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Rising on GitHub

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

The repositories gaining the most stars, as GitHub's own Trending page counts them. A star is a bookmark, not a review: what rises here is what developers noticed, a signal of a tool or an idea catching on.

Biggest jump this week: morluto/rea, +248,962 stars.

Languages this week

  1. +248,962stars this week

    morluto/rea

    Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

    New to the listTypeScript299,847 stars in all
    README

    REA: Reverse Engineer Anything

    Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

    See a feature you like. Understand how it works, down to the binary level.

    npx rea-agents setup

    See a feature in an app that you want in your own product? Ask your agent to investigate it with REA. It can inspect the app without its source code, explain how the feature works, show the evidence, and build a version for your project.

    REA connects your agent to tools for inspecting native binaries, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET assemblies, and websites. You can also use the same tools from your terminal. Analysis runs locally, and results include the evidence and…

  2. +20,518stars this week

    boykopovar/AnyPS5

    Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows

    2 weeks on itC++40,516 stars in all
    README

    About

    Tool for automatic executables porting to Linux and Windows.

    Includes a relinker that converts executable to the target system's native format and implementations of system prx libraries suitable for dynamic linking. No emulation or separate runtime process.

    Usage, Build instructions, Technical debt of the project, code style conventions, contributing

    Status

    • System libraries: percentage of the functions known to the project so far (declared in core/libs/prx), not of every PS5 system function. The total grows as more functions are declared.

    List of verified games

    Dreaming Sarah (2D platformer) runs at a stable 60 fps on a GTX 1050 Ti / i5-7500 3.4GHz.

  3. +20,267stars this week

    storytold/artcraft

    ArtCraft is an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers

    New to the listRust31,225 stars in all
    README

    ArtCraft

    The IDE for artists.

    https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7339bd09-3e0d-44a7-a024-af9de64e4c11

    Watch the two-minute ArtCraft demo on YouTube

    ArtCraft is the IDE for interactive AI image and video creation. Compose in 2D, stage scenes in 3D, and choose the models that fit your work. Turn prompting into crafting with visual tools for precise, repeatable results.

    Show, Don't Tell: Advanced Crafting Features

    Artists need control over composition, character identity, and camera placement. Build the scene before you generate it. Click any preview to view it at full size.

    Place virtual actors in a consistent environment and plan multiple shots in the same room. | |

  4. +11,937stars this week

    mattpocock/skills

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

    2 weeks on itShell294,571 stars in all
    README

    Skills For Real Engineers

    My agent skills that I use every day to do real engineering - not vibe coding.

    Developing real applications is hard. Approaches like GSD, BMAD, and Spec-Kit try to help by owning the process. But while doing so, they take away your control and make bugs in the process hard to resolve.

    These skills are designed to be small, easy to adapt, and composable. They work with any model. They're based on decades of engineering experience. Hack around with them. Make them your own. Enjoy.

    If you want to keep up with changes to these skills, and any new ones I create, you can join ~60,000 other devs on my newsletter:

    Sign Up To The Newsletter

    Installation (30-second setup)

  5. +9,024stars this week

    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.

    New to the listHTML56,714 stars in all
    README

    New in 2.0 — the Loop: flywheels with a shared-memory hub. The dashed lines are the write-backs.

    New in 2.3: semantic system patterns and optional accessible motion, while static output stays the default.

    New in 2.5.10: ten more layout grammars — Sankey, fishbone, Wardley map, kanban, user journey, deployment, dependency graph, UML class, story map, and database schema.

    Editorial diagram types for Claude Code, Codex, Factory Droid, Pi, and Agent Skills-compatible hosts. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop. Semantic patterns describe behavior separately from layout, so a queue, policy trace, or trust boundary can use the nearest existing type without expanding the type…

  6. +7,510stars this week

    NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

    Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

    New to the listJava89,960 stars in all
    README

    Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering Framework

    Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate. This framework includes a suite of full-featured, high-end software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting, along with hundreds of other features. Ghidra supports a wide variety of processor instruction sets and executable formats and can be run in both user-interactive and automated modes. Users may also develop their own Ghidra extension components…

  7. +5,601stars this week

    heygen-com/hyperframes

    Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

    3 weeks on itTypeScript65,637 stars in all
    README

    Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

    HyperFrames is an open-source framework for turning HTML, CSS, media, and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 videos. Use it locally with the CLI, from AI coding agents with skills, or as the rendering core behind hosted authoring workflows.

