GitHub Top 10, Week 1 of 2026
Dec 26, 2025 - Jan 1, 2026
The ten repositories that gained the most stars on GitHub in the week of Dec 26, 2025 - Jan 1, 2026, counted from GitHub's public event log. A star is a bookmark, not an endorsement: the commit counts and flags below show which ones people are actually building.
| # | Repository | New stars | Stars today | Commits (30 days) | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tw93/Mole | 4,387 | 69,088 | 199 | GPL-3.0 |
| 2 | pranshuparmar/witr | 3,883 | 22,566 | 31 | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | ruvnet/RuView | 2,038 | 95,981 | 0 | MIT |
| 4 | lbjlaq/Antigravity-Manager | 1,965 | 31,879 | 47 | NOASSERTION |
| 5 | anthropics/skills | 1,905 | 179,398 | 4 | none |
| 6 | BloopAI/vibe-kanban | 1,761 | 28,245 | 244 | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | DigitalPlatDev/FreeDomain | 1,500 | 202,180 | 0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| 8 | rendercv/rendercv | 1,465 | 17,691 | 36 | MIT |
| 9 | pathwaycom/pathway | 1,410 | 62,195 | 21 | NOASSERTION |
| 10 | pathwaycom/llm-app | 1,410 | 58,861 | 1 | MIT |
1. tw93/Mole
Clean, uninstall, analyze, optimize, and monitor your Mac. Free open-source CLI, plus a native Mac app.
4,387 new stars this week. 199 commits and 36 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Shell, GPL-3.0 license, created Sep 23, 2025.
2. pranshuparmar/witr
Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.
3,883 new stars this week. 31 commits and 8 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Go, Apache-2.0 license, created Dec 20, 2025. Worth noting: created Dec 20, 2025, new this fortnight.
3. ruvnet/RuView
π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection - all without a single pixel of video.
2,038 new stars this week. 0 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Rust, MIT license, created Jun 7, 2025. Worth noting: no commits in the 30 days to the week's end.
4. lbjlaq/Antigravity-Manager
Professional Antigravity Account Manager & Switcher. One-click seamless account switching for Antigravity Tools. Built with Tauri v2 + React (Rust).专业的 Antigravity 账号管理与切换工具。为 Antigravity 提供一键无缝账号切换功能。
1,965 new stars this week. 47 commits and 34 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Rust, NOASSERTION license, created Nov 26, 2025. Worth noting: no standard open-source license.
5. anthropics/skills
Public repository for Agent Skills
1,905 new stars this week. 4 commits and 2 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Python, none license, created Sep 22, 2025. Worth noting: no standard open-source license.
6. BloopAI/vibe-kanban
Get 10X more out of Claude Code, Codex or any coding agent
1,761 new stars this week. 244 commits and 10 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Rust, Apache-2.0 license, created Jun 14, 2025.
7. DigitalPlatDev/FreeDomain
Free domain registration and practical DNS learning resources for everyone.
1,500 new stars this week. 0 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Markdown, AGPL-3.0 license, created May 30, 2024. Worth noting: no commits in the 30 days to the week's end.
8. rendercv/rendercv
Resume builder for academics and engineers
1,465 new stars this week. 36 commits and 14 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Python, MIT license, created Jun 11, 2023.
9. pathwaycom/pathway
Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.
1,410 new stars this week. 21 commits and 6 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Python, NOASSERTION license, created Nov 27, 2022. Worth noting: no standard open-source license.
10. pathwaycom/llm-app
Ready-to-run cloud templates for RAG, AI pipelines, and enterprise search with live data. Docker-friendly.Always in sync with Sharepoint, Google Drive, S3, Kafka, PostgreSQL, real-time data APIs, and more.
1,410 new stars this week. 1 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Jan 1, 2026. Jupyter Notebook, MIT license, created Jul 19, 2023.
The week's story
These are the GitHub repos that gained the most stars in the last week of 2025, from December 26 to January 1. We count down the top five: what each one does, why it climbed, and whether you should try it. Then the five just behind them, and one repo whose numbers do not add up.
Number five. Pathway, with 1,410 new stars. It is a Python framework for streaming data: you write a normal pipeline, and it keeps the results updated as new data arrives, including the data behind a RAG system. It climbed because teams want their AI answers to use live data, not last night's export. Its license is not a standard open-source one, so read the terms first. Verdict: try it, if you run data pipelines.
Number four. Vibe Kanban, from Bloop, with 1,761 new stars. It is a kanban board for coding agents: you plan work as cards, and agents like Claude Code or Codex pick them up and do them. It climbed because engineers were spending their days planning and reviewing agents instead of typing code. But its README today says the project is sunsetting. Verdict: skip it now, but keep the idea.
Number three. Anthropic's skills, with 1,905 new stars. These are Anthropic's own instruction folders that teach Claude a task, like working with documents or spreadsheets, in a repeatable way. It climbed because this was the week engineers started treating skills as something to share. Verdict: try it, and read it before you install it.
Number two. Witr, short for why is this running, with 3,883 new stars, in a repo less than two weeks old. You point it at a process, a port, a container or a file, and it traces the whole chain back to what started it. Every engineer has stared at a mystery process on port 8080. It climbed because it answers that question in one command. Verdict: try it.
Number one. Mole, with 4,387 new stars. It cleans, uninstalls, analyzes and monitors your Mac from the terminal, and it is free. It shipped 199 commits in the month, so it is actively built. It climbed in the week people clean up their machines for the new year. Note that its license is GPL, and there is also a paid Mac app. Verdict: try it, if you are on a Mac.
Also climbing this week: Pathway's own LLM app templates, the OpenCode coding agent, Resemble's Chatterbox speech model, a collection of skills for context engineering, and the Superpowers skills framework.
And one repo whose numbers do not add up. RuView claims to see through walls with WiFi, measuring breathing and heart rate. It gained over 2,000 stars this week, but the public event log shows no commits and no closed issues in the whole month. We make no claim about why. A star is a bookmark, not a review.
So the year started with engineers cleaning up. Tools that show what your machine is doing, and tools that keep your agents in order. The full radar is at kargin-utkin.com.
How this is made: stars, forks, commits, issues and releases are counted from GH Archive, the public record of GitHub events, for the Friday-to-Thursday window. Lists, courses and prompt collections are left out. Descriptions are each project's own. Total stars, licenses and descriptions are as of October 2026.