Daily · star velocity · 2026-10-19

rea still leads, harness2 jumps to second, and a TV debloater crashes the chart

Today: rea holds first with agent-driven reverse engineering, google-research/harness2 vaults to second, and a no-root Android TV cleanup kit, a Claude Code job-hunt workflow and a watermark-scrubbing text engine fill out the refreshed chart.

Fastest-growing this period

Counts come from GitHub's official stargazers/history endpoint: the stars gained on each day of the window. Project briefs and the reading notes below are editorial additions.

1

morluto/rea : Point your agent at any app and learn how it works
TypeScript
A toolkit that lets your coding agent reverse engineer software without source code: it inspects native binaries through Hopper or Ghidra, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET assemblies and websites, then explains how a feature works with the evidence and the limits behind each conclusion. Analysis runs locally, and the same tools work straight from your terminal.

+15,416
2

google-research/harness2 : Let agents rewrite the prompts, tools and memory around them
Python
A Google Research framework for recursive agent harnessing. At task level it proposes edits, probes them on the same task, then composes a refined harness from behavioral contrasts, weights untouched. A second level keeps an improvement harness that reuses evidence-backed lessons across tasks. Includes OpenCode and Codex executors plus JobBench, LAB and WorkBuddy-Bench.

+6,080
3

MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search : Turn a job listing into tailored application prep
Python
A Claude Code workflow that compares job postings with your profile and helps prepare tailored applications and interviews. Its bundled search tools target Danish job boards, with an extension path for other portals, so check the coverage for your own market.

+3,400
4

Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model : A dsh plugin that puts frontier models one install away, no login or API key
JavaScript
A plugin for the DeepSeek Harness shell: install it and the model picker fills with free frontier models like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3, no login or key needed. Free lanes come straight from OpenCode's Zen and Kilo AI's public gateways, re-pulled every refresh. A local OpenAI-compatible relay port lets other tools call the same models, and usage stats stay on the machine.

+3,178
5

debpalash/VoiceStudio : Try voice design, transcription and dubbing in one workspace
Python
A local audio workspace for voice design, transcription, dubbing and longer narrated projects. Useful for trying several speech workflows with your own material in one application, with engine choice and hardware determining the supported languages and output quality.

+2,364
6

Gathin23/cleanyourtv : Debloat any Android TV over Wi-Fi and swap in a clean launcher
Java
A kit that turns an ad-filled Android TV home screen into a calm, Apple TV style one. Over the same Wi-Fi, its ADB scripts back up the TV, disable telemetry, sponsored rows and preloaded apps without uninstalling anything, then install a tiny launcher with a dock of four apps. A restore script undoes every step, and tested lists ship for Xiaomi, TCL, Sony and more.

+2,156
7

KnifeLemon/Filee : Hold a key, drag a file, drop it on the format you want
C#
A free, open-source file converter with no app window: hold Ctrl (Option on macOS), drag your files, and drop them on the ring of formats that opens at your cursor. It handles 244 formats including Office documents, PDF, e-books, CAD files and 3D models without installing Office or LibreOffice, works fully offline, and saves each result next to the original.

+2,051
8

AhmadHassan-BTed/Turnitout-Humanizer : A rule-based engine that scrubs hidden AI watermarks from documents
HTML
A fully programmatic, rule-based text engine that never calls an LLM. The author says it disrupts the n-gram patterns detectors score, purges invisible zero-width unicode, strips C2PA metadata from documents, and rewrites code comments while leaving logic untouched. It edits docx, LaTeX and markdown in place. How well it holds up is the repo's own claim, not a measured result.

+1,665
9

tangency-labs/solidcraft : Parametric 3D CAD in pure Rust that rebuilds on every edit
Rust
An open-source parametric 3D CAD application written in pure Rust. Sketch with constraints, extrude and fillet through a feature timeline, then change any dimension and watch the whole model rebuild. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux as well as in the browser, and AI agents can model directly through the built-in MCP server.

+1,579
10

stablyai/orca : Compare several coding agents in separate workspaces
TypeScript
A desktop interface for running terminal coding agents in separate Git worktrees. You can compare attempts at the same task and inspect their changes, useful when juggling several experiments would otherwise mean managing many terminals and directories.

+1,468

Ranking window: 2026-10-18 UTC, full day.

What I would look at first

Reading notes updated 2026-10-19; the ranking above preserves its original reporting window.

This edition covers 18 October, the most recent fully settled UTC day. morluto/rea keeps its commanding lead: give it a website, an Electron app, a .NET assembly or a native binary, and your coding agent returns a readable account of how the software works, with the evidence and the limits behind every claim. google-research/harness2 jumps to second, a research framework where agents propose edits to their own harness, probe each edit on the same task and keep only the improvements that hold up.

The middle of the chart is all practical. MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search strings job search, CV tailoring and interview prep into one Claude Code workflow, though its bundled boards lean Danish. Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model fills the DeepSeek Harness picker with free frontier models such as DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3, no key required. debpalash/VoiceStudio keeps voice design, transcription and video dubbing in one local app, and Gathin23/cleanyourtv strips the sponsored rows and preloaded junk off an Android TV over Wi-Fi, no root and fully reversible, leaving an Apple TV style launcher.

The tail rewards a slower read. KnifeLemon/Filee converts 244 formats offline through a ring of choices at your cursor, AhmadHassan-BTed/Turnitout-Humanizer is a rule-based engine that scrubs hidden watermarks and metadata from documents, with its detector-dodging power still the author’s claim rather than a measured result. tangency-labs/solidcraft rebuilds parametric CAD in pure Rust, and stablyai/orca puts several coding agents in separate worktrees so you can compare their attempts side by side. If you try only one today, give cleanyourtv fifteen minutes and reclaim your TV home screen.

rea still leads, harness2 jumps to second, and a TV debloater crashes the chart

Fastest-growing this period

morluto/rea : Point your agent at any app and learn how it works

google-research/harness2 : Let agents rewrite the prompts, tools and memory around them

MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search : Turn a job listing into tailored application prep

Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model : A dsh plugin that puts frontier models one install away, no login or API key

debpalash/VoiceStudio : Try voice design, transcription and dubbing in one workspace

Gathin23/cleanyourtv : Debloat any Android TV over Wi-Fi and swap in a clean launcher

KnifeLemon/Filee : Hold a key, drag a file, drop it on the format you want

AhmadHassan-BTed/Turnitout-Humanizer : A rule-based engine that scrubs hidden AI watermarks from documents

tangency-labs/solidcraft : Parametric 3D CAD in pure Rust that rebuilds on every edit

stablyai/orca : Compare several coding agents in separate workspaces

What I would look at first