Top 87 hottest items from Jan 1 through today. Deduped across 4 months.
Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17 — Opus 4.7-powered tool that generates prototypes, slides, and one-pagers from prompts while reading your codebase and design files to apply your design system. Research preview for Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise; Figma stock dropped 7.28% on launch day.
Available at claude.ai (Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise)Reasoning-based vulnerability scanner that found 500+ zero-days in production OSS, now in limited preview for Enterprise/Team and OSS maintainers.
Available via claude.ai/code (Enterprise/Team waitlist)Floating macOS pager for Claude Code: see what agents are doing, respond by voice, and never miss a permission prompt. 100% Swift, zero dependencies, fully local, no telemetry — hit #6 on Product Hunt daily on April 15 with 220 upvotes.
brew install --cask cc-beeperTrending since March 2026. Skill that turns any codebase or knowledge base into an interactive knowledge graph from inside Claude Code. ~8.6k stars by mid-April.
git clone https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-AnythingDesktop mascot companion that watches your Claude Code agents and shows speech bubbles for permission requests — ships with Clippy and community mascots, or generate custom ones at masko.ai. Free, MIT-licensed, 100% local.
Download DMG from masko.aiAnthropic clarifies that Free/Pro/Max OAuth tokens cannot be used in third-party tools (incl. its own Agent SDK) — ending the OpenClaw-era subscription resale loophole.
n/aNicholas Carlini's parallel-Claude experiment: Opus 4.6 + agent teams produced a dependency-free Rust C compiler that boots Linux on x86/ARM/RISC-V.
git clone https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compilerVirtual design team plugin — 26 roles, 60 commands, 13.8k lines of curated design knowledge for Claude Code.
/plugin install Adityaraj0421/naksha-studioRust CLI proxy that strips noise from dev-command output before it hits the model — claims 60-90% token reduction. ~30k stars from Jan 22.
brew install rtk"Why use many token when few token do trick" — the viral meme-skill (39.7k stars) that cuts ~65–75% output tokens and ~46% input tokens while preserving technical accuracy. Arjan Brussee's LinkedIn post spawned 30+ comments; launched on Product Hunt this week.
claude plugin marketplace add JuliusBrussee/caveman && claude plugin install caveman@cavemanTrending since February 2026. MCP server (11.7k stars, v2.3.2 Apr 14) that builds an AST knowledge graph with tree-sitter + SQLite, delivering 6.8× fewer tokens on code reviews and up to 49× on daily tasks. Plugs straight into Claude Code's MCP config with a single pip install.
pip install code-review-graph && code-review-graph install && code-review-graph buildPlugin (46k+ stars, gained 3k in a single day) that auto-captures sessions, compresses them with the Claude Agent SDK, and injects relevant context at the start of the next session. Uses SQLite + Chroma vector search; cross-platform.
npx claude-mem installSame Opus 4.6 weights, ~2.5× faster output tokens/sec, priced 6× standard — toggle with /fast in Claude Code v2.1.36+.
Inside Claude Code: /fast (then Tab to toggle)Six months of free Claude Max 20x ($1,200 value) for up to 10,000 OSS maintainers of repos with 5K+ stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads.
Apply at claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-ossVisual UI for Claude Code session logs — turn-based context, compaction visualization, subagent execution trees, token-usage observability.
git clone https://github.com/matt1398/claude-devtoolsA single drop-in CLAUDE.md that slashes verbosity on heavy workflows. 4.5k stars in three weeks rode the late-March pricing-pain wave.
cp CLAUDE.md ~/your-project/Privacy-preserving reverse-proxy gateway for Claude Code — fingerprint normalization, request rewriting, prompt-leak audit. 2.7k stars.
docker run motiful/cc-gatewayFree router connecting Claude Code, Cursor and Cline to 40+ providers and 100+ models, auto-switching tiers when quotas die. ~2.7k stars.
npm install -g 9routerAnthropic's Jan 12 research preview — Claude Code for knowledge workers. Direct permission-based access to local files from the macOS app.
# macOS desktop app — enable from claude.ai settingsFirst Opus-class model with a 1M-token context window plus 'agent teams' that let multiple Claude Code agents work in parallel — released Feb 5.
claude --model claude-opus-4-6New default Sonnet at $3/$15 per MTok hits 79.6% on SWE-bench Verified with 1M-token context — released Feb 17.
claude --model claude-sonnet-4-6Released April 16: 87.6% SWE-bench in new xhigh effort mode, 98.5% visual acuity, 3.75MP images (3× higher than Opus 4.6), and /ultrareview for parallel multi-agent cloud code review. Price unchanged at $5/M input, $25/M output; Auto mode now available to Max subscribers.
