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GitHub’s trending page fills with AI projects every month. You save a few and open none.
The list never ends, so the worry never does.
You don’t need all of them.
You need the two or three that match what you do.
How I cut it to 39
On November 12 I pulled GitHub Trending’s monthly view and kept the repos whose main job is AI.
I dropped general dev tools and courses.
Receipt: 39 AI repos selected from GitHub Trending’s monthly view, ranked by displayed monthly star gains. Checked November 12, 2026.
I also dropped one repo whose monthly jump was about 80% of its total stars, because I could not verify it.
This is Trending only, not every AI repo on GitHub. GitHub does not say how it counts “stars this month,” so read the ranking as a signal.
Pick your route
You code with an AI agent
- orca: runs Claude Code, Codex and others side by side. 33,316 stars this month.
- t3code: one app for all of them, including from your phone. 29,814.
- claude-mem: your agent remembers between sessions. 17,247.
↳ Catch: claude-mem’s install asks for a browser sign-in. Its observer option starts a 30-day trial that asks for a payment method.
You want sites that don’t look machine-made
- impeccable: commands like polish, bolder and critique that catch AI slop. 28,902 stars this month.
- hallmark: checks a page against AI-generated tells. 23,478.
- taste-skill: pushes agents toward a real company site, not a generic landing page. 19,310.
↳ Catch: these are skills, and design taste is subjective. taste-skill needs Node 22 or newer and Chrome.
You install skills and plugins
- anthropics/skills: Anthropic’s own examples of skills Claude loads. 13,018 stars this month.
- claude-plugins-official: the official plugin directory for Claude Code. 9,448.
- SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s scanner that checks a skill for malicious patterns before you install it. 5,524.
↳ Catch: SkillSpector can miss things. New third-party plugin submissions moved to claude.ai/directory/manage.
The other 30
The biggest monthly gain is VoiceStudio, a voice tool that runs on your own device. 50,619 stars this month, 109,128 total.
I ranked all 39 by that monthly number. Each has what it does, who it is for, and one catch.
Full list:ericmelillo.substack.com/p/39-ai-repos-gaining-github-stars-this-month
Do this Saturday
☐ Pick the route that matches your week.
☐ Open the first repo and read its README.
☐ Read the catch before you install anything.
Star counts move every hour. Check a repo’s page first.
Reply with the first repo you open. I read every reply.
Eric Melillo
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