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March 2026 Catchup

Top 25 hottest Claude Code items trending in March 2026.

#1. gstack

Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup — 23 opinionated tools wired up as CEO/Designer/EM/QA personas. Hit ~78k stars from a March 11 creation, the breakout viral template of the month.

viral
git clone https://github.com/garrytan/gstack

#2. claude-code-best/claude-code

Runnable, TS-typed, bun-installable build of Claude Code that emerged hours after the March 31 source leak. ~16.4k stars in <3 weeks.

viral
security
bun install && bun run dev

#3. OpenAI codex-plugin-cc

OpenAI 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.

anthropic
plugin · viral
/plugin install openai/codex-plugin-cc

#4. ai-website-cloner-template

Clone any website with a single Claude Code command — template hit 12k stars in <3 weeks on the back of a viral demo thread.

viral
npx ai-website-cloner

#5. Understand-Anything

Skill that turns any codebase or knowledge base into an interactive knowledge graph from inside Claude Code. ~8.6k stars by mid-April.

skill
memory · viral
git clone https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything

#6. slavingia/skills

Sahil Lavingia's 'Minimalist Entrepreneur' skill pack — opinionated solo-founder workflows. 8k+ stars, broadly forked as a personal-skills starter.

skill
git clone https://github.com/slavingia/skills ~/.claude/skills/slavingia

#7. paoloanzn/free-code

Post-leak 'free build of Claude Code' with telemetry and guardrails stripped — controversial but pulled ~8k stars within days.

viral
security
bun install

#8. NanmiCoder/cc-haha

Cross-platform desktop Claude Code fork that bolts on Computer Use. Spawned in the post-leak rush, 7.2k stars in <3 weeks.

viral
security
git clone https://github.com/NanmiCoder/cc-haha

#9. ARIS — Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep

Markdown-only autonomous ML research skill — overnight idea/experiment/eval loops. Kicked off the March 'autoresearch' wave, 7k+ stars.

skill
git clone into ~/.claude/skills

#10. agency-agents-zh

211 plug-and-play AI expert personas across 18 departments — the Chinese-localized agency pack everyone forked in March.

skill
git clone https://github.com/jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh

#11. claude-code-sourcemap

Annotated sourcemap of the leaked Claude Code internals — 8.95k stars, 14.5k forks in <3 weeks. Anchor of the post-leak research cluster.

viral
security
browse repo

#12. web-access

Three-tier web/CDP/parallel skill that gives Claude Code robust internet access without third-party MCPs. 5.3k+ stars.

skill
git clone into ~/.claude/skills

#13. claude-token-efficient

A single drop-in CLAUDE.md that slashes verbosity on heavy workflows. 4.5k stars in three weeks rode the late-March pricing-pain wave.

cost
viral
cp CLAUDE.md ~/your-project/

#14. codebase-to-course

Skill that converts any codebase into a self-paced interactive HTML course — ~3.9k stars from a single tweet.

skill
viral · education
git clone into ~/.claude/skills

#15. autoresearch

Karpathy-style autonomous goal-directed iteration skill — second hit in the March autoresearch surge with ~3.9k stars.

skill
viral
git clone into ~/.claude/skills

#16. Waza

Engineering habits packaged as runnable Claude skills — code review, debugging, refactor playbooks. 3.6k stars.

skill
viral · review
git clone into ~/.claude/skills

#17. claude-code-book

420k-word Chinese book reverse-engineering Claude Code as an Agent Harness — landed at the post-leak peak with 2.8k stars.

viral
harness · security
browse repo

#18. harness

Meta-plugin that designs domain-specific agent teams and generates their skills on the fly. 2.7k stars in two weeks.

plugin
harness · viral
/plugin install revfactory/harness

#19. cc-gateway

Privacy-preserving reverse-proxy gateway for Claude Code — fingerprint normalization, request rewriting, prompt-leak audit. 2.7k stars.

cost
proxy · viral · security
docker run motiful/cc-gateway

#20. HolyClaude

Dockerized AI coding workstation: Claude Code + 7 sibling CLIs + headless browser + 50+ tools, ready to spin up. 2k stars.

plugin
viral · browser
docker compose up

#21. mcp-brasil

MCP server bundling 41 Brazilian public-data and government APIs (CNPJ, CEP, Receita, BCB) into one install. 1.4k stars.

mcp
viral
pip install mcp-brasil

#22. Claude Plugins Community

Read-only mirror of Anthropic's official curated community plugin marketplace. Submission pipeline at clau.de/plugin-directory-submission.

marketplace
plugin · anthropic
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community

#23. awesome-claude-code-toolkit

Most comprehensive toolkit of the month — 135 agents, 35 skills, 176+ plugins, 14 MCP configs. Heavy March commit cadence.

marketplace
mcp
browse repo

#24. lean-ctx

Rust binary positioning itself as a 99%-cost-cut MCP + shell-hook layer for 24+ coding agents. 695 stars in three weeks.

mcp
cost · viral
cargo install lean-ctx

#25. naksha-studio

Virtual design team plugin — 26 roles, 60 commands, 13.8k lines of curated design knowledge for Claude Code.

design
plugin
/plugin install Adityaraj0421/naksha-studio