VoltAgent's curated registry — 5,400+ OpenClaw skills filtered from 13,729 candidates. Jan 25 launch pulled ~47k stars.
clawhub install <skill-slug>Xcode ships native Claude Agent SDK integration — subagents, background tasks, plugins, and Preview-based visual verification for iOS/macOS/visionOS.
Update Xcode to 26.3 → Settings → Accounts → ClaudeOpenAI ships an official Claude Code plugin — call Codex from inside CC for review or delegation. Cross-vendor moment of the month, 15.2k stars in ~3 weeks.
/plugin install openai/codex-plugin-ccFour releases in four days (Apr 15–18): CLI now spawns a native binary instead of bundled JS, sandbox network domain blocking, OSC 8 clickable URLs in terminal, /tui fullscreen mode, push notifications, /less-permission-prompts skill, and plan files auto-named after the prompt.
Installable library of 1,400+ agentic skills covering Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Antigravity. ~34k stars from Jan 14.
npx antigravity-awesome-skillsCowork desktop reaches Windows with full feature parity — file access, MCP connectors, plugins — opening Anthropic's autonomous agent to ~70% of desktops.
Download Claude Desktop for Windows → switch to Cowork modeTeams-first multi-agent orchestration layer for Claude Code. ~30k stars since its Jan 9 release.
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecodeSeattle computer-use startup behind Vy joins Anthropic to advance Claude's desktop automation; Vercept product sunset March 25.
n/aSahil Lavingia's 'Minimalist Entrepreneur' skill pack — opinionated solo-founder workflows. 8k+ stars, broadly forked as a personal-skills starter.
git clone https://github.com/slavingia/skills ~/.claude/skills/slavingiaTemplate-aware slide co-author lands on the $20/mo Pro tier — read existing decks, edit with brand-respecting precision, generate full structures from a prompt.
PowerPoint → Get Add-ins → search 'Claude'Research skill that pulls 30-day signal from Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket and the web into a grounded summary. ~23k stars from Jan 23.
/plugin marketplace add mvanhorn/last30days-skillJoint Center of Excellence to build Claude-powered agents for telecom, financial services, manufacturing, and software dev in regulated industries.
n/aStatusline plugin showing context usage, active tools, running agents and todo progress. ~20k stars since Jan 2.
/plugin marketplace add jarrodwatts/claude-hud10 department plugin packs + 12 new MCP connectors (Google Workspace, DocuSign, FactSet, Harvey…) and a 'Customize' admin UI for private internal marketplaces.
Cowork → /plugin → Discover → Customize (Team/Enterprise)Markdown-only autonomous ML research skill — overnight idea/experiment/eval loops. Kicked off the March 'autoresearch' wave, 7k+ stars.
git clone into ~/.claude/skillsSkill that implements Manus-style persistent markdown planning — the workflow pattern behind the $2B acquisition. ~19k stars from Jan 3.
npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files --skill planning-with-files -gAnthropic's first official vertical plugin pack — ~7.7K stars, MCP-backed integrations for finserv workflows like equity research and compliance review.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/financial-services-plugins211 plug-and-play AI expert personas across 18 departments — the Chinese-localized agency pack everyone forked in March.
git clone https://github.com/jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zhJim Liu's content + image-gen skill bundle — infographics, slides, social publishing, nine image providers. ~15k stars from Jan 13.
npx skills add jimliu/baoyu-skillsThree-tier web/CDP/parallel skill that gives Claude Code robust internet access without third-party MCPs. 5.3k+ stars.
git clone into ~/.claude/skillsZero-setup harness that auto-generates multi-agent topologies for long-running workflows. ~10k stars since Jan 12.
git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive.git && cd hive && ./quickstart.shOpen-source marketplace index with 423 plugins, 2,849 skills, and 177 agents (2k+ stars). The ccpi CLI lets you search and install anything from the index with a single command.
pnpm add -g @intentsolutionsio/ccpi && ccpi install [plugin-name]Trail of Bits ships 40+ security skills — smart-contract scanners, YARA authoring, Android APK checks, differential code audits. ~4.7k stars.
/plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skillsSkill that converts any codebase into a self-paced interactive HTML course — ~3.9k stars from a single tweet.
git clone into ~/.claude/skillsCurated list of 40+ Claude Code plugins (1.4k stars) led by connect-apps — a flagship plugin with 500+ integration connectors — plus frontend-design, CCHub, and other high-signal picks.
