GitHub Top 10, Week 18 of 2026
Partial data: GitHub's event log missed some days this week.
Apr 24, 2026 - Apr 30, 2026
The ten repositories that gained the most stars on GitHub in the week of Apr 24, 2026 - Apr 30, 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.
Partial data. GitHub's public event log is missing most events on Apr 24, 2026, Apr 27, 2026, Apr 28, 2026, Apr 29, 2026, Apr 30, 2026. Counts for this week are minimums, and a repo whose surge fell on those days may be ranked too low.
| # | Repository | New stars | Stars today | Commits (30 days) | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mattpocock/skills | 3,628 | 274,646 | 14 | MIT |
| 2 | multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills | 3,215 | 216,573 | 2 | none |
| 3 | Alishahryar1/free-claude-code | 2,090 | 56,390 | 34 | NOASSERTION |
| 4 | warpdotdev/warp | 1,845 | 65,346 | 169 | AGPL-3.0 |
| 5 | NousResearch/hermes-agent | 1,786 | 250,751 | 1,435 | MIT |
| 6 | h4ckf0r0day/obscura | 1,319 | 28,251 | 3 | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | Z4nzu/hackingtool | 1,281 | 80,041 | 0 | MIT |
| 8 | refactoringhq/tolaria | 1,147 | 19,951 | 242 | AGPL-3.0 |
| 9 | obra/superpowers | 1,040 | 294,405 | 30 | MIT |
| 10 | google/skills | 868 | 20,708 | 2 | Apache-2.0 |
1. mattpocock/skills
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
3,628 new stars this week. 14 commits and 1 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Shell, MIT license, created Feb 3, 2026.
2. multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills
A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.
3,215 new stars this week. 2 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Language not stated, none license, created Jan 27, 2026. Worth noting: no standard open-source license.
3. Alishahryar1/free-claude-code
Use Claude Code, Codex, VSCode, Pi, and OpenCode (and 6 other harnesses) for free (1.3B+ free tokens) from your terminal, app, IDE, or phone, and now from the browser with native browser sessions (multi-harness + multi-model) like OpenClaw (voice supported + ToS friendly)
2,090 new stars this week. 34 commits and 13 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Python, NOASSERTION license, created Jan 28, 2026. Worth noting: no standard open-source license.
4. warpdotdev/warp
Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
1,845 new stars this week. 169 commits and 2 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Rust, AGPL-3.0 license, created Jul 8, 2021.
5. NousResearch/hermes-agent
The agent that grows with you
1,786 new stars this week. 1,435 commits and 192 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Python, MIT license, created Jul 22, 2025.
6. h4ckf0r0day/obscura
The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping
1,319 new stars this week. 3 commits and 1 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Rust, Apache-2.0 license, created Apr 13, 2026. Worth noting: created Apr 13, 2026, new this fortnight.
7. Z4nzu/hackingtool
ALL IN ONE Hacking Tool For Hackers
1,281 new stars this week. 0 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Python, MIT license, created Apr 11, 2020. Worth noting: no commits in the 30 days to the week's end.
8. refactoringhq/tolaria
Desktop app to manage markdown knowledge bases
1,147 new stars this week. 242 commits and 11 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. TypeScript, AGPL-3.0 license, created Feb 14, 2026.
9. obra/superpowers
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
1,040 new stars this week. 30 commits and 9 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Shell, MIT license, created Oct 9, 2025.
10. google/skills
Agent Skills for Google products and technologies
868 new stars this week. 2 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Apr 30, 2026. Python, Apache-2.0 license, created Mar 31, 2026.
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.