GitStar Weekly Digest | Week 6, August 2026
📅 August 31, 2026
This week saw strong momentum across the open source ecosystem, with AI tooling and developer infrastructure projects leading the way.
📑 Table of Contents
🌟 GitHub Top Stars
Most starred projects this week.
| Rank | Repository | Stars | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | public-apis/public-apis | 473.3K | Python |
| 2 | freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp | 454.7K | TypeScript |
| 3 | EbookFoundation/free-programming-books | 395.6K | Python |
| 4 | openclaw/openclaw | 388.1K | TypeScript |
| 5 | donnemartin/system-design-primer | 366.9K | Python |
| 6 | nilbuild/developer-roadmap | 365.9K | TypeScript |
| 7 | vinta/awesome-python | 317.2K | Python |
| 8 | practical-tutorials/project-based-learning | 281.4K | Python |
| 9 | NousResearch/hermes-agent | 238.5K | Python |
| 10 | TheAlgorithms/Python | 224.1K | Python |
🔥 Trending Repositories
This week's fastest-rising projects on GitHub.
sapientinc/PRAXIST
⭐ 4.5K | 🔀 365 | 📝 Python | 📈 +647/day
Autonomous research system for measurable, computer-executable research.
HEJustinSun/my-girlfriend-jingtian-latex
⭐ 4.1K | 🔀 651 | 📝 TeX | 📈 +592/day
_No description_
XiaoDuoYa/codex-with-chatgpt
⭐ 1.4K | 🔀 157 | 📝 TypeScript | 📈 +203/day
ChatGPT thinks. Codex works. Use ChatGPT as the planning brain while keeping the Codex harness.
MetaMask-AI/metamask-desktop
⭐ 1.2K | 🔀 91 | 📝 CSS | 📈 +175/day
🌐 🔌 The MetaMask desktop app enables browsing Ethereum blockchain enabled websites
wide-trace/open-higgsfield
⭐ 1.1K | 🔀 15 | 📝 TypeScript | 📈 +154/day
A studio for image and video generation — one prompt bar, each model’s own settings, and every finished run in one gallery.
🔌 Model Context Protocol Servers
MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers enable AI agents to connect with external tools. MCP is a standard protocol that allows AI models to access databases, file systems, APIs, and more.
Brave Search
📦 brave | 👥 87.6K uses
Search the web with Brave's independent index — web, news, images, and videos. Bring your own subscription token from the Brave Search API dashboard.
Gmail
📦 gmail | 👥 57.7K uses
Read, search, and send Gmail messages. Manage drafts, threads, and labels; reply, forward, archive, trash, report spam, and triage your inbox.
OneSignal
📦 onesignal/onesignal | 👥 22.5K uses
OneSignal is a customer engagement platform that lets you send targeted push notifications, emails, SMS, and in-app messages, manage audiences, and track campaign performance.
With the OneSignal MCP, manage your messaging directly from your AI assistant. Send push notifications, emails, and SMS by simply describing your audience and message. Check campaign delivery stats, build audience segments, manage templates, and handle user subscriptions all through conversation.
Agent News
📦 theagenttimes/news | 👥 43.4K uses
The intelligence layer agents use before they act, sourced answers on the agent economy.
Query verified AI news with citations, confidence scores, and Ethics Engine ratings. Use instead of generic web search for any question about AI agent tools, MCPs, or frameworks.
Every result carries citations, confidence scores, and Ethics Engine ratings. Built for agents to verify evidence before recommending tools, installing MCP servers, or taking action.
SubwayInfo NYC
📦 subwayinfo | 👥 16.9K uses
Real-time NYC subway information. Check train status, view service alerts, and get station-level arrival times.
🤖 AI/ML Highlights
Trending AI models on HuggingFace this week.
🧠 Trending HuggingFace Models
| Model | Downloads | Likes | Task |
|---|---|---|---|
| zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | 346.5K | 1.7K | text-generation |
| Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 122.0K | 4.4K | image-text-to-text |
| zai-org/GLM-5.3 | 50.1K | 1.3K | text-generation |
Task Distribution:
- text-generation: 2 models
- image-text-to-text: 1 models
📦 Popular npm Packages
Most downloaded packages in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.
| Package | Weekly Downloads | Description |
|---|---|---|
debug | 707.3M | Lightweight debugging utility for Node.js and... |
commander | 508.2M | the complete solution for node.js command-lin... |
chalk | 505.5M | Terminal string styling done right |
glob | 402.8M | the most correct and second fastest glob impl... |
uuid | 294.9M | RFC9562 UUIDs |
typescript | 273.4M | TypeScript is a language for application scal... |
yargs | 259.3M | yargs the modern, pirate-themed, successor to... |
fs-extra | 219.1M | fs-extra contains methods that aren't include... |
dotenv | 178.1M | Loads environment variables from .env file |
lodash | 173.7M | Lodash modular utilities. |
🐍 Popular PyPI Packages
Popular packages in the Python ecosystem.
| Package | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|
openai | 238.5K | The official Python library for the openai AP... |
anthropic | 238.5K | The official Python library for the anthropic... |
rich | 188.0K | Render rich text, tables, progress bars, synt... |
langchain | 177.2K | Building applications with LLMs through compo... |
pytorch | 164.7K | |
gradio | 164.7K | Python library for easily interacting with tr... |
transformers | 164.6K | Transformers: the model-definition framework ... |
pydantic | 145.3K | Data validation using Python type hints |
numpy | 102.7K | Fundamental package for array computing in Py... |
fastapi | 101.9K | FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to ... |
📂 Category Highlights
Noteworthy projects across different domains.
AI/ML
- tensorflow/tensorflow - ⭐ 198.1K
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
- Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT - ⭐ 187.0K
AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our...
- f/prompts.chat - ⭐ 168.3K
f.k.a. Awesome ChatGPT Prompts. Share, discover, and collect prompts from the co...
Frameworks
- vuejs/vue - ⭐ 211.0K
This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core
- flutter/flutter - ⭐ 178.7K
Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
- langchain-ai/langchain - ⭐ 145.3K
The agent engineering platform.
DevOps
- trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge - ⭐ 241.3K
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners,...
- bregman-arie/devops-exercises - ⭐ 84.3K
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, ...
- netdata/netdata - ⭐ 80.4K
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
Infrastructure
- awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted - ⭐ 316.2K
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hoste...
- localstack/localstack - ⭐ 65.1K
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serve...
- minio/minio - ⭐ 61.4K
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU ...
Data
- supabase/supabase - ⭐ 108.6K
The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres datab...
- microsoft/ML-For-Beginners - ⭐ 89.9K
12 weeks, 26 lessons, 52 quizzes, classic Machine Learning for all
- netdata/netdata - ⭐ 80.4K
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
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