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GitHub Trending Report — August 16, 2026

Today's snapshot of what the open-source world is starring. 10 repositories made the daily trending list.

Repository of the day

cordiverse/cordis — Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability

Trending today

Rank Repository Language Total stars Stars today Description
1 cordiverse/cordis TypeScript 4,267 +599 Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability
2 cathrynlavery/diagram-design HTML 18,902 +1,607 29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.
3 cursor/plugins TypeScript 2,996 +149 Cursor plugin specification and official plugins
4 cactus-compute/needle Python 6,170 +547 14MB foundation model for tiny devices; phones, wearables, smart home, and robots.
5 public-apis/public-apis Python 460,529 +2,260 A collective list of free APIs
6 MakazhanAlpamys/Soup Python 1,791 +297 Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU.
7 github/spec-kit Python 129,298 +892 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development
8 megadose/holehe Python 13,180 +382 holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve in
9 HKUDS/CLI-Anything Python 47,487 +118 "CLI-Anything: Making ALL Software Agent-Native" -- CLI-Hub: https://clianything.cc/
10 citrolabs/ego-lite JavaScript 11,155 +545 The fastest browser for AI agents to run browser automation, built for sharing your logged-in browser state wi

Star jumps detected

  • xai-org/x-algorithm gained +1,216 stars in the last day (trailing average: 393/day). Algorithm powering the For You feed on X
  • HKUDS/CLI-Anything gained +360 stars in the last day (trailing average: 49/day). "CLI-Anything: Making ALL Software Agent-Native" -- CLI-Hub: https://clianything.cc/
  • cathrynlavery/diagram-design gained +334 stars in the last day. 29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.
  • smol-machines/smolvm gained +272 stars in the last day (trailing average: 44/day). Portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machine.
  • AlexsJones/llmfit gained +266 stars in the last day (trailing average: 36/day). Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.
  • DetachHead/rebased gained +66 stars in the last day (trailing average: 18/day). A git client based on the IntelliJ platform
  • Nagi-ovo/voyager gained +52 stars in the last day (trailing average: 6/day). Enhancement suite for Gemini, AI Studio, Claude & ChatGPT — plus a prompt manager for any web UI, De

New on the radar

  • cordiverse/cordis (TypeScript, 4,267 stars) — Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability
  • MakazhanAlpamys/Soup (Python, 1,791 stars) — Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU.

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