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Product launches and open-source repos with enough signal to earn a second look.

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GitHub274.8K

obra/superpowers

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

Market Signal

Why It Has Market Pull

Superpowers is a widely-adopted agentic skills framework and development methodology for coding agents, verified at 274,837 stars and 24,594 forks via the GitHub API, with active daily development, official inclusion in Anthropic's Claude Code plugin marketplace, and broadly positive independent developer commentary — among the strongest signals seen in this group and worth a closer look.

  • 274,837 GitHub stars and 24,594 forks (verified via GitHub API, not the unverified originating count)
  • Actively maintained: pushed as recently as Aug 19, 2026, with 295 open issues and 193 open pull requests showing sustained engagement
  • Accepted into Anthropic's official Claude Code plugin marketplace in early 2026
  • Bundles 14+ composable skills (brainstorming, planning, TDD, subagent review) built to the agentskills.io standard, agent-agnostic across Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, and OpenCode
  • Independent Hacker News discussion runs roughly 60/40 favorable, citing a shift from ad-hoc "vibe coding" to structured agentic engineering

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What People Are Saying

  • "shifts vibe coding into agentic engineering"HN comment

  • "over-engineering for small tasks"HN comment

  • "SuperPowers:Writing-Plans gets stuck... Request timed out"GitHub issue

  • "two review subagents... exhibited extremely slow runtimes: 20-33 minutes each, even when providing only 2 paragraphs of feedback"GitHub issue

  • "What happened to systematic-debugging"GitHub issue

  • "10 Claude Skills That Actually Changed How I Work"Dev.to article

  • "STOP everything you're doing and start using SuperPowers"Substack article

GitHub225.8K

mattpocock/skills

Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

Market Signal

Why It Has Market Pull

mattpocock/skills is a genuinely viral, MIT-licensed collection of Claude Code agent skills from TypeScript educator Matt Pocock (Total TypeScript), and it has become one of the most-starred agent-tooling repositories on GitHub. Verified directly against the GitHub API, its growth is real rather than inflated, and individual skills show substantial standalone install numbers — this is very much worth a closer look.

  • 225,923 GitHub stars and 19,385 forks confirmed live via the GitHub API (August 20, 2026), with commits pushed the same day
  • Grew from roughly 53,000 stars to over 225,000 within months of its February 2026 launch
  • Individual skills show strong standalone adoption: grill-me and tdd each report tens of thousands of installs on skills.sh (49K+ and 27.6K+ respectively)
  • 375 open GitHub issues and active discussion threads show a large, engaged user base debating specific skill design choices, not just passive stargazing
  • Creator has an established, monetizing solo business (Total TypeScript, AI Hero courses) rather than being an anonymous or first-time builder

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What People Are Saying

  • "My 'grill-me' skill went viral... It's the most useful skill I've written, and I use it even outside of coding"X post

  • "It's the first prompt set I've actually kept using after week 2"Reddit r/ClaudeAI

  • "the grill-me skill is useful to pick apart the key questions that would help with the learning trajectory"GitHub discussion

  • "code-review considered harmful"GitHub issue title

  • "Two absolute phrasings that don't hold at the edges: to-spec's 'ideal number is one'..."GitHub issue

  • "By enforcing iterative clarification before plan generation, the grill-me skill appears to reduce downstream rework and improve alignment"Dev.to article

  • "A Show HN for a multi-agent PRD tool explicitly credits Pocock's grill-me skill as its inspiration"HN post

GitHub27.8K

modular/modular

The Modular Platform (includes MAX & Mojo)

Market Signal

Why It Has Market Pull

Modular (Mojo + MAX) is a mature, well-funded AI infrastructure platform that was just acquired by Qualcomm in a $3.92B all-stock deal, and days later fully open-sourced its previously-closed Mojo compiler — a genuinely newsworthy resolution to a years-long community complaint, backed by monthly releases and 100+ contributors.

  • 27,792 GitHub stars, 2,993 forks, commits pushed the same day as this review
  • Acquired by Qualcomm for $3.92B (closed July 29, 2026), following $380M raised across three prior funding rounds
  • Mojo compiler fully open-sourced under Apache 2.0 on August 18, 2026, coinciding with Mojo reaching version 1.0
  • Ships on a roughly monthly release cadence (v26.5.0, v26.4.0, v26.3.0) with 100+ contributors
  • Founded by Chris Lattner (creator of LLVM and Swift)

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What People Are Saying

  • "It's now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company"HN comment

  • "like Python but not Python...basically the uncanny valley for LLMs"HN comment

  • "I'd argue now is the perfect time because of the growth of agentic programming"HN comment

  • "Yeah, except Mojo's license is a non-starter"HN post title (predating the open-sourcing)

  • "Compiler contributions still not accepted externally, promised by end of 2026"GitHub docs

GitHub4.9K

Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard

A full-stack AI Red Teaming platform securing AI ecosystems via Agent Scan, Skills Scan, MCP scan, AI Infra scan and LLM jailbreak evaluation.

