an open-source textbook on ai agent design and engineering pulled +17.4k stars in one week – the fastest-growing repo on github right now
top 5 github repos by weekly star growth:
- ai-agent-book – +17,401/week, 19k total. full open-source textbook on ai agent design and engineering – 10 chapters, 92 runnable experiments, 7 languages. went from 2k to 19k in a week
- skills – +10,969/week, 187k total. matt pocock's agent skills directory for claude code, codex and cursor. engineering workflows as reusable skill files – tdd, triage, code review, architecture audits
- worldmonitor – +10,936/week, 74k total. open-source global intelligence dashboard – ai-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, 65+ data sources, 500+ feeds, desktop app via tauri
- omniroute – +9,965/week, 29k total. free mit ai gateway – one endpoint, 290+ providers, 500+ models. quota-aware auto-fallback with 15–95% token compression. works with claude code, codex, cursor
- code-review-graph – +6,565/week, 26k total. local-first code intelligence graph via mcp. tree-sitter parsing, persistent codebase map so ai tools read only what matters – benchmarked context reductions on large repos
the harness layer keeps eating github trending. skills, routing, context management, education – everything except the model itself.

Addy Crezee