RISING · C

The C 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

1. 01DeusData/codebase-memory-mcpCHigh-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries41K ★▲ 0.4%/day162/d
2. 02colbymchenry/codegraphCPre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, CoPilot, and Hermes Agent — f69K ★▲ 0.2%/day122/d
3. 03JustVugg/colibriCRun frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦26K ★▲ 0.1%/day36/d
4. 04valkey-io/valkeyCA flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.27K ★▲ 0.1%/day27/d
5. 05torvalds/linuxCLinux kernel source tree245K ★▲ 0.1%/day184/d
6. 06FFmpeg/FFmpegCMirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git64K ★▲ 0.1%/day32/d
7. 07obsproject/obs-studioCOBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording76K ★▲ 37/day
8. 08Genymobile/scrcpyCDisplay and control your Android device149K ★▲ 58/day
9. 09microsoft/PowerToysCMicrosoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows138K ★▲ 32/day