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The widest category on the site. Anything that makes writing software faster, cleaner, or less painful counts — language toolchains, linters, formatters, type checkers, bundlers, package managers, test runners, build systems, polyglot toolboxes, terminal utilities, and the long tail of small CLIs people drop into dotfiles. The Rust rewrite wave hasn't slowed. Every month another aging JavaScript or Python tool gets a Rust rewrite that's 10-50x faster, and the well-built ones earn lasting adoption inside a year. The polyglot toolchain wave (Biome, Bun, Deno) keeps consolidating multiple tools into single binaries, which changes how teams pick their stack. The small-CLI tail keeps producing breakouts that hit Hacker News' front page and end up in everyone's shell config. The ranking gives those small projects a fair shot at the top — a tool with 800 stars and 4,000 daily downloads outranks one with 80,000 stars and a flat trend. The /best/developer-tools page is the curated cut; this is the full feed.
Live · top 50 repos · sorted by momentum across 24H
LIVE · 35m| # | Repository | Stars | 24h | 7d | 30d | Trend | Mentions | Actions |
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| 01 |  stablyai/orca Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS. | 29.7K | +86+0.3% | +7.1K+31.6% | — |     live on X / Twitter | ||
| 02 |  rtk-ai/rtk CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies | 73.3K | +102+0.1% | +1.3K+1.7% | +6.1K+9.0% |  live on Hacker News | ||
| 03 |  wavetermdev/waveterm An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows | 21.8K | +15+0.1% | +79+0.4% | +364+1.7% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 04 |  sxyazi/yazi 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. | 40.8K | +20+0.0% | +249+0.6% | +963+2.4% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 05 |  ogulcancelik/herdr agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal. | 21K | +1+0.0% | +2.6K+13.9% | +10.9K+107.8% | live on Hacker News | ||
| 06 |  Hmbown/CodeWhale Open-source, community-driven agent harness | 40.1K | +1+0.0% | +179+0.4% | +1.1K+2.9% | live on Hacker News | ||
| 07 |  Dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_guard The Destructive Command Guard (dcg) is for blocking dangerous git and shell commands from being executed by agents. | 5.4K | +40+0.7% | +224+4.3% | +4.3K+376.4% | live on Hacker News | ||
| 08 |  wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks AI watermark remover. CLI and Python library to strip visible and invisible AI watermarks (Gemini / Nano Banana sparkle, SynthID) and provenance metadata (C2PA, EXIF, IPTC) from images. | 4.3K | +12+0.3% | +119+2.9% | +551+14.7% | live on Hacker News | ||
| 09 |  OpenHands/OpenHands 🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development | 82.2K | — | +761+0.9% | +3.9K+4.9% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 10 |  davila7/claude-code-templates CLI tool for configuring and monitoring Claude Code | 29.9K | +2+0.0% | +177+0.6% | +1.6K+5.7% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 11 |  agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires Manage multiple Claude Code, OpenCode agents from either TUI or Web for easy access on mobile. Also supports Mistral Vibe, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Pi.dev, Copilot CLI, Factory Droid Coding. | 2.9K | +4+0.1% | +39+1.4% | +226+8.5% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 12 | agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires Manage multiple Claude Code, OpenCode agents from either TUI or Web for easy access on mobile. Also supports Mistral Vibe, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Pi.dev, Copilot CLI, Factory Droid Coding. | 2.9K | +4+0.1% | +39+1.4% | +226+8.5% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 13 |  superset-sh/superset Code Editor for the AI Agents Era - Run an army of Claude Code, Codex, etc. on your machine | 12.6K | — | +107+0.9% | +437+3.6% | live on Hacker News | ||
| 14 |  crafter-station/petdex The public gallery of animated pet for Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode y Gemini CLI | 3.6K | +3+0.1% | +103+3.0% | +418+13.2% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 15 |  microsoft/apm Agent Package Manager | 3.4K | +7+0.2% | +88+2.7% | +361+12.0% | live on Hacker News | ||
