THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC is rank 1 on GitHub Trending on August 31, 2026, climbing from 5 after the project shipped v1.0.0 on August 27. The README describes an open multi-agent classroom: one prompt in, a whole course out, plus a Pro workbench. GitHub listed 21,120 stars and 4,173 forks. Versus the August 30 board, archify falls 1 to 4 even as its star count moved from 31,619 in yesterday's post to 36,196 on the repo page.
Top trending repos on GitHub: August 31
THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC: Open Multi-Agent Interactive Classroom from Tsinghua's MAIC lab. v1.0.0 on August 27 added a Pro workbench, durable course-building sessions, and a pluggable persistence stack. Climbs 5 to 1 with 21,120 stars.
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills: Agent-skills library for science (biology, chemistry, medicine, drug discovery). README claims 165 validated skills and 190,000+ scientists; GitHub listed 40,008 stars. Climbs 3 to 2.
Lakr233/vphone-cli: New CLI repo at rank 3 with 9,864 stars. No widely reported product launch identified for August 31, 2026 beyond the trending listing.
tt-a1i/archify: Agent skill for architecture, workflow, and sequence diagrams as self-contained HTML. Falls 1 to 4 with 36,196 stars, up from the 31,619 cited on August 30.
p-e-w/heretic: Holdover from rank 6 on August 30, now rank 5. No new release note was attached to the August 31 board.
unclecode/crawl4ai: Web crawler for LLM pipelines. New at rank 6. README/stars are the why; no separate news trigger was found for August 31, 2026.
mvanhorn/last30days-skill: Agent skill that researches a topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web. GitHub listed 60,677 stars. New at rank 7.
majd/ipatool: CLI for searching and downloading iOS app packages from the App Store. New at rank 8. No widely reported trigger identified for August 31, 2026.
punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers: Curated list of MCP servers, a recurring GitHub fixture. New at rank 9. See also best MCP servers for Cursor.
checkstyle/checkstyle: Java linting tool. New at rank 10. No widely reported release trigger identified for August 31, 2026.
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What changed on GitHub since August 30
New entrants: Lakr233/vphone-cli (3), unclecode/crawl4ai (6), mvanhorn/last30days-skill (7), majd/ipatool (8), punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers (9), checkstyle/checkstyle (10).
Big movers: THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC 5 to 1 (up 4). tt-a1i/archify 1 to 4 (down 3).
Drop-offs: bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view (was 2), tailscale/tailcat (was 4), bigskysoftware/htmx (was 7), JetBrains/go-modern-guidelines (was 8), ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills (was 9), calesthio/OpenMontage (was 10).
What today's GitHub board reveals
Agent skills still own the board, but the leader changed. OpenMAIC's v1.0.0 workbench overtook archify, which is still adding stars (36,196 vs 31,619 a day earlier) while losing rank. scientific-agent-skills at 2 (40,008 stars) and last30days-skill at 7 (60,677 stars) are the same pattern: libraries that turn a chat agent into a researcher.
The rest is tooling: vphone-cli, crawl4ai, ipatool, checkstyle, and the awesome-mcp-servers list. Yesterday's Tailscale, htmx, and JetBrains guideline repos are gone. Rank is not star count; last30days-skill has more stars than OpenMAIC and still sits at 7.
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