What is ranking on GitHub today: Sept 26, 2026

GitHub's trending board at 2026-09-26T08:01:41.476382 puts paperclipai/paperclip at rank 1 with 85,594 stars, 15,283 forks, and a TypeScript codebase updated 2026-09-26T08:21:37Z, displacing yesterday's leader rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch. obra/superpowers is the largest mover, climbing six places from rank 10 to rank 4 with 291,781 stars on a Shell-based agent skills framework. Seven repositories are new versus September 25, including anthropics/claude-plugins-official at rank 2 and anthropics/skills at rank 7, while vectorize-io/hindsight slips one slot to rank 3.

paperclipai/paperclip
Open-source app to manage agents at work, TypeScript, 85,594 stars and 15,283 forks per GitHub API fetch September 26, 2026. New at rank 1; OSSEAN noted a push September 23, 2026 and the project has shipped frequent 2026 releases on GitHub.
anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Anthropic-curated Claude Code plugin marketplace in Python with 37,009 stars and 4,158 forks. New at rank 2; Claude Code docs describe adding marketplace anthropics/claude-plugins-official and August 2026 commits added partner plugins.
vectorize-io/hindsight
Python agent memory project at 30,324 stars and 3,252 forks, down from rank 2 to rank 3. No widely reported trigger identified for September 26, 2026.
obra/superpowers
Shell-based agentic skills framework and SDLC methodology with 291,781 stars and 26,114 forks, up six ranks from 10 to 4. Release v6.3.0 on August 12, 2026 added Devin CLI and Hermes Agent support per GitHub release notes.
mattpocock/skills
Shell repository of skills for engineers with 269,898 stars and 22,740 forks, new at rank 5. No widely reported trigger identified for September 26, 2026.
dream-num/univer
TypeScript spreadsheet, docs, and slides runtime for agents with 18,851 stars and 1,611 forks, falling from rank 3 to rank 6. No widely reported trigger identified for September 26, 2026.
anthropics/skills
Public Agent Skills repo in Python, 178,446 stars and 21,120 forks, new at rank 7 alongside the official plugins directory. No widely reported trigger identified for September 26, 2026.
androoAGI/starnet
JavaScript pixel-art local-first desktop app where agents run work, 571 stars and 101 forks, new at rank 8. No widely reported trigger identified for September 26, 2026.
derv82/wifit3
Python WiFi scanner pitched as Wifite but USB-only and cross-platform, 1,047 stars and 92 forks, new at rank 9. No widely reported trigger identified for September 26, 2026.
kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Kubernetes bootstrap tutorial without scripts, 50,172 stars and 15,921 forks, new at rank 10. No widely reported trigger identified for September 26, 2026.

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What changed on GitHub since yesterday

September 26 versus September 25 under 2026-09-26T08:01:41.476382: new repositories paperclipai/paperclip (1), anthropics/claude-plugins-official (2), mattpocock/skills (5), anthropics/skills (7), androoAGI/starnet (8), derv82/wifit3 (9), kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way (10). Drop-offs include rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, google/ax, NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer, FxEmbed/FxEmbed, anthropics/financial-services, HKUDS/CLI-Anything, and mvt-project/mvt. Big mover: obra/superpowers from 10 to 4 (six-rank climb). vectorize-io/hindsight moves 2 to 3; dream-num/univer moves 3 to 6.

What today's GitHub trends reveal

Agent operations software owns the day: Paperclip at rank 1, dual Anthropic directories at ranks 2 and 7, hindsight memory at 3, and superpowers methodology at 4 with a quarter-million stars already on the counter. Engineer-focused skill packs from mattpocock at 5 sit next to univer's office-document runtime at 6, showing interest in both workflow markdown and embeddable document engines.

Smaller entrants starnet at 8 and wifit3 at 9 bring desktop agent UX and security tooling into the same trending window as kelseyhightower's kubernetes-the-hard-way at 10, a long-running educational repo resurfacing. API consumers can mirror this board via the GitHub trending repos API reference for get_top_trends type GitHub.

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Star and fork counts cited here were joined to Trends MCP get_top_trends output for GitHub with limit 10 at 2026-09-26T08:01:41.476382, then cross-checked against GitHub's public API on September 26, 2026. Developer relations and security teams use the same JSON snapshot for daily diff alerts.