Repo of the Month Nov 2025 · +29% Repo of the Month Aug 2025 · +18% Repo of the Month Jul 2025 · +64%

🚀Claude-Code

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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.

⭐ Hugely popular: 141k stars, gaining about 783 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2025 1 year old

delivery product

language Python

license n/a

momentum

total stars 141k

stars added last week +783

HN peak 1k pts 4mo ago

binary downloads 421 total · GitHub releases

used by 24 repos & packages

commits / week 5 cooling · -29% vs prior mo

issues closed 92% ~7d to close, median

contributors 54

release cadence weekly

last activity yesterday

durability

backing company-owned Anthropic

bus factor 1 solo

top-author share 88% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 8k/mo (+146%/mo) · + 136k total since PR#3

why it's a big deal

Runs coding tasks from natural language in the terminal, so developers can offload routine work without leaving their existing shell.
Reads and explains an existing codebase and handles git workflows, which helps people navigating unfamiliar or complex projects.
Meets developers where they already are by operating via terminal, IDE, or GitHub @claude mentions.

under the hood

The repository is mostly Python at 79 percent, with Shell at 13 percent and TypeScript at 5 percent, and it requires Node.js 18 or later.
Installs via a shell or PowerShell script, Homebrew, WinGet, or the deprecated npm package, covering macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Extensible through a plugins directory of custom commands and agents, with a built-in /bug command for reporting issues.

Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources

star history

PR#3 5k 2025-03-05
now 141k + 136k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.

-32 understory score output 60 · clout 92

output, commits & releases
clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

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PR#3 2025-03-05 below the radar

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