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GitHub Trending

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Daily digest · No. 2026-10-28

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GitHub Trending — Wednesday 28 October 2026

Source: GitHub Trending, daily (https://github.com/trending?since=daily), checked . GitHub listed 11 repositories; this digest picks 3.

GitHub listed eleven projects this Wednesday morning. Eight had been featured before, six of them within the past week, and none of those six showed a change big enough to bring it back, so today's edition has three picks. DeepTutor leads as a self-hosted AI tutoring workspace built around your own documents. AI Design Skills, GitHub's top entry today, is a single readable landing-page skill for coding agents, and Superpowers returns after eleven days because its 7.0.1 release changed how it plans work before building. The remaining new entry, a collection of model jailbreak prompts, was left out. Curation order reflects practical interest, not GitHub rank. Trending is not a release date or an endorsement.

Curation order, not GitHub rank · Issued · The full list of 11 · Following our picks

The Picks

Picks are listed in curation order, not GitHub’s rank; each card shows the rank GitHub displayed when the page was checked. Stars measure attention, not security, quality or fitness for use, and no project here was installed or run. “Stars today” is GitHub’s own displayed figure for its daily window, not an audited rolling 24-hour count.

Pick 1 · Education / AI agents GitHub rank #9 of 11

HKUDS/DeepTutor

Python · License: Apache-2.0

What it does. An agent-native learning workspace you run yourself: chat tutoring, quizzes, guided Mastery Paths, research, visualisations, course study and immersive reading of PDFs, EPUBs and YouTube or Bilibili videos, grounded in knowledge bases built from your own documents, GitHub repositories, documentation sites or an Obsidian vault. It runs as a local web app and CLI, installed from PyPI, from source or with Docker, using the model providers you configure.

Caveat. A large, fast-moving system that needs Python 3.11-3.14 plus Node.js 20 or later, or Docker, and your own LLM, embedding and search providers, whose usage you pay for; the release notes say memory compression has its own model cost. The README's quick start suggests pasting a setup prompt into a coding agent, which lets that agent act on your machine, and its file sandbox is only best effort without Docker or a system sandbox. Teaching-quality claims are the maintainers'. We did not install or test it.

Attention, not endorsement

GitHub showed
“1,598 stars today” as displayed for GitHub’s daily window; not an audited rolling 24-hour count
Total stars
46,603 at the metadata check

Primary evidence

  1. https://github.com/HKUDS/DeepTutor
  2. https://api.github.com/repos/HKUDS/DeepTutor
  3. https://github.com/HKUDS/DeepTutor/releases/tag/v1.6.15
  4. https://github.com/HKUDS/DeepTutor/blob/main/LICENSE
  5. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26962

Metadata checked . README read from https://api.github.com/repos/HKUDS/DeepTutor/readme, checked .

Pick 2 · Design / AI coding GitHub rank #1 of 11

elayadesign/ai-design-skills

Language not shown · License: MIT

What it does. A collection of design skills for AI coding tools: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf and anything that reads a Markdown rules file. It currently holds one skill, landing-page-design, a 19 KB SKILL.md that takes a landing page from intake questions to a shipped page: page structure, conversion copy, SEO, and a visual system for type, spacing, corner radius, motion and states, ending in a checklist.

Caveat. It is a single skill so far: a design-to-motion skill added on 25 October moved to a separate repository two days later, and the redesign skill lives in another. The guidance is one designer's opinions, including a mandatory tagline-reveal section, and adapts parts of the MIT-licensed taste-skill. GitHub shows no language because the repository is Markdown only, and there are no releases or tests. We did not use it.

Attention, not endorsement

GitHub showed
“1,395 stars today” as displayed for GitHub’s daily window; not an audited rolling 24-hour count
Total stars
9,991 at the metadata check

Primary evidence

  1. https://github.com/elayadesign/ai-design-skills
  2. https://api.github.com/repos/elayadesign/ai-design-skills
  3. https://github.com/elayadesign/ai-design-skills/blob/main/skills/landing-page-design/SKILL.md
  4. https://github.com/elayadesign/ai-design-skills/blob/main/LICENSE

Metadata checked . README read from https://api.github.com/repos/elayadesign/ai-design-skills/readme, checked .

Pick 3 · AI coding / developer workflow GitHub rank #4 of 11

obra/superpowers

Shell · License: MIT

What it does. An agentic skills framework and development methodology for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Antigravity: skills that walk the agent through brainstorming a design, writing a plan, test-driven implementation, subagent-driven execution and code review, installed as a plugin from official marketplaces or from this repository.

