+26,901 stars put deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness at the top of this week's Velocity Report, nearly twice the gain of the runner-up.
This is MrKeyoor's own weekly tracking across 300+ reviewed repositories, measuring week-over-week star growth.
The board — week of 25 Aug 2026
| # | Repo | Stars gained | Total stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deepseek-harness | +26,901 | 191,949 |
| 2 | skills | +13,992 | 235,374 |
| 3 | codex | +10,588 | 117,020 |
| 4 | OpenLogi | +7,273 | 15,852 |
| 5 | deepseek-harness-desktop | +6,899 | 19,662 |
| 6 | public-apis | +6,671 | 469,881 |
| 7 | MoneyPrinterTurbo | +6,280 | 115,957 |
| 8 | ponytail | +4,969 | 109,739 |
| 9 | OmniRoute | +4,702 | 54,561 |
| 10 | orca | +4,656 | 52,989 |
Why they are moving
1. deepseek-harness — DeepSeek Harness is drawing developers toward a local, flexible coding-agent runtime with model adapters, tools, sessions, and approval controls.
2. skills — Matt Pocock's plain-text skills offer coding agents repeatable workflows at a time when teams want more reliable behavior.
3. codex — Codex continues climbing as developers adopt local agents that can inspect, edit, run commands, and verify work end to end.
4. OpenLogi — OpenLogi addresses a clear need for configuring Logitech hardware locally without relying on the vendor's larger software suite.
5. deepseek-harness-desktop — DeepSeek Harness momentum is spilling into desktop packaging, with users seeking a convenient local interface around the official runtime.
6. public-apis — Public APIs remains a practical discovery tool, and its broad curated catalog keeps attracting developers looking for usable integrations.
7. MoneyPrinterTurbo — MoneyPrinterTurbo benefits from sustained interest in automating short-video production from a simple topic or script.
8. ponytail — Ponytail's reuse-first approach resonates with developers who want coding agents to solve problems without expanding codebases unnecessarily.
9. OmniRoute — OmniRoute simplifies a fragmented model market by giving coding tools one local endpoint for multiple providers and subscriptions.
10. orca — Orca is gaining attention by making parallel coding-agent work easier to organize through isolated Git worktrees and a desktop workspace.
The pattern
This week's list is led by coding-agent infrastructure, workflows, and orchestration tools, while local desktop utilities and creator automation form a smaller secondary cluster.
Methodology: mrkeyoor.com snapshots star counts for every repo it has reviewed and computes week-over-week deltas from baselines at least 5 days old. Full reviews with scorecards: the repo board.