Trending GitHub projects in October 2026
602 projects trended · 1141 new reviews · 27 hot on Hacker News
October's list is dominated by tooling that disciplines coding agents rather than just prompting them. mattpocock/skills, obra/superpowers and DietrichGebert/ponytail all focus on structure: composable skills that enforce planning, TDD and review, or push agents to reuse existing code before writing new. cloudflare/security-audit-skill applies the same idea to security, running multi-phase audits with verified findings. A second thread is agent memory and orchestration, seen in thedotmack/claude-mem, affaan-m/ECC and stablyai/orca with its parallel git worktrees.
Design quality for generated frontends is another recurring concern, with pbakaus/impeccable, Nutlope/hallmark and cathrynlavery/diagram-design giving agents a shared visual vocabulary. The month's notable new projects point elsewhere, toward reclaiming control over hardware you already own: Gathin23/cleanyourtv and simbasjungles/free-my-tv strip ads from smart TVs, Zagitta/gpu-unlock restores disabled tensor throughput on GA10x cards, and seedds/nxnative runs Switch games natively on Apple silicon. In developer tools, open models and infrastructure projects such as baidu/Unlimited-OCR, vllm-project/vllm and supabase/supabase keep their steady pull on stars.
Top 20 of the month
Ranked by stars gained on the daily board over the month.
- 1morluto/rea+288,061
Connects a coding agent to local binary, JS/Electron and .NET analysis tools so you can trace how a feature works.
- 2debpalash/VoiceStudio+30,469
A local desktop app for voice cloning, dubbing and transcription, aimed at creators who want ElevenLabs-style output without sending audio to a cloud service.
- 3boykopovar/AnyPS5+28,987
Lets developers run PS5 game binaries natively on Linux and Windows by relinking executables and reimplementing system libraries, without an emulator.
- 4storytold/artcraft+23,626
ArtCraft is an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers Review coming soon
- 5
A coding-agent skill that runs a multi-phase security audit with independently verified findings for codebases you own.
- 6pbakaus/impeccable+18,634
Gives AI coding agents a design vocabulary and deterministic checks so generated frontends stop looking like the same SaaS template.
- 7DietrichGebert/ponytail+16,822
A skill pack that pushes coding agents to reuse existing code and write only what the task needs.
- 8MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search+15,370
The job search that runs on your machine. AI job application framework built on Claude Code: evaluate postings, tailor CVs, write cover letters, prep interviews. Fork it and own it. Review coming soon
- 9mattpocock/skills+14,488
Composable agent skills that add structured planning, TDD, debugging and review discipline to coding agents.
- 10affaan-m/ECC+12,865
A shared layer of skills, memory and guardrails that makes coding agents behave consistently across different CLI harnesses.
- 11cathrynlavery/diagram-design+11,962
Editorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory Droid, and Pi. 44 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop. Review coming soon
- 12Nutlope/hallmark+11,242
A design skill for coding agents that blocks the visual tells of AI-generated pages and ships themes instead.
- 13hmjz100/LinkSwift+9,681
A userscript that pulls direct download links out of Chinese cloud-drive web pages so you can hand them to Aria2, IDM or a browser.
- 14Panniantong/Agent-Reach+9,634
A CLI that gives AI agents one-command read and search access to login-walled, video and Chinese platforms.
- 15HKUDS/DeepTutor+9,595
A self-hosted study workspace that combines tutoring, quizzing, research and reading around your own materials and memory.
- 16obra/superpowers+9,331
A skill-based methodology that pushes coding agents to spec, plan, and review before writing code.
- 17stablyai/orca+9,001
An orchestration desktop for running many coding agents in parallel git worktrees, with phone monitoring and remote execution.
- 18thedotmack/claude-mem+8,602
Gives coding agents durable memory across sessions so they stop re-learning your codebase every time you restart.
- 19togg53192-cmd/jailbreaks+8,086
Paste-ready system prompts and agent specs aimed at changing how frontier, open-weight and free stealth models behave.
- 20
A browser globe that overlays live aircraft, ships, satellites, cameras and quakes on real maps for public-data explorers.
New this month
Projects created this month, ranked by the highest total stars recorded during the month.
- 1Gathin23/cleanyourtv47,912
Strips ads and preinstalled apps from Android TV and Google TV over Wi-Fi, then installs a clean home screen launcher.
- 2deepseek-ai/DeepInfer24,491
Serves DeepSeek's own inference stack to teams running DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at production scale on NVIDIA or Ascend hardware.
- 3Zagitta/gpu-unlock13,841
Unlocks the doubled FP/BF16 tensor throughput Nvidia's GA10x consumer cards ship with disabled, for Linux GPU owners running training or prefill workloads.
- 4pengchujin/aerial-tv8,321
A clean, ad-free replacement home screen for China-market Android TVs, with tvOS-style layout and automatic takeover at boot.
- 5seedds/nxnative7,512
Turns your own Switch game files into a sideloadable iOS app that runs the game natively on Apple silicon.
- 6
Runs the Switch Zelda games natively on Apple silicon Macs, iPhones and iPads using your own game files.
