May 8, 2026 - May 14, 2026

The ten repositories that gained the most stars on GitHub in the week of May 8, 2026 - May 14, 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 May 8, 2026, May 12, 2026, May 13, 2026, May 14, 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	1,520	274,649	20	MIT
2	anthropics/financial-services	1,328	38,532	2	Apache-2.0
3	NousResearch/hermes-agent	1,302	250,752	1,520	MIT
4	Hmbown/Codewhale	1,077	41,033	265	MIT
5	multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills	1,030	216,573	1	none
6	antirez/ds4	1,027	22,906	16	MIT
7	addyosmani/agent-skills	978	100,503	9	MIT
8	obra/superpowers	913	294,410	23	MIT
9	farion1231/cc-switch	906	139,553	39	MIT
10	nexu-io/open-design	846	99,182	928	Apache-2.0

1. mattpocock/skills

Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

1,520 new stars this week. 20 commits and 5 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. Shell, MIT license, created Feb 3, 2026.

2. anthropics/financial-services

No description.

1,328 new stars this week. 2 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. Python, Apache-2.0 license, created Feb 23, 2026.

3. NousResearch/hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you

1,302 new stars this week. 1,520 commits and 173 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. Python, MIT license, created Jul 22, 2025.

4. Hmbown/Codewhale

Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.

1,077 new stars this week. 265 commits and 110 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. Rust, MIT license, created Jan 19, 2026.

5. 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.

1,030 new stars this week. 1 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. Language not stated, none license, created Jan 27, 2026. Worth noting: no standard open-source license.

6. antirez/ds4

DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm

1,027 new stars this week. 16 commits and 4 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. C, MIT license, created May 6, 2026. Worth noting: created May 6, 2026, new this fortnight.

7. addyosmani/agent-skills

Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

978 new stars this week. 9 commits and 1 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. JavaScript, MIT license, created Feb 15, 2026.

8. obra/superpowers

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

913 new stars this week. 23 commits and 11 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. Shell, MIT license, created Oct 9, 2025.

9. farion1231/cc-switch

A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Grok Build & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io

906 new stars this week. 39 commits and 23 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. Rust, MIT license, created Aug 4, 2025.

10. nexu-io/open-design

Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. Local-first desktop app. Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video - real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / DeepSee

846 new stars this week. 928 commits and 59 closed issues in the 30 days to May 14, 2026. TypeScript, Apache-2.0 license, created Apr 28, 2026. Worth noting: created Apr 28, 2026, new this fortnight.

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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.