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

    Agent
    Active

    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 919GitHub stars+195 (+1.8 %)
  2. 2

    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 %)
  3. 3

    MCP
    Active

    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 ↗

    657GitHub stars+10 (+1.5 %)
  4. 4

    Skill
    Active

    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

    2 035GitHub stars+176 (+9.5 %)
  5. 5

    Other
    Active

    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 starsstable
  6. 6

    Skill
    Active

    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

    767GitHub stars+47 (+6.5 %)
  7. 7

    Skill
    Active

    Skills for controlling Android, iOS and cloud phones

    License: MIT
    • ai-harness
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • mobile-ai
    • mobile-development

    githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/droidrun/mobile-harness ~/.claude/skills/mobile-harness

    331GitHub stars—
  8. 8

    Skill
    Active

    🚢 Run Claude Code's ⚙️ Dynamic Workflows, 👥 Agent Teams & ⚡ Subagents on any third-party model — DeepSeek · GLM · Kimi · Qwen … or your Codex subscription. No Anthropic subscription needed. ｜ 🚢 让 Claude Code 的 ⚙️ Dynamic Workflow、👥 Agent…

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • anthropic
    • anthropic-claude
    • bash-cli

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/ethanhq/cc-fleet ~/.claude/skills/cc-fleet

    211GitHub stars+1 (+0.48 %)
  9. 9

    Skill
    Active

    A portable project-planning skill for Codex, Claude Code, pi, Hermes, and Agent Skills-compatible harnesses. Evidence before build advice.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • architecture-review
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/AaravKashyap12/advise-project-approach ~/.claude/skills/advise-project-approach

    293GitHub stars+7 (+2.4 %)
  10. 10

    Skill
    Active

    An Automated AI Agent Tool for Plotting Your Data in Any Paper's Figure Style.

    Python
    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • data-visualization

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror ~/.claude/skills/FigMirror

    509GitHub stars-1 (-0.20 %)
  11. 11

    Skill
    Active

    Local AI filmmaking studio — skills, canvas, timeline — driven from your coding agent.

    JavaScript
    • agent-skills
    • ai-filmmaking
    • claude-code
    • coding-agent
    • docker

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Utopai-Research/pai-pro ~/.claude/skills/pai-pro

    337GitHub starsstable
  12. 12

    Other
    Active

    Offensive security toolkit for Claude Code covering red team, exploit dev, AD attacks, EDR bypass, mobile pentest

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skills
    • exploit-development
    • offensive-security
    • redteam

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    354GitHub stars+3 (+0.85 %)
  13. 13

    Skill
    Active

    Claude Code Skill that turns any idea into a cinematic, model-ready video prompt — Sora · Kling · Veo · Seedance. 21 genre templates, 5-stage structure, eval-tested. Distilled from the AI short Hollywood director PJ Ace called "one of the…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-video
    • chinese
    • cinematic
    • cinematic-prompts
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/jnMetaCode/ai-shortfilm-prompts ~/.claude/skills/ai-shortfilm-prompts

    395GitHub stars+16 (+4.2 %)
  14. 14

    Other
    Active

    A fork of Windows Terminal with native agent integration, right in your command line.

    C++License: MIT
    • acp
    • agent
    • agent-client-protocol
    • agentic-ai
    • ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 915GitHub stars+113 (+6.3 %)
  15. 15

    Skill
    Active

    AI 每日新闻简报 · GitHub 热门 + X 热门文章 + 行情技术分析 · 23 个数据源聚合 + LLM 中文摘要 · 本地或 GitHub Actions 部署

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • daily-digest
    • llm

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/leiting-eric/DailyBrief ~/.claude/skills/DailyBrief

    344GitHub stars+9 (+2.7 %)
  16. 16

    Skill
    Active

    A fast, native RSS reader — plus an agent-facing CLI so your AI agent can read, search and triage your feeds from the shell.

    RustLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • agentic
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • cli

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/l0ng-ai/papr ~/.claude/skills/papr

    521GitHub starsstable
  17. 17

    Skill
    Active

    Provider-neutral Agent Skill for Codex, Claude Code, and agentic harness design.

    License: MIT
    • agent-skill
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-workflows
    • agents
    • ai-agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices ~/.claude/skills/agents-best-practices

    2 271GitHub stars+21 (+0.93 %)
  18. 18

    MCP
    Active

    SkillDock is an AI skill manager and skill management desktop app for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, and other AI coding tools. Install, organize, edit, sync, and update Skills, MCP servers, and plugins with…

    RustLicense: MIT
    • ai-coding-agents
    • ai-coding-tools
    • ai-skill-manager
    • ai-skills
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    508GitHub stars+13 (+2.6 %)
  19. 19

    Other
    Active

    🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

    Go
    • ai
    • anthropic
    • caveman
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    103 166GitHub stars+1 517 (+1.5 %)
  20. 20

    Skill
    Active

    Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI: local deterministic AST parsing, every edge explained, no vector store.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-agents
    • antigravity
    • ast
    • claude-code
    • code-analysis

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify ~/.claude/skills/graphify

    114 470GitHub stars+2 426 (+2.2 %)

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

    Awesome-Journal-Skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的 Claude Code/Codex 期刊技能包，从选题、识别策略到表格规范与审稿回复全流程，助你快速发论文。

    StataLicense: MIT
    • academic-research
    • academic-writing
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • anthropic
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 061GitHub stars+24 (+2.3 %)
  2. 2

    han

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Han: AI skills and agents for "Solo" product engineers and small teams

    ShellLicense: MIT
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • claude-skills
    • code-review
    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add testdouble/han

    Resourcemeasured growth
    255GitHub stars+9 (+3.7 %)
  3. 3

    claude-engineer

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A version of command line interface(CLI) that leverages the power of Claude Opus(3-4.7). This framework lets Claude create and manage its own tools on the fly, continuously growing its capabilities through the course of a conversation

    Python
    • ai
    • claude
    • claude-ai
    • claude-code
    • claude-engineer
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/bawadou/claude-engineer ~/.claude/skills/claude-engineer

    Resourcemeasured growth
    954GitHub starsstable
  4. 4

    claude-code-skills-zh

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    面向中文开发者的 Claude Code Skills / Agents / Plugins 精选与原创技能库｜按场景分类｜复制即装｜持续更新

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-agent
    • awesome-list
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • developer-tools
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/laolaoshiren/claude-code-skills-zh ~/.claude/skills/claude-code-skills-zh

    Resourcemeasured growth
    816GitHub stars+11 (+1.4 %)
  5. 5

    awesome-human-distillation

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A curated catalog of human distillliation agent skills

    Python
    • agent-skills
    • awesome-list
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skills
    • digital-life
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/mliu98/awesome-human-distillation ~/.claude/skills/awesome-human-distillation

    Resourcemeasured growth
    740GitHub stars+6 (+0.82 %)