GitHub Trending Weekly 2026-05-06: Warp Goes Open Source, DeepClaude Explodes, Skills Ecosystem Dominates
Period: 2026-04-28 to 2026-05-06 (rolling 7 days) Sources: GitHub Trending weekly + monthly, GitHub Search API, HN Algolia, WebSearch
TL;DR: Warp Terminal officially goes open-source (AGPL-3.0, OpenAI as founding sponsor), gaining +27,872 stars and sparking 237-point HN debate about "agent-powered contribution models"; deepclaude explodes onto the new-repo chart with 669 HN pts, routing Claude Code's full agent loop to DeepSeek V4 Pro for a claimed 17x cost reduction; mattpocock/skills holds #1 again with +31,091 stars for the week. Surprise hit: WhatCable, a Swift app that explains what your USB-C cables actually do, topped all AI tools with 558 HN pts — a reminder that developer appetite never limits itself to AI.
📈 Fastest Growing — Top 14 by Weekly Stars
Source:
github.com/trending?since=weekly🔁 = also appears on monthly trending (sustained momentum signal)
| # | Repo | +Stars/Week | Total Stars | Language | Created |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🔁 mattpocock/skills | +31,091 | 60,843 | Shell | 2026-02-03 |
| 2 | warpdotdev/warp | +27,872 | 54,904 | Rust | 2021-07-08 |
| 3 | 🔁 TauricResearch/TradingAgents | +13,293 | 69,269 | Python | 2024-12-28 |
| 4 | ruvnet/ruflo | +6,838 | 43,520 | TypeScript | 2025-06-02 |
| 5 | 🔁 Alishahryar1/free-claude-code | +5,787 | 21,582 | Python | 2026-01-28 |
| 6 | soxoj/maigret | +4,789 | 25,478 | Python | 2020-06-27 |
| 7 | 🔁 ComposioHQ/awesome-codex-skills | +3,964 | 6,844 | Python | 2026-01-12 |
| 8 | 🔁 AIDC-AI/Pixelle-Video | +3,635 | 11,605 | Python | 2025-11-07 |
| 9 | HunxByts/GhostTrack | +2,617 | 12,670 | Python | 2023-04-15 |
| 10 | iamgio/quarkdown | +2,557 | 13,676 | Kotlin | 2024-01-30 |
| 11 | zed-industries/zed | +1,830 | 81,805 | Rust | 2021-02-20 |
| 12 | CJackHwang/ds2api | +1,619 | 3,515 | Go | 2026-01-21 |
| 13 | virattt/dexter | +1,524 | 23,728 | TypeScript | 2025-10-14 |
| 14 | lukilabs/craft-agents-oss | +1,106 | 5,775 | TypeScript | 2026-01-19 |
🆕 Top New Repos — Born This Week (Top 10)
Source: GitHub Search API (
created:2026-04-28..2026-05-06, sorted by total stars)
| # | Repo | Total Stars | Language | Created |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nexu-io/open-design | 27,419 | TypeScript | 2026-04-28 |
| 2 | theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431 | 3,313 | Python | 2026-04-29 |
| 3 | willchen96/mike | 2,183 | TypeScript | 2026-04-29 |
| 4 | darrylmorley/whatcable | 1,928 | Swift | 2026-05-01 |
| 5 | aattaran/deepclaude | 1,309 | JavaScript | 2026-05-03 |
| 6 | mattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding | 1,059 | TypeScript | 2026-05-01 |
| 7 | vercel-labs/deepsec | 1,040 | TypeScript | 2026-04-30 |
| 8 | wrongly-cuddly-obsession/NTSB_FOIA_MU5735 | 938 | — | 2026-04-30 |
| 9 | b-nnett/codex-plusplus | 920 | TypeScript | 2026-04-28 |
| 10 | t8y2/dbx | 908 | Vue | 2026-04-29 |
Spotlight — Fastest Growing Top 10
📈 #1 — mattpocock/skills | The Claude Code Skills Library for Real Engineers
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory.
