# Trending agent skills this week > The agent skills gaining GitHub stars fastest right now, led by Ponytail, Ponytail Review and Improve Codebase Architecture. Ranked by growth since launch: average GitHub stars per day since the repository was created, weighted toward projects launched in the last 180 days. appsgit now records daily star snapshots, and this list switches to stars gained this week once a week of history exists. Updated Oct 7, 2026. - [Ponytail](https://appsgit.com/skills/dietrichgebert-ponytail): Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most minimal. (156,966 stars, MIT, ~1,340 stars/day since launch) - [Ponytail Review](https://appsgit.com/skills/dietrichgebert-ponytail-review): Code review focused exclusively on over-engineering. (156,966 stars, MIT, ~1,340 stars/day since launch) - [Improve Codebase Architecture](https://appsgit.com/skills/mattpocock-improve-codebase-architecture): Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick. (278,361 stars, MIT, ~1,133 stars/day since launch) - [TDD](https://appsgit.com/skills/mattpocock-tdd): Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests. (278,361 stars, MIT, ~1,133 stars/day since launch) - [Golang Testing](https://appsgit.com/skills/affaan-m-golang-testing): Go testing patterns including table-driven tests, subtests, benchmarks, fuzzing, and test coverage. (274,402 stars, MIT, ~1,047 stars/day since launch) - [Accessibility](https://appsgit.com/skills/affaan-m-accessibility): Design, implement, and audit accessible UI to WCAG 2.2 Level AA across Web, iOS, and Android — semantic ARIA roles and labels, accessibility traits and hints, focus management, contrast, target… (274,402 stars, MIT, ~1,047 stars/day since launch) - [Clinical Case Report](https://appsgit.com/skills/nexu-io-clinical-case-report): Structured medical case presentation for clinical rounds, conferences, and documentation. (99,748 stars, Apache-2.0, ~616 stars/day since launch) - [Critique](https://appsgit.com/skills/nexu-io-critique): Run a 5-dimension expert design review on any HTML artifact in the project — Philosophy / Visual hierarchy / Detail / Functionality / Innovation, each scored 0–10. (99,748 stars, Apache-2.0, ~616 stars/day since launch) - [Karpathy Guidelines](https://appsgit.com/skills/multica-ai-karpathy-guidelines): Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. (217,301 stars, MIT, ~859 stars/day since launch) - [Safe Refactor](https://appsgit.com/skills/juliusbrussee-safe-refactor): Restructure code while preserving behavior. (110,252 stars, Apache-2.0, ~593 stars/day since launch) - [Surgical Patch](https://appsgit.com/skills/juliusbrussee-surgical-patch): Fix bugs and small behavior changes at the narrowest responsible layer. (110,252 stars, Apache-2.0, ~593 stars/day since launch) - [Autoplan](https://appsgit.com/skills/garrytan-autoplan): Auto-review pipeline — reads the full CEO, design, eng, and DX review skills from disk and runs them sequentially with auto-decisions using 6 decision principles. (135,577 stars, MIT, ~648 stars/day since launch) - [Design Consultation](https://appsgit.com/skills/garrytan-design-consultation): Design consultation: understands your product, researches the landscape, proposes a complete design system (aesthetic, typography, color, layout, spacing, motion), and generates font+color preview... (135,577 stars, MIT, ~648 stars/day since launch) - [Archify](https://appsgit.com/skills/tt-a1i-archify): Create polished, validated architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle/state diagrams as explorable standalone HTML with inline SVG, dark/light themes, optional trace motion, and… (78,772 stars, MIT, ~450 stars/day since launch) - [Brainstorming](https://appsgit.com/skills/obra-brainstorming): You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. (296,071 stars, MIT, ~817 stars/day since launch) - [Systematic Debugging](https://appsgit.com/skills/obra-systematic-debugging): Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes. (296,071 stars, MIT, ~817 stars/day since launch) - [Computer Use](https://appsgit.com/skills/stablyai-computer-use): Drives the GUI of a visible local app window through orca computer: accessibility tree, clicks, typing, menus, dialogs, and screenshots in native apps and external browser windows (Chrome, Edge… (86,634 stars, MIT, official, ~425 stars/day since launch) - [Orca Emulator](https://appsgit.com/skills/stablyai-orca-emulator): iOS Simulator control from inside Orca, with the live device view in Orca's emulator pane. (86,634 stars, MIT, official, ~425 stars/day since launch) - [Understand](https://appsgit.com/skills/egonex-ai-understand): Analyze a codebase to produce an interactive knowledge graph for understanding architecture, components, and relationships. (85,457 stars, MIT, ~415 stars/day since launch) - [Understand Chat](https://appsgit.com/skills/egonex-ai-understand-chat): Use when you need to ask questions about a codebase or understand code using a knowledge graph. (85,457 stars, MIT, ~415 stars/day since launch) - [Code Review And Quality](https://appsgit.com/skills/addyosmani-code-review-and-quality): Conducts multi-axis code review. Use before merging any change. (102,166 stars, MIT, ~438 stars/day since launch) - [Security And Hardening](https://appsgit.com/skills/addyosmani-security-and-hardening): Hardens code against vulnerabilities. Use when auditing an input handler for vulnerabilities, when handling user input, authentication, data storage, or external integrations, or when checking a… (102,166 stars, MIT, ~438 stars/day since launch) - [Game Automation](https://appsgit.com/skills/rehan-remade-game-automation): Launch, see and drive a real game so an agent can test its own mods. (4,718 stars, MIT, ~337 stars/day since launch) - [Game Recon](https://appsgit.com/skills/rehan-remade-game-recon): Figure out how a specific installed game can be modded, before writing any mod code. (4,718 stars, MIT, ~337 stars/day since launch) --- Canonical page: https://appsgit.com/skills/trending Source: appsgit (https://appsgit.com), the app store for github. Data from the GitHub API, refreshed nightly. Machine access: JSON API https://appsgit.com/api/v1/apps (OpenAPI: https://appsgit.com/openapi.json), MCP server https://mcp.appsgit.com/mcp, full index https://appsgit.com/llms-full.txt.