Coding assistants: tools for developers

Programming assistants, code generation tools and developer copilots. An entry can appear under several use cases when its topics or description provide several explicit signals.

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Ranked by creation date, newest first; undated entries come last. Raw values keep their source-specific window, shown under each tool; a change requires at least two snapshots from the last 7 days.

  1. 1

    Skill
    Active

    LLM agents as your hyperparameter optimizer.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • automl
    • claude-code
    • codex-cli

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Optim-Agent/optim-agent ~/.claude/skills/optim-agent

    936GitHub stars+3 (+0.32 %)
  2. 2

    Skill
    Active

    Feed your agent papers and half-formed ideas — it links them into a system design you can defend. Markdown keeps the record; a visual canvas makes it readable. An Agent Skill for Claude Code & any SKILL.md-compatible agent.

    Python
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • codex

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add tigerless-labs/design-harness

    213GitHub stars+2 (+0.95 %)
  3. 3

    Skill
    Active

    The Fable Workflow: how Claude Fable 5 worked, distilled into skills any model can run, with the eval that keeps it honest. Think / act / prove.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-md

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Sahir619/fable-method ~/.claude/skills/fable-method

    2 272GitHub stars+16 (+0.71 %)
  4. 4

    Skill
    Active

    A browser inside your terminal

    RustLicense: MIT
    • browser
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • cli
    • codex

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-browser ~/.claude/skills/terminal-browser

    2 519GitHub stars+166 (+7.1 %)
  5. 5

    Agent
    Active

    A terminal workbench in pure Rust: shells, persistent sessions, SSH, coding agents. GPU-rendered on Zed's gpui, VT core from Alacritty.

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-agents
    • alacritty
    • claude-code
    • coding-agent
    • cross-platform

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    805GitHub stars+11 (+1.4 %)
  6. 6

    Skill
    Active

    11 installable skills for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Hermes, for finding your unknowns before they get expensive: blindspot pass, brainstorms, interviews, references, plans, notes, pitches, a merge quiz, plus a context audit, agent…

    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • codex

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills ~/.claude/skills/finding-unknowns-skills

    321GitHub stars+4 (+1.3 %)
  7. 7

    MCP
    Active

    Turbocharge Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini & every coding agent: faster, cheaper, with contextual understanding specific to your codebase.

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai-agents
    • anthropic
    • claude-code
    • cli
    • code-graph

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    5 449GitHub stars+435 (+8.7 %)
  8. 8

    Other
    Active

    OkkMax — independent review & directory for AI API relay providers: authenticity checks that catch silent model swaps, uptime monitoring, real user reviews. okkmax.com

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • api-relay
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • gemini

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    256GitHub stars-3 (-1.2 %)
  9. 9

    Skill
    Active

    Turn project work into reusable knowledge — an AI-agent skill for Claude Code & Codex

    ShellLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • knowledge-management

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/iBlinkQ/project-cairn ~/.claude/skills/project-cairn

    219GitHub stars+3 (+1.4 %)
  10. 10

    Skill
    Active

    把 Markdown 一键排成可直接粘进公众号编辑器的精致 HTML —— 6 套精选主题 + 主题生成器 + 双关卡校验。An AI-agent skill that turns Markdown into paste-ready WeChat article HTML.

    HTML
    • agent-skill
    • ai-agent
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • cursor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/isjiamu/gzh-design-skill ~/.claude/skills/gzh-design-skill

    3 474GitHub stars+120 (+3.6 %)
  11. 11

    Skill
    Active

    Forward deployed engineering skills for AI coding agents.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-skills
    • codex
    • codex-skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/suboss87/FDEOps ~/.claude/skills/FDEOps

    214GitHub stars-3 (-1.4 %)
  12. 12

    Skill
    Active

    Multi-tier framework for evaluating AI agent skills with quality gates, semantic overlap detection, synthetic evaluation dataset generation, and live agent evaluation that measures how skills affect agent behavior.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-evaluation
    • agent-security
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-ai
    • benchmark

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillEvaluator ~/.claude/skills/SkillEvaluator

    389GitHub stars+57 (+17.2 %)
  13. 13

    Skill
    Active

    Living project docs for coding agents: keep guides, progress logs, change maps, and handoff context updated as your repo evolves.