Market Signal

Why It Has Market Pull

AI-Infra-Guard is a full-stack AI red-teaming platform from Tencent's Zhuque Lab covering agent, skill, MCP, and infrastructure-layer scanning plus jailbreak evaluation — a well-resourced corporate security team shipping frequent releases with real independent technical scrutiny, making it worth a closer look for anyone auditing AI-agent deployments.

  • 4,879 GitHub stars / 478 forks, with the latest release (v4.5.2) shipped Aug 17, 2026 — three days before this review
  • Backed by Tencent Zhuque Lab, a security research group within Tencent's Security Platform Department founded in 2019
  • Covers 1,200+ CVEs across 58+ AI frameworks according to independent technical review, plus a first-of-its-kind public MCP supply-chain scanner
  • Featured on Hugging Face Daily Papers (July 6, 2026), drawing attention from the AI security research community
  • A publicly disclosed GitHub security issue (a scanner-bypass report) shows active, adversarial community scrutiny rather than silence

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What People Are Saying

  • "__pycache__ and .pyc files hidden from LLM agent tools (v4.5.1) (malicious skill bypasses this scanner)"GitHub issue

  • "The AI agent itself drives the security assessment by reading related code, executing commands, or accessing the network."Medium article

  • "Limitations include LLM-based analysis introducing non-deterministic results and API costs at scale, and false positive rates."Medium article

  • "Work to replace substring match with regex to reduce false positives."GitHub changelog

  • "Audit prompt optimization... to reduce false positives by focusing on network-layer vulnerabilities."GitHub changelog

  • "An open-source framework that reorganizes AI agent red teaming around a structural observation that most existing tools overlook: the attack surface of a modern AI agent is not flat."Tech news article

GitHub4.0K

cursor/plugins

Cursor plugin specification and official plugins

Market Signal

Why It Has Market Pull

This is Cursor's (Anysphere) official plugin specification and first-party plugin catalog, backing the Cursor Marketplace that ships MCP servers, skills, subagents, hooks, and rules as one-click installs — with a genuinely large ecosystem of blue-chip integration partners and an actively maintained spec, making it one of the more credible AI-tooling infrastructure plays worth a closer look.

  • 3,986 GitHub stars / 336 forks, with commits pushed the same day as this review
  • Marketplace launch partners span Amplitude, AWS, Figma, Linear, Stripe, Cloudflare, Vercel, Databricks, Snowflake, and Hex
  • Cursor co-authored the vendor-neutral 'Agent Plugins 1.0' packaging standard alongside AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google (announced Aug 6, 2026), giving the spec cross-industry backing beyond Cursor alone
  • 14 open GitHub issues show real day-to-day developer usage — install/uninstall lifecycle questions, model-override requests, duplicate-slug bugs — rather than an inactive spec
  • Team Marketplace controls (curated, auto-install, mandatory plugins) were added for Enterprise, indicating real paying-customer feature demand

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What People Are Saying

  • "orchestrate - needs better configuration overrides for model choice"GitHub issue

  • "Docs: plugin install vs disable vs uninstall lifecycle"GitHub issue

  • "Add option to deactivate all cursor skills"GitHub issue

  • "Duplicate skill slug `pr-review-canvas`"GitHub issue

  • "Can't add `ralph-loop` plugin"GitHub issue

  • "In practice it standardizes one thing: the shape of the folder."Dev.to article

  • "A fast, no-hassle way to bring AI into your product."Substack article

Sources

GitHub

harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo

112.7K

利用 AI 大模型和自动化工作流，根据主题或关键词一键生成高清短视频。Generate HD short videos from a topic or keyword with an automated AI workflow.

JuliusBrussee/caveman

99.5K

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

santifer/career-ops

66.5K

Open-source AI job search: scan job portals, evaluate listings with a structured A-F rubric into a 1.0-5.0 score, tailor your CV, track applications — runs locally in your AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity…)

makeplane/plane

56.3K

🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.

PostHog/posthog

37.9K

🦔 PostHog is the leading platform for building self-driving products. Our developer tools – AI observability, analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error tracking, logs, and more – capture all the context agents need to diagnose problems, uncover opportunities, and ship fixes. Steer it all from Slack, web, desktop, or the MCP.

volcengine/OpenViking

30.9K

Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.

