GitHub Top 10, Week 41 of 2026
Oct 5, 2026 - Oct 11, 2026
The ten repositories that gained the most stars on GitHub in the week of Oct 5, 2026 - Oct 11, 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 | Commits (30 days) | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | morluto/rea | 106,492 | 110,137 | 1,724 | MIT |
| 2 | boykopovar/AnyPS5 | 25,151 | 30,373 | 5,608 | GPL-2.0 |
| 3 | mattpocock/skills | 10,330 | 286,389 | 86 | MIT |
| 4 | lexmount/moli | 8,192 | 16,501 | 1,100 | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model | 7,823 | 9,232 | 410 | MIT |
| 6 | cathrynlavery/diagram-design | 7,173 | 50,549 | 124 | MIT |
| 7 | DuarteSantos8/openGym | 6,492 | 9,854 | 1,131 | AGPL-3.0 |
| 8 | tester-army/e2e | 6,440 | 9,109 | 554 | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | DietrichGebert/ponytail | 5,736 | 161,179 | 97 | MIT |
| 10 | debpalash/VoiceStudio | 5,506 | 58,897 | 1,541 | AGPL-3.0 |
1. morluto/rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
106,492 new stars this week. 1,724 commits and 356 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. TypeScript, MIT license, created Apr 14, 2026.
2. boykopovar/AnyPS5
Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows
25,151 new stars this week. 5,608 commits and 374 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. C++, GPL-2.0 license, created Aug 3, 2026.
3. mattpocock/skills
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
10,330 new stars this week. 86 commits and 446 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. Shell, MIT license, created Feb 3, 2026.
4. lexmount/moli
Best headless browser for AI agents. Lite, Fast, High-Compatibility. Built in Rust
8,192 new stars this week. 1,100 commits and 13 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. Rust, Apache-2.0 license, created Aug 10, 2026.
5. Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model
在 dsh 里装上这个插件即可，无需登录、注册或填 API Key，就能使用包括 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash、Kimi K3 在内的前沿模型 - - 完全免费，不限量。 All you do is install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API key - the frontier models are just there, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3 among them. Completely free, with no usage cap.
7,823 new stars this week. 410 commits and 50 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. JavaScript, MIT license, created Sep 24, 2026. Worth noting: created Sep 24, 2026, new this fortnight.
6. cathrynlavery/diagram-design
Editorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory Droid, and Pi. 44 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop.
7,173 new stars this week. 124 commits and 42 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. HTML, MIT license, created Apr 16, 2026.
7. DuarteSantos8/openGym
Self-hosted gym & body-weight tracker - plan routines, log workouts (supersets, warm-ups, cardio), see which muscles are trained, fatigued or detrained, import from FitNotes/Strong/Hevy, passkey login. Your data, your server.
6,492 new stars this week. 1,131 commits and 133 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. JavaScript, AGPL-3.0 license, created Jul 18, 2026.
8. tester-army/e2e
Next generation e2e testing framework for web and mobile apps.
6,440 new stars this week. 554 commits and 53 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. TypeScript, Apache-2.0 license, created Jul 22, 2026.
9. DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
5,736 new stars this week. 97 commits and 134 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. JavaScript, MIT license, created Jun 12, 2026.
10. debpalash/VoiceStudio
VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative - voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.
5,506 new stars this week. 1,541 commits and 267 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 11, 2026. Python, AGPL-3.0 license, created Apr 9, 2026.
The week's story
These are the GitHub repos that gained the most stars in week 41, from October 5 to 11. For the first time, every number here is measured by us, from our own snapshots of GitHub. 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 we cannot explain.
Number five. Ponytail, with 5,736 new stars. It is a skill that makes your coding agent write less code, like the laziest senior developer in the room. Its new version claims about half the code and half the tokens on the same tasks, with more risky logic covered by tests. Those numbers are its own benchmark. Verdict: try it, and measure it on your own repo.
Number four. E2E, from Tester Army, with 6,440 new stars. It is a testing framework for web and mobile apps where you describe a goal in plain language, an agent drives the app to reach it, and you still check the result with normal assertions. It climbed because writing end-to-end tests by hand is the part every team skips. Verdict: try it.
Number three. Diagram Design, with 7,173 new stars. It is a skill that makes your coding agent draw diagrams as one clean HTML and SVG file, in your brand's style, with forty-four diagram types. It climbed because agents explain systems all day, and the diagrams they make by default are ugly. Verdict: try it.
Number two. Moli, with 8,192 new stars. It is a headless browser built for AI agents: it fetches pages, searches the web and automates browser tasks, with a much lighter footprint than a full browser. Over 1,100 commits in a month. Verdict: try it, if your agents read the web.
Number one. Matt Pocock's skills, with 10,330 new stars, on top of more than 270,000. These are the instruction files a well-known TypeScript teacher gives his coding agent every day. It was on this list in September, and it is back at the top. Verdict: try it, but read it first.
Also climbing this week: VoiceStudio, last week's number one. Orca, for running many coding agents side by side. Magpie, one place to point every agent at any model. Archify, for turning plans into interactive diagrams. And HyperFrames from HeyGen, which turns HTML into video.
And one repo whose numbers we cannot explain. REA promises to reverse engineer anything with agents. On October 5 it had about 3,600 stars. On October 11 it had over 110,000. It also has nearly 25,000 forks, and GitHub's own Trending page does not list it at all. It does show real work, with over a thousand commits. We make no claim about what happened. We only show you the numbers, because a star is a bookmark, not a review.
So this week, the skills kept winning, and agents got better tools to browse, test and draw. 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. *