GitHub Top 10, Week 42 of 2026
Oct 12, 2026 - Oct 18, 2026
The ten repositories that gained the most stars on GitHub in the week of Oct 12, 2026 - Oct 18, 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 | debpalash/VoiceStudio | 17,616 | 76,513 | 1,324 | AGPL-3.0 |
| 2 | Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model | 17,239 | 26,471 | 524 | MIT |
| 3 | storytold/artcraft | 16,379 | 33,207 | 18 | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | boykopovar/AnyPS5 | 13,326 | 43,699 | 10,865 | GPL-2.0 |
| 5 | mattpocock/skills | 10,406 | 296,795 | 71 | MIT |
| 6 | NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 7,602 | 91,206 | 292 | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | 6,357 | 253,962 | 3,785 | MIT |
| 8 | heygen-com/hyperframes | 6,111 | 67,158 | 1,272 | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | ifixai-ai/iFixAi | 5,934 | 29,783 | 192 | Apache-2.0 |
| 10 | xerj-org/xerj | 5,141 | 8,750 | 1,325 | 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.
17,616 new stars this week. 1,324 commits and 253 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. Python, AGPL-3.0 license, created Apr 9, 2026.
2. 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.
17,239 new stars this week. 524 commits and 112 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. JavaScript, MIT license, created Sep 24, 2026.
3. storytold/artcraft
ArtCraft is an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers
16,379 new stars this week. 18 commits and 84 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. Rust, Apache-2.0 license, created Mar 31, 2022.
4. boykopovar/AnyPS5
Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows
13,326 new stars this week. 10,865 commits and 757 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. C++, GPL-2.0 license, created Aug 3, 2026.
5. mattpocock/skills
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
10,406 new stars this week. 71 commits and 454 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. Shell, MIT license, created Feb 3, 2026.
6. NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
7,602 new stars this week. 292 commits and 57 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. Java, Apache-2.0 license, created Mar 1, 2019.
7. deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness
DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
6,357 new stars this week. 3,785 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. TypeScript, MIT license, created Aug 13, 2026.
8. heygen-com/hyperframes
Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.
6,111 new stars this week. 1,272 commits and 75 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. TypeScript, Apache-2.0 license, created Mar 10, 2026.
9. 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.
5,934 new stars this week. 192 commits and 0 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. Python, Apache-2.0 license, created Apr 27, 2026.
10. xerj-org/xerj
XERJ is the new way for AI to search data. Its autoindex capability activates agents to know your data without the token waste of grep (1974 tool). One command indexes code, docs, logs and PDFs for search, RAG, security audits and agent memory, using 40x fewer tokens than grep. It's durable and can
5,141 new stars this week. 1,325 commits and 152 closed issues in the 30 days to Oct 18, 2026. Rust, Apache-2.0 license, created Jun 30, 2026.
The week's story
These are the GitHub repos that gained the most stars in week 42, from October 12 to 18. Most numbers are measured by us, from our own snapshots of October 11 and 19. Two come from GitHub's own Trending page. We count down the top five: what each one does, why it climbed, and whether you should try it. Then five more, and a second look at last week's mystery repo.
Number five. DeepSeek Harness, with 6,357 new stars, on top of almost 250,000. It is DeepSeek's own open-source agent harness, where everything is a plugin, and it runs with one npx command in a web UI. Nearly 3,800 commits in a month. It is a developer preview, and the team warns about breaking changes. Verdict: try it, in a sandbox.
Number four. Ghidra, with 7,602 new stars, as reported by GitHub Trending. It is the reverse engineering framework from the NSA, released in 2019: it takes compiled programs apart into readable code. It climbed the same week reverse engineering with agents went viral, and agent tools can use Ghidra as their engine. We cannot prove the link. Verdict: try it, if you read binaries.
Number three. Matt Pocock's skills, with 10,406 new stars, on top of more than 285,000. Last week's number one: the instruction files a well-known TypeScript teacher gives his coding agent every day. Verdict: try it, but read it first.
Number two. ArtCraft, with 16,379 new stars, as reported by GitHub Trending. It calls itself the IDE for artists: you compose in 2D, stage scenes in 3D, then pick the AI model that generates the image or video. The repo is from 2022, with only 18 commits in the last month, so the climb is attention, not a burst of new code. Verdict: try it, if you make images or video.
Number one. VoiceStudio, with 17,616 new stars. It is a local, open-source voice studio: voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing and audiobooks, with an API agents can call. It was number one two weeks ago, number six last week, and it is back on top. Verdict: try it.
Also climbing this week: HyperFrames from HeyGen, which turns HTML into video. iFixAi, for auditing what your AI agents do. XERJ, a new way for AI to search your data. MoneyPrinterTurbo, short videos from a single topic. And Moli, the headless browser for agents.
And a second look at last week's mystery. REA promises to reverse engineer anything with agents. On October 5 it had about 3,600 stars. On October 11, over 110,000. On October 19, over 329,000. It now has more than 83,000 forks, and this week GitHub's Trending page does list it. We still make no claim about what happened. A star is a bookmark, not a review.
So this week, voice and video tools led the chart, and reverse engineering moved into the agent toolbox. 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. *