Product Hunt

Astute

517

Astute is the first B2B new media platform, starting with creator partnerships. We monitor your presence in the new media, build a data-backed strategy around the creators your buyers trust, and run the partnerships on autopilot. All within minutes.

Clipto MCP

463

Clipto MCP gives Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agents the ability to source clips and more from inside the videos, photos, and audio recordings stored on your computer. Instead of manually browsing files, simply describe what you need. For example, turn a script into a video by matching each sentence with your local footage; find every scene where someone mentioned a topic; create rough cuts; or search years of media as if you have a dedicated assistant editor.

Origin by Cursor

333

Origin is Cursor's new code hosting platform, built for a world where humans and coding agents work side by side. Create and host Git repos directly in Cursor, browse and search code, open and review pull requests, manage access, and sync with GitHub. Your code now lives next to the agents working on it—with more agent-native features on the way.

ChatGPT for Teens

112

ChatGPT for Teens is a dedicated ChatGPT experience for ages 13–17, designed around how teens learn and use AI. It encourages working through problems instead of simply giving homework answers, with Study Mode, quizzes, learning visualizations, and Study Hours. Stronger safety protections and healthy-use features are built in by default, with optional parental controls—while keeping teens' conversations private.

Claude Watermark Remover

253

Paste any text and see every trace a chat interface left in it: hidden HTML class names, zero-width characters, exotic spaces, typography. Each finding has a count and a position, because these are facts about the bytes, not a probability score. Clean it in one click. Free, unlimited, no account, runs in your browser so nothing is uploaded. It does not claim to detect Anthropic's statistical watermark, because nobody outside Anthropic can. The engine is MIT open source.

Hosted Agents in Cluing

188

Cluing Hosted Agents take agents off one person’s laptop and into a collaborative workspace. Start work from your computer, continue on your phone, and hand it over to teammates without losing context. Evolving skills update as you collect new insights and agents become a team asset. Anyone can now assign tasks, publish their work, and connect to any external tool with an API or MCP with Cluing's custom connectors. Close the laptop - the work will keep going.

YC Launch

Allia: The first full-stack, AI-native mental health group

104

8000+ independent mental health clinicians in America already run their practice on Allia. We turn that network into one national clinical group that delivers coordinated, measurable care and contracts with the country's largest payers. Allia Health · Summer 2026 · Healthcare Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Mental Health. Website: https://allia.health/

Artie Free Plan: real-time data replication for $0/mo

16

Stream data to your warehouse or another database, free forever – up to 1M rows a month. Artie · Summer 2023 · B2B Tags: Developer Tools, SaaS, Data Engineering, Enterprise Software. Website: https://www.artie.com/

Gini: AI coworker that lives in Slack

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Does the work in your channels and turns what it learns into a company brain. Gini · Summer 2026 · B2B Tags: AIOps, Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Workflow Automation, Enterprise Software. Website: https://ginicomputer.com/

Hacker News

HarnessRouter: Unified interface for agent harnesses

10 pts

Hey HN! We are building HarnessRouter, a canonical API for running Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and other managed agent harnesses as your product backend. Before building HarnessRouter, I used to build our own agent harness for our products. I tried LangGraph, agent SDKs from different vendors, pydantic, LLM tool use / function call, and so on. It's a very heavy lifting engineering effort, and I am disappointed about the agent deliveries compared to what Codex, CC can deliver. That changed my min... (10 points, 14 comments).

MCP app for Android, drive apps via AI (no root, PII redacted locally)

6 pts

Hi HN, author here. Android Remote Control MCP is an MCP server that runs directly on your Android phone (no root, no ADB, no computer in the middle) and lets an AI agent drive real apps the way a human would: it reads the screen through the accessibility tree, taps, types, scrolls, optionally also screenshots. I spent a lot of time optimizing tool usage and token consumption, and making it work not only via local harnesses but also via Claude.ai / Claude Desktop and chatgpt.com (if you have the... (6 points, 1 comments).

Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard

25 pts

Hi HN, I built the first version of Mocktail years ago. I recently came back to the project, and after a pretty substantial rebuild, v4 is now out. Mocktail is a free and open-source, self-hosted mock API server with a built-in dashboard and database, packaged as a single ~25 MB binary. You can run it locally or on your own infrastructure — no account or hosted service required. You can define endpoints and responses, generate realistic data per request, customize headers, status codes and laten... (25 points, 1 comments).