Caveat. More questions and design docs add latency and token cost, and the maintainers say they are still tuning brainstorming. The test figures come from their own scenario, not an independent benchmark. Installation differs per harness, the optional visual companion has telemetry you can switch off, and the project no longer accepts agent-written PRs for other people's issues unless a maintainer asks. We did not install or test it.

Attention, not endorsement

GitHub showed
“617 stars today” as displayed for GitHub’s daily window; not an audited rolling 24-hour count
Total stars
306,705 at the metadata check

Primary evidence

  1. https://github.com/obra/superpowers
  2. https://api.github.com/repos/obra/superpowers
  3. https://github.com/obra/superpowers/releases/tag/v7.0.1
  4. https://github.com/obra/superpowers/releases/tag/v7.0.0
  5. https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/LICENSE

Metadata checked . README read from https://api.github.com/repos/obra/superpowers/readme, checked .

The Full List

Every repository GitHub listed, in GitHub’s order, with the figures it displayed when the page was checked (): 3 picked today, 7 covered in an earlier digest, 1 not covered. For projects covered before, growth compares the total stars at our first pick with today’s displayed total.

  1. #1 elayadesign/ai-design-skills

    language not shown · 1,395 stars today · 9,990 stars in total

    Picked today — Pick 2 above.

  2. #2 Nutlope/hallmark

    CSS · 2,830 stars today · 39,470 stars in total

    Anti-AI-slop design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

    Covered before — first picked 25 Oct 2026 at 32,498 stars; now 39,470: +6,972 stars (+21.5%) in 3 days, about 2,324 a day.

  3. #3 nightly-labs/openbot

    TypeScript · 777 stars today · 2,685 stars in total

    A local-first desktop workspace for persistent AI teammates. Run Codex, Claude, and Grok with dedicated workspaces, task queues, file sharing, browser control, and agent-to-agent collaboration.

    Covered before — first picked 27 Oct 2026 at 1,697 stars; now 2,685: +988 stars (+58.2%) in 1 day.

  4. #4 obra/superpowers

    Shell · 617 stars today · 306,703 stars in total

    An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

    Picked today — Pick 3 above; first covered 17 Oct 2026 at 300,784 stars; now 306,703: +5,919 stars (+2.0%) in 11 days, about 538 a day.

  5. #5 pbakaus/impeccable

    Rust · 1,449 stars today · 90,997 stars in total

    The design vocabulary for your coding agent. Steer with polish and bolder, review with critique and audit, catch AI slop before it ships.

    Covered before — first picked 25 Oct 2026 at 86,664 stars; now 90,997: +4,333 stars (+5.0%) in 3 days, about 1,444 a day.

  6. #6 makecindy/cindy

    TypeScript · 1,465 stars today · 7,691 stars in total

    Consider it done. The open-source AI agent that works out of the box · 想到，就能做到。开源、开箱即用的 AI Agent。

    Covered before — first picked 25 Oct 2026 at 4,269 stars; now 7,691: +3,422 stars (+80.2%) in 3 days, about 1,141 a day.

  7. #7 gitroomhq/postiz-app

    TypeScript · 951 stars today · 39,647 stars in total

    The ultimate agentic social media scheduling tool

    Covered before — first picked 27 Oct 2026 at 38,679 stars; now 39,647: +968 stars (+2.5%) in 1 day.

  8. #8 affaan-m/ECC

    JavaScript · 1,165 stars today · 291,121 stars in total

    The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

    Covered before — first picked 16 Oct 2026 at 280,607 stars; now 291,121: +10,514 stars (+3.7%) in 12 days, about 876 a day.

  9. #9 HKUDS/DeepTutor

    Python · 1,598 stars today · 46,600 stars in total

    DeepTutor: Lifelong Personalized Tutoring. https://deeptutor.info/.

    Picked today — Pick 1 above.

  10. #10 JetBrains/thinkrail

    TypeScript · 1,204 stars today · 4,343 stars in total

    Vibe code with pi in a lightweight, real IDE that customises itself around the way you work — The Vibe You Need

    Covered before — first picked 26 Oct 2026 at 2,081 stars; now 4,343: +2,262 stars (+108.7%) in 2 days, about 1,131 a day.

  11. #11 togg53192-cmd/jailbreaks

    language not shown · 902 stars today · 5,995 stars in total

    LIST OF ALL MY JAILBREAKS

    Not covered yet.

Following Our Picks

Every project picked in an earlier digest, biggest growth first. “Then” is the total at our first pick’s metadata check; “now” is GitHub’s API star count checked . Growth measures attention, not quality or safety.

