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2026-05-21 / GITHUB SIGNAL

GitHub Trending Digest — May 21, 2026

colbymchenry/codegraph — 13,057 stars (+4,222 today). Day 8: 5x from launch. From 2.4K to 13K in eight days. Today's +4,222 is its biggest single day by far — more than double yesterday's gain. The pre-indexed code knowl...

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  • Hottest Repos
  • AI & ML
  • Developer Tools
  • Hidden Gems
  • Notable Trends
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Hottest Repos

  • colbymchenry/codegraph — 13,057 stars (+4,222 today). Day 8: 5x from launch. From 2.4K to 13K in eight days. Today's +4,222 is its biggest single day by far — more than double yesterday's gain. The pre-indexed code knowledge graph for Claude Code/Codex/Cursor claims ~35% cheaper and ~70% fewer tool calls. "Give agents a map" isn't a thesis anymore, it's a category. https://github.com/colbymchenry/codegraph

  • Imbad0202/academic-research-skills — 18,061 stars (+2,502 today). Day 5 above 1K/day. From 11.4K three days ago to 18K. The 13-agent academic pipeline (Socratic dialogue, PRISMA reviews, citation auditing) keeps accelerating. Fastest-growing Claude Code skill pack. https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

  • obra/superpowers — 201,394 stars (+1,572 today). CROSSED 200K. Called it yesterday at 199,904 — milestone achieved. The agentic skills framework is now one of the most-starred repos on all of GitHub, period. First open-source dev tool to hit this number. 17.8K forks. https://github.com/obra/superpowers

  • mattpocock/skills — 98,892 stars (+2,100 today, +18,368 this week). 100K tomorrow. From 97K yesterday to 99K. Nine straight weeks of 2K+/day. The fastest open-source project ever from 50K→100K. Will cross 100K by May 22. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

  • multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills — 142,928 stars (+2,590 today). The single CLAUDE.md that 143K developers use. Derived from Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls. Still gaining 2.5K/day — the stickiest repo in the skills ecosystem. https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

AI & ML

  • supertone-inc/supertonic — 9,130 stars (+4,986 this week). NEW: On-device TTS that actually ships. 99M-parameter model, 31 languages, runs on everything from Raspberry Pi to WebGPU browsers. Expression tags (<laugh>, <sigh>) for natural speech. SDKs for Python, Node, Rust, Swift, C++, Go, Flutter. 44.1kHz output, no cloud, no GPU required. MIT licensed. This is what production-grade local TTS looks like. https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic

  • rohitg00/agentmemory — 15,738 stars (+846 today, +7,976 this week). Week 3: from 3.4K to 16K. Persistent memory for coding agents. Growth flattening slightly but still adding 800+/day. The "agents need memory" category is fully established. https://github.com/rohitg00/agentmemory

  • HKUDS/ViMax — 6,433 stars (+541 today). Day 4: agentic video generation. Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Video Generator all-in-one. Same HKU team behind CLI-Anything (39K). Still gaining 500+/day. https://github.com/HKUDS/ViMax

  • NousResearch/hermes-agent — 161,333 stars (+1,923 today). The self-evolving agent. NousResearch's "agent that grows with you" trending in Python. 161K stars makes it one of the most-starred AI repos. https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

  • Lum1104/Understand-Anything — 16,465 stars (+854 today). Code→knowledge graph. Turn any codebase into an interactive graph you can explore and query. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI. Pairs naturally with codegraph — one maps structure, this one maps concepts. https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything

Developer Tools

  • can1357/oh-my-pi — 5,802 stars (+483 today). NEW: Terminal agent with the IDE wired in. Fork of Pi with 32 built-in tools, 13 LSP ops, 27 DAP ops, 40+ providers, ~27K lines of Rust core. The pitch: hash-anchored edits make weaker models dramatically more capable (Grok Code Fast: 6.7%→68.3%). TypeScript + Rust + Bun. MIT licensed. https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi

  • anthropics/claude-plugins-official — 22,123 stars (+891 today). Anthropic's plugin marketplace keeps growing. Now at 22K with 680+ open issues (mostly plugin submissions). The /plugin install command as a first-class distribution channel. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

  • rmyndharis/OpenWA — 5,345 stars (+704 today). Day 4: self-hosted WhatsApp API gateway. From 2.4K to 5.3K in four days. Free, open-source, no Business API required. Doubling every ~2 days. https://github.com/rmyndharis/OpenWA

  • rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch — 10,618 stars (+1,318 today). NEW: Full AI engineering course. From the agentmemory author. "Learn it. Build it. Ship it." Covers agents, MCP, computer vision, reinforcement learning, transformers. 2K forks in two months. https://github.com/rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch

  • dotnet/skills — 2,148 stars (+179 today). Official .NET agent skills. Microsoft's .NET team shipping a skills repo for AI coding agents — same pattern as mattpocock/skills but for the C# ecosystem. The skills-as-distribution model is now vendor-endorsed infrastructure. https://github.com/dotnet/skills

Hidden Gems

  • antoinezambelli/forge — 1,440 stars (+449 today). A reliability layer that makes local 8B models score 86.5% on multi-step agentic workflows through guardrails (rescue parsing, retry nudges, step enforcement) and VRAM-aware context management. Also ships as a drop-in OpenAI-compatible proxy. If you're trying to run local agents, this is the middleware you didn't know you needed. MIT. https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge

  • software-mansion/argent — 829 stars (+66 today). Agentic toolkit from the React Native experts at Software Mansion. Gives your AI agent direct control over iOS Simulators and Android Emulators — tap, swipe, profile, debug, all from Claude Code or Cursor via MCP. The mobile dev agent gap is real and this fills it. Apache-2.0. https://github.com/software-mansion/argent

  • luckyPipewrench/pipelock — 621 stars. Open-source AI agent firewall for MCP security: egress control, DLP, SSRF protection, prompt injection defense. As MCP becomes ubiquitous, the security layer is conspicuously missing — this addresses it. https://github.com/luckyPipewrench/pipelock

Notable Trends

  • "Agent context" is the new battleground. Codegraph (structural maps), Understand-Anything (knowledge graphs), agentmemory (persistent memory), and forge (context management for local models) — four different approaches to the same problem: agents are blind without rich context. The projects solving this are growing 2-5x faster than the agents themselves.

  • Skills are becoming a platform, not a project. obra/superpowers (201K), mattpocock/skills (99K), Karpathy skills (143K), dotnet/skills (2K), google stitch-skills (5.6K), claude-plugins-official (22K). Every major vendor and influencer now ships a skills repo. The .claude/ directory is the new node_modules/ — a distribution channel hiding in plain sight.