Trending Repos
Nine repos from this week's GitHub trending lists that a solo founder can actually use. Not the most stars. The ones that help you ship, sell, or see how the competition does it.
I read GitHub's weekly trending list and Trendshift's, skipped everything that doesn't help you build a business, and wrote up the rest. Every repo is open source. One email unlocks the page, and every other guide on the site.
All Nine, At A Glance
Click a row for what it does and how I'd use it, or go straight to the repo.
The Tools Change Every Week. The Skill Doesn't.
I read the trending lists so you can skip most of them. The founders who win don't have the most tools. They know what to build with the few they pick.
I'm building a place where you learn to build with tools like these on your own, and sell what you make, with a CTO who's built two seven-figure software companies in your corner.
Pick Fewer. Ship More.
- Weekly CTO office hours. Live, hot-seat style. Bring the repo you're tempted by and the build it's for.
- Live product teardowns. The stack, the landing page and the pricing, reviewed in front of everyone.
- A room of Founders. People who are building too, and cheer when you ship.
- The 30-Day Launch Plan. Validate, plan, build and launch, one week at a time. Members only.
Free to join the waitlist. Opens at $49/mo, and the price goes up as seats fill, so first in pays the least.
REA
▶ morluto/rea · TypeScript · MIT
You see a feature in someone else's app and wonder how they built it. REA gives your coding agent the tools to find out. It inspects desktop apps, JavaScript and Electron bundles, .NET assemblies, websites and native binaries without the source code, explains how the feature works, shows the evidence, and can build a version for your own project. It runs locally, inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI.
Kinds of target: native binaries, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET assemblies and websites.
Where the analysis runs.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026, the most on this list.
- Ask in plain English. The README's example: understand how search works in the Notes app, show the evidence, and build a similar feature.
- Evidence, not guesses. Answers come back with the modules, calls and strings behind them.
- One setup command. It registers REA with your agent and backs up your config first.
- Only on software you're allowed to examine. REA's own disclaimer limits it to software you own or are authorized to examine. Read the other app's terms first.
Pick one feature you keep losing deals over, find an app you're allowed to examine that has it, and ask your agent how it works before you design your own.
“See a feature you like. Understand how it works, down to the binary level.”From The README
Security Audit
▶ cloudflare/security-audit-skill · JavaScript · MIT
You don't have a security team, and your first big customer will ask about security anyway. This is the skill that seeded Cloudflare's own vulnerability-hunting harness. It walks your coding agent through a six-phase audit: map the system, hunt for holes with isolated sub-agents, have a fresh agent try to disprove every finding, then write up only what survives.
What one run found, of everything repeated runs turned up in Cloudflare's tests. Run it more than once.
Verdicts per finding: confirmed, needs validation or rejected.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- A second opinion on every finding. A different agent tries to disprove each one before it counts.
- Severity needs impact. Findings are ranked by likelihood and impact, not by a checklist.
- Runs add up. Each run reads the last one's notes and goes after the gaps.
- Sandbox it. The README asks for an OS-enforced sandbox, with networking off, when the audit builds or runs your code.
Run it twice on your app before your next launch, and fix everything marked confirmed.
“The agent that checks a finding is never the agent that found it.”From The README
- Repo
- cloudflare/
security-audit-skill - Stars
- 38,170
- Language
- JavaScript
- Kind
- Agent Skill
npx skills add https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill --skill security-audit
VoiceStudio
▶ debpalash/VoiceStudio · Python · AGPL-3.0
Every launch video, demo and tutorial needs a voiceover, and per-character bills add up. VoiceStudio is an open-source alternative to ElevenLabs that runs on your own machine. Clone a voice from a clean recording, design a new one, dub a video with timed speech, or dictate with a floating widget. It has a local API and an MCP server, so your agent can use it too.
Where it runs. Remote services are optional.
Free disk for the CPU-only build, if you have no GPU.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- Clone, design, dub. Your voice, a new voice, and a translated version of your demo, in one app.
- Runs on a laptop. Apple Silicon and NVIDIA get acceleration, and it still works on CPU alone, just slower.
- Agent-ready. A local API, an MCP server, reusable recipes and watch folders.
- Check the license. It's AGPL-3.0. Read what that means before you build it into a product you host.
Dub your product demo into the second language your traffic comes from.
“Your voice. Your workflow.”From The README
- Repo
- debpalash/
VoiceStudio - Stars
- 81,165
- Language
- Python
- Site
- voicestudio.sh
curl -fsSL https://voicestudio.sh/install | sh
HyperFrames
▶ heygen-com/hyperframes · TypeScript · Apache-2.0
From HeyGen: a framework that turns HTML, CSS, media and animation into MP4 video. You describe the video, your agent writes it as a web page, and HyperFrames renders it frame by frame. Launch videos, product intros, captions and social clips, made by the same agent that writes your code. My /brag workflow uses it to turn a website into a launch video.
Skills that teach your agent to plan, write, lint, preview and render.
What comes out, rendered locally or in the cloud.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- Video as code. Each video is an HTML file, so it lives in your repo and changes like everything else.
- Works with your agent. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and others.
- Media included. A media skill finds or makes music, sound effects, voiceover and images.
- Same render every time. Output is deterministic: the same HTML makes the same video.
Ask for a 10-second product intro with a title, a screen recording of your app and some quiet background music.
“Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.”From The README
- Repo
- heygen-com/
hyperframes - Stars
- 69,673
- Language
- TypeScript
- Site
- hyperframes.dev
claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes
Orca
▶ stablyai/orca · TypeScript · MIT
Working alone, you're the bottleneck. Orca is a desktop workspace for running several coding agents at once: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi or anything else that runs in a terminal, each in its own git worktree. Give them all the same task, compare what comes back, and merge the best one. A phone app tells you when an agent is done.
