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Build tools, bundlers, package managers and productivity boosters. The Developer Tools repositories breaking out right now, ranked by relative momentum: daily growth against their own size, so real risers surface instead of the giants that merely add the most stars in absolute terms.

catalog of 2026-08-30 · velocity is a trailing pace, up to 7 days · the one history nobody else keeps

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  1. 01DietrichGebert/ponytailJavaScriptMakes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.116K0.9%/day1.1K/d
  2. 02ayghri/i-have-adhdPythonA skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output.26K0.6%/day151/d
  3. 03usestrix/strixPythonOpen-source AI penetration testing tool to find and fix your app’s vulnerabilities.59K0.5%/day303/d
  4. 04rtk-ai/rtkRustCLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies78K0.1%/day100/d
  5. 05OpenHands/OpenHandsTypeScript🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development86K0.1%/day104/d
  6. 06affaan-m/ECCJavaScriptThe agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor 244K0.1%/day283/d
  7. 07DayuanJiang/next-ai-draw-ioTypeScriptA next.js web application that integrates AI capabilities with draw.io diagrams. This app allows you to create, modify, and enhance diagrams through natural lan35K0.1%/day31/d
  8. 08esengine/DeepSeek-ReasonixGoDeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.35K0.1%/day27/d
  9. 09GitHubDaily/GitHubDaily坚持分享 GitHub 上高质量、有趣实用的开源技术教程、开发者工具、编程网站、技术资讯。A list cool, interesting projects of GitHub.48K0.1%/day31/d
  10. 10excalidraw/excalidrawTypeScriptVirtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams131K0.1%/day74/d
  11. 11oven-sh/bunRustIncredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one96K28/day