10 Fastest-Growing GitHub Repos This Week (First Week of April 2026)

Every week we scan GitHub for the fastest-growing repositories in AI and developer tooling. Here are the 10 repos that exploded in stars this week — from new AI coding tools to open-source frameworks worth bookmarking.

Week of First Week of April 2026 | Ranked by stars gained in the last 7 days.

1. ultraworkers/claw-code — ⭐ 172.1k

The repo is finally unlocked. enjoy the party! The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.

⭐ 172,052 stars 🔀 104,265 forks 💻 Rust 📄 No license
🏷️ general
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2. VoltAgent/awesome-design-md — ⭐ 17.9k

Collection of DESIGN.md files that capture design systems from popular websites. Drop one into your project and let coding agents build matching UI.

⭐ 17,910 stars 🔀 2,217 forks 💻 HTML 📄 MIT
🏷️ awesome-list, design-md, design-system, design-tokens
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3. Gitlawb/openclaude — ⭐ 16.8k

Open Claude Is Open-source coding-agent CLI for OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, Codex, GitHub Models, and 200+ models via OpenAI-compatible APIs.

⭐ 16,804 stars 🔀 5,904 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 NOASSERTION
🏷️ general
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4. claude-code-best/claude-code — ⭐ 14.0k

原汁原昧 Claude Code 可运行,可构建, 可调试版; Typescript 类型全修复; 企业级可靠性; 安全无毒, lock 文件保真, 可直接 bun i; bun run dev 启动

⭐ 14,014 stars 🔀 14,131 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 No license
🏷️ general
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5. sanbuphy/learn-coding-agent — ⭐ 11.4k

Research on Coding Agents

⭐ 11,356 stars 🔀 19,662 forks 💻 Multiple languages 📄 No license
🏷️ general
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6. ChinaSiro/claude-code-sourcemap — ⭐ 8.5k

No description provided.

⭐ 8,476 stars 🔀 14,133 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 No license
🏷️ general
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7. Kuberwastaken/claurst — ⭐ 8.4k

Your favorite Terminal Coding Agent, now in Rust & a Breakdown of the Claude Code leak & discoveries

⭐ 8,385 stars 🔀 7,592 forks 💻 Rust 📄 GPL-3.0
🏷️ general
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8. emdash-cms/emdash — ⭐ 7.6k

EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS based on Astro; the spiritual successor to WordPress

⭐ 7,564 stars 🔀 546 forks 💻 TypeScript 📄 MIT
🏷️ astro, cms, emdash, typescript
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9. ultraworkers/claw-code-parity — ⭐ 6.5k

Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd / claw-code Rust port parity work – it is temporary work while claw-code repo is doing migration

⭐ 6,524 stars 🔀 5,387 forks 💻 Rust 📄 No license
🏷️ general
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10. santifer/career-ops — ⭐ 5.8k

AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code. 14 skill modes, Go dashboard, PDF generation, batch processing.

⭐ 5,827 stars 🔀 907 forks 💻 Go 📄 MIT
🏷️ ai-agent, anthropic, automation, career
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Data pulled from the GitHub Search API. Star counts reflect totals at time of publication. We update this list every Monday. Browse all posts →

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