- 7unclebob/ub-mode5,794
An agent skill that nudges coding assistants toward TDD, small refactors, and measurable quality gates.
- 8
An open K-12 knowledge graph with prerequisite edges and diagnostic questions for math, English and physics.
- 9
Replaces the ad-filled smart TV home screen with a clean, custom app launcher for Google TV, LG and Samsung sets.
- 10
Turns off system ads, hot-search feeds and marketing pushes on Chinese Android phones, mostly via an ADB-connected desktop app.
Leaders by topic
Developer Tools
- pbakaus/impeccable+18,634
Gives AI coding agents a design vocabulary and deterministic checks so generated frontends stop looking like the same SaaS template.
- DietrichGebert/ponytail+16,822
A skill pack that pushes coding agents to reuse existing code and write only what the task needs.
- mattpocock/skills+14,488
Composable agent skills that add structured planning, TDD, debugging and review discipline to coding agents.
Machine Learning
A Baidu OCR model that parses very long documents in one pass instead of page-by-page stitching.
Serves and batches LLM inference at high throughput for teams running their own models.
- pytorch/pytorch+710
A GPU-accelerated tensor and autograd library for researchers who need to train deep networks in plain, debuggable Python.
AI Engineering
- Panniantong/Agent-Reach+9,634
A CLI that gives AI agents one-command read and search access to login-walled, video and Chinese platforms.
- NVIDIA/OpenShell+7,310
A sandboxed runtime that lets autonomous agents touch files, APIs and credentials under enforced policy.
- makecindy/cindy+5,330
A desktop and mobile client that wraps Claude Code and Codex into one local agent with shared memory, skills and automation.
Data
A browser globe that overlays live aircraft, ships, satellites, cameras and quakes on real maps for public-data explorers.
- Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu+4,411
Gives Zi Wei Dou Shu developers a complete charting engine plus a huge pre-generated interpretation dataset.
- t8y2/dbx+1,561
A 25 MB cross-platform database GUI/CLI covering relational, NoSQL and analytical engines, aimed at developers and DBAs tired of overweight clients.
DevOps & Self-hosting
- supabase/supabase+1,885
A self-hostable Postgres backend platform that bundles auth, APIs, storage and realtime so small teams skip assembling them.
- caddyserver/caddy+1,173
A web server and reverse proxy for people who want working HTTPS without hand-running certificate renewal.
Self-hosted remote desktop for people who want to control their own machines without a vendor subscription.
Security & Privacy
- morluto/rea+288,061
Connects a coding agent to local binary, JS/Electron and .NET analysis tools so you can trace how a feature works.
A coding-agent skill that runs a multi-phase security audit with independently verified findings for codebases you own.
- togg53192-cmd/jailbreaks+8,086
Paste-ready system prompts and agent specs aimed at changing how frontier, open-weight and free stealth models behave.
Productivity & Utilities
- hmjz100/LinkSwift+9,681
A userscript that pulls direct download links out of Chinese cloud-drive web pages so you can hand them to Aria2, IDM or a browser.
- DuarteSantos8/openGym+6,481
A self-hosted workout and body-weight tracker for people who lift, keeping training data in a folder they control.
Role-specific Claude Cowork plugins that give non-engineers prebuilt skills, commands and tool connectors for their job function.
Media & Design
- debpalash/VoiceStudio+30,469
A local desktop app for voice cloning, dubbing and transcription, aimed at creators who want ElevenLabs-style output without sending audio to a cloud service.
- heygen-com/hyperframes+5,960
Turns HTML, CSS and seekable animations into deterministic MP4s for developers and agents producing video programmatically.
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI+4,220
Node-graph engine for running open diffusion image, video and audio models locally with fine control over every step.
Learning Resources
- HKUDS/DeepTutor+9,595
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.
- luongnv89/claude-howto+1,439
A structured, template-heavy tutorial path for developers who installed Claude Code and don't know what to learn next.
Games
- boykopovar/AnyPS5+28,987
Lets developers run PS5 game binaries natively on Linux and Windows by relinking executables and reimplementing system libraries, without an emulator.
A C++ rigid-body physics and collision library that game and VR developers embed to simulate objects, characters, vehicles and soft bodies.
An editable, large-world terrain system for Godot 4 games, with sculpting, texture painting, and LOD.
Hardware & IoT
A palm-sized biped robot whose walking and recovery behaviors come from RL policies, packaged with the on-robot software stack.
- ruvnet/RuView+2,601
WiFi CSI sensing that estimates presence, pose and vital signs from ESP32 nodes without cameras or wearables.
- 78/xiaozhi-esp32+134
Firmware for ESP32 voice-assistant devices that connects cheap hardware to cloud LLMs, wake word included.
Finance
A multi-agent LLM framework that debates and decides stock trades, for researchers and quant-curious developers.
- shiyu-coder/Kronos+2,219
A pretrained foundation model that forecasts K-line price and volume sequences for quantitative researchers and traders.
A native desktop finance terminal for retail and academic analysts who want Bloomberg-style research without a Bloomberg seat.