| 16 |  modem-dev/hunk Review-first terminal diff viewer for agentic coders | 7.8K | -18-0.2% | +311+4.2% | +2K+35.6% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 17 |  getagentseal/codeburn Free, local tool to track AI coding token usage and cost across 31 tools and agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini and more), by model, project, and task. npx codeburn | 8.9K | +1+0.0% | +177+2.0% | +660+8.0% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 18 |  KKKKhazix/khazix-skills 数字生命卡兹克开源的 AI Skills 合集 | Agent Skills: leader（帮你定义目标）, neat-freak 洁癖, hv-analysis, khazix-writer & more — Claude Code, Codex & 40+ agents | 18K | -12-0.1% | +432+2.5% | +1.9K+11.9% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 19 |  google-gemini/gemini-cli An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. | 106.2K | — | +130+0.1% | +913+0.9% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 20 |  sirmalloc/ccstatusline 🚀 Beautiful highly customizable statusline for Claude Code CLI with powerline support, themes, and more. | 12K | +2+0.0% | +156+1.3% | +799+7.1% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 21 |  michel-kraemer/zsh-patina $ A blazingly fast Zsh syntax highlighter 🌈 | 439 | +3+0.7% | +15+3.5% | +77+21.3% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 22 |  jdx/aube A fast Node.js package manager | 1.8K | +1+0.1% | +30+1.7% | +192+12.2% | | ||
| 23 |  domcyrus/rustnet Per-process network monitoring for your terminal with deep packet inspection. Cross-platform, sandboxed. | 4.8K | +4+0.1% | +52+1.1% | +218+4.8% | live on Hacker News | ||
| 24 |  lerd-env/lerd Open-source, Herd-like local PHP development environment for Linux and macOS. Automatic .test domains, per-project PHP/Node isolation, one-command TLS. Podman-native, rootless. | 785 | +2+0.3% | +14+1.8% | +126+19.1% | | ||
| 25 |  rorkai/App-Store-Connect-CLI Fast, scriptable CLI for the App Store Connect API. Automate TestFlight, builds, submissions, signing, analytics, screenshots, subscriptions, and more. JSON-first, no interactive prompts | 5.2K | +4+0.1% | +42+0.8% | +331+6.7% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 26 |  endevco/aube A fast Node.js package manager | 1.8K | -1-0.1% | +30+1.7% | +192+12.3% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 27 |  mvanhorn/cli-printing-press Every API has a secret identity. This finds it, absorbs every feature from every competing tool, then builds the GOAT CLI — designed for AI agents first, with SQLite sync, offline search, and compound insight commands. | 4.3K | +1+0.0% | +166+4.0% | +537+14.4% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 28 |  earendil-works/pi-review-loop A persistent incremental diff review loop for pi | 112 | +16+16.7% | — | — | live on Bluesky | ||
| 29 |  gnomeria/usbtree Live USB device tree in your terminal. Rust TUI, no root, no libusb. Full activity metrics on Linux; device tree on macOS/Windows. | 280 | +1+0.4% | +18+6.9% | +279+27900.0% | | ||
| 30 |  avivsinai/bitbucket-cli Bitbucket CLI with gh-like ergonomics | 169 | — | +6+3.7% | +17+11.2% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 31 | Dicklesworthstone/beads_viewer Graph-aware TUI for the Beads issue tracker: PageRank, critical path, kanban, dependency DAG visualization, and robot-mode JSON API | 1.6K | +2+0.1% | +7+0.4% | +37+2.3% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 32 | Dicklesworthstone/coding_agent_session_search Unified TUI and CLI to index and search your local coding agent session history across 11+ providers (Codex, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Aider, etc.) | 1K | — | +34+3.4% | +95+10.3% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 33 |  0xjuanma/golazo The beautiful game in your terminal. Minimal TUI app to keep up with live & recent football/soccer matches written in Go. | 815 | -1-0.1% | +5+0.6% | +70+9.4% | live on Bluesky | ||
| 34 |  runkids/skillshare 📚 Sync skills across all AI CLI tools with one command and simplify team sharing. Supporting Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw & more | 2.5K | +5+0.2% | +42+1.7% | +171+7.4% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 35 |  floatpane/matcha A beautiful and functional email client for your terminal, built with Go and the charming Bubble Tea TUI library. Never leave your command line to check your inbox or send an email again! | 1K | -3-0.3% | +7+0.7% | +55+5.6% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 36 |  JasonSTong/codex-theme-studio Local-first visual theme editor and hot-reload theme manager for Codex Desktop on macOS. | 112 | — | +21+23.1% | +112 | | ||
