10 Fastest-Growing GitHub Repos This Week (First Week of April 2026)

Every week we scan GitHub for the fastest-growing repositories in AI and developer tooling. Here are the 10 repos that exploded in stars this week โ€” from new AI coding tools to open-source frameworks worth bookmarking.

Week of First Week of April 2026 | Ranked by stars gained in the last 7 days.


1. ultraworkers/claw-code โ€” โญ 172.1k

The repo is finally unlocked. enjoy the party! The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars โญ. Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.

โญ 172,052 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 104,265 forks ๐Ÿ’ป Rust ๐Ÿ“„ No license
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2. VoltAgent/awesome-design-md โ€” โญ 17.9k

Collection of DESIGN.md files that capture design systems from popular websites. Drop one into your project and let coding agents build matching UI.

โญ 17,910 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 2,217 forks ๐Ÿ’ป HTML ๐Ÿ“„ MIT
๐Ÿท๏ธ awesome-list, design-md, design-system, design-tokens
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3. Gitlawb/openclaude โ€” โญ 16.8k

Open Claude Is Open-source coding-agent CLI for OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, Codex, GitHub Models, and 200+ models via OpenAI-compatible APIs.

โญ 16,804 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 5,904 forks ๐Ÿ’ป TypeScript ๐Ÿ“„ NOASSERTION
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4. claude-code-best/claude-code โ€” โญ 14.0k

ๅŽŸๆฑๅŽŸๆ˜ง Claude Code ๅฏ่ฟ่กŒ,ๅฏๆž„ๅปบ, ๅฏ่ฐƒ่ฏ•็‰ˆ; Typescript ็ฑปๅž‹ๅ…จไฟฎๅค; ไผไธš็บงๅฏ้ ๆ€ง; ๅฎ‰ๅ…จๆ— ๆฏ’, lock ๆ–‡ไปถไฟ็œŸ, ๅฏ็›ดๆŽฅ bun i; bun run dev ๅฏๅŠจ

โญ 14,014 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 14,131 forks ๐Ÿ’ป TypeScript ๐Ÿ“„ No license
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5. sanbuphy/learn-coding-agent โ€” โญ 11.4k

Research on Coding Agents

โญ 11,356 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 19,662 forks ๐Ÿ’ป Multiple languages ๐Ÿ“„ No license
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6. ChinaSiro/claude-code-sourcemap โ€” โญ 8.5k

No description provided.

โญ 8,476 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 14,133 forks ๐Ÿ’ป TypeScript ๐Ÿ“„ No license
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7. Kuberwastaken/claurst โ€” โญ 8.4k

Your favorite Terminal Coding Agent, now in Rust & a Breakdown of the Claude Code leak & discoveries

โญ 8,385 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 7,592 forks ๐Ÿ’ป Rust ๐Ÿ“„ GPL-3.0
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8. emdash-cms/emdash โ€” โญ 7.6k

EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS based on Astro; the spiritual successor to WordPress

โญ 7,564 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 546 forks ๐Ÿ’ป TypeScript ๐Ÿ“„ MIT
๐Ÿท๏ธ astro, cms, emdash, typescript
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9. ultraworkers/claw-code-parity โ€” โญ 6.5k

Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd / claw-code Rust port parity work – it is temporary work while claw-code repo is doing migration

โญ 6,524 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 5,387 forks ๐Ÿ’ป Rust ๐Ÿ“„ No license
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10. santifer/career-ops โ€” โญ 5.8k

AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code. 14 skill modes, Go dashboard, PDF generation, batch processing.

โญ 5,827 stars ๐Ÿ”€ 907 forks ๐Ÿ’ป Go ๐Ÿ“„ MIT
๐Ÿท๏ธ ai-agent, anthropic, automation, career
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Data pulled from the GitHub Search API. Star counts reflect totals at time of publication. We update this list every Monday. Browse all posts โ†’

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