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Coding & Dev Tools

Code generation, CLIs, editors, UI toolkits, and the developer tooling that speeds up how software gets built.

These are our picks, not a scrape of GitHub trending: every repo here is one we covered in Repository Radar because we thought it worth tracking. Ranked by stars, with live metrics and a get-it block on each.

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29 repos, our 2nd-largest category (Agents & Orchestration leads with 92). Combined they're up 195% since we covered them, the fastest-growing of our 9 categories. They hold 1M stars, 6k contributors and 2M weekly downloads between them. Strength runs broad, not top-heavy: the median repo (29k stars) sits close to the 47k average. 20 are breaking out and 28 still actively shipping, and TypeScript leads on language.

total

1M
stars tracked
#2 of 9
+898k
stars added since covered
#2 of 9
6k
contributors
#3 of 9
2M
weekly downloads
#5 of 9
1k
commits / week
#2 of 9
20
breaking out
#2 of 9
28
still shipping
#2 of 9

per repo

29k
median stars
#3 of 9
+31k
stars added / repo
#2 of 9
+195%
growth since covered
#1 of 9
200
contributors / repo
#3 of 9
84k
downloads / repo
#5 of 9
49
commits / repo
#3 of 9
69%
% breaking out
#1 of 9
97%
% shipping
#3 of 9
💬OpenCode BREAKOUT ACTIVE

anomalyco/opencode

The open source coding agent.

190k
+ 19k/mo (+59%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
product TypeScript MIT PR#22
🚀Claude-Code BREAKOUT ACTIVE

anthropics/claude-code

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.

139k
+ 8k/mo (+149%/mo) since covered
Python
product Python PR#3
📋spec-kit BREAKOUT ACTIVE

github/spec-kit

💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

124k
+ 10k/mo (+33%/mo) since covered
Python
Python MIT PR#18
💻Gemini CLI BREAKOUT ACTIVE

google-gemini/gemini-cli

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.

106k
+ 4k/mo (+8%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
product TypeScript Apache-2.0 PR#12
👩‍💻Codex BREAKOUT ACTIVE

openai/codex

Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

102k
+ 7k/mo (+26596%/mo) since covered
Rust
product Rust Apache-2.0 PR#9
RTK BREAKOUT ACTIVE

rtk-ai/rtk

CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

74k
+ 14k/mo (+53%/mo) since covered
Rust
product Rust Apache-2.0 PR#32
🎨taste-skill BREAKOUT ACTIVE

Leonxlnx/taste-skill

Taste-Skill - gives your AI good taste. stops the AI from generating boring, generic slop

68k
+ 20k/mo (+64%/mo) since covered
JavaScript
JavaScript MIT PR#35
📇Twenty ACTIVE

twentyhq/twenty

The open alternative to Salesforce, designed for AI.

54k
+ 2k/mo (+5%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
TypeScript Other PR#12
🎨impeccable BREAKOUT ACTIVE

pbakaus/impeccable

The design language that makes your AI harness better at design.

52k
+ 10k/mo (+92%/mo) since covered
JavaScript
library JavaScript Apache-2.0 PR#30
🔧chrome-devtools-mcp BREAKOUT ACTIVE

ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp

Chrome DevTools for coding agents

48k
+ 4k/mo (+54%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
library TypeScript Apache-2.0 PR#25, PR#18
⌨️CLI-Anything BREAKOUT ACTIVE

HKUDS/CLI-Anything

"CLI-Anything: Making ALL Software Agent-Native" -- CLI-Hub: https://clianything.cc/

46k
+ 7k/mo (+34%/mo) since covered
Python
Python Apache-2.0 PR#30
🦀DeepSeek-TUI BREAKOUT ACTIVE

Hmbown/CodeWhale

Open-source, community-driven agent harness

40k
+ 5k/mo (+17%/mo) since covered
Rust
product Rust MIT PR#34
🔀Jujutsu ACTIVE

jj-vcs/jj

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

31k
+ 1k/mo (+8%/mo) since covered
Rust
product Rust Apache-2.0 PR#8
📦claude-code-templates BREAKOUT ACTIVE

davila7/claude-code-templates

CLI tool for configuring and monitoring Claude Code

30k
+ 2k/mo (+14%/mo) since covered
Python
Python MIT PR#25
🎛️Reflex ACTIVE

reflex-dev/reflex

🕸️ Web apps in pure Python 🐍

29k
+ 361/mo (+1%/mo) since covered
Python
library Python Apache-2.0 PR#14
🤖Serena BREAKOUT ACTIVE

oraios/serena

A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent

27k
+ 2k/mo (+22%/mo) since covered
Python
product Python MIT PR#14
🎨onlook ACTIVE

onlook-dev/onlook

The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI

26k
+ 611/mo (+3%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
product TypeScript Apache-2.0 PR#25, PR#10
simdjson ACTIVE

simdjson/simdjson

Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second: used by Facebook/Meta Velox, the Node.js runtime, ClickHouse, WatermelonDB, Apache Doris, Milvus, StarRocks

24k
+ 207/mo (+1%/mo) since covered
C++
C++ Apache-2.0 PR#17
💻WaveTerm BREAKOUT ACTIVE

wavetermdev/waveterm

An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows

22k
+ 1k/mo (+8%/mo) since covered
Go
product Go Apache-2.0 PR#20
🐑herdr BREAKOUT ACTIVE

ogulcancelik/herdr

agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal.

22k
+ 14k/mo (+162%/mo) since covered
Rust
product Rust Apache-2.0 PR#37
🛠️Dyad ACTIVE

dyad-sh/dyad

Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!

21k
+ 400/mo (+2%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
product TypeScript Other PR#23
🖱️avante.nvim ACTIVE

yetone/avante.nvim

Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE!

18k
+ 372/mo (+3%/mo) since covered
Lua
product Lua Apache-2.0 PR#5
🧠HumanLayer / CodeLayer BREAKOUT ACTIVE

humanlayer/humanlayer

The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases.

11k
+ 637/mo (+13%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
product TypeScript Other PR#23, PR#18
🌍Crucix BREAKOUT ACTIVE

calesthio/Crucix

Your personal intelligence agent. Watches the world from multiple data sources and pings you when something changes.

11k
+ 1k/mo (+30%/mo) since covered
JavaScript
product JavaScript AGPL-3.0 PR#30
🛠️Polar ACTIVE

polarsource/polar

Polar, A billing platform for the intelligence era

10k
+ 220/mo (+3%/mo) since covered
Python
Python Apache-2.0 PR#20
📁fff.nvim BREAKOUT ACTIVE

dmtrKovalenko/fff

The fastest and the most accurate file search SDK for AI agents, Neovim, Rust, C, Python, Bun and NodeJS

10k
+ 2k/mo (+43%/mo) since covered
Rust
product Rust MIT PR#31
🔥CodeBurn BREAKOUT ACTIVE

getagentseal/codeburn

Free, local tool to track AI coding token usage and cost across 31 tools and agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini and more), by model, project, and task. npx codeburn

9k
+ 2k/mo (+167%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
product TypeScript MIT PR#32
🧱openui BREAKOUT ACTIVE

thesysdev/openui

The Open Standard for Generative UI

8k
+ 1k/mo (+75%/mo) since covered
TypeScript
TypeScript MIT PR#30
🤖Devin CursorRules FAINT SIGNAL

grapeot/devin.cursorrules

Magic to turn Cursor/Windsurf as 90% of Devin

6k
+ 90/mo (+2%/mo) since covered
Python
Python MIT PR#2