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 measured growth, normalized across sources. 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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    Agent skills and an AGENTS.md workflow template — isolate in worktrees, build to a service layer, prove with evidence, ship with before/after proof and Greptile review loops. For Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    577GitHub stars+271 (+88.6 %)
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    Delegate a coding task to a separate coding agent CLI, review the diff, land the commit yourself — one per implementer.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    1 644GitHub stars+259 (+18.7 %)
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    Skill
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    Enterprise-grade, local-first Agent Workbench for people and agent teams. A unified multi-engine workspace for Codex Harness, DeepSeek Harness, and OpenCode, with unified plugins and Skills, multi-agent projects and tasks, and editable…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Devin-AXIS/iPolloWork ~/.claude/skills/iPolloWork

    5 306GitHub stars+251 (+5.0 %)
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    Agent skills for useful HTML artifacts, wireframes, interactive prototypes, plans, and diagrams.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    2 927GitHub stars+247 (+9.2 %)
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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.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    3 872GitHub stars+241 (+6.6 %)
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    Active

    GPT-Image-2 PPT Generator Skill for Creating Image-Based PowerPoint Presentations in Codex and Other Skill-Compatible Agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill ~/.claude/skills/codex-ppt-skill

    5 551GitHub stars+230 (+4.3 %)
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    Distilly — Distill how they think into reusable Skills for any Agent or Bot. Formerly Colleague Skill(原同事 Skill).

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    24 324GitHub stars+222 (+0.92 %)
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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.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    9 671GitHub stars+221 (+2.3 %)
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    Active

    🎭 267 个即插即用的 AI 专家角色 — 支持 Hermes Agent/Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot 等 18 种工具,覆盖工程/设计/营销/金融等 20 个部门。含 52 个中国市场原创智能体(小红书/抖音/微信/飞书/钉钉等)。搭配编排器 agency-orchestrator,一句话即可让多位专家按 DAG 自动协作。

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh ~/.claude/skills/agency-agents-zh

    20 266GitHub stars+217 (+1.1 %)
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    Claude skills for LinkedIn. 11 Claude Code and Codex skills that write human-sounding LinkedIn posts, craft comments that get noticed, analyze your feed, and build a publishing cadence, all from your terminal. Content engineering by…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/sergebulaev/linkedin-skills ~/.claude/skills/linkedin-skills

    822GitHub stars+213 (+35.0 %)
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    Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn re-injection against context rot, deterministic completion gate. Manus-style.…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files ~/.claude/skills/planning-with-files

    26 618GitHub stars+210 (+0.80 %)
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    AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/cherry-studio

    51 413GitHub stars+207 (+0.40 %)
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    AI 短剧/漫剧创作 skill 合集,覆盖剧本、资产、分镜、图片/视频提示词到独立审查全链路,适配 Claude Code 与 Codex。| An AI short-drama skill suite for Claude Code & Codex: scripts, assets, storyboards, image/video prompts, and independent review.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/drama-skills ~/.claude/skills/drama-skills

    1 546GitHub stars+205 (+15.3 %)
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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.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    10 919GitHub stars+195 (+1.8 %)
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    The meta-skill that builds and improves all your skills, including itself. Watches your work sessions (autonomous or human-led), captures patterns, corrections and judgement calls, and turns them into skill improvements and new skill…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all ~/.claude/skills/one-skill-to-rule-them-all

    2 336GitHub stars+194 (+9.1 %)
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    x64dbg-MCP Server is a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) plugin for x64dbg that exposes the debugger's full functionality over HTTP. Connect any MCP-compatible AI assistant and control x64dbg programmatically: set breakpoints, step…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 863GitHub stars+191 (+11.4 %)
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    Other
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    Autonomous game development for Godot, Bevy, and Babylon.js with Claude Code and Codex

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    6 687GitHub stars+182 (+2.8 %)
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    数字生命卡兹克开源的 AI Skills 合集 | Agent Skills: leader(帮你定义目标), neat-freak 洁癖, hv-analysis, khazix-writer & more — Claude Code, Codex & 40+ agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/KKKKhazix/khazix-skills ~/.claude/skills/khazix-skills

    20 398GitHub stars+178 (+0.88 %)
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    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 %)
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    omo/lazycodex: The coding agent for tokenmaxxers;the one and only agent harness for complex codebases. For your Codex, for your OpenCode

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent ~/.claude/skills/oh-my-openagent

    68 666GitHub stars+176 (+0.26 %)
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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,…

    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 %)
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    Desktop app that records your on-screen work session and uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct it as an intent + ordered steps, then builds a reusable Skill or Automation for Microsoft Scout, Microsoft Copilot Cowork, or Copilot…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skill-recorder ~/.claude/skills/skill-recorder

    3 818GitHub stars+175 (+4.8 %)
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    AI 解说大师 — Agent skill;封装 narrator-ai-cli 供 Claude/Codex 等工具调用

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/NarratorAI-Studio/narrator-ai-cli-skill ~/.claude/skills/narrator-ai-cli-skill

    2 535GitHub stars+173 (+7.3 %)
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    Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    39 396GitHub stars+168 (+0.43 %)

Learning resources

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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A practical Claude Code guide with clear mental models and copy-paste examples — setup, prompt engineering, slash commands, skills, hooks, subagents, agent teams, and MCP servers. Beginner path to power-user depth. Featured in Awesome…

    githubResourcemeasured growth
    2 940GitHub stars+238 (+8.8 %)