CLI agent. If it runs in a terminal, it runs in Orca.
Subscriptions. It runs agents on the plans you already pay for.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- Side by side. Separate worktrees, so agents never overwrite each other.
- Review in one place. Comment on any line of an AI diff and send it back to the agent.
- Watch your limits. It shows Claude and Codex usage and rate-limit resets, and swaps accounts.
- Steer from your phone. iOS and Android apps for when you're away from the desk.
Give your next bug to two agents at once and merge the better fix.
“Fan one prompt across five agents, each in its own isolated git worktree — compare the results and merge the winner.”From The README
- Repo
- stablyai/
orca - Stars
- 102,221
- Language
- TypeScript
- Get It
- onorca.dev/download
CLI-Anything
▶ HKUDS/CLI-Anything · Python · Apache-2.0
Your business runs on apps an agent can't drive: video calls, documents, notes, workflow tools. CLI-Anything wraps desktop software in a command line an agent can use, and CLI-Hub is where the community publishes them. Install one and your agent can work Zoom, n8n, Obsidian or LibreOffice the way it works your code.
A community registry of ready-made CLIs, installed from pip, npm, brew or the app itself.
App missing? Request a CLI, or build one and submit it.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- Operations, not just code. Point your agent at the tools you actually run the business on.
- Community-built. New ones land most weeks, from LibreOffice and Zoom to n8n and Obsidian.
- Agents check their work. Previews let the agent look at what it made before it hands it back.
- Start with one app. The one you open most often is where the hours are.
Install the CLI for one tool you use every day and hand your agent one chore in it.
“CLI-Anything: Making ALL Software Agent-Native”From The Repo Description
- Repo
- HKUDS/
CLI-Anything - Stars
- 56,104
- Language
- Python
- Site
- clianything.cc
pip install cli-anything-hub
OpenCode
▶ anomalyco/opencode · TypeScript · MIT
The open-source coding agent, in your terminal or as a desktop app. If your company runs on an agent workflow, it's worth having one you can read, fork and change. It ships two agents you switch between with the Tab key: build, which has full access, and plan, which is read-only and asks before it runs anything.
License. Read it, fork it, change it.
App in beta for macOS, Windows and Linux.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- Plan before you build. The plan agent explores and proposes without touching your files.
- Nothing hidden. It's open source, so you can see exactly what it does with your code.
- Installs anywhere. Homebrew, npm, a one-line script, or the desktop app.
- A helper for big jobs. Mention @general for wide searches and multistep tasks.
Open your messiest file in plan mode and ask what it would change first.
“The open source AI coding agent.”From The README
- Repo
- anomalyco/
opencode - Stars
- 219,977
- Language
- TypeScript
- Site
- opencode.ai
brew install anomalyco/tap/opencode-v2
Android Skills
▶ android/skills · Kotlin · Apache-2.0
If your app is iOS-only or web-only, Android is the market you're leaving on the table. These are Google's official agent skills for Android development, written for the areas where Google's own evaluations show models get things wrong. They follow the open Agent Skills standard and install into Claude Code, Codex and Gemini.
An analyzer skill for R8, Android's code shrinker.
Compose and Material 3 for Wear OS.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- Made for the gaps. Google skipped what models already do well and wrote skills for what they don't.
- Picked up automatically. Ask for "Make my app UI edge-to-edge" and the right skill kicks in.
- Two ways in. The Android CLI, or a plugin for Claude Code or Codex.
- Still check the work. Google's own disclaimer: AI can make mistakes.
Install the plugin and ask your agent to make your Android app edge-to-edge.
“Our Android skill development focuses on use cases and workflows where evaluations show LLMs underperform.”From The README
- Repo
- android/
skills - Stars
- 9,199
- Language
- Kotlin
- Kind
- Agent Skills
/plugin marketplace add android/skills
ComfyUI
▶ Comfy-Org/ComfyUI · Python · GPL-3.0
Ad creatives, product shots and social images, made on your own machine instead of paid for per image. ComfyUI is a node-graph app for running open image, video and audio models locally. Wire up a workflow once, save it, and run it again whenever you need the next batch. App Mode turns a complicated workflow into a simple form, and a local API lets your product call it.
The core downloads nothing you don't ask for.
Workflows save as files, so the recipe behind your best ad can run again.
GitHub stars on Oct 22, 2026.
- Workflows, not one-off prompts. Save the graph that made your best image and reuse it.
- More than images. Video, audio and 3D workflows run in the same app.
- Desktop app. Installers for Windows and macOS, or Comfy's paid cloud if your machine can't keep up.
- Check the license. It's GPL-3.0. Read what that means before you ship it inside your product.
Build one workflow for your product shots, save it, and run it on next week's batch.
“The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.”From The Repo Description
- Repo
- Comfy-Org/
ComfyUI - Stars
- 141,884
- Language
- Python
- Get It
- comfy.org/download
Trending, But Not On The List
Momentum isn't the test. Plenty of this week's biggest climbers are great projects that won't help you build a business. A few I skipped, and why.
Tools Are The Easy Part.
Anybody can build software now. Not everybody can build a business.
Nine new repos a week is a great way to feel busy. The Lab is for Founders who'd rather get customers: weekly office hours with a CTO who's built two seven-figure software companies, and a room of other Founders who care whether anybody buys what you're making.
Less Theater. More Customers.
Want my 30-Day Launch Plan? It's for Lab members only: validate, plan, build and launch, one week at a time.
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