Trending GitHub projects in August 2026
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August 2026 on the daily board was dominated by the skills layer around coding agents. mattpocock/skills (+21,016 stars) and obra/superpowers sit alongside addyosmani/agent-skills and K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, which packages 177 installable skills for bioinformatics, chemistry and drug discovery. The theme carries into verticals: zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill routes reverse-engineering and security tooling through Claude Code, Cursor and Cline, while TencentCloud/TencentDB-Agent-Memory treats conversations, docs and code as shareable memory assets across agents.
A second thread is turning ideas into artifacts. tt-a1i/archify converts a plan or codebase into an interactive HTML diagram, and cathrynlavery/diagram-design offers 44 editorial diagram types as self-contained HTML and SVG. harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo generates short videos from a keyword, and bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view builds a photorealistic 3D globe from live open spatial data.
Elsewhere the month leaned on fundamentals. firecrawl/pdf-inspector brings fast Rust PDF inspection with scanned-versus-text routing, AprilNEA/OpenLogi offers a local-first Rust replacement for Logitech Options+, and microsoft/AI-For-Beginners and public-apis/public-apis drew steady attention.
Top 20 of the month
Ranked by stars gained on the daily board over the month.
- 1mattpocock/skills+21,016
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory. Review coming soon
- 2tt-a1i/archify+16,211
Turns an idea, plan, or codebase into a shareable interactive HTML diagram through your coding agent.
- 3cathrynlavery/diagram-design+15,944
29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop. Review coming soon
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A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. Review coming soon
- 5zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill+10,993
Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base Supports Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Cline, and other AI coding clients 逆向/渗透/安全技能路由包 - AI 自动路由 + 按需自举工具链 + 自动进化经验库 | 支持 Claude Code / Kiro / Cursor / Cline 等代码 AI 客户端 Review coming soon
- 6harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo+10,666
利用 AI 大模型和自动化工作流，根据主题或关键词一键生成高清短视频。Generate HD short videos from a topic or keyword with an automated AI workflow. Review coming soon
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- 9firecrawl/pdf-inspector+8,459
Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions. Review coming soon
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- 11obra/superpowers+7,218
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. Review coming soon
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TencentDB Agent Memory is a team-level memory hub for AI Agents — turning conversations, docs, and code into four reusable memory assets (Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki, Code-Graph) that are governed, shared, and equipped across agents and frameworks. Review coming soon
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A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables. Review coming soon
- 14semantica-agi/semantica+6,016
Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI Systems Review coming soon
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A spy satellite simulator in your browser, except the data is real. Live open source spatial intelligence on a photorealistic 3D globe. Review coming soon
- 16AprilNEA/OpenLogi+5,666
⚡️A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry. Review coming soon
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Prompt as Code | GPT-Image2 工业级提示词引擎与模板库，530+ 个案例逆向工程，20+ 套工业级模板，并提炼出Skills，持续更新中 Review coming soon
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A collection of 177 installable skills that let a general coding agent perform bioinformatics, chemistry and drug-discovery tasks.
- 19addyosmani/agent-skills+5,374
Packaged engineering workflows that make AI coding agents follow spec, test and review discipline across the dev lifecycle.
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Leaders by topic
Developer Tools
- tt-a1i/archify+16,211
Turns an idea, plan, or codebase into a shareable interactive HTML diagram through your coding agent.
- addyosmani/agent-skills+5,374
Packaged engineering workflows that make AI coding agents follow spec, test and review discipline across the dev lifecycle.
- stablyai/orca+3,331
An orchestration desktop for running many coding agents in parallel git worktrees, with phone monitoring and remote execution.
Machine Learning
- unslothai/unsloth+2,443
A desktop app to run and fine-tune LLMs and diffusion models locally, aimed at people who want training without a cloud GPU.
AI Engineering
A collection of 177 installable skills that let a general coding agent perform bioinformatics, chemistry and drug-discovery tasks.
- Panniantong/Agent-Reach+2,754
A CLI that gives AI agents one-command read and search access to login-walled, video and Chinese platforms.
- tashfeenahmed/freellmapi+2,251
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint that pools free tiers from 34 LLM providers with routing and failover, for hobby experiments.
Data
- firecrawl/firecrawl+1,650
Turns any web page or document into clean Markdown, structured JSON or a full crawl so AI agents can use it.
- every-app/open-seo+1,125
A pay-as-you-go SEO suite with keyword research, rank tracking and audits, plus MCP access for AI agents.
A scraper that collects posts and comments from seven Chinese social platforms, aimed at people building research datasets.
DevOps & Self-hosting
The standard GitHub Actions step that puts a repository's code on the runner before the rest of a workflow runs.
Security & Privacy
An NSA-built reverse engineering framework for disassembling and decompiling binaries when you need to understand code you cannot see.
Productivity & Utilities
- macro-inc/macro+2,376
A single all-in-one workspace for small teams replacing the Slack + Notion + Linear + Gmail + CRM stack with one @-linked system.
- block/buzz+974
A self-hostable team workspace where AI agents are channel members, keeping research, review and decisions beside the work.
An independent browser engine project for developers who want a web platform not controlled by Chromium, Gecko, or WebKit.
Media & Design
- calesthio/OpenMontage+3,653
Turns an AI coding assistant into a video production crew for solo creators who want scripts, assets and edits without a timeline editor.
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI+2,556
Node-graph engine for running open diffusion image, video and audio models locally with fine control over every step.
Turns raw footage into a cut video through a coding agent, for people who would rather describe an edit than drag clips on a timeline.
Learning Resources
- HKUDS/DeepTutor+1,641
A self-hosted study workspace that combines tutoring, quizzing, research and reading around your own materials and memory.
A 542-lesson curriculum that teaches you to implement, test and evaluate model internals, retrieval and agent runtimes yourself.
A curated directory of reusable Claude Skills that shows agent users where to find instructions for document, coding and workflow tasks.
Hardware & IoT
Training environments and sim2real recipes for teaching a small bipedal robot to walk with reinforcement learning.
Finance
A multi-agent LLM framework that debates and decides stock trades, for researchers and quant-curious developers.
A pretrained foundation model that forecasts K-line price and volume sequences for quantitative researchers and traders.