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

The 10 fastest-growing GitHub repositories in AI and developer tooling this week — ranked by stars, with links and quick summaries.

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 — from new AI coding tools to open-source frameworks worth bookmarking.

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


1. nexu-io/open-design — ⭐ 9.2k

🎨 Local-first, open-source alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems · 🖼�� sandboxed preview · 📦 HTML/PDF/PPTX export. 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex /

9,206 stars 🔀 1,022 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 Apache-2.0
🏷️ ai-agents, ai-design, anthropic, byok
→ View on GitHub

2. cursor/cookbook — ⭐ 2.7k

No description provided.

2,738 stars 🔀 305 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 No license
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

3. freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2 — ⭐ 2.7k

Prompt as Code | GPT-Image2 工业级提示词引擎与模板库 – 329个案例逆向工程,13套工业级模板,且不断更新中。

2,707 stars 🔀 406 forks 💻 Multiple languages 📄 MIT
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

4. theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431 — ⭐ 1.8k

No description provided.

1,830 stars 🔀 400 forks 💻 Python 📄 No license
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

5. willchen96/mike — ⭐ 847

OSS AI Legal Platform

847 stars 🔀 201 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 AGPL-3.0
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

6. DanOps-1/Gpt-Agreement-Payment — ⭐ 830

ChatGPT Plus/Team/Pro 订阅协议端到端重放工具集 · hCaptcha 视觉求解器 · 反欺诈机制实证研究 / End-to-end protocol replay toolkit for ChatGPT Plus/Team/Pro subscription with from-scratch hCaptcha solver and empirical anti-fraud r

830 stars 🔀 377 forks 💻 Python 📄 MIT
🏷️ adversarial-ml, anti-fraud, bug-bounty, captcha-solver
→ View on GitHub

7. GENEXIS-AI/chromex — ⭐ 708

A Codex-powered Chrome side-panel assistant for page context, tabs, voice, and image workflows.

708 stars 🔀 58 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 MIT
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

8. denuitt1/mhr-cfw — ⭐ 673

A Domain-Fronting Relay that routes traffic though GAS (Google Apps Script) and forwards it to Cloudflare Workers. Designed to bypass DPI.

673 stars 🔀 111 forks 💻 Python 📄 No license
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

9. b-nnett/codex-plusplus — ⭐ 613

Codex++ tweak system for the Codex desktop app

613 stars 🔀 24 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 MIT
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

10. Fokkyp/SoftwareCopyright-Skill — ⭐ 498

中国软件著作权申请材料 生成器 Skills,本 Skills 通过阅读本地项目,自动生成全套 .docx 软著申请材料,全开源,无须再付费购买任何软著申请服务

498 stars 🔀 119 forks 💻 Python 📄 MIT
🏷️ general
→ View on GitHub

Data pulled from the GitHub Search API. Star counts reflect totals at time of publication. We update this list every Monday. Browse all posts →

Some links in this article may be affiliate links. See our affiliate disclosure for details.

Share the Post:

Related Posts

Scroll to Top