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Daily Digest — May 6, 2026

Top 15 hottest Claude Code ecosystem items from the past 72 hours.

Skills for Real Engineers (mattpocock)

62.6k stars. TypeScript educator Matt Pocock distilled his personal .claude directory into a set of composable agent skills that fix four failure modes he sees constantly: misalignment, verbosity, non-functional code, and architecture decay. Key skills: /grill-me (agent interviews you until every branch of the decision tree is resolved), /tdd (red-green-refactor loop, one vertical slice at a time), /to-issues (breaks any PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues), and /caveman (cuts token usage ~75% by stripping filler while keeping full technical accuracy). Works with any model and is designed to be adapted rather than followed prescriptively.

design skill
cost · token · viral · marketplace
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills

agent-skills (addyosmani)

29.7k stars. Google Chrome engineering manager Addy Osmani's production-grade skill set for AI coding agents, built around the insight that "agents are junior engineers who skip non-diff work unless made impossible to skip." Ships 7 slash commands (/spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, /code-simplify, /ship) spanning 20 skills organized across six lifecycle phases. The standout feature: "anti-rationalization tables" that document every excuse agents use to skip steps, paired with documented counter-arguments. Embeds Google engineering principles — Hyrum's Law, test pyramid, Beyonce Rule, Chesterton's Fence, Shift Left, trunk-based development.

design skill
plugin · viral · marketplace · browser
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills && /plugin install agent-skills@addy-agent-skills

Claudian (YishenTu)

10.3k stars. Obsidian plugin that embeds Claude Code, Codex, or Opencode directly inside your vault — the vault becomes the agent's working directory. Inline edit with word-level diff preview, @mention system to reference vault files and subagents, MCP server integration, plan mode (agent designs before implementing), and full multi-tab conversation history with forking and resuming. Requires the Claude Code CLI; macOS/Linux/Windows desktop. The tight integration means AI-generated changes land in your note graph rather than a separate editor.

design
mcp · plugin · viral · marketplace · terminal
Download latest release from GitHub → place in vault/.obsidian/plugins/claudian/ → enable in Obsidian settings

InsForge

8.3k stars. Postgres-based backend platform built from the ground up for AI coding agents: auth, S3-compatible storage, edge functions, compute, model gateway, and site deployment — all exposed through a semantic layer that agents can reason about and operate autonomously. Claude Code connects via a bundled MCP server. Internal benchmarks show agents running 1.6× faster, using 30% fewer tokens, and achieving 1.7× higher task accuracy compared to a standard Supabase setup. Apache 2.0, self-hosted via Docker Compose.

cost mcp
token · viral
git clone https://github.com/insforge/insforge.git && cd insforge && cp .env.example .env && docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up

Anthropic Finance Agents + Microsoft 365

Announced May 5. Anthropic shipped ten ready-to-run agent templates for financial services work — pitch builder, meeting preparer, earnings reviewer, model builder, market researcher, KYC screener, valuation reviewer, general ledger reconciler, month-end closer, and statement auditor. Each template ships as a plugin in Claude Cowork and Claude Code and as a cookbook for Managed Agents, letting teams put Claude on real financial work in days rather than months. Also ships: Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word (Outlook coming soon), where context carries between apps automatically; new data connectors from Dun & Bradstreet, IBISWorld, and Verisk; and a Moody's MCP app covering 600M+ public and private companies.

anthropic mcp
plugin

Claude Code v2.1.129–131

Two releases shipped today (May 6). v2.1.129 (01:40 UTC): `--plugin-url <url>` lets you load a plugin .zip archive from any URL for the current session without cloning the repo; Ctrl+R history picker now searches across ALL projects (not just the current one); `CLAUDE_CODE_PACKAGE_MANAGER_AUTO_UPDATE` enables background Homebrew/WinGet auto-upgrade; plugin manifests: `themes` and `monitors` fields move under `"experimental": {}`. v2.1.131 (07:47 UTC): Fixed VS Code extension failing to activate on Windows due to a hardcoded build path; fixed Mantle endpoint authentication missing `x-api-key` header.

anthropic
plugin

claude-forge (sangrokjung)

660 stars, v3.0.2 shipped May 3. Inspired by oh-my-zsh, claude-forge is an open-source plugin framework that transforms Claude Code from a bare CLI into a structured development environment in 5 minutes: 11 specialized agents, 36 slash commands, 24 skill workflows, 15 automation hooks, and 9 rule files. The distinctive feature is 6-layer security hooks that enforce audit trails, validate tool calls, and prevent destructive actions before they execute — making it one of the few Claude Code frameworks to treat safety as a first-class concern.

skill
plugin · subagent · viral · marketplace · terminal · security
/plugin marketplace add sangrokjung/claude-forge && /plugin install claude-forge

graphify (safishamsi)