See READMEAnthony Fu's curated skills — Vue, Nuxt, Vite, Vitest, Pinia, UnoCSS, pnpm — hand-tuned plus generated from upstream docs. ~4.6k stars.
pnpx skills add antfu/skills --skill='*'Karpathy-style autonomous goal-directed iteration skill — second hit in the March autoresearch surge with ~3.9k stars.
git clone into ~/.claude/skillsFull dev lifecycle plugin suite (413 stars): 7 core plugins covering planning through deployment, plus three MCP servers (hex-line, hex-graph, hex-ssh) for graph visualization and remote SSH sessions inside Claude Code.
/plugin marketplace add levnikolaevich/claude-code-skillsComposio's open-source take on Claude Cowork with 500+ SaaS integrations. Shipped Jan 13, day after Anthropic's preview.
git clone https://github.com/ComposioHQ/open-claude-cowork.git && cd open-claude-cowork && ./setup.shEngineering habits packaged as runnable Claude skills — code review, debugging, refactor playbooks. 3.6k stars.
git clone into ~/.claude/skills24k lines of docs, 228 templates, 271 quiz questions and a built-in MCP server you can point Claude Code at. ~3.7k stars from Jan 9.
npx -y claude-code-ultimate-guide-mcpResearch assistant covering ideation → literature → experiments → writing, with Zotero and Obsidian integrations. ~3.4k stars.
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar/main/scripts/setup.sh)20+ composable skills enforcing clarify→design→plan→code→verify discipline — exploded to 55K+ stars in Feb after Anthropic accepted it into the official marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplaceMeta-plugin that designs domain-specific agent teams and generates their skills on the fly. 2.7k stars in two weeks.
/plugin install revfactory/harnessAddy Osmani (Google) drops production-grade engineering skills compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, and Antigravity — ~18K stars in weeks.
git clone https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/addyosmaniPuts up to 8 models on every coding task so blind spots surface before you ship. Plugin form, ~2.8k stars from Jan 15.
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus.gitMatt Pocock's personal `.claude/skills` directory becomes the most-cloned creator-driven skill collection of the month — ~16.5K stars.
git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills ~/.claude/skills/mattpocockDockerized AI coding workstation: Claude Code + 7 sibling CLIs + headless browser + 50+ tools, ready to spin up. 2k stars.
docker compose up754 cybersecurity skills mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF — riding the Claude Code Security wave to ~5K stars.
git clone https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills ~/.claude/skills/cybersecMCP server bundling 41 Brazilian public-data and government APIs (CNPJ, CEP, Receita, BCB) into one install. 1.4k stars.
pip install mcp-brasilSpec-driven harness — interview, seed, execute, evaluate, evolve — with nine specialized agents and 3-stage evaluation gates. ~2.4k stars.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Q00/ouroboros/main/scripts/install.sh | bashRead-only mirror of Anthropic's official curated community plugin marketplace. Submission pipeline at clau.de/plugin-directory-submission.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-communityRust TUI + web dashboard for managing many Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex sessions via tmux and git worktrees. ~1.6k stars.
brew install aoePersistent agent memory MCP server in Go + SQLite — tools for store/recall/forget across sessions, riding Feb's memory-layer wave.
go install github.com/Gentleman-Programming/engram@latestMost comprehensive toolkit of the month — 135 agents, 35 skills, 176+ plugins, 14 MCP configs. Heavy March commit cadence.
browse repoMCP server that learns codebase patterns and remembers decisions across sessions. Offline CLI, works in any IDE. ~780 stars from Jan 19.
# MCP — see repo README for server configClaude Code plugin that sandboxes tool output via PreToolUse/PostToolUse hooks — claims 98% context-window reduction across 12 platforms.
/plugin install mksglu/context-modeRust binary positioning itself as a 99%-cost-cut MCP + shell-hook layer for 24+ coding agents. 695 stars in three weeks.
cargo install lean-ctxFuzzingLabs' collection of MCP servers wiring offensive tools — Nmap, Ghidra, Nuclei, SQLMap, Hashcat — into AI assistants. ~525 stars.
git clone https://github.com/FuzzingLabs/mcp-security-hubParallel coding-agent orchestrator from Composio — coordinates Claude Code subagents on CI fixes and merge-conflict resolution. ~6.4K stars.
npx @composio/agent-orchestrator init