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

    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

    215GitHub stars+4 (+1.9 %)
  2. 2

    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 565GitHub stars+177 (+7.4 %)
  3. 3

    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+7 (+0.88 %)
  4. 4

    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 510GitHub stars+447 (+8.8 %)
  5. 5

    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

    222GitHub stars+6 (+2.8 %)
  6. 6

    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

    215GitHub stars-5 (-2.3 %)
  7. 7

    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

    399GitHub stars+51 (+14.7 %)
  8. 8

    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+8 (+1.6 %)
  9. 9

    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

    305GitHub stars+13 (+4.5 %)
  10. 10

    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 205GitHub stars+746 (+6.0 %)
  11. 11

    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 ↗

    711GitHub stars+3 (+0.42 %)
  12. 12

    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

    615GitHub stars+23 (+3.9 %)
  13. 13

    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+2 (+0.31 %)
  14. 14

    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 359GitHub stars+390 (+7.8 %)
  15. 15

    Skill
    Active

    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

    720GitHub stars+11 (+1.6 %)
  16. 16

    Skill
    Active

    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

    356GitHub stars+10 (+2.9 %)
  17. 17

    Skill
    Active

    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 644GitHub stars+259 (+18.7 %)
  18. 18

    Skill
    Active

    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

    371GitHub stars+14 (+3.9 %)
  19. 19

    Other
    Active

    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 681GitHub stars+100 (+2.8 %)
  20. 20

    Skill
    Active

    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

    123 672GitHub stars+8 182 (+7.1 %)
  21. 21

    Agent
    Active

    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 671GitHub stars+221 (+2.3 %)
  22. 22

    Skill
    Active

    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

    417GitHub stars+36 (+9.4 %)

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 395GitHub stars+18 (+1.3 %)
  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
    817GitHub stars+99 (+13.8 %)
  3. 3

    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 411GitHub stars+89 (+6.7 %)