top 5 github repos by weekly star growth. openai codex pulled +12.1k stars – still accelerating at 119k total

– openai/codex by @OpenAI. +12,120/week, 119k total. terminal coding agent in rust – open-source, sandboxed, 2m+ weekly active users

– awesome-gpt-image-2 by @canghe. +9,477/week, 22k total. prompt-as-code library for gpt image 2 – 530+ reverse-engineered cases, 20+ templates, agent skills for claude code and cursor. +75% growth

– moneyprinterturbo by @HarryLi0703. +7,232/week, 117k total. topic in, finished short video out – script, footage, subtitles, music, all ai-generated

– openlogi by @AprilNEA. +7,078/week, 17k total. open-source logitech options+ replacement in rust – button remapping, dpi, smartshift. no account, no telemetry. +72% growth

– omarchy by @37signals. +5,186/week, 32k total. @dhh's opinionated linux distro – desktop rebuilt in quickshell with claude code sync and live theme switching

the list: a coding agent, a prompt library, a video pipeline, a peripheral driver, and a linux distro. what connects them – open-source and replacing proprietary software