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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
- Stars: 4,267 | Forks: 210 | Language: TypeScript | License: MIT
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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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