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

    Skill
    Active

    illo skill — an AI agent skill that turns ideas and articles into original print-style editorial illustrations, starring a recurring mascot. 30+ characters packs, with ability to create your own.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • illustration
    • image-generation
    • skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/tmchow/illo-skill ~/.claude/skills/illo-skill

    369GitHub stars+15 (+4.2 %)
  2. 2

    Skill
    Active

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

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-ppt
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • gpt-image-2

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    5 466GitHub stars+216 (+4.1 %)
  3. 3

    Skill
    Active

    Agent skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing from text

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-writing
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • cursor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    39 687GitHub stars+1 558 (+4.1 %)
  4. 4

    Skill
    Active

    Agent Skills that turn novels into source-grounded, fully playable games for Claude Code, Codex, and Kimi Code(K3).

    MarkdownLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • ai-game-development
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game ~/.claude/skills/novel-to-game

    739GitHub stars+29 (+4.1 %)
  5. 5

    Skill
    Active

    The OKF toolkit for Claude Code — author, maintain, validate & visualize Open Knowledge Format bundles. Plugin, agent skills, and a GitHub Action.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • developer-tools

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add scaccogatto/okf-skills

    353GitHub stars+13 (+3.8 %)
  6. 6

    Skill
    Active

    Agent Skill for Baidu Netdisk (百度网盘) — upload, download, transfer, share, search files via natural language. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw.

    ShellLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-ai
    • ai-agents
    • baidu
    • baidu-netdisk

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add baidu-netdisk/bdpan-storage

    222GitHub stars+8 (+3.7 %)
  7. 7

    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 %)
  8. 8

    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 %)
  9. 9

    Skill
    Active

    Intelligent Skill routing and workflow orchestration for AI agents — +21.12 pp reward, −29.6% tokens on SkillsBench with DeepSeekV4Flash-VE.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-framework
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-coding
    • ai-agents
    • ai-scientist

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Vibe-Skills

    3 122GitHub stars+109 (+3.6 %)
  10. 10

    Skill
    Active

    网文/小说写作 skill 包，覆盖长篇与短篇网络小说的扫榜、拆文、写作、去AI味、封面图全流程 | An all-in-one skill pack for long- and short-form web fiction.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai-agent
    • ai-writing
    • chinese-novel
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode ~/.claude/skills/oh-story-claudecode

    6 338GitHub stars+221 (+3.6 %)
  11. 11

    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

    290GitHub stars+10 (+3.6 %)
  12. 12

    Skill
    Active

    Universal SKILL.md catalog for research workflows: literature review, research design, project memory, manuscript writing, and cross-agent delegation for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenClaw, and generic AI clients.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • academic-writing
    • agentic-ai
    • agentskills
    • ai-research
    • ai-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    234GitHub stars+8 (+3.5 %)
  13. 13

    App
    Active

    Claude Codeの生成結果、ぜんぶ見やすくまとめよう

    HTMLLicense: Apache-2.0
    • aws
    • claude-code
    • html
    • mobile
    • self-hosted

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    88GitHub stars+3 (+3.5 %)
  14. 14

    MCP
    Active

    Local-first, agent-native control plane for ComfyUI — MCP server + sidebar agent that generates images, video & audio, authors and runs workflows, and edits your live graph in natural language on ANY LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, offline…

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • claude-code
    • claude-plugin
    • comfyui

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    711GitHub stars+24 (+3.5 %)
  15. 15

    Other
    Active

    AI Kanban & Development Environment. Orchestrate multiple agents, review changes, open PRs. Multi-provider, self-hostable, no telemetry.

    GoLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • acp
    • agent-orchestration
    • agentic-ai
    • agentic-development-environment
    • ai-agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    724GitHub stars+24 (+3.4 %)
  16. 16

    Agent
    Active

    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。

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent
    • ai-agent
    • ai-assistant
    • android
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    2 390GitHub stars+71 (+3.1 %)
  17. 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. 18

    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 %)
  19. 19

    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 %)

Learning resources

Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

  1. 1

    Skills-4-SE

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A curated list of 180+ useful Claude Skills for Software Engineering and resources for customizing AI for SE workflows.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • metaprogramming
    • software-development
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE ~/.claude/skills/Skills-4-SE

    Resourcemeasured growth
    247GitHub stars+9 (+3.8 %)
  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
    253GitHub stars+9 (+3.7 %)
  3. 3

    awesome-design-skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    List of 67 awesome DESIGN.md and SKILL.md design skill files for agentic tools like Claude Design, Google Stitch, Codex, Cursor, and other AI tools

    License: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-ai
    • agentic-workflow
    • agents
    • ai
    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    2 614GitHub stars+80 (+3.2 %)
  4. 4

    awesome-agent-skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A curated collection of 1000+ agent skills from official dev teams and the community, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and more.

    License: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • awesome
    • awesome-list
    • claude-code
    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    33 575GitHub stars+884 (+2.7 %)
  5. 5

    Bloom

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Hire a private AI tutor for anything — it reads how you actually learn and teaches the next lesson just for you. Bloom's 2-Sigma research as a Claude Code skill + self-hostable web app · 中文优先 苏格拉底式 AI 家教

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • adaptive-learning
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • ai-tutor
    • bloom-2-sigma
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/Li-Evan/Bloom ~/.claude/skills/Bloom

    Resourcemeasured growth
    248GitHub stars+6 (+2.5 %)
  6. 6

    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 050GitHub stars+23 (+2.2 %)