+31,091 ★ this week | 60,843 total | Shell | MIT
Matt Pocock, creator of Total TypeScript, open-sourced his entire .claude directory — 21 production Claude Code skills that he actually uses. They span planning (PRD writing, issue decomposition), development (TDD loops, architecture improvement, debug triage), and tooling (pre-commit hooks, git guardrails).
This is the second consecutive week at #1. Notably, Pocock also launched dictionary-of-ai-coding the same week (1,059 stars) — a plain-English glossary for terms like "skill," "agent loop," and "subagent" that circulate in developer discourse without consistent definitions. The two repos together signal something deliberate: he's not just shipping tools, he's setting the vocabulary for the Claude Code ecosystem.
🔁 Monthly trending too: +46,450 stars this month. This is sustained penetration, not a one-time spike.
📈 #2 — warpdotdev/warp | AI-Powered Terminal Goes Fully Open Source
Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
+27,872 ★ this week | 54,904 total | Rust | AGPL-3.0
On April 28, Warp open-sourced its entire client (AGPL-3.0), with OpenAI as the founding sponsor. This triggered 237 points and 172 comments on HN — the highest HN engagement of any weekly-trending repo this week (behind only deepclaude and WhatCable from the new-repo chart).
The most interesting aspect isn't the code itself but the contribution model: Warp replaces traditional PR review with an agent-first workflow. Community members propose ideas and validate outcomes; agents write the code. OpenAI's GPT models handle the agent layer, while open-source model support expands (Kimi, MiniMax, Qwen added).
HN debate centered on two questions: Is AGPL actually enterprise-friendly? And is agent-powered contribution "the future" or just using the community as free QA? The controversy is worth watching more than the feature set.
📈 #3 — TauricResearch/TradingAgents | Multi-Agent LLM Trading Framework
TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
+13,293 ★ this week | 69,269 total | Python | Apache-2.0
Continuing its weekly and monthly streak (🔁). The framework simulates a real trading firm's structure — analyst agents, researcher agents, and risk management agents working in concert — backed by an arXiv paper (2412.20138). Star growth is consistent but HN engagement is low, suggesting the primary audience is the quant community rather than general developers.
📈 #4 — ruvnet/ruflo | Multi-Agent Orchestration Platform for Claude
The leading agent orchestration platform for Claude.
+6,838 ★ this week | 43,520 total | TypeScript | MIT
Ruflo positions itself as an enterprise-grade agent orchestration layer for Claude Code, supporting swarm intelligence, RAG integration, MCP servers, and native Codex CLI compatibility. One HN commenter asked directly "is anyone actually using ruflo?" (1 pt) — a gap between visibility and real-world adoption. Compared to mattpocock/skills' "immediately usable" approach, ruflo skews more architectural. Worth evaluating your actual usage volume before adopting.
📈 #5 — Alishahryar1/free-claude-code | Ways to Use Claude Code for Free
Use claude-code for free in the terminal, VSCode extension or discord like OpenClaw (voice supported)
+5,787 ★ this week | 21,582 total | Python | MIT
A curated collection of methods to use Claude Code without paying for a subscription — terminal, VSCode extension, Discord bot, and voice input. 🔁 Monthly trending, reflecting persistent pricing sensitivity in the developer community. This theme aligns directly with this week's new-repo #5, deepclaude, which takes a more technical approach to the same problem.
📈 #6 — soxoj/maigret | OSINT Username Tracking Across 3,000+ Sites
Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites
+4,789 ★ this week | 25,478 total | Python | MIT
Maigret, the spiritual successor to Sherlock, traces usernames across 3,000+ platforms and compiles a full person report. The spike this week may relate to an event in the security research community — I couldn't find a clear trigger. Note: this tool has a specific purpose; unauthorized OSINT investigations are illegal in most jurisdictions.
📈 #7 — ComposioHQ/awesome-codex-skills | Curated Codex CLI Skills Collection
A curated list of practical Codex skills for automating workflows across the Codex CLI and API.
