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 normalized popularity 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

    Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    3 298GitHub stars+16 (+0.49 %)
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    Agent
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    Collaborative multi-agent AI coding workspace: aggregate sessions from Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Grok Build, etc. Desktop app, self-hosted server, or Docker.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    3 207GitHub stars+152 (+5.0 %)
  3. 3

    Skill
    Active

    Agent Skills for NVIDIA products — install into Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents to run Physical AI, robotics, simulation, CUDA, and RAG workflows end to end.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    3 206GitHub stars+67 (+2.1 %)
  4. 4

    Skill
    Active

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    3 159GitHub stars+97 (+3.2 %)
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    Skill
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    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 174GitHub stars+38 (+1.2 %)
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    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…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    3 057GitHub stars+274 (+9.8 %)
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    Active

    J-Space Cognition Suite V3.7 - AI cognitive-enhancement Skills based on Anthropic's J-space global workspace research. | 哔哩哔哩:Tiger380 (UID 3494375382321675) — https://space.bilibili.com/3494375382321675

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Tiger3807861189/J-Space-Cognition-Suite-V3.7 ~/.claude/skills/J-Space-Cognition-Suite-V3.7

    3 021GitHub stars+7 (+0.23 %)
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    Active

    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 950GitHub stars+241 (+8.9 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    A framework-agnostic, git-native standard for defining AI agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/open-gitagent/opengap ~/.claude/skills/opengap

    2 925GitHub stars+4 (+0.14 %)
  10. 10

    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.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    2 836GitHub stars+141 (+5.2 %)
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    Active

    Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace ~/.claude/skills/tons-of-skills-marketplace

    2 698GitHub stars+12 (+0.45 %)
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    Dormant

    AGENTS.md rules / skills for AI coding agents: Codex, Cursor & Claude Code. Inspired by Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD, Clean Architecture and DDIA programming books.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books ~/.claude/skills/agent-rules-books

    2 687GitHub stars+39 (+1.5 %)
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    Active

    A browser inside your terminal

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-browser ~/.claude/skills/terminal-browser

    2 653GitHub stars+244 (+10.1 %)
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    Active

    ⭐ All-in-one AI companion! Super Agent Party = Self hosted neuro sama + openclaw! ⭐ 全能AI伴侣!超级智能体派对 = 自托管neuro sama + openclaw!

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/heshengtao/super-agent-party ~/.claude/skills/super-agent-party

    2 630GitHub stars+13 (+0.50 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    A persistent, unified memory layer for all your AI agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, DSH), backed by Markdown and Milvus.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add zilliztech/memsearch

    2 565GitHub stars+36 (+1.4 %)
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    Active

    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 537GitHub stars+170 (+7.2 %)
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    Active

    Natively — Free open-source AI meeting assistant, interview copilot, and note taker. The best alternative to Cluely, Otter, Granola, Final Round AI, Fireflies, and Interview Coder. Real-time transcription, AI meeting notes, lecture…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Natively-AI-assistant/natively-cluely-ai-assistant ~/.claude/skills/natively-cluely-ai-assistant

    2 434GitHub stars+52 (+2.2 %)
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    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 425GitHub stars+68 (+2.9 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    🇫🇷 Skills pour agents IA spécialisés dans la bureaucratie française : Comptable, Notaire, ...

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    2 369GitHub stars+14 (+0.59 %)
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    Active

    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 361GitHub stars+199 (+9.2 %)

Learning resources

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

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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 285GitHub stars+28 (+0.86 %)
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    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 173GitHub stars+67 (+2.2 %)
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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 955GitHub stars+253 (+9.4 %)
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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Claude Code learns from your corrections: self-correcting memory that compounds over 50+ sessions. Context engineering, parallel worktrees, agent teams, and 17 battle-tested skills.

    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add rohitg00/pro-workflow

    Resourcemeasured growth
    2 808GitHub stars+16 (+0.57 %)
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    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

    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    2 672GitHub stars+87 (+3.4 %)