September added a worker-compose tech pack and a provider-picking quickstart panel. It ships SDKs, agent skills and a console, and collapses the separate integration stories every backend starts with. Rust, 70 open issues.

diagramming

Agent skill that compiles typed JSON into interactive architecture, sequence and data-flow diagrams.

Archify added 17,190 stars this week, the highest weekly count on GitHub's trending page, and 41,018 this month, reaching 51,289 stars. Agents in Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI or OpenCode emit a typed IR and Archify deterministically renders HTML and SVG with five diagram types, presets, themes and finite motion. Release v2.16.0 on 30 August preserved authored direction in Intent Trace and fixed emoji text fitting. MIT, last pushed on 7 September.

diagramming

Editorial diagram skill for Claude Code, Codex and Pi with 39 layout grammars and no Mermaid output.

Diagram Design added 620 stars in the last day and 29,194 this month, reaching 32,679 stars with 33 open issues. Version 2.5.10 added ten layout grammars including Sankey, Wardley map, kanban, dependency graph and database schema, and 2.0 introduced the Loop flywheel with a shared-memory hub. Plugin manifests were bumped to 2.6.17 on 7 September. MIT licensed.

terminal

Fast, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator with platform-native UI, also usable as an embeddable library.

Ghostty added 341 stars this week on Zig trending and is at 60,792 stars with 3,396 forks. The latest tag is v1.3.1, and commits land daily, with a translate-c backport dependency update on 7 September. It differentiates on native UI per platform rather than a cross-platform toolkit. MIT licensed, 246 open issues.

version-control

Git-compatible version control system that is both simpler and more powerful than Git.

Jujutsu added 185 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 31,432 stars. Version 0.45.1 on 3 September is a bug-fix release, and a 7 September commit added child workspace support for Git colocation. It is the most common Git alternative in coding-agent workflows because operations are undoable and conflicts are first-class. Apache-2.0, 1,222 open issues.

cli

Smarter cd command that learns your most-used directories, for every major shell.

zoxide added 172 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 39,199 stars. Version 0.10.0 on 4 July added importing from atuin, auto-detecting database files and support for non-Cygwin Windows environments like Busybox. A dependency bump landed on 31 August. MIT licensed, 143 open issues.

linker

Drop-in Unix linker from the author of LLVM lld, 4.9x faster than lld in its August 2026 benchmarks.

mold added 71 stars this week on C++ trending and is at 16,950 stars. Version 2.42.0 on 12 August brought numerous optimisations and should be noticeably faster than earlier releases. The README's August benchmark reports 4.9x faster than lld and 1.9x faster than wild at the median. A 7 September commit claims IR files for LTO in command-line order. MIT licensed.

worktrees

Git worktrees plus tmux windows as isolated environments for running several agents in parallel.

workmux added 105 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 2,387 stars with 317 forks. It is opinionated about building on tools you already use: tmux, zellij or kitty for windowing, git worktrees for isolation. Releases are continuous, with v0.1.256 tagged on 6 September. MIT licensed, 43 open issues.

agent-skills

Desktop app to install, sync and organise agent skills across 50+ coding tools.

Skills Manager added 268 stars this week on Rust trending and is at 4,506 stars with 381 forks. Version 1.37.0 on 6 September reworked batch operations, adding bulk sync to agents and bulk removal from global and workspace scopes. It installs skills from Git repos, local folders and archives and backs them up across devices. MIT licensed, Rust, 196 open issues.

agent-workflow

AWS's harness-neutral engineering workflow rules rendered for Claude Code, Kiro, Codex, Cursor and Copilot.

AI-DLC Workflows added 164 stars this week on TypeScript trending and is at 4,395 stars with 784 forks. Version 2.7.0 on 1 September lets existing PRDs and requirements documents seed a workflow and improves review across all seven supported harnesses. Workflows 2.0 is GA on main. MIT-0 licensed, last pushed on 7 September.

linux-distro

DHH's opinionated, agent-oriented Arch-based Linux distribution with a full manual and a security team.

Omarchy has gained 14,497 stars this month and is at 38,678 stars with 4,162 forks. Version 4.0.2 on 31 August is a second set of security fixes validated by the project's security team, with a responsible disclosure process on omarchy.org. Pull requests merge daily, including kitty defaults on 7 September. MIT licensed, 3,369 open issues.

agent-config

Configures the coding agents you already use with memory, spec-driven development, skills and MCP servers.

Gentle-AI added 41 stars in the last day on Go trending and is at 6,328 stars with 729 forks. Version 2.6.0 on 4 September, 34 commits after 2.5.0, has the runtime ask before acting and landed with no release-candidate series. A 6 September fix made Engram rollback path-independent. MIT licensed, 842 open issues.

agent-skill

Markdown-only agent skill that rewrites AI-sounding text so it reads like a person wrote it.

Humanizer added 748 stars in the last day and is at 44,515 stars with 3,689 forks and only 5 open issues. Version 3.0.0 on 6 September rebuilt the skill around one account of why AI text sounds the way it does and consolidated 35 patterns into 25 without dropping any. Because it is plain Markdown it works with any skills-capable agent and installs with the Skills CLI. MIT licensed.