Andrew Warner and Adam Brakhane run through the week’s trending GitHub repos in 35 minutes, and this list has an unusual shape: three of the ten are ways of giving your agent a job instead of a tool, and the rest are scaffolding around coding agents — shared instruction files, a marketplace, and a console for running several of them side by side.

The three getting extra attention

  • NewsJack (1.4k stars) — turns your agent into a full PR team: it finds reporters covering topics you should be part of, finds the stories worth wedging into, and helps you get in front of them. It has been out for a while; what set it off this week is Jev, the small purpose-built model the demo runs on. The hosts’ point is the one they keep making about small models: Jev is not replacing a frontier model, it is making a decision loop (is this story right for this client?) fast enough and cheap enough to run constantly. Adam says his firm swapped it in for the flash-tier models they used for profile evaluation and the difference was night and day — right down to running ELO-style tournaments between candidates, which used to be too expensive to bother with.
  • OpenSEO (21.1k stars) — an open-source Semrush and Ahrefs alternative. You run it yourself and pay only for the data source, or pay roughly $10/month for hosting. It got attention for a different reason: the creator announced he was in Y Combinator as a 100% open-source company, and people piled on that he had “vibe coded a wrapper on SEO data.” Adam is a paying customer and calls it a wrapper of a wrapper — and then makes the business argument: raising $500M and making $5M a year is a failed company, raising $1M and making $5M a year is a great one, so a YC round for a mid-tier SaaS that is simple and clear is not obviously wrong.
  • Paperclip (85k stars) — organizes multiple agents into something like a company: an org chart for agents, a task list, and one surface where a team can see who is doing what. It blew up after a sponsored YouTube video (roughly half a million views) making the case that it manages agents like employees. The hosts flag both sides: the video was paid promotion, which at least means the people behind it are spending money to grow it, and Paperclip does not yet work with the consumer-grade agent apps — it is aimed at more advanced setups, and Adam’s read is that corralling agents from different providers into one place is where the opportunity is.

The top 10

  1. Anthropic Financial Services (37.6k stars) — ten finance agents that do the grunt work: know-your-customer screening, stock analysis, the workflow a finance team would otherwise staff. The hosts’ framing is floor versus ceiling: a novice takes the skill off the shelf as-is, a professional who knows the domain customizes it and gets superpowers. Andrew admits he blew these off last time they came up, until he met a lawyer running Anthropic’s legal skills to shave hours off his week — and who used the reclaimed time to start studying to be a sommelier.
  2. Alibaba Open Code Review (41.3k stars) — the code reviewer that started inside Alibaba and got open-sourced. Hybrid architecture: deterministic pipelines plus an LLM agent, line-level comments, built-in rules for the classic bug classes. It keeps growing because people keep trying to sneak bugs past it and it catches them. The week’s change is a VS Code extension, which Adam argues is the point: you can do everything in a terminal, but extensions bring the buttons, panes and automations that make a tool comfortable.
  3. Claude Code (148.1k stars) — not open source, on GitHub for issues and feature requests, and it just started reading agents.md instead of only claude.md. See the section below; this was the change of the week for anyone juggling several agents.
  4. ECC (267.5k stars) — the biggest number on the list again: one engineer’s decade-plus of practice turned into an agent harness. What the hosts single out is that the standard loop (plan, test, implement, review, verify) is bookended by remember and improve — steps that write back to agents.md, save memories and save scripts, so the next pass is easier. Most skill packs skip that, which is why you hit the same blockers in week ten that you hit in week one.
  5. Tencent WeKnora (30.1k stars) — point it at the files on your computer and it builds a queryable RAG, a self-maintaining wiki and a knowledge graph. Adam’s one-line description is the cleanest on the episode: Obsidian plus RAG plus a graph database plus integrations. Instead of hand-organizing everything, it reads your files and works out that the receipt in your downloads folder relates to that project — then links them.
  6. Addy Osmani Agent Skills (99.1k stars) — 25 production-grade engineering skills from an engineer who spent 14 years at Google and then Anthropic. The hosts point Claude at it to compare against ECC: both are permissively licensed, both work with all models, ECC has 292 skills to Agent Skills’ 25. Adam’s analogy is the useful part — ECC is a full workshop (great if you know what each tool is for, overwhelming if you do not), Agent Skills is a toolbox with one of everything.
  7. Anthropic Knowledge Work Plugins (25.6k stars) — plugins for finance, HR, legal, marketing and operations. The hosts’ audience for this is the everyman: you started a business because you are good at one thing, and now there is a marketing plugin and a legal plugin you can actually talk to. Adam’s plan is to hand the set to their own hyper agent and ask which of these skills the team should adopt based on how they already work.
  8. Orca (78.3k stars) — run five coding agents at once and keep the best result. One window for Claude Code, Codex and others, plus a mobile connection, and worktrees so parallel agents stop butting heads over the same files. Adam’s framing: VS Code is built around the code, and Orca is built around the agents — he expects these agent-first interfaces to replace the IDEs people have used for two decades.
  9. Tencent Cloud Octop (5k stars) — a self-hosted, multi-user, multi-agent assistant aimed at teams and families on one machine. The hosts’ critique is its integrations: Telegram and QQ instead of iMessage and WhatsApp, which makes it a tool with a real audience that is mostly not in the United States. Andrew’s aside is that there is still an opening for someone to build a genuinely simple family agent.
  10. Claude Code Templates (31.8k stars) — a marketplace for Claude Code add-ons: skills, agents, commands, plugins and MCP connectors in one browsable place, with download counts, stars and search. Roughly 900 skills and 34 plugins, and Adam argues the curation is the feature — GitHub is a supermarket nobody can navigate, so a smaller catalog you trust is worth having bookmarked. ECC sits at the top of it.

The agents.md truce

  • Claude Code now reading agents.md is a small change with a big effect. Codex, OpenCode and the rest already look at agents.md; Claude only ever read claude.md, so anyone switching between agents had to maintain both files and forget one of them.
  • There were hacks around it — symlinks, cross-references — and Adam’s summary is that the mess just goes away: rename claude.md to agents.md and every agent sees the same instructions.
  • Skills and MCP connectors are still not portable, and that is the next sore spot. Adam’s example: a Google Calendar automation worked in one agent and died in another because the MCP connector was installed on one side only.

Where the expertise lives

  • The week’s theme, in the hosts’ words, is packaging: skill packs take one person’s years of practice and hand them to everyone else, plugin marketplaces make them findable, and consoles like Orca make several agents workable at once.
  • Andrew’s offer to viewers: he is talking to Mustafa Afaan, who built ECC, about a full walkthrough — ask in the comments what you would want covered.

What they are building

  • Andrew has an agent watching his calls and Slack for passion signals (an F-bomb counts) that reports back the next day with the three things he was most worked up about, so he can turn them into posts and guest invitations.
  • Adam is 85-90% through rebuilding a call recorder on a Mac mini: Granola’s on-device recording with the speaker tagging Fireflies gets right, minus the conference-room problem where everyone is labeled as one person. It will cost slightly more per seat than the two tools it replaces, and he is giving it to the people in their residency anyway.

“If you are using VS Code today, there is a really good chance that there is no code on your screen — it is an agent, and a folder, and a plugin over here. VS Code is still designed around the code.” — Adam on why Orca is interesting

Read as a set, the list is mostly answering one question: once a coding agent is good enough, what do you put around it? A shared instruction file so it stops forgetting, a skill pack so it inherits someone’s judgment, a marketplace so you can find the skills, and a console so you can run five of them without losing track.