Fastest-growing AI GitHub repos: week 40, 2026

The week of 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-04, measured from our own daily star snapshots up to 2026-10-04. Each repo is measured between two of our snapshots 5 to 12 days apart, so some windows are shorter than the full week; every row shows its exact dates. This page is frozen: it was computed on 2026-10-24 and its numbers never change.

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This week in numbers

whatstrending.ai stores its own daily star snapshot for 2,480 AI repositories on GitHub. As of 2026-10-04, 878 of them have a snapshot from the last 6 days, and 737 have enough history for a current pace.

That week, the median tracked AI repo was gaining 2.2 stars a day.

debpalash/VoiceStudio was the fastest-growing AI repo we tracked that week, at 1,721 stars a day (+8,603 stars between 2026-09-29 and 2026-10-04).

debpalash/VoiceStudio accelerated hardest: from 997 to 1,721 stars a day, a jump of 723 stars a day.

vectorize-io/hindsight cooled hardest: from 2,801 down to 834 stars a day.

Of the 666 repos where we can measure both a current and a prior window, 142 are accelerating, 272 are steady, 208 have stalled and 44 are losing stars.

Tracked repos2,48050,004 snapshots on 108 days
History starts2026-06-19nothing stored from before this date
Snapshotted recently878in the last 6 days
Measurable pace737have two snapshots 5-12 days apart
Median pace2.2stars per day, across those 737
Stars gained+144,154total across those 737 repos
Accelerating142of 666 with two windows
Steady272of 666 with two windows
Stalled208of 666 with two windows
Declining44of 666 with two windows

Accelerating hardest

Biggest increase in stars per day versus each repo’s own prior window — not versus other repos. Both windows and their exact dates are shown, because a 5-day and a 10-day window are not the same measurement.

  1. 1
    debpalash/VoiceStudio
    997/day → 1,721/day +723/day Python
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +8,603 stars) · before: 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-29 (12 days, +11,968 stars)
  2. 2
    DietrichGebert/ponytail
    506/day → 1,167/day +661/day JavaScript
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +5,835 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +2,532 stars)
  3. 3
    Panniantong/Agent-Reach
    179/day → 759/day +579/day Python
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +3,793 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +897 stars)
  4. 4
    t8y2/dbx
    182/day → 582/day +400/day Rust
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +2,910 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +908 stars)
  5. 5
    deeplethe/utopia
    362/day → 14/day +376/day Rust
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +70 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, -1,811 stars)
  6. 6
    heygen-com/hyperframes
    248/day → 480/day +233/day TypeScript
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +2,401 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +1,238 stars)
  7. 7
    pbakaus/impeccable
    404/day → 588/day +184/day Rust
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +2,942 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +2,021 stars)
  8. 8
    earendil-works/pi
    237/day → 412/day +175/day TypeScript
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +2,060 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +1,184 stars)
  9. 9
    tigerless-labs/agent-memory
    1.8/day → 145/day +144/day Python
    now: 2026-09-25 → 2026-09-30 (5 days, +727 stars) · before: 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25 (5 days, +9 stars)
  10. 10
    JuliusBrussee/caveman
    129/day → 264/day +135/day Go
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +1,318 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +645 stars)

Stalled: were growing, now flat

Repos that were gaining at least 1 star a day in their prior window and have since dropped to near-flat — at or below a third of their own previous rate. Ordered by how many stars per day they lost.

  1. 1
    vectorize-io/hindsight
    2,801/day → 834/day −1,967/day Python
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +4,169 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +14,005 stars)
  2. 2
    rocketride-org/rocketride-server
    1,349/day → 145/day −1,204/day Python
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +727 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +6,746 stars)
  3. 3
    cloudflare/security-audit-skill
    1,036/day → 337/day −700/day JavaScript
    now: 2026-09-25 → 2026-09-30 (5 days, +1,683 stars) · before: 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25 (5 days, +5,182 stars)
  4. 4
    mobile-next/mobile-mcp
    286/day → 69/day −217/day TypeScript
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +346 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +1,429 stars)
  5. 5
    NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer
    232/day → 34/day −197/day Python
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +171 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +1,158 stars)
  6. 6
    google/artemis
    207/day → 69/day −138/day Python
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +343 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +1,033 stars)
  7. 7
    davila7/claude-code-templates
    206/day → 70/day −136/day Python
    now: 2026-09-27 → 2026-10-02 (5 days, +352 stars) · before: 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-27 (5 days, +1,030 stars)
  8. 8
    strands-agents/harness-sdk
    138/day → 25/day −113/day Python
    now: 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +125 stars) · before: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +691 stars)
  9. 9
    cloudflare/quiche
    134/day → 31/day −103/day Rust
    now: 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-29 (5 days, +154 stars) · before: 2026-09-19 → 2026-09-24 (5 days, +670 stars)
  10. 10
    shadcn-ui/lint
    115/day → 35/day −80/day TypeScript
    now: 2026-09-26 → 2026-10-01 (5 days, +174 stars) · before: 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26 (5 days, +575 stars)

Fastest by absolute pace

Raw stars per day in the current window, regardless of whether that is faster or slower than before. This is the leaderboard; the section above is the movement.

