Sep 28, 2026 - Oct 4, 2026

The ten repositories that gained the most stars on GitHub in the week of Sep 28, 2026 - Oct 4, 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.

Where these numbers come from. Weekly stars here are GitHub Trending's own weekly figures (reported, not measured by us); repos created inside the week show their total.

#	Repository	New stars	Stars	Commits (30 days)	License
1	debpalash/VoiceStudio	14,689	53,391	1,903	AGPL-3.0
2	vectorize-io/hindsight	10,623	45,681	534	MIT
3	paperclipai/paperclip	8,732	97,347	591	MIT
4	NVIDIA/OpenShell	5,996	14,931	314	Apache-2.0
5	KKKKhazix/AIHOT	5,891	5,891	55	MIT
6	rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch	4,904	64,213	56	MIT
7	Panniantong/Agent-Reach	4,789	91,343	1	MIT
8	ifixai-ai/iFixAi	4,754	20,743	36	Apache-2.0
9	mvschwarz/openrig	4,251	5,063	668	Apache-2.0
10	pbakaus/impeccable	4,242	76,698	175	Apache-2.0

1. debpalash/VoiceStudio

VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative - voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.

14,689 new stars this week. 1,903 commits and 368 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. Python, AGPL-3.0 license, created Apr 9, 2026.

2. vectorize-io/hindsight

Hindsight: Agent Memory That Learns

10,623 new stars this week. 534 commits and 218 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. Python, MIT license, created Oct 30, 2025.

3. paperclipai/paperclip

The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

8,732 new stars this week. 591 commits and 71 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. TypeScript, MIT license, created Mar 2, 2026.

4. NVIDIA/OpenShell

OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.

5,996 new stars this week. 314 commits and 349 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. Rust, Apache-2.0 license, created Feb 24, 2026.

5. KKKKhazix/AIHOT

一个自己找热点、自己写日报的网站框架。把信源和精选标准换成你的，它就是你的行业热点站。

5,891 new stars this week. 55 commits and 16 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. TypeScript, MIT license, created Sep 28, 2026. Worth noting: created Sep 28, 2026, new this fortnight.

6. rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch

Learn it. Build it. Ship it for others.

4,904 new stars this week. 56 commits and 18 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. Python, MIT license, created Mar 18, 2026.

7. Panniantong/Agent-Reach

Give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet. Read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu - one CLI, zero API fees.

4,789 new stars this week. 1 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. Python, MIT license, created Feb 24, 2026.

8. ifixai-ai/iFixAi

Independent Auditing of AI Agents. Run by human or the agent itself, to answer the most crucial question in the AI Agent Economy. Is the agent doing what is supposed to do? With iFixAi you can have this answer in less than 120 seconds.

4,754 new stars this week. 36 commits and 1 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. Python, Apache-2.0 license, created Apr 27, 2026.

9. mvschwarz/openrig

Build your own network of agents from Claude Code, Codex and Pi: persistent teams with roles, shared context and owned work.

4,251 new stars this week. 668 commits and 140 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. TypeScript, Apache-2.0 license, created Apr 1, 2026.

10. pbakaus/impeccable

The design language that makes your AI harness better at design.

4,242 new stars this week. 175 commits and 71 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 4, 2026. JavaScript, Apache-2.0 license, created Nov 16, 2025.

The week's story

These are the GitHub repos that gained the most stars in week 40, from September 28 to October 4. We count down the top five: what each one does, why it climbed, and whether you should try it. Then five more, and one repo whose numbers do not add up. This week's star counts are GitHub Trending's own figures.

Number five. AIHOT, with about 5,900 stars, all of them this week, because it went public on September 28. It is the engine behind a Chinese AI news site: it collects sources, has a model score every item twice, groups stories about the same event, and writes a daily brief. The author says he is a designer, not a professional developer, and rebuilt it with AI. Then he open-sourced everything, including every prompt and every threshold. Verdict: try it, if you run a news or research feed.

Number four. OpenShell, from NVIDIA, with about 6,000 new stars. It is a runtime for AI agents that lets them read files, install packages and call APIs without handing them your whole machine and your secrets. It climbed in a week when agents breaking out of their limits were in the news again. Verdict: watch it. It is young, but it is NVIDIA, and it is aimed at exactly the right problem.

Number three. Paperclip, with about 8,700 new stars. It is the dashboard for running a team of AI agents like a company: goals, budgets and costs in one place. It was number five on our radar last week, and it kept climbing, with nearly 600 commits in a month. Verdict: try it.

Number two. Hindsight, from Vectorize, with about 10,600 new stars. It gives agents a memory that learns from past runs. Last week it was number three with about 4,900 stars. This week it more than doubled. Remember that its benchmarks are the company's own. Verdict: try it, if your agents keep relearning the same facts.

Number one. VoiceStudio, with about 14,700 new stars. It does what ElevenLabs does, on your own machine: voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation and audiobooks, in hundreds of languages. It also has a local API, so agents and scripts can use it. Nearly 1,900 commits in a month. Note that it is AGPL licensed. Verdict: try it, if you make anything with a voice.

Also climbing this week: iFixAi, for auditing AI agents. OpenRig, for building teams of coding agents. Impeccable, a design language for AI harnesses. DBX, a small database client for over a hundred databases. And HyperFrames from HeyGen, which turns HTML into video.

And one repo whose numbers do not add up. Agent Reach promises to give your AI agent eyes on the whole internet. It gained about 4,800 stars this week, and it has over 90,000 in total, but it shows one commit in the last thirty days. We make no claim about why. A star is a bookmark, not a review.

So this week, agents got a safe place to run, a memory and a manager, and voice went local. The full radar is at kargin-utkin.com.

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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. *