The week in brief
Behind it, LiteLLM (+877) and OpenAI Codex (+829) followed.
Four new tools joined the directory this week: Stagehand, Playwright MCP, Browser Use and Docker Agent.
On Hacker News, “Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen” drew the most attention in this space (416 points, 196 comments). Among listed tools, Cursor's site was linked from 36 Hacker News stories over the past 90 days, more than any other tool here.
In research, “SoftwareGym: Scaling Computer-Use Agent Training with Diverse Synthesized Software Environments” collected the most upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers this week (67). Among new GitHub repositories created in the past 7 days, franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen leads with 643 stars.
Biggest GitHub star gainers
GitHub star counts for the 52 open source tools we track, compared between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026 (155 hours apart).
| Tool | Stars before | Stars after | Gain | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl | 188,919 | 190,683 | +1,764 | 0.93% |
| LiteLLM | 60,169 | 61,046 | +877 | 1.46% |
| OpenAI Codex | 127,950 | 128,779 | +829 | 0.65% |
| Claude Code | 149,524 | 150,326 | +802 | 0.54% |
| Ollama | 182,263 | 182,840 | +577 | 0.32% |
| Mem0 | 66,622 | 67,031 | +409 | 0.61% |
| vLLM | 93,225 | 93,630 | +405 | 0.43% |
| LangGraph | 42,746 | 43,125 | +379 | 0.89% |
New listings this week
| Tool | Category | Listed |
|---|---|---|
| Stagehand | Dev Tools & Protocols | Oct 11, 2026 |
| Playwright MCP | Dev Tools & Protocols | Oct 11, 2026 |
| Browser Use | Dev Tools & Protocols | Oct 11, 2026 |
| Docker Agent | Agent Frameworks | Oct 08, 2026 |
Most discussed on Hacker News
The highest scoring Hacker News stories in this space during the week.
Listed tools with the most Hacker News links
Hacker News stories linking to each tool's own website over the past 90 days.
Notable new papers
The most upvoted papers on Hugging Face Daily Papers and the newest relevant arXiv preprints from this week.
- SoftwareGym: Scaling Computer-Use Agent Training with Diverse Synthesized Software Environments
- EmbodiedCLBench: Evaluating Continual Learning for Self Evolving Embodied Agents
- ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long Horizon Program Reproduction Agents
- Can AI Agents Learn Their Way to the Top? Evaluating Heuristic Learning in a Long Running Game Agent Competition
- Work2Skill: Capturing Human GUI Experience for Reusable Agent Skill Induction
- RATED: Reliability-Aware AI Agent Tool Retrieval via Execution Dynamics
- X-AgentRed: Red Teaming Personal Agents in Evolving Multi Service Ecosystems
- Ask Your Advisor: Learning When to Consult Stronger Models in Agentic Systems
- Returning to Development States: When Full Sandbox Snapshots Help Coding Agents
- MC-EvoBench: Auditing Experience-Driven Self Improvement in Minecraft Agents
New GitHub repos in AI agents
Repositories created in the 7 days before Oct 12, 2026, ranked by stars.
| Repository | Stars | Language | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen | 643 | Swift | Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT. |
| OrgoAI/bops | 267 | TypeScript | Bops: a team of AI bots that run your business ops, each with its own computer, email and phone number. bops.bot |
| fayazara/robot-heads | 258 | TypeScript | Animated 3D robot heads for React: TV-headed bots with LED faces that show what your agent is doing. |
| aindeev/agent-chrome-relay | 256 | Go | Let your AI agents use your Chrome, signed in as you, in background tabs. By Alexey Indeev · blog: read.aindeev.com · X: @AlexeyIndeev |
| NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins | 216 | Python | ☤ The official plugins for Hermes Agent, built and maintained by Nous Research: Home Assistant, Spotify, Claude Subscription DirectSDK and more, one install away from the Hermes plugin catalog. |
| morluto/awesome-reverse-engineering | 205 | Curated reverse engineering tools and learning resources for binaries, apps, firmware, formats, and protocols. | |
| iamumeransari/claude-show-your-work | 128 | TypeScript | Claude Code shows images and plays videos right in your terminal: screenshots, Playwright recordings, and synced before/after QA. Ghostty & kitty. |
| wousp112/justin-sun-alan-shao-ai-notes | 106 | 孙宇晨 × 邵艾伦 4 小时对谈：全文 + 精华 + 一键丢给 AI 的规划 prompt |
How we compile this report
Every figure comes from a public source: star counts from the GitHub API, story scores and links from Hacker News (via Algolia), papers from arXiv and Hugging Face Daily Papers, and new repositories from GitHub search. Hacker News link counts include stories whose link points to the tool's own domain. Listing dates are the day a tool joined Drydock. Numbers are shown as recorded; if a figure is unavailable, it is left out rather than estimated.