    Python
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • codex-skills
    • coding-agent
    • skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/YurunChen/repo-docs-skills ~/.claude/skills/repo-docs-skills

    456GitHub stars-3 (-0.65 %)
  14. 14

    Skill
    Active

    A skill for AI agents: search the web with SearXNG, browse with Camofox, bypass protections with CloakBrowser. Anti-hallucination by design. Self-hosted, free, unlimited.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • ai-agent
    • ai-tools
    • anti-bot

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Johell1NS/browser-search ~/.claude/skills/browser-search

    512GitHub stars+12 (+2.4 %)
  15. 15

    Skill
    Active

    Stop wasting tokens and re-explaining your project every session. Recall gives Claude Code durable memory — entirely offline.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • anthropic
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add raiyanyahya/recall

    744GitHub stars-1 (-0.13 %)
  16. 16

    Skill
    Active

    mission control for agent skills

    GoLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • agent-tools
    • ai-agents
    • ai-tools
    • ai-workflow

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/alvinunreal/lazyskills ~/.claude/skills/lazyskills

    240GitHub stars-1 (-0.41 %)
  17. 17

    Skill
    Active

    Claude Code plugin: run the Antigravity CLI (Gemini) as a collaborating sub-agent with intelligent model routing across the SDLC. Community project; not affiliated with Google/Anthropic.

    ShellLicense: MIT
    • agy-cli
    • antigravity-cli
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • delegate

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add yuting0624/antigravity-for-claude-code

    296GitHub stars+9 (+3.1 %)
  18. 18

    Other
    Active

    Universal provider proxy for OpenAI Codex & Claude Code — use any LLM (Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama…) with Codex CLI, App, SDK, and Claude Code

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai-gateway
    • ai-tools
    • anthropic
    • chatgpt
    • claude

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    13 073GitHub stars+716 (+5.8 %)
  19. 19

    Agent
    Active

    Design visual, review-gated agent loops for Claude Code before you run them.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-loops
    • agentic-workflows
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    707GitHub stars-1 (-0.14 %)
  20. 20

    Skill
    Active

    Give your AI a real, persistent memory. The open-source system plus templates that turn an Obsidian vault into your AI's working memory. No vector database, just markdown.

    • agent-memory
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-memory
    • anthropic

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/jaredrhod/ai-memory-vault ~/.claude/skills/ai-memory-vault

    605GitHub stars+13 (+2.2 %)
  21. 21

    Skill
    Active

    Teach your AI to draw correct, beautiful draw.io diagrams — declarative layout engine, ground-truth stencils, structural validator, vision self-check. AWS · Azure · GCP · Databricks · BPMN. Zero dependencies.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • architecture-diagrams
    • aws
    • azure

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/sparklabx/drawio-ai-kit ~/.claude/skills/drawio-ai-kit

    638GitHub stars+3 (+0.47 %)
  22. 22

    Skill
    Active

    A Boris-style agentic orchestrator TUI that supervises headless Claude Code agents through a gated software-delivery pipeline — pointed at any repository.

    Python
    • agent
    • agent-loop
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-workflow
    • ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/VisionForge-OU/foreman ~/.claude/skills/foreman

    447GitHub starsstable
  23. 23

    Skill
    Active

    The trust layer for agent-to-agent commerce — natural-language mandates, ERC-7710 delegated permissions, x402 payments, escrow, and dispute resolution as one open, catch-all Agent Skill / Claude Code plugin.

    TypeScript
    • a2a
    • adjudication
    • agent-payments
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-commerce

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/internet-court/internet-court-skill ~/.claude/skills/internet-court-skill

    5 262GitHub stars+319 (+6.5 %)

Learning resources

Ranked by creation date, newest first; undated entries come last. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

  1. 1

    engram

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Evidence-based learning engine — first-principles curricula, free-recall verification with receipts, FSRS-scheduled memory, and explorable artifacts. Learn anything; keep it.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • education
    • fsrs
    • learning
    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add nagisanzenin/engram

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 391GitHub stars+15 (+1.1 %)
  2. 2

    awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    67 game-dev skills for AI coding agents — Godot, Unity, Unreal, Phaser, PixiJS, three.js, Bevy, pygame, LÖVE, Roblox. Portable SKILL.md Agent Skills (the format Anthropic launched as Claude Skills), with a router that loads the right skill…

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • antigravity
    • awesome-list
    • claude-code
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    788GitHub stars+112 (+16.6 %)