+3,964 ★ this week | 6,844 total | Python (🔁 monthly)
A curated skill library for Codex CLI and API workflow automation. The naming choice — "Codex" rather than "Claude Code" — signals that "skills" as a concept has crossed tool boundaries and become the shared vocabulary of the entire agentic IDE ecosystem.
📈 #8 — AIDC-AI/Pixelle-Video | Fully Automated AI Short Video Engine
AI 全自动短视频引擎 | AI Fully Automated Short Video Engine
+3,635 ★ this week | 11,605 total | Python | Apache-2.0 (🔁 monthly)
Pixelle-Video integrates ComfyUI, TTS, and image generation to output voiced, subtitled short videos from a single command. Last commit: 2026-04-13, suggesting stable functionality. The spike likely reflects spread through Chinese-language developer communities. Getting it running requires a configured ComfyUI environment — not a low barrier.
📈 #9 — HunxByts/GhostTrack | Phone Number and Location Tracking Tool
Useful tool to track location or mobile number
+2,617 ★ this week | 12,670 total | Python
GhostTrack tracks phone number geolocation and call records (within authorized scope). Last commit: 2024-01-11, making it the most inactive repo in this week's growth chart — yet it continues accumulating stars, showing steady demand in specific communities. As with Maigret, confirm local laws before use.
📈 #10 — iamgio/quarkdown | Markdown with Superpowers
Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.
+2,557 ★ this week | 13,676 total | Kotlin | GPL-3.0
Quarkdown extends Markdown into a full typesetting language that outputs papers, presentations, static sites, and ebooks — same syntax, different render targets. This week HN saw parallel momentum in Markdown knowledge tools (Tolaria at 317 pts, a Karpathy-style agent wiki at 260 pts), confirming that "plain-text authoring without sacrificing layout control" remains an unmet need.
Spotlight — Top New Repos
🆕 #1 — nexu-io/open-design | Open-Source Alternative to Claude Design, 27K Stars Overnight
Local-first, open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design.
27,419 total ★ | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Created: 2026-04-28
Anthropic's Claude Design launched on April 17, 2026. Eleven days later — April 28 — Tom Huang at nexu.io shipped open-design as an open-source alternative. 19 skills, 71 brand design systems, outputs HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4, supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini. HN's 229-point discussion centered on: is this a design tool or just a better vibe-coding environment?
Architecturally, open-design has no bundled agent — it plugs into your existing CLI tools (BYOK model). If you're already paying for Claude Code, open-design adds zero incremental cost. The 27K star accumulation follows last week's pattern: the lag time between closed-source AI tool launch and open-source alternative has compressed from months to days.
🆕 #2 — theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431 | PoC for a 9-Year Linux Kernel LPE
Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): 9-year-old Linux kernel LPE found by Theori's Xint Code
3,313 total ★ | Python | Created: 2026-04-29
Theori's AI agent, Xint Code, discovered a 9-year-old local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel (CVE-2026-31431), named "Copy Fail." The AI made the discovery — not human code review — and Theori simultaneously released detection tooling and mitigations. Alongside this week's deepclaude and Vercel's deepsec, AI-aided security research is accumulating real CVE-level results worth tracking.
🆕 #4 — darrylmorley/whatcable | What Can Your USB-C Cable Actually Do? 558 HN Points Says It All
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
1,928 total ★ | Swift | MIT | Created: 2026-05-01
The highest-HN-scoring new repo this week, and it's not an AI tool. Show HN: WhatCable earned 558 points and 166 comments — proof that "solve one precise problem cleanly" remains a timeless product formula.
The engineering is straightforward: macOS's IOKit already exposes USB-C cable protocol information, but the interface is buried deep in system internals. This Swift app surfaces cable speed, power delivery specs, Thunderbolt support, and e-marker chip details as a menu bar popover. CLI also available (whatcable --json, --watch).
Install via Homebrew: brew tap darrylmorley/whatcable && brew install --cask whatcable. No root required, no private APIs, signed and notarized.
