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

    Other
    Active

    🤖 The one and only Claude Code Skill to Upgrade Rails by FastRuby.io -- Based on 60,000 dev/hours of experience upgrading Rails from 2.3 all the way to 8.1. Dual boot your Rails application and gradually upgrade one minor version at a time.…

    RubyLicense: MIT
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill
    • claude-code-skills
    • ruby-on-rails
    • technical-debt

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    381GitHub starsstable
  2. 2

    Agent
    Active

    Never stop coding. Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 352 providers (150+ free), 1200+ models Kimi, Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Cline & Copilot. Quota-aware auto-fallback,…

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • a2a
    • ai-agents
    • ai-gateway
    • anthropic
    • claude

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    61 284GitHub stars+3 152 (+5.4 %)
  3. 3

    Skill
    Active

    Curated AI coding agent skills and AGENTS.md playbooks for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, and other SKILL.md-compatible tools.

    HTMLLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-skills
    • agents-md
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    480GitHub stars+1 (+0.21 %)
  4. 4

    MCP
    Active

    Extract any website's complete design system with one command. DTCG tokens, semantic+primitive+composite, MCP server for Claude Code/Cursor/Windsurf, multi-platform emitters (iOS SwiftUI, Android Compose, Flutter, WordPress), Tailwind v4,…

    HTMLLicense: MIT
    • accessibility
    • agent-skill
    • ai
    • chrome-extension
    • claude-code-plugin

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    4 048GitHub stars+72 (+1.8 %)
  5. 5

    Skill
    Active

    Turns corrections into Preferences, Project-specific skills, and Shared skills for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-memory
    • ai-agent-memory
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add ReflexioAI/claude-smart

    773GitHub stars-1 (-0.13 %)
  6. 6

    Skill
    Active

    A Claude Code plugin that interviews you, designs the whole architecture, and writes a self-contained blueprint another Claude Code instance builds from with zero context — EARS acceptance criteria and a runnable verify command on every…

    License: MIT
    • agentic-coding
    • ai-agent
    • ai-coding-assistant
    • anthropic
    • automation

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add Hainrixz/the-architect

    485GitHub stars+4 (+0.83 %)
  7. 7

    Skill
    Active

    Run multiple AI models against the same research, design, or coding task. Surface disagreements before you ship.

    ShellLicense: MIT
    • ai-agents
    • ai-orchestration
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • codex

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add nyldn/claude-octopus

    4 045GitHub stars+26 (+0.65 %)
  8. 8

    Skill
    Active

    Universal skill installer and package manager for AI coding agents. One command, 12+ runtimes. npx ai-agent-skills

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • cli
    • codex

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    1 137GitHub stars+3 (+0.26 %)
  9. 9

    Skill
    Active

    一款提供Agent Skills安全扫描和可视化管理的桌面应用 | A desktop application that provides security scanning and visual management for Agent Skills.

    RustLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • skill-marketplace
    • skills-guard
    • skills-manager

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/bruc3van/agent-skills-guard ~/.claude/skills/agent-skills-guard

    384GitHub stars+1 (+0.26 %)
  10. 10

    Skill
    Dormant

    Serenity-inspired Agent Skill for supply-chain bottleneck stock research

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • investment-research

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/muxuuu/serenity-skill ~/.claude/skills/serenity-skill

    3 952GitHub stars+31 (+0.79 %)
  11. 11

    Skill
    Active

    AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-prompts
    • ai-skill
    • bluesky
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill ~/.claude/skills/last30days-skill

    61 266GitHub stars+1 041 (+1.7 %)
  12. 12

    Skill
    Active

    A pre-execution guard for AI coding agents. It blocks destructive Git and file system commands, plus common attempts to access sensitive files, before a tool call runs. Supports Amp Code, Antigravity CLI, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini…

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai-agents
    • ai-safety
    • antigravity
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add kenryu42/cc-safety-net

    1 524GitHub stars+10 (+0.66 %)
  13. 13

    Skill
    Active

    Codebase harness + loop engineer

    Python
    • agent-harness
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/AI-Builder-Club/skills ~/.claude/skills/skills

    1 235GitHub stars+15 (+1.2 %)
  14. 14

    Skill
    Dormant

    A thin orchestration dashboard over Claude Code for managing context, automation, and developer headspace. You need tentacles. 🦑

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-engineering
    • agentic-workflow
    • ai-agents
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    1 413GitHub stars+2 (+0.14 %)
  15. 15

    Skill
    Active

    Dashboard for monitoring claude code sessions.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agents
    • agentskills
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • claude-code-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add JayantDevkar/claude-code-karma

    324GitHub stars+3 (+0.93 %)
  16. 16

    Skill
    Active

    🦞+🔬 NanoResearch: The Autonomous AI Research Assistant

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • agents
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-scientist

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    1 364GitHub stars+3 (+0.22 %)
  17. 17

    Skill
    Active

    Run a task with AI as a flow of steps you keep, reuse, and refine, not a one-off chat.

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-ai
    • ai
    • ai-agent
    • ai-agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace ~/.claude/skills/Flowtrace

    488GitHub starsstable
  18. 18

    Other
    Active

    Reusable AI development infrastructure for Java projects, optimized for Claude Code

    ShellLicense: MIT
    • ai-assisted-development
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skills
    • developer-tools
    • java

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    727GitHub stars+5 (+0.69 %)
  19. 19

    Skill
    Active

    PhD Research Skills for Claude Code: paper reproduction, experiment design, paper review, result comparison and more.

    ShellLicense: MIT
    • academic
    • agents
    • ai
    • claude
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add fcakyon/phd-skills

    385GitHub stars+8 (+2.1 %)
  20. 20

    Skill
    Active

    Clip any video into a narration recap with claude code skill｜用 claude code skill 把任何视频剪辑成中文解说视频，支持剪映导出

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-agent
    • asr
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • claude-skills

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add zenstory-ai/video-recap-skills

    494GitHub stars+12 (+2.5 %)

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

  1. 1

    recomby-geo

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    GEO 领域 AI 员工开源方案 · Open-source GEO AI-employee solution (MIT). GEO Skills package + curated lists of agents and office CLIs that make up the AI-employee stack.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-cli
    • ai-agent
    • ai-coworker
    • ai-employee
    • ai-workforce
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/ViryaZheng/recomby-geo ~/.claude/skills/recomby-geo

    Resourcemeasured growth
    453GitHub stars+1 (+0.22 %)
  2. 2

    Agent-Skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs.

    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-skills
    • agentskill
    • ai
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Agent-Skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    734GitHub stars+10 (+1.4 %)
  3. 3

    awesome-claude-code-plugins

    MCP
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Awesome Claude Code plugins — a curated list of slash commands, subagents, MCP servers, and hooks for Claude Code

    JavaScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • awesome-claude-code
    • awesome-list
    • awesome-plugins
    • awesome-resources
    • claude-code
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    931GitHub stars+5 (+0.54 %)
  4. 4

    awesome-claude

    MCP
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    HeyClaude is a curated registry and distribution surface for Claude and AI-workflow assets: agents, MCP servers, skills, commands, hooks, rules, guides, tools, jobs, Raycast feeds, static data exports, and an npm MCP package.

    MDXLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • ai-directory
    • ai-tools
    • anthropic
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    294GitHub stars-1 (-0.34 %)
  5. 5

    youtube-tutorials

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

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

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-coding
    • agentic-engineering
    • ai-engineering
    • claude-code
    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    379GitHub stars+14 (+3.8 %)