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.

  1. 1

    Agent
    Active

    Open-source app builder engine — intent to working app

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agents
    • ai
    • app-builder
    • code-generation
    • llm

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    322GitHub stars-41 (-11.3 %)
  2. 2

    CLI
    Active

    DSH 官方公众号收录的 TUI 补位插件：Claude Code 风，鲸鱼顶栏/实时状态/流式思考/双击 Esc 回滚/上下文进度+TPS。npm 一键装。 DSH official WeChat featured TUI plugin — Claude Code style: whale bar, live status, streaming thoughts, double-Esc rollback, context bar + TPS. npm one-click.

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • claude-code
    • coding-agent
    • deepseek
    • deepseek-harness
    • dsh-plugin

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    2 774GitHub stars+170 (+6.5 %)
  3. 3

    MCP
    Active

    From text & real sources to maintainable .drawio architecture models: Diagram IR with source-kind profiles, incremental sync preserving manual layout, multi-view projection, architecture-as-test with a CI action, query/review, what-if,…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • architecture
    • architecture-diagram
    • bpmn
    • c4-model

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    8 931GitHub stars+893 (+11.1 %)
  4. 4

    Other
    Active

    Open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration platform: GitOps workflows, orchestration, code generation, observability, drift detection, asset management, policies, Slack notifications, and more. Integrates with Terraform,…

    GoLicense: MPL-2.0

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      3 623GitHub stars+2 (+0.06 %)
    • 5

      Skill
      Active

      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 240GitHub stars+849 (+13.3 %)
    • 6

      Skill
      Active

      AI video skill for Claude Code & Codex — cinematic product videos with Remotion: 152 shot recipe cards, 209 motion previews, a production-ready template

      TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
      • agent-skills
      • ai-agents
      • ai-video
      • claude-code
      • claude-code-skills

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      Install git clone https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft ~/.claude/skills/video-shotcraft

      7 033GitHub stars+602 (+9.4 %)
    • 7

      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 379GitHub stars+427 (+8.6 %)
    • 8

      Skill
      Active

      The Fable Workflow: how Claude Fable 5 worked, distilled into skills any model can run, with the eval that keeps it honest. Think / act / prove.

      PythonLicense: MIT
      • agent-skills
      • ai-agents
      • claude
      • claude-code
      • claude-md

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      Install git clone https://github.com/Sahir619/fable-method ~/.claude/skills/fable-method

      2 272GitHub stars+19 (+0.84 %)
    • 9

      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

      120 174GitHub stars+7 366 (+6.5 %)
    • 10

      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

      113 548GitHub stars+2 425 (+2.2 %)
    • 11

      Skill
      Active

      把 Markdown 一键排成可直接粘进公众号编辑器的精致 HTML —— 6 套精选主题 + 主题生成器 + 双关卡校验。An AI-agent skill that turns Markdown into paste-ready WeChat article HTML.

      HTML
      • agent-skill
      • ai-agent
      • claude-code
      • codex
      • cursor

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      Install git clone https://github.com/isjiamu/gzh-design-skill ~/.claude/skills/gzh-design-skill

      3 460GitHub stars+124 (+3.7 %)
    • 12

      Skill
      Active

      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 787GitHub stars+175 (+4.8 %)
    • 13

      Other
      Active

      FuXi is a fast, self-contained AI coding agent that lives in your terminal — edit code, run commands, and drive tools, with cost-aware routing across LLM providers.

      Python
      • agent
      • ai
      • ai-agent
      • ai-coding
      • autonomous-agent

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      3 189GitHub stars+1 067 (+50.3 %)
    • 14

      Skill
      Active

      Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

      JavaScriptLicense: MIT
      • agent-skills
      • antigravity
      • claude-code
      • codex
      • cursor

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

      91 500GitHub stars+1 416 (+1.6 %)
    • 15

      Agent
      Active

      The agent that grows with you

      PythonLicense: MIT
      • ai
      • ai-agent
      • ai-agents
      • anthropic
      • chatgpt

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      239 583GitHub stars+2 635 (+1.1 %)
    • 16

      Skill
      Active

      Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini,…

      JavaScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
      • ai
      • ai-agents
      • ai-memory
      • anthropic
      • artificial-intelligence

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      Install /plugin marketplace add thedotmack/claude-mem

      92 932GitHub stars+965 (+1.0 %)
    • 17

      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 598GitHub stars+282 (+3.0 %)
    • 18

      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 813GitHub stars+123 (+1.2 %)
    • 19

      Other
      Active

      Give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet. Read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu — one CLI, zero API fees.

      PythonLicense: MIT
      • agent-infrastructure
      • ai-agent
      • ai-search
      • automation
      • bilibili

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      77 413GitHub stars+1 709 (+2.3 %)
    • 20

      Other
      Active

      💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

      PythonLicense: MIT
      • ai
      • copilot
      • development
      • engineering
      • prd

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      132 929GitHub stars+1 208 (+0.92 %)
    • 21

      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 ↗

      102 292GitHub stars+1 057 (+1.0 %)
    • 22

      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 ↗

      12 896GitHub stars+647 (+5.3 %)
    • 23

      Skill
      Active

      Anti-laziness skill for AI agents. Core: the Depth Tree method, which splits a task N layers deep and gives every leaf the full time budget of the whole task, so effort multiplies with depth. Grounded in 2025-2026 research on model…

      JavaScriptLicense: MIT
      • ai-agents
      • claude
      • claude-code
      • llm
      • productivity

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

      2 949GitHub stars+373 (+14.5 %)
    • 24

      CLI
      Active

      An AI skill that provides design intelligence for building professional UI/UX across multiple platforms.

      PythonLicense: MIT
      • ai-skills
      • antigravity
      • claude
      • claude-code
      • codex

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      123 939GitHub stars+2 490 (+2.1 %)
    • 25

      Skill
      Active

      Free, open-source desktop manager for AI Agent Skills. Write a skill once, sync it to 32 AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more) via symlinks. Local-first, MIT licensed. macOS, Windows, Linux.

      TypeScriptLicense: MIT
      • ai-skills-manager
      • claude-code
      • claude-code-skills
      • codex
      • codex-skills

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      Install git clone https://github.com/jiweiyeah/Skills-Manager ~/.claude/skills/Skills-Manager

      972GitHub stars+13 (+1.4 %)