Hottest Repos
Hmbown/DeepSeek-TUI — 13.5K stars (+6,184 today). Week's breakout champion. From 1.1K five days ago to 13.5K — a 12x run. The Rust terminal coding agent for DeepSeek V4 just posted its biggest day yet, nearly doubling overnight again. Three modes (Plan/Agent/YOLO), 1M-token context, LSP integration, skills system. The non-Claude coding agent niche isn't a niche anymore. https://github.com/Hmbown/DeepSeek-TUI
ruvnet/ruflo — 45.1K stars (+2,190 today, +9.2K this week). Seventh consecutive day above 2K. The Claude agent swarm orchestrator crossed 45K, up from 36.5K four days ago. Showing no signs of plateau — if anything, the daily gains are stabilizing at a higher floor. Multi-agent orchestration is a proven category. https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo
TauricResearch/TradingAgents — 70.2K stars (+14.7K this week). Crossed 70K. The multi-agent trading framework hit a milestone, though daily trending position has shifted — weekly gains (14.7K) are its highest ever even as daily prominence gives way to newer entrants. Seventh consecutive week of massive growth. https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents
D4Vinci/Scrapling — 46.1K stars (+1,184 today, +5.7K this week). Quietly building a moat. The adaptive web scraper with self-healing layout detection and Cloudflare bypass posted another 1K+ day. Third straight week of 5K+ weekly gains. Becoming the default for AI-era web scraping. https://github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling
AIDC-AI/Pixelle-Video — 12.7K stars (+1,320 today). Best single day ever. The automated short-video engine just posted its highest daily gain after eight weeks of steady climbing. From 9.8K three days ago to 12.7K — the text-to-finished-video pipeline has officially broken out of slow-growth territory. https://github.com/AIDC-AI/Pixelle-Video
AI & ML
anthropics/financial-services — 9.0K stars (+540 today). New — Anthropic goes vertical. Official repo with 10 named agents (Pitch Agent, Model Builder, KYC Screener, GL Reconciler), 7 vertical skill bundles, 11 MCP connectors (FactSet, S&P, Moody's, PitchBook), and 40+ slash commands. Dual deployment: Claude Cowork plugins or Managed Agents API. Anthropic is showing exactly how it sees enterprise AI adoption — pre-built vertical agents, not generic chat. https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services
shiyu-coder/Kronos — 23.2K stars (+241 today). Financial markets foundation model. Holding steady on trending alongside TradingAgents and dexter. The finance-AI wave now has three repos above 20K stars trending simultaneously. https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos
PriorLabs/TabPFN — 6.6K stars (+218 today). Foundation model for tabular data. Transformer trained on synthetic distributions that generalizes to real-world tables. fit/predict API, no preprocessing needed, competitive with XGBoost on datasets up to 50K rows. The "just call .fit()" pitch for structured data. https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN
cocoindex-io/cocoindex — 8.6K stars (+394 today). Incremental context engine, fifth week trending. The "React for data engineering" framework that keeps agent context fresh by processing only deltas. Steady, boring, essential infrastructure. https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex
kyutai-labs/pocket-tts — 4.2K stars. CPU-only TTS that actually works. 100M-param model from Kyutai (the Moshi team), 6x real-time on M4 MacBook Air, 200ms first-chunk latency, voice cloning, 6 languages. Runs on 2 CPU cores. Community ports in Rust, C++, WASM. The "good enough TTS for everyone" play. https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts
Developer Tools
addyosmani/agent-skills — 30.2K stars (+629 today). The "engineering discipline" skills repo. Addy Osmani's take on agent behavioral files — 20 skills across the full dev lifecycle with anti-rationalization tables (documenting excuses agents use to skip steps). Google engineering culture baked in: Hyrum's Law, Beyonce Rule, Chesterton's Fence. A different philosophy than mattpocock's skills (62.8K) — process over prose. https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
rtk-ai/rtk — 43.0K stars (+833 today). Token diet pill keeps growing. The Rust CLI proxy that filters command output before it hits your LLM context — 60-90% token reduction — just crossed 43K. Still the most practical money-saving tool for heavy AI coding users. https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
mksglu/context-mode — 13.6K stars (+756 today). Context window optimizer across 14 platforms. Sandboxes tool output for 98% context reduction. Complementary to rtk — rtk filters at the CLI level, context-mode works at the agent level. The "make AI coding affordable" stack is emerging. https://github.com/mksglu/context-mode
docusealco/docuseal — 14.8K stars (+772 today). Open source DocuSign, no AI required. PDF form builder, multi-party signing, SMTP notifications, cloud storage, embedded React/Vue components. The rare non-AI repo trending hard — turns out people just want to sign documents without paying DocuSign. https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal
Hidden Gems
Q00/ouroboros — 3.5K stars (+172 today). "Agent OS" that optimizes inputs, not outputs. Forces a Socratic interview to expose hidden assumptions before any code generation, locks a spec with acceptance criteria, then runs 30-generation evolutionary loops until convergence. The thesis: "the bottleneck is not AI capability — it is human clarity." Works across Claude Code, Codex CLI, and others. https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros
raullenchai/Rapid-MLX — 1.7K stars (+221 today). Fastest local inference for Apple Silicon. Claims 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, OpenAI-compatible API. Runs Qwen3.5-4B at 160 tok/s on a 16GB MacBook Air. Drop-in replacement for Claude Code and Cursor's local model backend. The Apple Silicon inference war is getting serious. https://github.com/raullenchai/Rapid-MLX
reubeno/brush — 1.8K stars (+69 today). Bash reimplemented in Rust. 1700+ compatibility tests, runs your existing
.bashrcunchanged, adds syntax highlighting and auto-suggestions. Embeddable as a Rust library. Not flashy, just solving "bash but better" the hard way. https://github.com/reubeno/brush
Notable Trends
Finance AI has its own gravity now. Four finance-focused repos trending simultaneously above 20K stars: TradingAgents (70K), Kronos (23K), dexter (24K), and Anthropic's financial-services (9K). Plus TradingAgents-CN (26K) for the Chinese market. Wall Street's AI toolchain is forming in the open.
Agent skills repos are the new dotfiles. Three distinct philosophies competing — mattpocock (63K, "skills from my .claude"), addyosmani (30K, "engineering discipline"), karpathy (114K, "four principles"). The behavioral specification layer for AI agents is now an established category with real differentiation. The question isn't whether you ship a CLAUDE.md — it's which school of thought you follow.