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.

  1. 1

    MCP
    Active

    ARIS ⚔️ (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) — Lightweight Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research: cross-model review loops, idea discovery, and experiment automation. No framework, no lock-in — works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, or any…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-research
    • ai-tools
    • aris
    • autonomous-agent
    • claude

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    15 584GitHub stars+284 (+1.9 %)
  2. 2

    Skill
    Active

    Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply-chain risks in Claude Code, Codex, and MCP skills before you install them.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-security
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-ai
    • ai-security
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    15 558GitHub stars+544 (+3.6 %)
  3. 3

    Agent
    Active

    Rebuild the object in a reference image as a code-only, procedural, quality-gated, animation-ready Three.js model. Token-efficient image-to-3D.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • 3d
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • computer-graphics
    • generative

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    14 907GitHub stars+862 (+6.1 %)
  4. 4

    Skill
    Dormant

    A theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture, built from first principles using the available research literature.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • anthropic
    • attention
    • claude
    • claude-ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add kyegomez/OpenMythos

    14 861GitHub stars+56 (+0.38 %)
  5. 5

    Skill
    Active

    The fastest browser for AI agents to run browser automation, built for sharing your logged-in browser state with your AI agents, like Codex or Claude Code, without disturbing you. Zero cost, zero config.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • automation
    • browser
    • browser-automation

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/citrolabs/ego-lite ~/.claude/skills/ego-lite

    14 637GitHub stars+830 (+6.0 %)
  6. 6

    Skill
    Active

    Self-organizing AI second brain for Obsidian + Claude Code. Drop any source and Claude reads, links, and files it into one connected knowledge graph of plain Markdown you own. AI note-taking, personal knowledge management (PKM), and an…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-note-taking
    • ai-second-brain
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian ~/.claude/skills/claude-obsidian

    14 525GitHub stars+1 018 (+7.5 %)
  7. 7

    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 %)
  8. 8

    Skill
    Active

    Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research.

    TeXLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • ai-research
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs ~/.claude/skills/AI-Research-SKILLs

    12 232GitHub stars+155 (+1.3 %)
  9. 9

    Skill
    Active

    67 Specialized Skills for Full-Stack Developers. Transform Claude Code into your expert pair programmer.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-marketplace
    • claude-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    11 283GitHub stars+104 (+0.93 %)
  10. 10

    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 %)
  11. 11

    Other
    Active

    🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-friendly.

    Python
    • anthropic
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • cmux
    • data-engineering

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    9 628GitHub stars+6 (+0.06 %)
  12. 12

    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 %)
  13. 13

    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 %)
  14. 14

    Skill
    Active

    A meta-skill that designs domain-specific agent teams, defines specialized agents, and generates the skills they use.

    HTMLLicense: Apache-2.0
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • harness
    • harness-engineering

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add revfactory/harness

    8 876GitHub stars+36 (+0.41 %)
  15. 15

    Skill
    Active

    Claude-first paid-media operations skill for Claude Code across 12 ad platforms (Google, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, X): source-grounded audits, deterministic scoring, versioned…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • ai-marketing
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-ads ~/.claude/skills/claude-ads

    8 662GitHub stars+146 (+1.7 %)
  16. 16

    Skill
    Active

    ✨ The agentic HTML editor — your local AI agent writes the HTML, you ship it. 🚀 75 Skills × 9 Surfaces (magazine · deck · poster · XHS / tweet · prototype · data report · Hyperframes) 🛡️ Sandboxed preview · 📤 1-click to WeChat / X / Zhihu /…

    HTMLLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-skills
    • agentic
    • ai-agents
    • ai-design
    • ai-editor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/nexu-io/html-anything ~/.claude/skills/html-anything

    8 603GitHub stars+128 (+1.5 %)
  17. 17

    Skill
    Active

    🦸 AI 编程超能力 · 中文增强版 — superpowers（116k+ ⭐）完整汉化 + 6 个中国原创 skills，让 Claude Code / Copilot CLI / Hermes Agent / Cursor / Windsurf / Kiro / Gemini CLI 等 16 款 AI 编程工具真正会干活

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-coding
    • ai-coding
    • chinese
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    7 936GitHub stars+101 (+1.3 %)
  18. 18

    Skill
    Active

    ✨ All your agents and workspaces in one place, on every device you own. Track tasks on a board, accessible from desktop, mobile, browser, or API. Self-hosted.

    Go
    • agent-harness
    • agent-orchestration
    • agent-skills
    • agent-workspaces
    • ai-agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    7 859GitHub stars+46 (+0.59 %)
  19. 19

    Skill
    Active

    The first open-source agent skills builder. Define skills by vibe workflow, run on Claude Code, Cursor, Codex & more. Build Clawdbot 🦞· APIs for Lovable · Bots for Slack & Lark/Feishu · Skills are infrastructure, not prompts.

    TypeScript
    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • automation
    • claude
    • clawdbot

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    7 503GitHub stars+8 (+0.11 %)
  20. 20

    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 %)
  21. 21

    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 %)
  22. 22

    Agent
    Active

    ✨ AI Coding, Vim Style

    LuaLicense: Apache-2.0
    • acp
    • agent
    • agent-client-protocol
    • anthropic
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    6 830GitHub stars+6 (+0.09 %)
  23. 23

    Other
    Active

    Autonomous game development for Godot, Bevy, and Babylon.js with Claude Code and Codex

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill
    • codex
    • codex-cli

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    6 648GitHub stars+298 (+4.7 %)
  24. 24

    MCP
    Active

    A trilingual (繁中 / English / 简中) learning roadmap for agentic AI: from LLM basics to multi-agent systems, with 240+ curated resources and hands-on examples. 中文 AI agent 學習地圖。

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agentic-ai
    • agentic-workflows
    • ai-agent
    • ai-agents
    • awesome-list

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    6 589GitHub stars+168 (+2.6 %)

Learning resources

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.

  1. 1

    awesome-claude-skills

    Skill
    DormantOpen source ↗

    A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows — particularly Claude Code

    • agentic-coding
    • anthropic
    • awesome
    • awesome-list
    • awesome-lists
    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    14 931GitHub stars+96 (+0.65 %)