Pull the live GitHub Trending Repos board when agent frameworks dominate the chart, then measure search, YouTube, and npm adoption for the names that matter.
Live data as of 2026-08-11
The GitHub AI agent repos workflow on Trends MCP starts with one get_top_trends call for GitHub Trending Repos, then follows the board with search, YouTube, and npm growth on the brands that matter. From the August 11 2026 scan (as_of_ts 2026-08-11T04:01:33Z), the board returned 16 repositories, with agent-shaped projects holding ranks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 11. There is no github growth source, so adoption signals come from follow-up calls. Free tier: 100 requests per month.
From the Trends MCP scan of August 11, 2026, GitHub Trending Repos returned 16 ranked owner/name strings at limit 25 (count 16, offset 0). Agent and automation names took most of the upper chart:
| Rank | Repository |
|---|---|
| 1 | semantica-agi/semantica |
| 2 | msitarzewski/agency-agents |
| 3 | NanmiCoder/MediaCrawler |
| 4 | addyosmani/agent-skills |
| 5 | paperclipai/paperclip |
| 6 | PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent |
| 7 | LadybirdBrowser/ladybird |
| 8 | ruvnet/RuView |
| 9 | danielmiessler/LifeOS |
| 10 | firecrawl/firecrawl |
| 11 | TauricResearch/TradingAgents |
| 12 | google-deepmind/weathernext |
| 15 | Comfy-Org/ComfyUI |
| 16 | opa334/Dopamine |
Follow-up growth on shortened brands (Trends MCP API, August 11 2026 pull; search/YouTube points dated August 8 2026):
| Keyword | Source | 7D | 30D | Recent index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl | google search | +25.0% | -17.58% | 75.0 |
| firecrawl | youtube | +109.68% | +16.07% | 65.0 |
| ComfyUI | google search | +11.11% | -41.18% | 50.0 |
| ComfyUI | youtube | +22.06% | +18.57% | 83.0 |
| semantica | google search | +14.29% | +6.67% | 32.0 |
| Ladybird | google search | -1.79% | -6.78% | 55.0 |
| Dopamine iOS | google search | +11.36% | -30.99% | 49.0 |
npm package firecrawl on the latest complete week in the 7D window showed baseline_volume 557,177 downloads (2026-08-08). Over 12 months, volume moved from 2,882 (2025-08-16) to the incomplete 2026-08-15 bucket at 46,528 (+1,514.43% volume growth). Treat incomplete weeks as provisional.
Two call shapes cover the loop. First, pull the board with no keyword. Second, measure demand for the brands that look durable.
{
"mode": "get_top_trends",
"type": "GitHub Trending Repos",
"limit": 25
}
{
"mode": "get_growth",
"source": "google search",
"keyword": "firecrawl",
"percent_growth": ["7D", "14D", "30D", "3M"]
}
A practical daily budget is 1 board call plus 3 to 5 growth calls. That stays inside the free 100-request month if the job runs once per day. For MCP clients, the same payloads map to get_top_trends and get_growth. Full setup copy lives on the docs page.
Board rank answers "what developers are starring today." Growth answers whether attention survived last week. firecrawl is the clean example from this scan: GitHub rank 10 on August 11 2026, Google Search index 75.0 with +25.0% over 7 days, YouTube index 65.0 with +109.68% over 7 days, and npm complete-week volume 557,177 on 2026-08-08.
ComfyUI shows the opposite shape. It sat at GitHub rank 15 while YouTube stayed strong at index 83.0 (+18.57% over 30 days), yet Google Search fell 41.18% over 30 days to index 50.0. A video-heavy project can keep charting on GitHub after search cools. paperclip ai search interest was weaker still: index 8.0 with -52.94% over 30 days, even though paperclipai/paperclip held GitHub rank 5.
Use three checks before treating a repo as a durable agent signal: 7-day search growth above 10%, a YouTube or npm confirmation in the same direction, and presence inside the top 12 for more than one daily scan. One-day ranks alone are not enough.
Developer relations teams watch agent frameworks the week they break onto the board, then check whether search demand follows. Security and platform researchers track crawler and agent tooling such as MediaCrawler and TradingAgents when those names appear beside browser and jailbreak projects. Investors map open-source agent attention against npm SDK volumes for openai and @anthropic-ai/sdk, which on the 2026-08-08 complete week showed baseline volumes of 32,126,877 and 29,849,176 downloads.
The sibling page for the full board, not just the agent cut, is GitHub Trending Repos API. Pair both with npm package trends when a trending repo publishes a matching package name.
GitHub Trending Repos returns repository paths only. Stars, language tags, and README text are not in the payload. limit is a ceiling: this scan asked for 25 and received 16. Growth sources do not accept owner/name paths; shorten to a brand keyword first. Several long phrases returned data_unavailable during the August 11 2026 pull, including agency agents, agent skills, MediaCrawler, TradingAgents, and Ladybird browser, while shorter tokens such as Ladybird and semantica succeeded.
npm weeks can overhang the calendar. Quotes that use a future-dated recent_date should also print the prior complete baseline_volume. Percentage spikes on small packages remain noisy; firecrawl's 12-month volume growth above 1,500% still sits on tens of thousands of weekly downloads, not millions.
The free plan covers 100 requests per month across all sources. Starter is $19 per month for 1,000 requests, Pro is $49 for 5,000, and Business is $199 for 25,000. A once-daily board pull plus four growth follow-ups costs about 150 requests per month, which fits Starter with room for retries. See pricing for the live table before locking a budget.
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