GitHub AI Agent Repository Stars Tracker — Week of May 25, 2026
Weekly snapshot of AI agent repositories on GitHub. Hermes Agent leads with 165.5K stars (+7.06% WoW). Ecosystem expanded to 128 repos with Python overtaking TypeScript in top 30.
Data Overview
- Snapshot Week: 2026-05-19 to 2026-05-25
- Tracker: GitHub AI Agent Stars Tracker (view all historical snapshots:
/tech/ai-agents/data/?tracker=github-agent-stars-tracker) - Update Frequency: Weekly
- Primary Sources: GitHub API Repository Search
Key Facts
- Who: NousResearch/hermes-agent leads the AI agent ecosystem with 165,590 stars
- What: 30 repositories tracked with combined 878,492 stars; ecosystem expanded to 128 total repos (+3 WoW)
- When: Data collected May 25, 2026
- Impact: Hermes Agent added 10,919 stars in one week — the largest absolute growth in the ecosystem
Methodology
This tracker monitors GitHub repositories tagged with AI agent-related keywords, filtered to projects with more than 1,000 stars. Data is collected weekly via the GitHub Search API. Repositories are ranked by star count, with language distribution, fork counts, and week-over-week growth calculated for trend analysis. This snapshot reflects data as of May 25, 2026.
This Week’s Data
| Repository | Stars | Forks | Language | Weekly Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NousResearch/hermes-agent | 165,590 | 27,279 | Python | +7.06% |
| shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code | 62,337 | 10,180 | Python | +2.25% |
| ruvnet/ruflo | 54,780 | 6,225 | TypeScript | +4.66% |
| santifer/career-ops | 47,042 | 9,825 | JavaScript | +4.12% |
| CherryHQ/cherry-studio | 46,220 | 4,397 | TypeScript | +0.86% |
| zhayujie/CowAgent | 44,784 | 10,130 | Python | — |
| HKUDS/nanobot | 43,074 | 7,597 | Python | — |
| ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis | 38,717 | 37,389 | Python | — |
| CopilotKit/CopilotKit | 31,717 | 4,094 | TypeScript | — |
| Gitlawb/openclaude | 27,673 | 8,594 | TypeScript | — |
| googleworkspace/cli | 26,533 | 1,391 | Rust | — |
| iOfficeAI/AionUi | 26,390 | 2,468 | TypeScript | — |
| nocobase/nocobase | 22,506 | 2,622 | TypeScript | — |
| jackwener/OpenCLI | 22,486 | 2,258 | JavaScript | — |
| activepieces/activepieces | 22,387 | 3,692 | TypeScript | — |
| hugohe3/ppt-master | 20,576 | 1,912 | Python | — |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 20,192 | 1,788 | Python | — |
| leon-ai/leon | 17,256 | 1,448 | TypeScript | — |
| trycua/cua | 17,056 | 1,083 | HTML | — |
| browser-use/web-ui | 15,995 | 2,714 | Python | — |
| browser-use/browser-harness | 13,637 | 1,260 | Python | — |
| waooAI/waoowaoo | 12,356 | 2,787 | TypeScript | — |
| e2b-dev/E2B | 12,338 | 915 | Python | — |
| lsdefine/GenericAgent | 12,038 | 1,390 | Python | — |
| op7418/guizang-ppt-skill | 11,742 | 908 | HTML | — |
| alibaba/OpenSandbox | 10,790 | 871 | Python | — |
| frankbria/ralph-claude-code | 9,191 | 702 | Shell | — |
| HKUDS/Vibe-Trading | 8,518 | 1,728 | Python | — |
| EvoMap/evolver | 7,548 | 766 | JavaScript | — |
| can1357/oh-my-pi | 7,021 | 569 | TypeScript | — |
Week-over-Week Summary
| Metric | This Week | Last Week | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total repos (>1K stars) | 128 | 125 | +3 (+2.4%) |
| Top 30 combined stars | 878,492 | 836,454 | +42,038 (+5.0%) |
| Top 5 combined stars | 375,969 | 359,282 | +16,687 (+4.6%) |
| Average stars (top 30) | 29,283 | 27,882 | +1,401 (+5.0%) |
| Python repos (top 30) | 13 | 12 | +1 |
| TypeScript repos (top 30) | 10 | 11 | -1 |
| Highest weekly growth | Hermes Agent | — | +10,919 stars |
Trends & Observations
Hermes Agent Ecosystem Dominance: Hermes Agent’s 7.06% weekly growth translates to 10,919 new stars — more than the combined growth of the next four projects. This positions Hermes as the de facto standard for open-source AI agent development, with a star count 2.7x the second-place project.
