Best of Vibe Coding: week of October 12, 2026

Best of Vibe Coding, week of October 12, 2026: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18.

Rising this week (most stars gained, from GitHub's daily counts)

1. anatomy: +12,260
2. skills: +10,120
3. orca: +7,253
4. diagram-design: +7,045
5. ecc: +6,446
6. ponytail: +6,230
7. deepseek-harness: +6,192
8. claude-plugins-official: +5,219
9. xerj: +5,077
10. opencode: +4,400

New on the list (256 joined this week; the 10 with the most stars)

• deepseek-harness, 253,876 stars: Plugin-based agent harness from DeepSeek with a local Web UI
• pi, 116,290 stars: Terminal coding agent with extensions, skills, and an SDK
• front-end-checklist, 74,508 stars: Front-end rules checklist with an MCP server for agent code review
• llm-app, 58,790 stars: Pathway RAG pipeline templates that re-index live data sources
• appwrite, 57,727 stars: Self-hostable backend with auth, databases, storage, functions, messaging and hosting
• goose, 55,428 stars: Rust AI agent with desktop app, CLI and API, extended through MCP
• gitnexus, 47,943 stars: Code knowledge graph exposed to coding agents through MCP tools
• payload, 45,342 stars: Next.js-native headless CMS and app framework with a React admin panel
• reverse-skill, 42,615 stars: Routes AI coding agents to reverse-engineering and pentest playbooks
• claude-code-router, 37,750 stars: Local gateway that routes coding agents to the model providers you choose

Went quiet (no commit in 180 days): gsap-skills, openai-apps-sdk-examples.

The full ranking: https://archestack.com/best-of-vibe-coding/