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
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    AI Agent Skills for Chinese Knowledge Workers: iMandalArt, FIRE, planning, and publishing workflows for Claude Code, Codex, and LLM agents.

    Python
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • knowledge-management

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    259GitHub stars+1 (+0.39 %)
  2. 2

    Skill
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    司南：个性化 AI 任务总控 Skills 系统 /COMPASS: Personal Alignment Skills OS for AI Agents

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-memory
    • agent-skill
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • ai-coding-agent

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills ~/.claude/skills/compass-skills

    718GitHub stars+14 (+2.0 %)
  3. 3

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    Codebase harness + loop engineer

    Python
    • agent-harness
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/AI-Builder-Club/skills ~/.claude/skills/skills

    1 231GitHub stars+18 (+1.5 %)
  4. 4

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    The OKF toolkit for Claude Code — author, maintain, validate & visualize Open Knowledge Format bundles. Plugin, agent skills, and a GitHub Action.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • developer-tools

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add scaccogatto/okf-skills

    353GitHub stars+9 (+2.6 %)
  5. 5

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    Delegate a coding task to a separate coding agent CLI, review the diff, land the commit yourself — one per implementer.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-coding-agent
    • antigravity
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skills ~/.claude/skills/delegate-skills

    1 589GitHub stars+226 (+16.6 %)
  6. 6

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    illo skill — an AI agent skill that turns ideas and articles into original print-style editorial illustrations, starring a recurring mascot. 30+ characters packs, with ability to create your own.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • illustration
    • image-generation
    • skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/tmchow/illo-skill ~/.claude/skills/illo-skill

    369GitHub stars+13 (+3.7 %)
  7. 7

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    Where people and agents build in tune.

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-collaboration
    • agent-orchestration
    • agent-workspace
    • agentic-ai
    • agentic-workflow

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    3 666GitHub stars+141 (+4.0 %)
  8. 8

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    Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add DietrichGebert/ponytail

    121 885GitHub stars+7 647 (+6.7 %)
  9. 9

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    Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from any device.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-framework
    • agent-governance
    • agent-orchestration
    • agents
    • ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    9 631GitHub stars+250 (+2.7 %)
  10. 10

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    AI agents can generate code, but they still struggle to understand what they build. Reticle gives them runtime perception of web & desktop applications.

    TypeScript
    • agent-skill
    • agent-skills
    • agent-testing
    • agent-verification
    • ai-testing-tool

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/reticlehq/reticle ~/.claude/skills/reticle

    416GitHub stars+47 (+12.7 %)
  11. 11

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    An AI-agent skill that generates browser-editable presentations from multiple visual themes, exportable to HTML, PDF, and PPTX.

    JavaScriptLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • agent-skill
    • ai-agent
    • ai-ppt
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/chuspeeism/dashi-ppt-skill ~/.claude/skills/dashi-ppt-skill

    7 360GitHub stars+793 (+12.1 %)
  12. 12

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    Agent skills for useful HTML artifacts, wireframes, interactive prototypes, plans, and diagrams.

    HTMLLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • html-artifacts
    • html-prototype

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/plannotator/effective-html ~/.claude/skills/effective-html

    2 845GitHub stars+297 (+11.7 %)
  13. 13

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    Apple's official Agent Skills exported from Xcode 27 — SwiftUI, UIKit modernization, Swift Testing, C bounds-safety, and security hardening for AI coding agents.

    Python
    • agent-skills
    • apple
    • claude-code
    • ios
    • swift

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/superagents-lab/xcode27-skills ~/.claude/skills/xcode27-skills

    300GitHub stars+5 (+1.7 %)
  14. 14

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    Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • agentic-ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-coding
    • anthropic
    • automation

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    10 840GitHub stars+130 (+1.2 %)
  15. 15

    MCP
    Active

    Stop re-explaining your data to your AI every session. The individual-analyst context layer, delivered over MCP (Claude Code / Cursor / Codex).

    TypeScript
    • ai-agents
    • analytics
    • claude-code
    • context-engineering
    • cursor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    92GitHub stars-5 (-5.2 %)
  16. 16

    MCP
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    把中文全渠道内容（抖音 / B站 / 小红书 / 公众号 / X / 播客）采集进个人知识库的 13 个 AI Skill：图文存图、视频转文字稿、字幕优先免 GPU，附带知识库 MCP server。 ｜ Ingest Chinese content into your personal knowledge base — image/video routing, subtitle-first transcription, and a KB MCP server.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • chinese
    • claude-code
    • knowledge-base

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    653GitHub stars+9 (+1.4 %)
  17. 17

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    An AI workflow skill pack for research, competitions, and innovation projects.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • academic-writing
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • ai-skills
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Light0305/Light-skills ~/.claude/skills/Light-skills

    553GitHub stars+7 (+1.3 %)
  18. 18

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    Run Claude Design locally as an Agent Skill — Cursor, Claude Code & more. Produce polished UI mockups, prototypes, decks & wireframes as self-contained HTML, without claude.ai/design. Best with Opus 4.8.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-design
    • cursor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-design ~/.claude/skills/baoyu-design

    3 829GitHub stars+206 (+5.7 %)
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    AI agent skills for social media research. Outlier posts, comment mining, competitor teardowns, ad libraries & trends across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X, LinkedIn & more. Powered by ScrapeCreators. Works with Claude Code, Cursor,…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • competitor-analysis

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills ~/.claude/skills/social-media-research-skills

    1 963GitHub stars+142 (+7.8 %)
  20. 20

    Other
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    Open database of 6,300+ CCTV camera specs across 123+ brands, with Frigate and ONVIF/RTS integration, CC0

    JavaScript
    • blue-iris
    • cctv
    • cctv-cameras
    • claude-code
    • data-seed

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    242GitHub stars+2 (+0.83 %)
  21. 21

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    Guard skills for coding agents, quality gates that catch AI-generated failure modes in code, tests, and docs

    License: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • code-review

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/amElnagdy/guard-skills ~/.claude/skills/guard-skills

    1 217GitHub stars+12 (+1.00 %)
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    AI agent skills for the personal operator's craft — decisions, research, second-brain, content rotation, scenario modeling, and meta-skills to author more. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

    License: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • personal-knowledge-management

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills ~/.claude/skills/makerskills

    752GitHub stars+70 (+10.3 %)
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    Other
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    Speaker is a Codex skill project for academic presentations: read real.pptx, combine text extraction, PPTX structure parsing, page-by-page rendering, OCR, and visual review to generate page-by-page speaker notes, and write a clean version…

    Python
    • ai
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill
    • codex
    • codex-skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    446GitHub stars+17 (+4.0 %)
  24. 24

    CLI
    Active

    Rust-powered code intelligence CLI for AI coding agents. Builds call graphs and hybrid semantic search indexes (Dense + Sparse + RRF + Reranker) across 7 languages. Ships as native MCP tools for Claude Code and Codex CLI.

    RustLicense: MIT
    • agent-tools
    • ai-development-tools
    • ai-tools
    • bm25
    • call-graph

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    764GitHub stars-1 (-0.13 %)

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.

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    autoharness

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Autoharness — a self-learning skill layer for Claude Code — distills skills from your real sessions, updates them as you work, and prunes the ones that stop getting used. No daemon, no benchmark.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • llm-agents
    • python
    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add tigerless-labs/autoharness

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 391GitHub stars+97 (+7.5 %)