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. darrylmorley/whatcable — ⭐ 2.0k
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
🏷️ apple-silicon, hardware-info, iokit, mac-app
→ View on GitHub
2. aattaran/deepclaude — ⭐ 1.4k
Use Claude Code’s autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper.
3. vercel-labs/deepsec — ⭐ 1.2k
Deepsec is a security harness for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase powered by coding agents
4. mattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding — ⭐ 1.1k
AI coding jargon, explained in plain English.
5. wrongly-cuddly-obsession/NTSB_FOIA_MU5735 — ⭐ 959
No description provided.
6. vibeforge1111/keep-codex-fast — ⭐ 781
A backup-first Codex skill for keeping local Codex state fast, clean, and recoverable.
7. tddworks/baguette — ⭐ 663
Headless iOS Simulator manager/farm + host-side input injection for iOS 26 — taps, swipes, multi-finger gestures, and 60 fps streaming
8. XBuilderLAB/cheat-on-content — ⭐ 540
Content is already a cheat-code race—whoever cracks the patterns first wins the traffic. Your auto-evolving ops expert that learns YOUR account, not the global average. The Claude Code workflow behind
9. Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes — ⭐ 528
Hermes-native AIOps agent for evidence-driven incident response, approval-gated remediation, and runbook learning.
10. crafter-station/petdex — ⭐ 501
Public gallery of animated Codex pets
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.