| 37 |  wuyoscar/GPT-Image2-Skill GPT Image 2 prompt gallery, image prompt library, agentic skill, and CLI for OpenAI image generation/editing | 4K | +1+0.0% | +130+3.4% | +631+18.9% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 38 |  liaohch3/claude-tap Intercept and inspect Coding Agent API traffic from Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, OpenCode, Kimi/Kimi Code, Pi, and Hermes in a local trace viewer. | 2.9K | — | +308+12.1% | +783+37.8% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 39 |  vshulcz/deja-vu Your agents already solved this. deja finds it — memory operations for sixteen coding agents: retroactive search and MCP recall (84.9% hit@1 on LongMemEval-S, no LLM), search by when it happened, a local memory viewer, trust scopes, curated notes with tags. One zero-dep binary, fully local. | 478 | — | — | — | live on Hacker News | ||
| 40 |  mereyabdenbekuly-ctrl/clodex-ide Local-first, zero-trust agentic IDE for verifiable autonomous software development. | 856 | — | — | — | live on Hacker News | ||
| 41 |  edaywalid/undo Undo what the last shell command did to the filesystem | 179 | — | — | — | | ||
| 42 |  yizhiyanhua-ai/fireworks-tech-graph Generate production-quality SVG+PNG technical diagrams from natural language. 7 styles, UML support, and AI/Agent workflow patterns. | 9.4K | +4+0.0% | +307+3.4% | +1.2K+15.2% | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 43 |  GaoSSR/best-claude-hud Minimal Claude Code statusline HUD powered by Rust. | 1.3K | — | — | — | | ||
| 44 |  Optim-Agent/optim-agent LLM agents as your hyperparameter optimizer. | 511 | — | — | — | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 45 |  Gheat1/tuistore 🛍️ The TUI app store — browse, search & one-key-install hundreds of terminal apps. Built on ricekit, seeded from awesome-tuis. | 311 | — | — | — | live on Bluesky | ||
| 46 |  openclaw/wacli WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send | 2.7K | +2+0.1% | +13+0.5% | +100+3.9% | | ||
| 47 |  Jia-Ethan/codex-keysmith Version-independent Codex instruction deployment with dry-run, backups, hook isolation, and recovery. | 1.8K | — | — | — | live on X / Twitter | ||
| 48 |  robinhood-ape/robinhood-noxa-bundler NOXA Fun multi-wallet launch bundler for Robinhood Chain - launch via NOXA factory then buy from many wallets on Uniswap V3 before public snipers | 250 | — | — | +250 | | ||
| 49 | Jia-Ethan/grok-keysmith Preview-first Grok Build instruction deployment with compat and hook isolation, durable recovery, and layered uninstall. | 86 | — | — | — | | ||
| 50 |  Goldziher/ai-rulez Complete AI development workflow for 19+ tools. Builtin rules, agents, and conventions out of the box. Generate native configs for Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini, Codex and more. | 135 | +1+0.7% | +4+3.1% | +16+13.4% | live on X / Twitter |
▌ Developer Tools — frequently asked questions
What are the best Developer Tools projects right now?
As of July 27, 2026, the top-ranked open-source Developer Tools projects on TrendingRepo are stablyai/orca, rtk-ai/rtk, wavetermdev/waveterm, sxyazi/yazi, and ogulcancelik/herdr — ordered by a cross-source momentum score, not raw star count.
What counts as Developer Tools?
Developer Tools covers build tools, linters, formatters, editors, and DX utilities. TrendingRepo classifies each repository automatically from its GitHub topics, name, description and owner.
How does TrendingRepo rank Developer Tools repos?
Each repo gets a 0-100 momentum score combining 24h / 7d / 30d star velocity, fork growth, contributor churn, commit freshness and release cadence, with cross-source mention signals layered on top and anti-spam dampening applied.
How many Developer Tools repos does TrendingRepo track?
60 projects are currently tracked in the Developer Tools category, refreshed continuously as new repos break out across the signal sources.
How often is this list updated?
Roughly every 20 minutes. Automated collectors re-scan GitHub, Hacker News, X, Bluesky, Product Hunt, Dev.to and more, then recompute the rankings — so the leaderboard reflects momentum within the last hour.