🆕 #5 — aattaran/deepclaude | Claude Code + DeepSeek V4 Pro = 17x Cost Reduction
Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper.
1,309 total ★ | JavaScript | MIT | Created: 2026-05-03
669 HN points, 278 comments — the highest HN engagement of any new repo this week. The approach is simple: set environment variables to redirect Claude Code's API calls to DeepSeek V4 Pro (via OpenRouter or any Anthropic-compatible endpoint), preserving Claude Code's full tool loop, file editing, bash execution, and subagent spawning.
DeepSeek V4 Pro specs: 1.6T parameters, LiveCodeBench 96.4%, $0.87/M output tokens (promotional rate through 2026-05-31). The 17x cost savings claim is plausible against Claude Max 20x ($200/month), but actual costs depend on usage, and the rate doubles after the promotional period. HN debate: does model swapping degrade code quality? Most responses found differences acceptable for routine tasks, but recommend native Claude for complex architectural decisions.
🆕 #7 — vercel-labs/deepsec | AI-Agent-Powered Security Vulnerability Scanner
Deepsec is a security harness for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase powered by coding agents
1,040 total ★ | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Created: 2026-04-30
Vercel Labs' official release: coding-agent-driven security scanning. The Vercel blog post positions it like an AI-driven Snyk/Dependabot that understands code semantics rather than relying on rule matching. Alongside this week's CVE-2026-31431 (AI-discovered vulnerability), "AI-powered security research" is becoming a distinct technical vertical.
🆕 Others Worth Watching
willchen96/mike (2,183 ★): Open-source AI legal platform, #3 on the new-repo chart. Legal AI adoption in regulated markets depends heavily on local professional services rules — worth tracking as a technical reference.
mattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding (1,059 ★): Pocock's second hot repo this week — a plain-English dictionary of AI coding terms (skill, agent loop, harness, subagent). Useful if you're explaining "what we're doing with Claude Code" to non-technical stakeholders.
b-nnett/codex-plusplus (920 ★): Unofficial plugin system for the Codex desktop app, modeled on Chrome Extensions — lets the community bolt on additional capabilities.
t8y2/dbx (908 ★): A lightweight 15MB cross-platform database client supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, ClickHouse, and SQL Server. Tauri + Vue, AGPL-3.0 — a solid alternative for developers managing multiple database types.
Monthly Trending Cross-Reference
5 repos from this week's weekly chart also appear on the monthly chart (🔁):
| Repo | Monthly +Stars | Weekly Rank |
|---|---|---|
| mattpocock/skills | +46,450 | #1 |
| TauricResearch/TradingAgents | +20,250 | #3 |
| Alishahryar1/free-claude-code | +19,618 | #5 |
| ComposioHQ/awesome-codex-skills | +5,716 | #7 |
| AIDC-AI/Pixelle-Video | +7,257 | #8 |
Monthly chart leaders not in this week's weekly chart: NousResearch/hermes-agent (+108,507 monthly stars) and forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills (+103,293 monthly stars). Both have dominated since last month, confirming the Skills ecosystem is building a durable lead position.
This Week's Trend Insights
The "open-source lag" keeps compressing. The time from closed-source AI tool launch to open-source alternative has hit a new low this week. Claude Design got an open-source alternative in 11 days (open-design). Warp proactively open-sourced itself at 54K stars before someone else did. Closed-source strategy in AI tooling is now measured in weeks, not years.
Cost reduction has become its own niche. deepclaude (669 HN pts) and free-claude-code (persistent monthly trending) coexisting signals that "running Claude Code experience on open models" is a real niche with real demand. DeepSeek V4 Pro's arrival gives this niche its first technically credible alternative — the math actually works now.
Non-AI tools still win the highest HN scores. WhatCable's 558 points beat every AI tool launched this week. That's not an anomaly — it's a learnable pattern: solve one precise pain point, keep the engineering clean, ship it free and open. No AI required.