    Quick Start

    With an AI coding agent

    For Claude Code, install the versioned plugin:

    Enable auto-update for the hyperframes marketplace in /plugin → Marketplaces, then use /hyperframes:hyperframes. See the plugin guide for Copilot, VS Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, updates, and migration.

    For standalone skills (including OpenCode), use:

    Try a prompt like:

  8. +4,207stars this week

    mksglu/context-mode

    Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP + hooks.

    New to the listTypeScript30,409 stars in all
    README

    Context Mode

    The other half of the context problem.

    Used across teams at

    The Problem

    Every MCP tool call dumps raw data into your context window. A Playwright snapshot costs 56 KB. Twenty GitHub issues cost 59 KB. One access log — 45 KB. After 30 minutes, 40% of your context is gone. And when the agent compacts the conversation to free space, it forgets which files it was editing, what tasks are in progress, and what you last asked for. On top of that, the agent wastes output tokens on filler, pleasantries, and verbose explanations — burning context from both sides.

    How Context Mode Solves It

    Context Mode is an MCP server that solves all four sides of this problem:

  9. +2,328stars this week

    anthropics/claude-plugins-official

    Official, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.

    New to the listPython41,186 stars in all
    README

    Claude Code Plugins Directory

    A curated directory of high-quality plugins for Claude Code.

    Structure

    • /plugins - Internal plugins developed and maintained by Anthropic

    • /external_plugins - Third-party plugins from partners and the community

    Installation

    Plugins can be installed directly from this marketplace via Claude Code's plugin system.

    To install, run /plugin install {plugin-name}@claude-plugins-official

    or browse for the plugin in /plugin > Discover

    Contributing

    Internal Plugins

    Internal plugins are developed by Anthropic team members. See /plugins/example-plugin for a reference implementation.

    External Plugins

    Third-party partners can submit plugins for inclusion in the…

  10. +779stars this week

    ranxianglei/billion-context

    A context-compression plugin for small context windows (a 100K context is enough), token savings (5x fewer tokens), and month-long single sessions (billions of tokens).上下文压缩插件,兼顾小窗口(100k上下文足矣)省token(省5倍token)和超长会话(数月级别几十亿token单会话)。billion-context is all you need

    2 weeks on itTypeScript1,628 stars in all
    README

    billion-context

    English | 中文

    Context-compression plugin — billion-context is all you need.

    small context windows (100K is enough) · 5× fewer tokens · month-long single sessions (billions of tokens) · high compression quality

    npm install -g billion-context --prefix=~/.local

    Community

    QQ Group: 1056132097 (full) 1108730198 (open)

    Paper / Preprint

    • Model-Driven Incremental Hierarchical Compression: Training-Free Multi-Generational Context Management for Long-Lived Coding Agents (English, v0.2)

    A production-scale longitudinal study: 4.5 months, three hosts, 174,327 model calls, 18.76B cumulative input tokens (~24.7B across all hosts), zero window violations on 204,800-token models,…

9 open-source apps you can self-host

Our list of 2026-10-16: each project's own README names the product it's an alternative to (or says it's self-hosted); the licence is its repository's own. Self-hosting means you run it, update it and back it up yourself.

  1. Coolify alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel · Apache-2.0
  2. Typesense alternative to Algolia · GPL-3.0
  3. Jellyfin alternative to Emby and Plex · GPL-2.0
  4. FreeScout alternative to Zendesk & Help Scout · AGPL-3.0
  5. Lemmy alternative to Reddit · AGPL-3.0
  6. PsiTransfer alternative to Dropbox, WeTransfer · BSD-2-Clause
  7. Headscale alternative to Tailscale control server · BSD-3-Clause
  8. LinkStack alternative to Linktree · AGPL-3.0
  9. Authgear alternative to Auth0 / Clerk / Firebase Auth · Apache-2.0