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Fastest-Growing AI Projects

The fastest-growing AI projects in our GitHub directory, ranked every week from daily snapshots. The ranking is computed, not written.

This week — Oct 5–12, 2026

An Agent Reverse-Engineering Tool Leads; Six Rust Clones of Adobe and Office Apps Follow

REA, which lets coding agents take apart closed software, gained more every day of the week; below it, six clean-room copies of Adobe and Microsoft apps from one studio peaked within days, and Strata, last issue’s fastest newcomer, turned.

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Every issue

Week 41 · Sep 28–Oct 5, 2026Last Week’s List Had Five Jev Projects. This Week’s Has None.
The copy, the rival and the port cooled together, which answers last issue’s question — and the newcomers that replaced them rose on a model squeezed onto a gaming PC and NVIDIA’s new agent sandbox.
Week 40 · Sep 21–28, 2026Jev Had Two Projects on Last Week’s List. This Week It Has Five.
Within days of TypeSafe’s announcement, Jev had an open copy, an open rival and a port of the rival — and every one of them spent the week slowing down.
Week 39 · Sep 14–21, 2026We Called This List Settled; Half of It Turned Over in a Week
Five of last week's ten names are gone, including the leader and two of the four projects that had been on every board we have published. What replaced them mostly arrived the same way: a fortnight of nothing, then days of vertical.
Week 38 · Sep 7–14, 2026The Top Slot Has Changed Hands Every Week; the Rest of the List Has Not
Every issue so far has had a different leader, and this week's had never appeared on the board at all — yet eight of the ten names carried straight over. Beneath the churn, Ponytail's climb and DeepSeek Harness's slide have ended in the same place.
Week 37 · Aug 31–Sep 7, 2026Four Projects Have Made All Three Issues, and No Two Move Alike
Ponytail has gained faster in each issue, DeepSeek Harness less in each, and Orca has held the same pace — while Skills swings up and down with no direction yet.
Week 36 · Aug 24–31, 2026Archify More Than Doubled and Took First from DeepSeek Harness
Archify doubled in a week to take first place from DeepSeek Harness, whose rate more than halved. Beneath them, the rules-for-agents pattern split into projects that forbid and projects that instruct.
Week 35 · Aug 17–24, 2026Agent Harnesses and Constraints Took Five of the Top Ten
DeepSeek Harness leads a surge in agent infrastructure, while projects like Ponytail and Unlazy attempt to curb AI laziness and over-engineering.

How this ranking is computed

Every Monday we take the seven days just ended and rank the AI projects in our GitHub directory by the stars they added inside that window, read off daily snapshots rather than a live counter. A second board ranks growth against a project’s own size, so a small project doubling is not buried under a large one adding more. The ranking is computed; only the reading of it is written.