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2026-07-12 / GITHUB SIGNAL

GitHub Trending Digest — July 12, 2026

HKUDS/Vibe-Trading — Multi-agent trading platform from HKU. +776 today (20.4k total). New to digest. v0.1.11 just dropped: Indian equity (NSE/BSE) backtesting, 460 alpha factors, a strategy-dev-manager skill that turns r...

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

  • HKUDS/Vibe-Trading — Multi-agent trading platform from HKU. +776 today (20.4k total). New to digest. v0.1.11 just dropped: Indian equity (NSE/BSE) backtesting, 460 alpha factors, a strategy-dev-manager skill that turns research papers into registered strategies with automated IC/Sharpe decay monitoring, and Binance perpetual history. 3,585 forks — the community is building on it, not just starring it. A serious open-source trading agent framework. https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading

  • Dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_guard — Agent safety hook that blocks destructive commands before execution. +444 today (2.7k total). New to digest. Supports 14+ agent tools (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok, Cursor, Copilot, Antigravity, etc.). 50+ security packs (git, k8s, Docker, cloud), sub-ms SIMD-accelerated filtering, heredoc scanning. The "seatbelt for agents" category just got its definitive tool. https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_guard

  • malisper/pgrust — Postgres rewritten in Rust. +518 today (2.4k total). Day 2 in digest, growth accelerating. Still the most ambitious Rust rewrite on GitHub. https://github.com/malisper/pgrust

  • asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks — Extracted system prompts from Claude, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.5, Codex, Grok, Cursor, Copilot and more. +7,731 this week (56.6k total). New to digest. Updated regularly. The definitive reference for what major AI products actually tell their models. 9,363 forks. https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks

  • ruvnet/RuView — WiFi-to-spatial-intelligence platform. +3,720 this week (80k total). New to digest. Turns commodity WiFi into presence detection, vital sign monitoring (breathing + heart rate), fall detection, and room activity sensing — no cameras. $9 ESP32 nodes, runs on-edge, integrates with Home Assistant/Apple Home/Alexa/Google Home. 105-module edge catalog, PLDI-quality CSI embeddings. 80k stars for a hardware project is exceptional. https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView

AI & ML

  • Nutlope/hallmark — Anti-AI-slop design skill from Together AI. +210 today (4.1k total). New to digest. 20 themes, 57 slop-test gates, and a pre-emit self-critique. Makes AI-generated UIs look like they were designed by humans. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex. The counter-revolution against samey AI frontends. https://github.com/Nutlope/hallmark

  • OmniRoute continues at 16.1k (+4.4k/week). claude-video at 7.8k (+4.4k/week, day 5). Both cemented. strix (AI pentesting) crossed 40k. CubeSandbox holding at 9.8k. The agent infrastructure layer is solidifying fast.

  • anthropics/claude-cookbooks — +464 today (48.3k total). Quietly one of the biggest daily gainers. Cookbooks beat blog posts for developer adoption. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks

Developer Tools

  • herdr (15.7k, agent multiplexer) and orca (16.8k, ADE) are now running neck-and-neck in week 2. The "agent fleet management" category is real and growing. Terminal-native vs GUI — both finding audiences.

  • microsoft/pg_durable — PostgreSQL in-database durable execution. 2.5k stars, Rust, trending in Rust daily. Turn your Postgres into a workflow engine — durable functions, AI pipelines, no external orchestrator. Microsoft is betting that the database IS the orchestrator. https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable

  • DesktopCommanderMCP — +207 today (7.9k total). Day 3+ in digest. Now has a standalone Desktop app beyond the MCP server. The agent-OS layer keeps expanding. https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP

Hidden Gems

  • Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust — Automatic C++ to safe Rust translation. 242 stars, +43 today. Based on a PLDI 2026 paper from IST/UTL. Syntax-driven via clang AST, uses a Ptr<T> runtime for pointer semantics that satisfies the borrow checker. Academic rigor meets practical tooling. This is how real language migration will happen. https://github.com/Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust

  • par274/sharpemu — Experimental PlayStation 5 emulator in C#. 1.2k stars, +349 today. Can load real game eboot.bin, execute CPU instructions, initial video output in some games. Very early but active — 24 open issues, daily pushes. The next emulation frontier. https://github.com/par274/sharpemu

  • ColeMurray/background-agents — Open-source background agent coding system. 2.2k stars, TypeScript. Quietly on daily trending. Background agents are the next unlock — agents that work while you sleep. https://github.com/ColeMurray/background-agents

Notable Trends

  • Agent safety is now a category. Destructive_command_guard (#1 Rust daily) proves the demand. As agents get more autonomous, the guardrail ecosystem is catching up. Expect more "agent seatbelt" tools.

  • Postgres is having a Rust moment. pgrust (full rewrite), pg_durable (durable execution), pgrust+sqlx trending simultaneously. The database everyone already uses is being rebuilt and extended in the language everyone wants to use. These aren't hobby projects — Microsoft is backing pg_durable and pgrust passes 100% of PG regression tests.