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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    Skill
    Active

    AI agents can generate code, but they still struggle to understand what they build. Reticle gives them runtime perception of web & desktop applications.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    417GitHub stars+36 (+9.4 %)
  2. 2

    Skill
    Active

    AI agent skills for the personal operator's craft — decisions, research, second-brain, content rotation, scenario modeling, and meta-skills to author more. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills ~/.claude/skills/makerskills

    767GitHub stars+47 (+6.5 %)
  3. 3
    Active

    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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    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。

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    2 414GitHub stars+74 (+3.2 %)
  5. 5
    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 /…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    8 645GitHub stars+113 (+1.3 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    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 %)
  7. 7

    Agent
    Active

    Open-source 24/7 Cowork app for OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and 20+ more CLI Agent | Customize your assistants | Team them up|Star if you like it!

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    32 545GitHub stars+160 (+0.49 %)
  8. 8
    Active

    11 Claude skills for SEO: page audits, linkbuilding, article writing, E-E-A-T audits, semantic gap analysis, link building. Methodology from Koray Tuğberk, Kyle Roof, and Lily Ray, plus a generation-time anti-AI-slop ruleset.…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    300GitHub stars+26 (+9.5 %)
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    Active

    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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    Other
    Active

    Codex-verified, Claude-compatible durable local runtime for Claude Code Workflow JS, with resume, checkpoints, budgets, and Git worktrees

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    107GitHub stars+15 (+16.3 %)
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    Active

    Active Directory pentest methodology for Claude Code: skills, agents and slash commands for internal AD red-team work (Kerberoasting, ADCS ESC1-17, DCSync, ACL abuse, NTLM relay, delegation), with per-technique OPSEC/telemetry notes. Drives…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add ADScanPro/Claude-AD

    150GitHub stars+13 (+9.5 %)
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    Other
    Active

    Mobile and Web client for Codex and Claude Code, with realtime voice, encryption and fully featured

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    23 627GitHub stars+85 (+0.36 %)
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    Agent
    Active

    The Frontend Stack for Agents & Generative UI. React, Angular, Mobile, Slack, and more. Makers of the AG-UI Protocol

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    37 184GitHub stars+90 (+0.24 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    Agent skills for solving CTF challenges - web exploitation, binary pwn, crypto, reverse engineering, forensics, OSINT, and more

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    3 168GitHub stars+40 (+1.3 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and other messaging apps,, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    30 694GitHub stars+61 (+0.20 %)
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    Active

    Claude Codeの生成結果、ぜんぶ見やすくまとめよう

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    90GitHub stars+5 (+5.9 %)

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
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    🧑‍🎨 A collection of Golang agentic skills that works

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang ~/.claude/skills/cc-skills-golang

    Resourcemeasured growth
    3 158GitHub stars+60 (+1.9 %)
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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Bash is all you need - A nano claude code–like 「agent harness」, built from 0 to 1

    githubResourcemeasured growth
    75 687GitHub stars+126 (+0.17 %)
  3. 3
    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。

    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 ↗

    All my YouTube tutorials. Everything here is free - but please follow me on YouTube if you find these helpful.

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials ~/.claude/skills/youtube-tutorials

    Resourcemeasured growth
    378GitHub stars+14 (+3.8 %)
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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A collection of skills for AI financial analysis.

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/himself65/finance-skills ~/.claude/skills/finance-skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    3 281GitHub stars+26 (+0.80 %)
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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    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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    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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    han

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Han: AI skills and agents for "Solo" product engineers and small teams

    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add testdouble/han

    Resourcemeasured growth
    255GitHub stars+9 (+3.7 %)
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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    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 %)