ProjectFirst pickedStars thenStars nowChangePer daySince last check
morluto/rea15 Oct 2026250,334398,764+148,430 (+59.3%)11,418+5,453 since 27 Oct 2026
debpalash/VoiceStudio (picked 3 times)15 Oct 202667,10691,854+24,748 (+36.9%)1,904+1,930 since 27 Oct 2026
MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search (picked 2 times)17 Oct 202648,78966,901+18,112 (+37.1%)1,647+449 since 27 Oct 2026
cloudflare/security-audit-skill21 Oct 202634,63850,570+15,932 (+46.0%)2,276+1,663 since 27 Oct 2026
stablyai/orca18 Oct 202696,443108,322+11,879 (+12.3%)1,188+965 since 27 Oct 2026
xerj-org/xerj16 Oct 20265,93617,192+11,256 (+189.6%)938+268 since 27 Oct 2026
affaan-m/ECC (on today’s list, #8)16 Oct 2026280,607291,123+10,516 (+3.7%)876+1,029 since 27 Oct 2026
hmjz100/LinkSwift17 Oct 202623,96133,490+9,529 (+39.8%)866+2,023 since 27 Oct 2026
DietrichGebert/ponytail21 Oct 2026170,170178,414+8,244 (+4.8%)1,178+981 since 27 Oct 2026
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra15 Oct 202687,83795,155+7,318 (+8.3%)563+335 since 27 Oct 2026
Nutlope/hallmark (on today’s list, #2)25 Oct 202632,49839,472+6,974 (+21.5%)2,325+2,303 since 27 Oct 2026
Graphify-Labs/graphify21 Oct 2026130,551137,180+6,629 (+5.1%)947+800 since 27 Oct 2026
anomalyco/opencode18 Oct 2026216,421222,492+6,071 (+2.8%)607+407 since 27 Oct 2026
obra/superpowers (picked 2 times) (on today’s list, #4)17 Oct 2026300,784306,706+5,922 (+2.0%)538+953 since 27 Oct 2026
anthropics/claude-plugins-official16 Oct 202639,40744,993+5,586 (+14.2%)466+190 since 27 Oct 2026
Comfy-Org/ComfyUI (picked 2 times)18 Oct 2026138,516143,640+5,124 (+3.7%)512+261 since 27 Oct 2026
HKUDS/CLI-Anything15 Oct 202652,71457,498+4,784 (+9.1%)368+209 since 27 Oct 2026
pbakaus/impeccable (on today’s list, #5)25 Oct 202686,66490,999+4,335 (+5.0%)1,445+1,454 since 27 Oct 2026
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills16 Oct 202650,75155,004+4,253 (+8.4%)354+176 since 27 Oct 2026
ruvnet/ruflo (picked 2 times)17 Oct 202675,72079,838+4,118 (+5.4%)374+222 since 27 Oct 2026
LibreSpark/LibreTV16 Oct 202618,26422,379+4,115 (+22.5%)343+158 since 27 Oct 2026
akitaonrails/ai-memory (picked 2 times)18 Oct 202610,39514,160+3,765 (+36.2%)376+279 since 27 Oct 2026
makecindy/cindy (on today’s list, #6)25 Oct 20264,2697,692+3,423 (+80.2%)1,141+811 since 27 Oct 2026
mksglu/context-mode15 Oct 202629,34632,588+3,242 (+11.0%)249+120 since 27 Oct 2026
xtool-org/xtool15 Oct 202611,14113,977+2,836 (+25.5%)218+135 since 27 Oct 2026
vxcontrol/pentagi15 Oct 202629,88632,607+2,721 (+9.1%)209+68 since 27 Oct 2026
anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins21 Oct 202630,88933,503+2,614 (+8.5%)373+213 since 27 Oct 2026
TauricResearch/TradingAgents26 Oct 2026114,951117,499+2,548 (+2.2%)1,274+916 since 27 Oct 2026
JetBrains/thinkrail (on today’s list, #10)26 Oct 20262,0814,346+2,265 (+108.8%)1,132+1,099 since 27 Oct 2026
luongnv89/claude-howto23 Oct 202643,46645,655+2,189 (+5.0%)438+244 since 27 Oct 2026
shiyu-coder/Kronos20 Oct 202641,84043,970+2,130 (+5.1%)266+81 since 27 Oct 2026
android/skills17 Oct 20268,1499,936+1,787 (+21.9%)162+78 since 27 Oct 2026
headroomlabs-ai/headroom20 Oct 202676,37078,070+1,700 (+2.2%)212+108 since 27 Oct 2026
pollen-robotics/microduck25 Oct 202611,15412,811+1,657 (+14.9%)552+244 since 27 Oct 2026
Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu24 Oct 20267,0188,592+1,574 (+22.4%)394+284 since 27 Oct 2026
AgriciDaniel/claude-seo26 Oct 202621,32722,893+1,566 (+7.3%)783+571 since 27 Oct 2026
NVIDIA/OpenShell24 Oct 202618,93420,354+1,420 (+7.5%)355+217 since 27 Oct 2026
vllm-project/vllm21 Oct 202694,53295,735+1,203 (+1.3%)172+78 since 27 Oct 2026
withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy20 Oct 20266,2827,427+1,145 (+18.2%)143+35 since 27 Oct 2026
supabase/supabase22 Oct 2026113,145114,220+1,075 (+1.0%)179+142 since 27 Oct 2026
SnailSploit/Claude-Red24 Oct 20268,6239,647+1,024 (+11.9%)256+163 since 27 Oct 2026
Panniantong/Agent-Reach27 Oct 2026104,122105,132+1,010 (+1.0%)1,010—
nightly-labs/openbot (on today’s list, #3)27 Oct 20261,6972,688+991 (+58.4%)991—
gitroomhq/postiz-app (on today’s list, #7)27 Oct 202638,67939,649+970 (+2.5%)970—
anthropics/claude-code20 Oct 2026152,763153,643+880 (+0.6%)110+139 since 27 Oct 2026
mlabonne/llm-course18 Oct 202683,95984,732+773 (+0.9%)77+4 since 27 Oct 2026
Meloong-Git/PCL23 Oct 20268,7779,392+615 (+7.0%)123+41 since 27 Oct 2026
twentyhq/twenty22 Oct 202659,34859,959+611 (+1.0%)102+111 since 27 Oct 2026
alchaincyf/huashu-design27 Oct 202627,28627,831+545 (+2.0%)545—
coollabsio/coolify26 Oct 202664,67565,100+425 (+0.7%)212+115 since 27 Oct 2026
php/php-src23 Oct 202641,29241,699+407 (+1.0%)81+13 since 27 Oct 2026
OpenBMB/VoxCPM24 Oct 202640,36240,758+396 (+1.0%)99+52 since 27 Oct 2026
NVIDIA/SkillSpector27 Oct 202622,46322,819+356 (+1.6%)356—
google-gemini/gemini-cli25 Oct 2026108,241108,589+348 (+0.3%)116+27 since 27 Oct 2026
fastapi/fastapi23 Oct 2026103,901104,213+312 (+0.3%)62−37 since 27 Oct 2026
lightseekorg/tokenspeed16 Oct 20262,5602,818+258 (+10.1%)22+10 since 27 Oct 2026
nodejs/node24 Oct 2026122,952123,114+162 (+0.1%)40−15 since 27 Oct 2026
aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws25 Oct 20263,2093,320+111 (+3.5%)37+20 since 27 Oct 2026

