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 known GitHub stars, highest first; archived repositories come after maintained repositories. Raw values keep their source-specific window, shown under each tool; a change requires at least two snapshots from the last 7 days.

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    Active

    471 plugins, 3,069 skills, 347 agents for Claude Code. Open-source marketplace at tonsofskills.com with the ccpi CLI package manager.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace ~/.claude/skills/tons-of-skills-marketplace

    2 696GitHub stars+10 (+0.37 %)
  2. 2
    Active

    ⭐ All-in-one AI companion! Super Agent Party = Self hosted neuro sama + openclaw! ⭐ 全能AI伴侣!超级智能体派对 = 自托管neuro sama + openclaw!

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/heshengtao/super-agent-party ~/.claude/skills/super-agent-party

    2 628GitHub stars+16 (+0.61 %)
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    Active

    A browser inside your terminal

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    2 565GitHub stars+177 (+7.4 %)
  4. 4

    Skill
    Active

    A persistent, unified memory layer for all your AI agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, DSH), backed by Markdown and Milvus.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add zilliztech/memsearch

    2 560GitHub stars+32 (+1.3 %)
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    Consider it done. The open-source AI agent that works out of the box · 想到,就能做到。开源、开箱即用的 AI Agent。

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    2 414GitHub stars+74 (+3.2 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    Turn one topic into a finished Vox-style paper-collage explainer/ad video — automated end to end on Atlas Cloud + ffmpeg. An agent skill.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Alisa0808/vox-director ~/.claude/skills/vox-director

    1 717GitHub stars+92 (+5.7 %)
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    Other
    Active

    ⚡ A native app for all your coding agents.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 342GitHub stars+64 (+5.0 %)
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    Agent
    Active

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    805GitHub stars+7 (+0.88 %)
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    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.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    638GitHub stars+2 (+0.31 %)

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Ranked by known GitHub stars, highest first; archived repositories come after maintained repositories. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Claude Code learns from your corrections: self-correcting memory that compounds over 50+ sessions. Context engineering, parallel worktrees, agent teams, and 17 battle-tested skills.

    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add rohitg00/pro-workflow

    Resourcemeasured growth
    2 807GitHub stars+17 (+0.61 %)
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    MCP server and Claude plugin for Postgres skills and documentation. Helps AI coding tools generate better PostgreSQL code.

    githubResourcemeasured growth
    1 833GitHub stars+8 (+0.44 %)
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    mex

    MCP
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Persistent project memory for AI coding agents. Structured scaffold + drift detection CLI.

    githubResourcemeasured growth
    1 541GitHub stars+9 (+0.59 %)
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    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.

    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add tigerless-labs/autoharness

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 411GitHub stars+89 (+6.7 %)
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    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.

    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add nagisanzenin/engram

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 395GitHub stars+18 (+1.3 %)
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    Automated collection of Claude Code plugin adoption metrics across GitHub repositories using n8n workflows

    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add quemsah/awesome-claude-plugins

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 265GitHub stars+17 (+1.4 %)
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    AI Agent Skill to generate and render beautiful Mermaid diagrams as SVG or terminal ASCII — 15 themes, 6 diagram types, batch CLI, no browser.

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/imxv/Pretty-mermaid-skills ~/.claude/skills/Pretty-mermaid-skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 182GitHub stars+18 (+1.5 %)
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    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。

    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 %)
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    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

    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    954GitHub starsstable
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    User-Centered Product Development Prompt Templates & Agent Configurations

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/TechNomadCode/AI-Product-Development-Toolkit ~/.claude/skills/AI-Product-Development-Toolkit

    Resourcemeasured growth
    950GitHub stars+4 (+0.42 %)
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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Awesome Claude Code plugins — a curated list of slash commands, subagents, MCP servers, and hooks for Claude Code

    githubResourcemeasured growth
    931GitHub stars+6 (+0.65 %)
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    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…

    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 %)
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    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

    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 %)
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    A curated catalog of human distillliation agent skills

    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    740GitHub stars+6 (+0.82 %)
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    Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs.

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Agent-Skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    733GitHub stars+11 (+1.5 %)
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    🤖 精选的 AI Agent Skills 列表,适用于 Cursor、Claude Code、GitHub Copilot 等 AI 编程工具

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/JackyST0/awesome-agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/awesome-agent-skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    631GitHub stars+3 (+0.48 %)