dsh-our-free-model adds 13.3k stars; REA hits 760.6k downloads

Devtoolwatch · Oct 25–31 · No. 1

dsh-our-free-model led with 13.3k new stars, REA added 37.1k stars and 760.6k downloads, and DeepSeek's dsh-superagent debuted.

The Board

The 10 AI dev tools with the most momentum this week, out of 426 with activity among the 868 we track, with the move since last week.

1	NEW	dsh-our-free-model · Inference and training +13.3k stars X posts spread its no-login, no-API-key access to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3, and v2.7.3 and v2.7.4 shipped plugin fixes. release · release · post
2	NEW	magpie · Inference and training +5.9k stars The Claude Code provider switched from claude -p to the Claude Code TUI on Oct 31, announced by its maintainer on X. post
3	NEW	Cindy · Coding agents +4.6k stars It reached GitHub Trending first place on Oct 26, and v0.1.119 to v0.1.121 added a self-hosted relay service and a screenshot tool. release · release · post
4	NEW	Strata · Inference and training +5.2k stars Four releases in a week, 0.2.6 to 0.2.9, added Unsloth's 1-bit DeepSeek, Intel Arc B-series speedups and Strix Halo prompt gains. release · release · release
5	NEW	OpenMausBot · Coding agents +3.6k stars Posts from its maintainer drew 248k views, and releases 0.1.132 to 0.1.136 added team sharing and a cloud option. release · release · post
6	NEW	XERJ · RAG, data and memory +3.3k stars It indexes code, docs, logs and PDFs for agent search; X posts cited its autoindex and a corpus hub for coding agents. post · post
7	▼4	REA · MCP and agent tools +37.1k stars · ~760.6k downloads/wk, +257% vs its 4-week average v6.8.0 added local agent environments built from network captures, and the maintainer's launch post drew 290k views. release · post
8	NEW	edge0 · Inference and training +1.9k stars It streams 35B MoE weights from SSD to run in about 2.5 GB of RAM; an Android-only 0.1.1 shipped Oct 29. release · post
9	NEW	Orca · Coding agents +6.9k stars Releases v1.4.242 to v1.4.245 cut memory use, added Chrome extensions and themes, and a Claude TUI hand-off post drew 64k views. release · release · release
10	NEW	Harness² · Agent frameworks +2.7k stars Posts on agent harnesses, including a Google course and a Steipete post, drew large views; no release or description explains the move. post · post · post

What moved

Tools that put one agent interface over many models and subscriptions filled the board: dsh-our-free-model, magpie, Cindy, OpenMausBot and Orca.

Agent-friendly sandboxes drew download growth: OpenSandbox rose 68% and microsandbox 138% against a typical +9%.

By category

The top three in each category this week. Full lists on the Board.

Inference and training

Three of the top four are tools for running frontier models free or locally: dsh-our-free-model, magpie and Strata.

1.	dsh-our-free-model +13.3k stars
2.	magpie +5.9k stars
3.	Strata +5.2k stars

Coding agents

1.	Cindy +4.6k stars
2.	OpenMausBot +3.6k stars
3.	Orca +6.9k stars

RAG, data and memory

1.	XERJ +3.3k stars
2.	Memvid +630 stars
3.	LEANN +569 stars

MCP and agent tools

1.	REA +37.1k stars · ~760.6k downloads/wk, +257%
2.	ha-mcp +172 stars · 118.1k downloads/wk, +68%
3.	Treg +739 stars · 6.7k downloads/wk, +86%

Agent frameworks

1.	Harness² +2.7k stars
2.	HyperFrames ~1.5M downloads/wk, +67%
3.	AgentScope +1.1k stars · 51.4k downloads/wk, +38%

Evals and observability

1.	SkillSpector +2.3k stars
2.	Judgeval 80.2k downloads/wk, +81%
3.	A.I.G (AI-Infra-Guard) +200 stars

Browser and computer use

1.	ego lite +1.7k stars
2.	Moli +1.4k stars
3.	Cua +547 stars

Voice and realtime

1.	faster-whisper +239 stars · 4.4M downloads/wk, +29%
2.	Kokoro +170 stars · 150.7k downloads/wk, +50%
3.	Chatterbox +274 stars · 73.2k downloads/wk, +44%

Sandboxes and runtimes

OpenSandbox shipped 1.2.0 and downloads rose 68%; microsandbox downloads rose 138% after v0.7.12.

1.	OpenSandbox +206 stars · 328.9k downloads/wk, +68%
2.	microsandbox +91 stars · 26.8k downloads/wk, +138%
3.	E2B +98 stars · ~5M downloads/wk, +20%

Model SDKs and gateways

1.	thinking-orbs +60 stars · ~1.4M downloads/wk, +44%
2.	Headroom +716 stars · 125.8k downloads/wk, +22%
3.	LiteLLM +460 stars · 23.1M downloads/wk, +4%

New on the radar

Repos under 45 days old with the fastest star growth.

dsh-superagent: 7k stars in 1 days. DeepSeek's open-sourced agent that works through a repo's GitHub issues and PRs in parallel; 17 HN points.
Mika: 3.8k stars in 2 days. On-device Android agent that operates apps and the web; its open-source launch post drew 916k views.
pixelfx: 2.5k stars in 2 days. 244 pixel-art effects written as code, plus a Claude Code skill for making more.
Strata: 37.1k stars in 37 days. Local inference engine with one-click Windows and Linux installs, running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer hardware.
Anatomy: 23.3k stars in 24 days. Agent skill that generates interactive isometric SVG illustrations of machines and complex systems.

Skills and plugins

Skill packs and plugins for coding agents, by new stars. Stars here are bookmarks more than usage.

Anatomy: +3.2k stars. Skill that generates isometric SVG illustrations of machines, with optional WebGL shaders.
video-shotcraft: +2k stars. Claude Code and Codex skill for Remotion product videos, with shot recipe cards.
Taste Skill: +4.7k stars. Gives coding agents art direction, reference images and a browser check for design.
geo-sleuth: +812 stars. Skill that locates where a photo was taken using OpenStreetMap, elevation and satellite imagery.
Appllama Skills: +788 stars. Skills that turn top-grossing app patterns into native-quality mobile screens.

Cooling

Hermes Agent: downloads −59% vs its 4-week average while the market moved +9%.
OpenHands: downloads −53% vs its 4-week average while the market moved +9%.
Laminar: downloads −37% vs its 4-week average while the market moved +9%.

How the Board works. We track 868 AI developer tools. Stars come from our daily GitHub snapshots; downloads come from npm and PyPI, this week against each tool's 4-week average. The Momentum score averages four ranks: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads, and download growth beyond the market's +9% this week. A star jump that forks, downloads or Hacker News don't back up is held back (3 this week). Downloads include CI and bots; npm skipped reporting on 9 recent days, which we fill from the same weekdays (marked ~). Every ranked tool has a README badge: get yours. Full Board: index.devtoolwatch.com. Reply to tell us what we missed.

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