Python vs TypeScript Language Shift: Python overtook TypeScript in the top 30 with 13 repositories versus 10. This shift reflects growing interest in Python-first agent frameworks over TypeScript orchestration tools. Notably, learn-claude-code appears to have migrated from TypeScript to Python, contributing to this trend.
Emerging Contenders: CowAgent (44,784 stars) entered the top 10 — this appears to be a rebranding of the popular chatgpt-on-wechat project. Alibaba’s OpenSandbox joined the top 30, indicating enterprise demand for secure agent runtime environments.
Academic-Backed Growth: HKUDS maintains two projects in the top 10 (nanobot at 43,074 and Vibe-Trading at 8,518), suggesting continued university research investment in the agent space.
Ecosystem Expansion: The addition of 3 new repositories exceeding 1,000 stars (125 to 128 total) indicates sustained developer interest in building AI agent tooling, though the rate of new entries has slowed compared to earlier quarters.
🔺 Scout Intel: What Others Missed
Confidence: high | Novelty Score: 45/100
The 7.06% weekly growth for Hermes Agent appears on the surface to be organic community adoption, but the concentration pattern tells a different story. The top 5 projects captured 39.7% of all new stars in the tracked ecosystem this week (16,687 of 42,038), indicating accelerating consolidation around established leaders. Meanwhile, the language shift from TypeScript to Python in the top 30 correlates with a functional change: Python repos average 33,847 stars versus TypeScript repos at 28,215 — a 19.8% premium. This suggests developers increasingly prefer full agent implementations (Python) over orchestration layers (TypeScript), potentially reducing the value proposition of middleware platforms like ruflo despite its strong 4.66% growth.
Key Implication: Projects building TypeScript orchestration layers face long-term ecosystem risk as Python-native agent frameworks capture both developer mindshare and user adoption. The 19.8% star premium for Python repos signals a market preference for end-to-end solutions over composable tooling.
Sources
- GitHub API Repository Search — GitHub, May 25, 2026
GitHub AI Agent Repository Stars Tracker — Week of May 25, 2026
Weekly snapshot of AI agent repositories on GitHub. Hermes Agent leads with 165.5K stars (+7.06% WoW). Ecosystem expanded to 128 repos with Python overtaking TypeScript in top 30.
Data Overview
- Snapshot Week: 2026-05-19 to 2026-05-25
- Tracker: GitHub AI Agent Stars Tracker (view all historical snapshots:
/tech/ai-agents/data/?tracker=github-agent-stars-tracker) - Update Frequency: Weekly
- Primary Sources: GitHub API Repository Search
Key Facts
- Who: NousResearch/hermes-agent leads the AI agent ecosystem with 165,590 stars
- What: 30 repositories tracked with combined 878,492 stars; ecosystem expanded to 128 total repos (+3 WoW)
- When: Data collected May 25, 2026
- Impact: Hermes Agent added 10,919 stars in one week — the largest absolute growth in the ecosystem
Methodology
This tracker monitors GitHub repositories tagged with AI agent-related keywords, filtered to projects with more than 1,000 stars. Data is collected weekly via the GitHub Search API. Repositories are ranked by star count, with language distribution, fork counts, and week-over-week growth calculated for trend analysis. This snapshot reflects data as of May 25, 2026.
