Week 21, 2026May 18 – May 24, 2026
The week in facts
- From Monday, May 18, 2026 to Sunday, May 24, 2026, the repositories in the Repository Index gained 798,893 net stars, 0.1% more than the week before (798,231). 15,434 repositories gained stars.
- colbymchenry/codegraph gained the most stars: 19,046, to 22,470.
- 81 repositories crossed a star milestone of 1,000 stars or more. The highest: mattpocock/skills reached 100,000 stars.
- 15 repositories created in this week gained stars. alibaba/open-code-review gained the most: 14.
- Repositories with the primary language Python got 29.1% of the net stars (the week before: 27.4%).
- The day with the most net stars was Monday, May 18, 2026: 126,215.
This week ended before Oct 22, 2026, the first day the Repository Index admitted rising repositories. It shows only the repositories that were in the index on Nov 3, 2026. A repository that rose in this week and stopped before Oct 22, 2026 is not in it.
What rose
- 1colbymchenry/codegraphPre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, CoPilot, and Hermes Agent — fewer tokens, fewer…TypeScript · 22,470 stars at the end of the week · created Jan 18, 2026+19,046week before: +2,404
- 2multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skillsA single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.149,630 stars at the end of the week · created Jan 27, 2026+18,212week before: +10,498
- 3mattpocock/skillsSkills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.Shell · 101,277 stars at the end of the week · created Feb 3, 2026+13,991week before: +19,743
- 4tinyhumansai/openhumanThe fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness. Run more than 500 agents on a $10 VPS.Rust · 26,426 stars at the end of the week · created Feb 18, 2026+12,589week before: +13,023
- 5Egonex-AI/Understand-AnythingGraphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor,…TypeScript · 27,010 stars at the end of the week · created Mar 15, 2026+12,466week before: +919
- 6Imbad0202/academic-research-skillsAcademic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalizePython · 20,378 stars at the end of the week · created Feb 26, 2026+10,898week before: +3,847
- 7NousResearch/hermes-agentThe agent that grows with youPython · 162,601 stars at the end of the week · created Jul 22, 2025+10,832week before: +12,059
- 8obra/superpowersAn agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.Shell · 200,898 stars at the end of the week · created Oct 9, 2025+9,766week before: +9,894
- 9rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratchLearn AI Engineering! Learn it. Build it. Ship it for others.Python · 16,383 stars at the end of the week · created Mar 18, 2026+8,846week before: +822
- 10anthropics/claude-plugins-officialOfficial, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.Python · 26,913 stars at the end of the week · created Nov 20, 2025+7,724week before: +561
Each day
The day with the most net stars was Monday: 126,215.
Where the stars went
The share of the week's net stars for each primary language, against the week before.
- The week before
- Week 21
- Python
Python: 27% → 29% 29% - TypeScript
TypeScript: 20% → 22% 22% - Rust
Rust: 11% → 8.9% 8.9% - Go
Go: 6.5% → 6.0% 6.0% - JavaScript
JavaScript: 6.7% → 5.6% 5.6% - Shell
Shell: 5.4% → 4.9% 4.9% - C++
C++: 2.4% → 2.7% 2.7% - Jupyter Notebook
Jupyter Notebook: 1.9% → 1.6% 1.6%
Star milestones
- 5crossed 100K
- 8crossed 50K
- 18crossed 25K
- 27crossed 10K
- 16crossed 5K
- 8crossed 1K
- 100Kmattpocock/skills+13,991
- 100Kmsitarzewski/agency-agents+5,520
- 100Kgithub/spec-kit+3,985
- 100Kgarrytan/gstack+3,186
- 100Kimmich-app/immich+856
- 50Knexu-io/open-design+7,381
- 50KGraphify-Labs/graphify+4,305
- 50Krtk-ai/rtk+4,219
- 50Kearendil-works/pi+3,229
- 50KD4Vinci/Scrapling+3,168
- 50Kdatawhalechina/hello-agents+2,599
- 50Kfreqtrade/freqtrade+285
- 50Kdkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps+124
- 25Ktinyhumansai/openhuman+12,589
- 25KEgonex-AI/Understand-Anything+12,466
- 25Kanthropics/claude-plugins-official+7,724
- 25KAlishahryar1/free-claude-code+3,923
- 25Kanthropics/financial-services+2,697
- 25KK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills+1,715
- 25Kxai-org/x-algorithm+1,008
- 25KiOfficeAI/AionUi+991
- 25Kshiyu-coder/Kronos+622
- 25Ktobi/qmd+507
- 25Kyamadashy/repomix+483
New in this week
15 repositories created in this week gained stars.
- alibaba/open-code-reviewcreated May 18, 2026 · Go+14
- zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcpcreated May 18, 2026 · Go+11
- ChuYanLon/telegram.nvimcreated May 19, 2026 · Lua+5
- gkoos/confluence2mdcreated May 22, 2026 · Go+5
- eunomia-bpf/ActPlanecreated May 22, 2026 · C+5
Topics with the most stars
Topics on 5 or more repositories that gained stars in this week.
- llm325 repositories+126,604week before: +129,157
- claude-code172 repositories+126,026week before: +109,814
- ai448 repositories+122,884week before: +126,827
- ai-agents191 repositories+107,093week before: +105,855
- mcp220 repositories+94,549week before: +84,425
- claude124 repositories+89,068week before: +97,497
- python1,209 repositories+85,608week before: +80,326
- codex89 repositories+81,909week before: +81,590
Source: AwesomeRepos Repository Index and Star History (net stars each day from GitHub), May 18 – May 24, 2026. AwesomeRepos computed this week on Nov 3, 2026, after it ended, from the 49,193 repositories that the lists showed on that day. Withheld Repositories are not in it. The page does not change. The stars of a repository at the end of the week are its latest star count less its net stars after the week.