Ranking AI Agents by GitHub Star Velocity
Longjumping-Ice5233 · reddit · 2026-07-15
The author stopped ranking AI agent tools by total GitHub stars, switching to **star velocity** to better identify projects gaining traction right now. Their scoring system combines: - 24-hour and 7-day star growth - Percentile ranking across sources - Time decay, to prevent old hype from dominating the charts - Cross-validation between GitHub and the MCP registry to filter out one-off spikes and fake stars They also mention that the StarScout paper revealed a massive amount of fake GitHub stars, making total stars misleading. The fastest-growing projects currently include: - **codex-model-routing-team**: 1 day old, 107★, routes parallel Codex tasks to background workers and allows model specification per worker - **pilotfish**: multi-model orchestration for Claude Code - **motion-anything**: one of the fastest-growing projects The author notes that recently, truly high-growth projects aren't focused on "more agents," but rather on **routing, orchestration, and cost control**.
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