Reverse Engineering and AI Agent Tools Dominate GitHub's Daily Trending Chart
The chart shows where open-source energy is flowing: reverse engineering, AI-assisted development, and local-first tools dominate the daily growth curve. Developers can expect more mature tooling for both pulling software apart and building with AI agents, from static recompilation of console games to self-hosted control panels for coding assistants.
GitHub's daily trending chart for November 9, 2026 tracks 20 projects by 24-hour star increments, and the top three pull in over 8,000 stars combined. First is REA, a TypeScript reverse-engineering framework built on a pluggable MCP architecture, adding 3,005 stars. Sherlock follows with 2,972 for its Python-based username enumeration across more than 400 social networks. Third is Craft Anything, a pure Rust engine that analyzes any website or app and uses AI to generate compilable clones, up 2,062 in its early Alpha stage.
The list spans a wide range of domains. Meta's Astryx design system, born from eight years of internal practice across 13,000+ apps, entered beta with 150+ accessible components and a CLI. Two independent projects, Hookshot and NX2navi, statically recompile The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time from Switch 2 to native Windows/Linux binaries using Vulkan, while Lichii offers an experimental C++ Switch emulator. AI-assisted coding tools are heavily represented: t3code provides a unified control panel for managing multiple coding agents, Google's Elephant-Goldfish Model reviews design specs, and Cloudflare's security-audit-skill runs a six-stage vulnerability audit.
Other notable entries include VoiceStudio, a fully local voice cloning tool supporting 646 languages, cleanyourtv for de-bloating Android TV via ADB without root, and two "skills" repositories from Anthropic and Matt Pocock that package reusable instructions for Claude and Codex. Mister Download Manager, written in pure Rust, claims 5x faster downloads than IDM and includes BitTorrent support. A free-model plugin promises unlimited access to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3 with no login or API key.
The joint presence of reverse engineering tools and AI coding assistants points to a community that wants both to build with AI and to take existing software apart on its own terms.
Two independent static recompilation projects for the same Switch 2 game surfaced in one 24-hour window, suggesting a shift toward native code recreation as a complement to emulation.
Two separate 'skills' repositories, one from Anthropic and one from a prominent TypeScript educator, indicate that AI agent workflows are becoming shareable and composable rather than monolithic prompts.