LilScript makes JavaScript libraries smaller

14 pts

https://yeargun.github.io/lilscript/ LilScript is a typed, compression-first language that compiles into js and sometimes into exec(will be more stable in future). The compiler mangles, reshapes the program into optimized js that happens to be 5-15% smaller (after gzip/br compression or raw) compared to the best performing JS toolchains like oxc/esbuild/terser/.. ## What has been proven to work with LilScript? - makes VSCode's core js modules 20% smaller on average - makes the world's most perfo... (14 points, 2 comments).

Doberman: The AI watchdog that stops Claude from deleting your database

9 pts

Landing Page: https://www.trydoberman.dev/ The Problem: AI guardrails only protect against 89% of dangerous commands. This may seem pretty good until you think of it as a lock that lets 1 in 9 intruders in. What is Doberman: Doberman is a two layer security system wrapped around your LLM monitoring every input, output and tool call. The first layer is deterministic based on state of the art security guidelines, the second layer is dynamic, learning from your use and personal preferences. How is... (9 points, 6 comments).

Linux and iPhone Continuity (iMessage / SMS)

9 pts

After switching to 100% Linux a couple of years ago there was basically only one thing I missed about macOS and that was what Apple calls "Continuity". It's where you get texts, notifications, clipboard sync, file transfer (to/from) the iPhone from the Mac desktop. Especially that thing where OTP codes via text autofilled into the browser form I was waiting on. It took about 4 months of work: - reverse-engineering Apple/iOS Bluetooth behavior - MAP / OBEX - Bluetooth LE + Wi-Fi working together... (9 points, 2 comments).

HF Spaces

Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-LoRAs-Fast

2.6K likes

Demo of the Collection of Qwen Image Edit LoRAs Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-LoRAs-Fast is a Hugging Face Space tagged with gradio, mcp-server, region:us. It has 2628 likes on Hugging Face.

Agent Memory Leaderboard

707 likes

Unified memory evaluation · Results expected August 12. Agent Memory Leaderboard · 记忆之巅 A unified, open, and reproducible evaluation platform for long-term memory systems and memory-enabled agents. Agent Memory Leaderboard (AML) compares research methods and commercial products under one evaluation contract. Candidate systems implement memory Add and Search; the official platform fixes Answer, Eval, datasets, models, configurations, result review, and publication. > First public release: The inaugural verified leaderboard is expected to be published on August 12, 2026. > 首期发布： 首期经核验榜单预计将于 2026 年 8 月 12 日发布。 Results are separated along two independent dimensions. Textual and coding tasks use...

MiniMax H3 Turbo LoRA

246 likes

Video generation with a synchronized soundtrack MiniMax-H3 — unquantized, split across two Spaces Joint video and soundtrack out of a single denoising pass, at bfloat16 with no quantization anywhere. This Space is the denoising half: the 61.73 GiB transformer and the two autoencoders. The 62.14 GiB Qwen3-VL conditioner runs in qwen3vl-conditioner, which this Space calls over the gradio API for every request. The weights are the public MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 diffusers checkpoint. MiniMax-H3 is 195.9 GiB in bfloat16 and a ZeroGPU Space is evicted at 150 GB of storage. An unquantized single Space is therefore impossible, which is why quantized demos of it run NVFP4 or float8 weights. Cut the Mini...

MiniMax Music 3 Studio

220 likes

MiniMax Music 3 Studio — diffusers demo Streams full songs from lyrics + a structured caption using the MiniMaxMusic3Pipeline diffusers port. The input surface is a single Suno-inspired custom gr.HTML composer (Simple ↔ Studio modes, section-tag chips, structured-caption fields per the official prompting guide) that drives Gradio events via trigger()/props.value; styling uses only theme CSS vars so it follows the Citrus theme natively. Weights: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3 AoTI kernels: diffusers-internal-dev/MiniMax-Music3-aoti (compiled on RTX Pro 6000, matching ZeroGPU hardware) Generation streams chunk by chunk with a configurable playback headroom. The 8B language-model stage runs eager on....

OpenVuln

109 likes

Find bugs in your repository with GLM This Space is built automatically from the root Dockerfile and serves the Vite application with nginx on port 7860. Optional Space build variables: VITEAPIBASEURL — API origin; defaults to https://openvuln.vulnhunter.pro. VITEGITHUBREPOURL — source repository linked from the interface. OpenVuln is a Hugging Face Space tagged with docker, region:us. It has 109 likes on Hugging Face.

Wan2.2 14B Fast Preview

1.3K likes

generate a video from an image with a text prompt Wan2.2 14B Fast Preview is a Hugging Face Space tagged with gradio, mcp-server, region:us. It has 1290 likes on Hugging Face.