What's trending on GitHub, and whether it's any good
Repos
The repos everyone’s starring this week. What they do, and what the people who installed them are saying.
// I don't test every repo myself. Each page is built from the repo and from public discussion, with every claim linked to where it came from.
Latest drop · 23 Oct 2026
Repos that make vibe coding less painful
A growing list of free, open-source tools that fix the usual problems of building with an AI agent. Each one gets an honest verdict, built from what the people who installed it are saying.
obra/superpowers
Superpowers
A set of skills that makes your coding agent brainstorm, plan, write tests and review its own work before it calls anything done.
★ 304kBreakdown →
upstash/context7
Context7
Feeds your coding agent the current docs for the libraries you use, so it stops writing code against old or made-up APIs.
★ 63.5kBreakdown →
pbakaus/impeccable
Impeccable
A design skill that teaches your agent to avoid the "AI-made" look and gives you commands to critique, audit and polish your interface.
★ 85.1kBreakdown →
ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp
Chrome DevTools MCP
Lets your coding agent open Chrome, click around your app, and read the console, network requests and performance data the way a developer would.
★ 54kBreakdown →
Louis-CFM/coucou
Coucou
A little character in your Mac's notch that shows what your coding agents are doing and lets you approve their requests without switching windows.
★ 6.3kBreakdown →
ccusage/ccusage
ccusage
One command that reads your coding agents' local logs and shows how many tokens you've used and what they would have cost.
★ 19.1kBreakdown →
t8y2/dbx
DBX
A small, free desktop app for browsing and editing databases, with an AI helper and a server that lets your coding agent query them too.
★ 27.6kBreakdown →
better-auth/better-auth
Better Auth
A free TypeScript library that adds sign-up, log-in, social logins, two-factor and teams to your app, with the user data kept in your own database.
★ 30.4kBreakdown →
gitleaks/gitleaks
Gitleaks
A free scanner that spots API keys, passwords and tokens in your code and git history, and can block a commit before a secret leaves your machine.
★ 30.2kBreakdown →
coollabsio/coolify
Coolify
A free, open-source dashboard that turns a rented server into your own Vercel or Heroku, deploying apps, databases and 360+ ready-made services on every git push.
★ 63.5kBreakdown →
The week’s repos, every Friday.