A free ebook by Amit Biswas · Data scraped directly from github.com/trending?since=monthly on 2026-04-11

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Foreword

The AI ecosystem moves faster than any newsletter can keep up with. Each month on GitHub, a new wave of repositories surges to the top of the trending list — small, sharp tools that solve one problem exceptionally well, or ambitious agents that redefine what's possible with Claude, GPT, and open models.

This ebook is a snapshot of the ten projects that dominated github.com/trending in March 2026. For each one, you'll find its star count, its tagline, why it matters, real use cases, a quick-start setup, and a ready-to-paste Claude Code prompt so you can experiment in minutes.

Let's dive in.

Why Claude Code for exploration

Claude Code (claude-code CLI) is the fastest way to kick the tires on any new repo. Instead of manually reading a README, Claude Code can clone, install, test, and explain a project end-to-end inside your terminal. Every chapter below includes a Claude Code prompt you can paste directly.

# Install Claude Code (one-time)
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
claude login

# Explore any repo on this list
git clone <repo-url> && cd <repo>
claude

The Leaderboard

# Repo Stars (total) Stars (March) Language
1 NousResearch / hermes-agent 54,427 +46,639 Python
2 Yeachan-Heo / oh-my-codex 20,814 +18,775 TypeScript
3 mattpocock / skills 13,943 +12,774 Shell
4 FujiwaraChoki / MoneyPrinterV2 29,128 +14,315 Python
5 bytedance / deer-flow 60,340 +32,590 Python
6 666ghj / MiroFish 53,389 +40,273 Python
7 siddharthvaddem / openscreen 27,783 +19,712 TypeScript
8 affaan-m / everything-claude-code 150,552 +80,939 JavaScript
9 jarrodwatts / claude-hud 18,281 +13,975 JavaScript
10 lightpanda-io / browser 28,336 +16,279 Zig

1. NousResearch / hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you.

Why you should consider it

Hermes-Agent is Nous Research's answer to the "static agent" problem: instead of starting every session from scratch, it accumulates skills, memories, and corrections over time so the agent genuinely gets better the more you work with it. It is the #1 trending repo on GitHub this month for a reason — it reframes what a personal AI agent can be, and because Nous has a reputation for shipping clean, well-documented open-source work, it is the one to study if you want to understand long-horizon agent design.