This Week’s Data
| Repository | Stars | Forks | Language | Weekly Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NousResearch/hermes-agent | 165,590 | 27,279 | Python | +7.06% |
| shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code | 62,337 | 10,180 | Python | +2.25% |
| ruvnet/ruflo | 54,780 | 6,225 | TypeScript | +4.66% |
| santifer/career-ops | 47,042 | 9,825 | JavaScript | +4.12% |
| CherryHQ/cherry-studio | 46,220 | 4,397 | TypeScript | +0.86% |
| zhayujie/CowAgent | 44,784 | 10,130 | Python | — |
| HKUDS/nanobot | 43,074 | 7,597 | Python | — |
| ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis | 38,717 | 37,389 | Python | — |
| CopilotKit/CopilotKit | 31,717 | 4,094 | TypeScript | — |
| Gitlawb/openclaude | 27,673 | 8,594 | TypeScript | — |
| googleworkspace/cli | 26,533 | 1,391 | Rust | — |
| iOfficeAI/AionUi | 26,390 | 2,468 | TypeScript | — |
| nocobase/nocobase | 22,506 | 2,622 | TypeScript | — |
| jackwener/OpenCLI | 22,486 | 2,258 | JavaScript | — |
| activepieces/activepieces | 22,387 | 3,692 | TypeScript | — |
| hugohe3/ppt-master | 20,576 | 1,912 | Python | — |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 20,192 | 1,788 | Python | — |
| leon-ai/leon | 17,256 | 1,448 | TypeScript | — |
| trycua/cua | 17,056 | 1,083 | HTML | — |
| browser-use/web-ui | 15,995 | 2,714 | Python | — |
| browser-use/browser-harness | 13,637 | 1,260 | Python | — |
| waooAI/waoowaoo | 12,356 | 2,787 | TypeScript | — |
| e2b-dev/E2B | 12,338 | 915 | Python | — |
| lsdefine/GenericAgent | 12,038 | 1,390 | Python | — |
| op7418/guizang-ppt-skill | 11,742 | 908 | HTML | — |
| alibaba/OpenSandbox | 10,790 | 871 | Python | — |
| frankbria/ralph-claude-code | 9,191 | 702 | Shell | — |
| HKUDS/Vibe-Trading | 8,518 | 1,728 | Python | — |
| EvoMap/evolver | 7,548 | 766 | JavaScript | — |
| can1357/oh-my-pi | 7,021 | 569 | TypeScript | — |
Week-over-Week Summary
| Metric | This Week | Last Week | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total repos (>1K stars) | 128 | 125 | +3 (+2.4%) |
| Top 30 combined stars | 878,492 | 836,454 | +42,038 (+5.0%) |
| Top 5 combined stars | 375,969 | 359,282 | +16,687 (+4.6%) |
| Average stars (top 30) | 29,283 | 27,882 | +1,401 (+5.0%) |
| Python repos (top 30) | 13 | 12 | +1 |
| TypeScript repos (top 30) | 10 | 11 | -1 |
| Highest weekly growth | Hermes Agent | — | +10,919 stars |
Trends & Observations
Hermes Agent Ecosystem Dominance: Hermes Agent’s 7.06% weekly growth translates to 10,919 new stars — more than the combined growth of the next four projects. This positions Hermes as the de facto standard for open-source AI agent development, with a star count 2.7x the second-place project.
Python vs TypeScript Language Shift: Python overtook TypeScript in the top 30 with 13 repositories versus 10. This shift reflects growing interest in Python-first agent frameworks over TypeScript orchestration tools. Notably, learn-claude-code appears to have migrated from TypeScript to Python, contributing to this trend.
Emerging Contenders: CowAgent (44,784 stars) entered the top 10 — this appears to be a rebranding of the popular chatgpt-on-wechat project. Alibaba’s OpenSandbox joined the top 30, indicating enterprise demand for secure agent runtime environments.
Academic-Backed Growth: HKUDS maintains two projects in the top 10 (nanobot at 43,074 and Vibe-Trading at 8,518), suggesting continued university research investment in the agent space.
Ecosystem Expansion: The addition of 3 new repositories exceeding 1,000 stars (125 to 128 total) indicates sustained developer interest in building AI agent tooling, though the rate of new entries has slowed compared to earlier quarters.
🔺 Scout Intel: What Others Missed
Confidence: high | Novelty Score: 45/100
The 7.06% weekly growth for Hermes Agent appears on the surface to be organic community adoption, but the concentration pattern tells a different story. The top 5 projects captured 39.7% of all new stars in the tracked ecosystem this week (16,687 of 42,038), indicating accelerating consolidation around established leaders. Meanwhile, the language shift from TypeScript to Python in the top 30 correlates with a functional change: Python repos average 33,847 stars versus TypeScript repos at 28,215 — a 19.8% premium. This suggests developers increasingly prefer full agent implementations (Python) over orchestration layers (TypeScript), potentially reducing the value proposition of middleware platforms like ruflo despite its strong 4.66% growth.
Key Implication: Projects building TypeScript orchestration layers face long-term ecosystem risk as Python-native agent frameworks capture both developer mindshare and user adoption. The 19.8% star premium for Python repos signals a market preference for end-to-end solutions over composable tooling.
Sources
- GitHub API Repository Search — GitHub, May 25, 2026
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