36.3k stars. Turns any folder of code, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph wired into Claude Code via a PreToolUse hook — the hook intercepts every search, surfaces the 5–10 most relevant nodes, and injects only those into context. v0.5.0 benchmarks: 70× fewer tokens per search vs brute-force file reads. @charlieautomates has called it the core of their "replaces OpenClaw" context-management stack.

cost
memory · token · viral
uv tool install graphifyy && graphify install
↑ Day 6 — 36.3k stars; @charlieautomates context-management coverage continuing

claw-code (ultraworkers)

185k+ stars, 109k forks — clean-room Rust rewrite of the Claude Code agent harness, initiated April 1 after security researcher Chaofan Shou found the complete 512K-line TypeScript source inside an npm package. Sigrid Jin (world's most active Claude Code user by token count) leads the project. Not affiliated with Anthropic. Active Discord; Rust rewrite actively merging contributors.

viral
harness · anthropic · security
git clone https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code && cd claw-code/rust && cargo build --workspace
↑ Day 6 — 185k+ stars; remains the #1 community fork by a wide margin

obra/superpowers

178k+ stars. Jesse Vincent's structured development methodology for Claude Code — five composable phases: Brainstorm, Design (interactive HTML mockups), Plan (git-worktree task breakdown), Code (parallel subagents with 6-category self-check), and Verify (security audit). Official Anthropic marketplace plugin since January. v5.0.7 current. The most-starred Claude Code plugin on GitHub.

design skill
plugin · anthropic · marketplace · security
/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
↑ Day 3 — 178k+ stars; still #1 by star count in the Claude Code ecosystem

Hermes Agent (NousResearch)

131k+ GitHub stars in ten weeks — faster than LangChain or AutoGPT. NousResearch's self-improving agent creates skills from experience, searches past conversations, and builds persistent user models across sessions. v0.12.0 shipped April 30. Runs Claude via OpenRouter or direct API; includes a Claude Code SKILL.md in the repo.

general
skill
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
↑ Day 3 — 131k stars; self-improving skill loop remains the standout differentiator

claude-code-best-practice (shanraisshan)

47.6k stars — the community's definitive agentic engineering guide: 82+ actionable tips across 11 categories, including 6 tips sourced directly from Boris Cherny (the Anthropic engineer who built Claude Code). Covers subagents, Routines, Ultraplan, Ultrareview, Channels, Devcontainers, Computer Use, hooks, MCP, and context management. The Routines + Managed Agents Memory sections are especially well-maintained.

skill
mcp · agent · memory · context · anthropic · viral
See README
↑ Day 6 — 47.6k stars; Managed Agents Memory section driving fresh traffic

wshobson/agents

34.5k stars — production-grade multi-agent system combining 184 specialized AI agents, 16 orchestrators, 150 skills, and 78 focused single-purpose plugins for Claude Code. Three-tier model strategy built in: Opus for critical reasoning, Sonnet for complex tasks, Haiku for routine operations. Recent additions: PluginEval quality evaluation framework, Agent Teams plugin for parallel workflows, Conductor plugin for context-driven track-based development.

skill
plugin · agent · viral · marketplace
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents
↑ Day 6 — 34.5k stars; PluginEval framework attracting Claude Code power users

awesome-agent-skills (VoltAgent)

20.4k stars. 1,100+ agent skills curated from official engineering teams at Anthropic, Google, Vercel, Stripe, Cloudflare, Netlify, Microsoft (133 skills in 6 languages), Hugging Face, Figma, Trail of Bits, and 20+ more. The pitch: "hand-picked, not AI-slop generated." Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Browse the full catalog at officialskills.sh.

skill
anthropic · viral · terminal
See README (browse at officialskills.sh)
↑ Day 6 — grew from 19.2k to 20.4k stars since May 1; official-team curation differentiating it

last30days-skill (mvanhorn)

24.5k stars. Tell Claude a topic and this skill simultaneously researches it across Reddit, X, YouTube (full transcripts), HN, Polymarket, GitHub, Bluesky, and Perplexity, then synthesizes a grounded summary with upvote-scored community reactions. v3 adds entity resolution (types 'OpenClaw' → resolves to creator, subreddit, relevant hashtags), cross-source cluster merging, and GitHub person-mode (track an individual's commit activity). Created by Matt Van Horn (co-founder of June, acquired by Weber). Works in Claude Code, OpenClaw, and claude.ai.

skill
plugin · anthropic · viral · marketplace
/plugin marketplace add mvanhorn/last30days-skill && /plugin install last30days@last30days-skill
↑ Day 6 — 24.5k stars; cross-source research pattern gaining wide adoption