  1. 1
    debpalash/VoiceStudio
    1,721/day +8,603 stars was 997/day Python
    2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +8,603 stars) · 52,582 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  2. 2
    DietrichGebert/ponytail
    1,167/day +5,835 stars was 506/day JavaScript
    2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +5,835 stars) · 153,377 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  3. 3
    NVIDIA/OpenShell
    965/day +4,824 stars no prior window Rust
    2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +4,824 stars) · 14,747 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  4. 4
    vectorize-io/hindsight
    834/day +4,169 stars was 2,801/day Python
    2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +4,169 stars) · 45,098 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  5. 5
    stablyai/orca
    809/day +4,046 stars was 945/day TypeScript
    2026-09-26 → 2026-10-01 (5 days, +4,046 stars) · 82,343 stars at our 2026-10-01 snapshot
  6. 6
    paperclipai/paperclip
    801/day +4,007 stars no prior window TypeScript
    2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +4,007 stars) · 96,746 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  7. 7
    Panniantong/Agent-Reach
    759/day +3,793 stars was 179/day Python
    2026-09-29 → 2026-10-04 (5 days, +3,793 stars) · 89,785 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  8. 8
    mattpocock/skills
    705/day +5,642 stars no prior window Shell
    2026-09-26 → 2026-10-04 (8 days, +5,642 stars) · 275,355 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  9. 9
    affaan-m/ECC
    639/day +3,836 stars was 595/day JavaScript
    2026-09-28 → 2026-10-04 (6 days, +3,836 stars) · 272,235 stars at our 2026-10-04 snapshot
  10. 10
    dream-num/univer
    608/day +3,041 stars was 857/day TypeScript
    2026-09-27 → 2026-10-02 (5 days, +3,041 stars) · 22,239 stars at our 2026-10-02 snapshot

What this measures — and what it does not

The data is ours. whatstrending.ai records its own star and fork snapshot for every repository in its trending index and keeps them. This page holds 50,004 snapshot rows across 2,480 repositories, recorded on 108 snapshot days. GitHub shows a repo’s star count today; it does not show whether that number is climbing faster or slower than it was a week ago. That is the only thing this page reports.

History starts 2026-06-19. The most recent snapshot in this report is 2026-10-04. We hold nothing from before 2026-06-19 and we do not reconstruct it. Days with no snapshot for a repo are simply absent — they are never interpolated.

How a window is picked. For each repo: its newest stored snapshot, then the newest snapshot 5–12 days earlier (the current window), then the newest snapshot 5–12 days before that (the prior window). Pace is star delta / whole days between the two snapshots. Acceleration is current pace − prior pace. A repo whose newest snapshot is more than 5 days behind the newest snapshot in the dataset is excluded entirely rather than reported with a stale window.

Why the counts are smaller than 2,480. We snapshot a repo while it is in the trending index, so coverage is dense for currently-trending repos and sparse for ones that have dropped out. Of 2,480 repos with any stored history, 878 have a snapshot from the last 6 days, 737 of those have a measurable current pace, and 666 also have a prior window to compare against. Every list on this page states which pool it is drawn from. Where a figure cannot be derived from stored rows, it is omitted rather than estimated.

Citing this. Free to quote with attribution to whatstrending.ai. The underlying repo list is available as JSON at /api/repos, and each repo’s full measured history is on its own page.

Which AI repos accelerated fastest in week 40, 2026?

As of 2026-10-04, debpalash/VoiceStudio shows the biggest jump in star growth rate among the repos whatstrending.ai snapshots: from 997 stars a day (2026-09-17 to 2026-09-29) to 1,721 stars a day (2026-09-29 to 2026-10-04), an increase of 723 stars a day. The full top 10 is on this page.

How do you measure whether an AI repo is accelerating or stalling?

whatstrending.ai stores its own daily star snapshot for every repo in its trending index (50004 snapshot rows across 2480 repos on 108 snapshot days since 2026-06-19). For each repo we take its newest snapshot, the newest snapshot 5 to 12 days before that (the current window), and the newest snapshot 5 to 12 days before THAT (the prior window). Growth rate is the star delta divided by the whole days between the two snapshots. Acceleration is the current rate minus the prior rate. Nothing is estimated, interpolated or back-filled.

How many AI repos does whatstrending.ai track?

2,480 repositories have at least one stored star snapshot, recorded on 108 snapshot days since 2026-06-19. 878 of them have a snapshot from the last 6 days as of 2026-10-04, and 737 of those have enough history for a current growth rate.

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