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Gitlawb/openclaude is the new No. 1 repo on GitHub trending for September 2, 2026, replacing THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC, which sat at 1 on the September 1 GitHub board and now sits at 3. The open-source coding-agent CLI listed about 31,608 stars and 8,971 forks on the trending page fetch for September 2, with npm i -g @gitlawb/openclaude@latest on the homepage, a 2026-04-01 create date, and v0.30.0 dated August 31. K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills is the day's 5-plus mover, 3 to 9 (minus 6). The pull is stamped as_of 2026-09-02T06:01:39 on the GitHub trending repos API feed.
Top trending repos on GitHub: September 2
Gitlawb/openclaude: An open-source coding-agent CLI that wires 200-plus model providers (OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, and others) from openclaude.gitlawb.com. New at 1. The trending-page snapshot for September 2 listed about 31,608 stars and 8,971 forks; the repo was created 2026-04-01, and npm shows v0.30.0 updated August 31, 2026.
Imbad0202/academic-research-skills: Agent skills for academic research in Claude Code, described on the GitHub page as a research, write, review, revise, finalize loop. New at 2, with about 45,218 stars on a September 2 page fetch. No separate paper drop was identified; the name and README loop are the why.
THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC: Tsinghua MAIC's open multi-agent interactive classroom, now rank 3 after yesterday's No. 1. v1.0.0 landed August 27. Star totals are not restated here because sources already disagreed on September 1; Trends MCP is the rank feed.
iv-org/invidious: An alternative YouTube front-end, new at 4, with about 23,879 stars on a September 2 GitHub page fetch. No separate product news dated September 2 was identified beyond the new chart seat.
jingyaogong/minimind: Jingyao Gong's small LLM training project, rank 5 after rank 6 yesterday. The README still pitches training a 64M-parameter model from scratch in about 2 hours.
3b1b/manim: 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos. New at 6, with about 92,732 stars on a September 2 GitHub page fetch.
firecrawl/pdf-inspector: A Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction that flags scanned versus text-based files. New at 7, with about 18,147 stars on a September 2 page fetch.
browser-use/video-use: A project for editing videos with coding agents. New at 8, with about 23,238 stars on a September 2 page fetch.
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills: Agent skills for science workflows, rank 9 after rank 3 yesterday, a drop of 6 and the only 5-plus mover. No new paper dated September 2 is attached to this slip.
handsomestWei/patent-disclosure-skill: A Chinese-language patent skill for claim mining and writing invention, utility, and design disclosures. New at 10, with about 6,945 stars on a September 2 page fetch.
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What changed on GitHub since yesterday
| Change | Repo | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| New | Gitlawb/openclaude | Rank 1 |
| New | Imbad0202/academic-research-skills | Rank 2 |
| New | iv-org/invidious | Rank 4 |
| New | 3b1b/manim | Rank 6 |
| New | firecrawl/pdf-inspector | Rank 7 |
| New | browser-use/video-use | Rank 8 |
| New | handsomestWei/patent-disclosure-skill | Rank 10 |
| Big mover | K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | 3 to 9 (minus 6) |
| Slip | THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC | 1 to 3 |
minimind climbed 6 to 5. Drop-offs versus September 1: tt-a1i/archify, k1tbyte/Wand-Enhancer, majd/ipatool, Osmantic/ODS, checkstyle/checkstyle, zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill, affaan-m/ECC.
What today's GitHub trends reveal
September 2 is a coding-agent day with a CLI on top instead of a classroom. openclaude at 1 after the August 31 v0.30.0 cut, with 200-plus providers and the npm global install string, is a debut at rank 1, not a hold. OpenMAIC slipping 1 to 3 after v1.0.0 on August 27 is a two-day fade from the lead, not an exit.
Seven of ten names are new. The holdovers are OpenMAIC, minimind, and scientific-agent-skills. That last title's 3-to-9 drop is the only 5-plus move, so science skills did not leave; they yielded seats to PDF inspection, agent video editing, a patent disclosure skill, Invidious, and manim.
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This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends tool on the GitHub feed, limited to 10 rows and stamped as_of 2026-09-02T06:01:39. The call is for developers who need a dated trending-repo board, not a star-history API. See the GitHub trending repos API page for the feed contract.
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