The Next New Thing’s weekly roundup of the 10 hottest GitHub repos. This week’s crop leans AI-heavy (a security-scanned Claude plugin registry, OpenAI Codex going open source, Apache incubating its own agent workspace) with a few pure-software gems (an open-source Logitech driver replacement, DHH’s Mac-seamless Linux, a self-hosted net-worth tracker). The picks:
- Claude Plugins community repo — 2,282 Anthropic-approved plugins, security-scanned, and formatted machine-readable so Claude can search it directly instead of scrolling the website. The hosts’ caveat: plugins run real code on your machine — vet them like Mac apps.
- GPT Image 2 prompt library — a searchable gallery of image prompts with their outputs; copy one and edit the sections you want different instead of writing prompts from scratch.
- Omari (DHH) — “Linux that’s as seamless as a Mac,” aimed at reviving old machines macOS no longer supports; $10M raised, Touch ID support in the works.
- OpenLogi — open-source replacement for Logitech’s bloated driver software: no login, no birthday questions, no telemetry phoning home.
- OpenAI Codex is open source — the CLI is free, editable, and redistributable: swap in cheaper models, rewrite the prompts, or fork it into your own tool. (Claude Code, by contrast, is closed.)
- Apache AI agent workspace (incubating) — a foundation-backed agent runtime with an append-only log of every model call, tool call, and permission. The durability bet: “I wouldn’t build a business on vibecoded agent tools; I would on Apache.”
- Mojo — Python-like syntax with C/C++ performance, aimed at the AI-era workload of LLM-generated code.
- Money Printer Turbo — open-source CapCut: all-AI or AI-composited video from existing footage and audio, all the knobs, no upsell.
- 34 free AI tiers stack — a rotation of free API tiers to hop between when you burn through one; $19/yr for the maintained list. TOS-gray, but handy for agent experimentation.
- Securo — self-hosted net-worth tracking wired to 2,000+ banks via SimpleFIN ($1.50/mo); the local, no-upsell alternative to the Personal Capital/QuickBooks path.