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

    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

    239GitHub stars+9 (+3.9 %)
  2. 2

    Skill
    Active

    Persistent memory for Claude Code. Bring your own database.

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • claude
    • claude-ai
    • claude-api
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add Avijit07x/claude-db

    220GitHub stars+8 (+3.8 %)
  3. 3

    Skill
    Active

    为纯文本模型"看图“设计更好的视觉工具箱和技能，支持多图理解，图片问答，前端UI还原、GUI 自动化等，并可选无缝接入多个主流agent，直接识别粘贴图片｜ A vision toolkit and skill designed for text-only llms — image Q&A, long-screenshot OCR, frontend UI restoration, and GUI automation, with optional seamless…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • computer-use

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Anionex/agent-vision-toolkit ~/.claude/skills/agent-vision-toolkit

    1 161GitHub stars+42 (+3.8 %)
  4. 4

    Skill
    Active

    The Simulink Agentic Toolkit gives your AI agent both the tools and the expertise to work effectively with Simulink and Model-Based Design.

    HTML
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • codex-plugin
    • engineering-agents
    • github-copilot

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/matlab/simulink-agentic-toolkit ~/.claude/skills/simulink-agentic-toolkit

    1 038GitHub stars+37 (+3.7 %)
  5. 5

    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 508GitHub stars+120 (+3.5 %)
  6. 6

    Skill
    Active

    发布前审｜发抖音/小红书/视频号前先让 AI 审一遍：哪句踩线、依据哪条官方规则、给能直接用的改法。38 篇真实样本校准判定尺度，72 条官方原文引文可查证，你踩过的坑沉淀成本地规则库越用越准。不承诺过审，不教绕审。

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • chinese
    • claude
    • content-compliance

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/yuwen-cool/yuwen-publish-precheck ~/.claude/skills/yuwen-publish-precheck

    702GitHub stars+24 (+3.5 %)
  7. 7

    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

    359GitHub stars+12 (+3.5 %)
  8. 8

    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 ↗

    721GitHub stars+24 (+3.4 %)
  9. 9

    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

    370GitHub stars+12 (+3.4 %)
  10. 10

    Skill
    Active

    DeepPaperNote is an agent skill for deep-reading a single paper and generating high-quality Obsidian-style research notes. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • copilot
    • cursor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/917Dhj/DeepPaperNote ~/.claude/skills/DeepPaperNote

    1 034GitHub stars+33 (+3.3 %)
  11. 11

    Skill
    Active

    Universal SEO skill for Claude Code. 25 sub-skills + 18 sub-agents covering technical SEO, E-E-A-T, schema, GEO/AEO, backlinks, local SEO, maps intelligence, semantic clustering, e-commerce SEO, international SEO, Google APIs, and PDF/Excel…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • ai-seo
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill
    • marketing-automation

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    16 315GitHub stars+519 (+3.3 %)
  12. 12

    Skill
    Dormant

    Claude Code skill for YouTube creators — channel audits, video SEO, retention scripts, thumbnails, content strategy, Shorts optimization, analytics, monetization, and more.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • ai-content
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skill
    • content-creation

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    350GitHub stars+11 (+3.2 %)
  13. 13

    Skill
    Active

    Turn project work into reusable knowledge — an AI-agent skill for Claude Code & Codex

    ShellLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • knowledge-management

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/iBlinkQ/project-cairn ~/.claude/skills/project-cairn

    223GitHub stars+7 (+3.2 %)
  14. 14

    MCP
    Active

    Mine your Claude Code and Codex logs into a local you.md agent profile.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-memory
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-coding

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    288GitHub stars+9 (+3.2 %)
  15. 15

    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 425GitHub stars+68 (+2.9 %)
  16. 16

    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 705GitHub stars+213 (+2.2 %)
  17. 17

    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

    114 805GitHub stars+2 468 (+2.2 %)
  18. 18

    Other
    Active

    AI-powered bug bounty hunting toolkit that works with or without subscription.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-security
    • bug-bounty
    • bugcrowd
    • claude-ai
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    4 702GitHub stars+101 (+2.2 %)
  19. 19

    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 959GitHub stars+227 (+2.1 %)

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

    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 %)
  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
    256GitHub stars+9 (+3.6 %)
  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 672GitHub stars+87 (+3.4 %)
  4. 4

    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
    248GitHub stars+8 (+3.3 %)
  5. 5

    algo-sensei

    Skill
    DormantOpen source ↗

    Your AI-powered LeetCode & DSA mentor for Claude Code and Claude.ai. Master algorithms through intelligent guidance, progressive hints, and pattern recognition training—not just copy-pasting solutions. Features: Mock interviews, code…

    License: MIT
    • ai-tutor
    • algorithms
    • claude
    • claude-ai
    • claude-code
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/karanb192/algo-sensei ~/.claude/skills/algo-sensei

    Resourcemeasured growth
    267GitHub stars+6 (+2.3 %)
  6. 6

    cc-skills-golang

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    🧑‍🎨 A collection of Golang agentic skills that works

    GoLicense: MIT
    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • antigravity
    • claude
    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    3 173GitHub stars+67 (+2.2 %)