Reports / daily / Sep 17, 2026

GitHub Trending Report — September 17, 2026

Today's snapshot of what the open-source world is starring. 18 repositories made the daily trending list.

Repository of the day

Tencent/BrowserSkill — Let AI agents use your real, logged-in browser without interrupting your work. CLI + extension for browser automation across any shell-capable AI agent.

Trending today

Rank Repository Language Total stars Stars today Description
1 alibaba/open-code-review Go 33,512 +3,231 Fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelin
2 cloudflare/security-audit-skill JavaScript 9,024 +927 A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings
3 addyosmani/agent-skills JavaScript 95,774 +658 Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
4 Tencent/BrowserSkill TypeScript 3,573 +1,350 Let AI agents use your real, logged-in browser without interrupting your work. CLI + extension for browser aut
5 alphaXiv/OpenResearch Rust 4,829 +1,017 Turn your coding agents into research agents
6 anthropics/claude-code TypeScript 145,758 +165 Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you co
7 NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra Java 78,175 +1,059 Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
8 anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins Python 24,420 +110 Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork
9 Tencent/WeKnora Go 25,933 +1,197 Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning agent, an
10 abue-ammar/tinycast Swift 5,912 +1,179 Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history.
11 cilium/cilium Go 25,261 +20 eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
12 jamiepine/voicebox TypeScript 54,719 +417 The open-source AI voice studio. Clone, dictate, create.
13 roboflow/supervision Python 50,734 +260 We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜
14 JustVugg/colibri C 35,409 +1,546 Run frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engi
15 TencentCloud/Octop Python 3,201 +396 A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.

Star jumps detected

  • stablyai/orca gained +2,163 stars in the last day (trailing average: 490/day). Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subs
  • cloudflare/security-audit-skill gained +2,008 stars in the last day. A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable f
  • tonhowtf/omniget gained +1,426 stars in the last day (trailing average: 374/day). Download Udemy and Hotmart courses, YouTube videos, music and books — 1,800+ sites, no terminal. Fre
  • Tencent/WeKnora gained +711 stars in the last day. Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning
  • pbakaus/impeccable gained +589 stars in the last day (trailing average: 154/day). The design language that makes your AI harness better at design.
  • alphaXiv/OpenResearch gained +472 stars in the last day. Turn your coding agents into research agents
  • router-for-me/CLIProxyAPI gained +465 stars in the last day (trailing average: 85/day). Wrap Antigravity, ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code, Grok Build as an OpenAI/Gemini/Claude/Codex compatible
  • tw93/Mole gained +435 stars in the last day (trailing average: 91/day). 🐹 Clean, uninstall, analyze, optimize, and monitor your Mac. Free open-source CLI, plus a native Ma
  • rtk-ai/rtk gained +431 stars in the last day (trailing average: 90/day). CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, z
  • tailscale/tailcat gained +430 stars in the last day (trailing average: 28/day). like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane

New on the radar

  • Tencent/BrowserSkill (TypeScript, 3,573 stars) — Let AI agents use your real, logged-in browser without interrupting your work. CLI + extension for browser automation ac
  • cilium/cilium (Go, 25,261 stars) — eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
  • TencentCloud/Octop (Python, 3,201 stars) — A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.
  • coder/coder (Go, 14,677 stars) — Secure environments for developers and their agents

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