Source coverage & colophon

Source

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Repositories listed
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Coverage notes

  • All 11 listing entries were inspected. Exact primary public GitHub repository metadata and recent releases were checked for all 11 at about 07:01 UTC, and README files for the three picks and the other new entries; all were active and unarchived. Ten had an API-detected license; togg53192-cmd/jailbreaks had none.
  • Six entries featured in the previous seven days were left out without a material change: nightly-labs/openbot and gitroomhq/postiz-app (27 October), JetBrains/thinkrail (26 October), Nutlope/hallmark, pbakaus/impeccable and makecindy/cindy (25 October). Since those cards they show patch releases, nightly or beta builds, new themes or no new release. Impeccable's skill 4.8.0 of 26 October now checks engine downloads against digests committed with the skill, which narrows one caveat on our card.
  • affaan-m/ECC (featured 16 October) was not repeated: its latest release, v2.2.3 of 1 October, predates that card. obra/superpowers (featured 17 October) returns because of v7.0.1, released on 21 October, after that card.
  • togg53192-cmd/jailbreaks, a collection of prompts written to override model safety policies, was not picked: GitHub detects no license, and its purpose is to defeat safeguards rather than to serve as a practical tool.
  • The preceding seven calendar dates, 21-27 October, were checked for local history; all seven editions exist.
  • The official listing was captured at 08:00:34 Europe/Paris. Literal stars-today labels are GitHub's displayed period figures; API total stars and README evidence were checked separately at the times shown per card. They are not an independently audited rolling 24-hour growth measurement.
  • Feature, performance and quality claims are the maintainers' own, including Superpowers' test-scenario figures. No candidate code, installer, skill, plugin, setup prompt or model was installed, downloaded or run, and none of this is a security audit or endorsement.

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