Trending in AI: week of October 23, 2026

2026-10-17 to 2026-10-23. Checked October 23, 2026.

Plugin directories, a desktop home for running several coding agents, and shared agent memory topped GitHub this week, while X talked about a local-business software company that rebuilt itself around AI agents.

On GitHub

From GitHub's weekly trending list on October 23, 2026. Star counts are the "stars this week" figure GitHub showed that day, rounded.

1. About 5,600 new stars this weekApache-2.0by Anthropic

   claude-plugins-official anthropics/claude-plugins-official

   Anthropic's official, managed directory of Claude Code plugins.

2. About 9,400 new stars this weekMITby Stably AI

   Orca stablyai/orca

   One place to run and watch a fleet of coding agents with your own subscriptions, on desktop, mobile or a remote machine.

3. About 3,300 new stars this weekMITby akitaonrails (GitHub)

   ai-memory akitaonrails/ai-memory

   Long-term memory for coding agents, so work can be handed off between different agent vendors.

On X

What people were discussing on X. We confirm the underlying story at a real source where there is one and don't repeat numbers from AI-written X summaries.

• Podium rebuilt its local-business software around AI agents. Podium, which serves auto, home service, aesthetics and health businesses, says its AI agents answer calls, respond to leads, book appointments and follow up with customers. Podium (PR Newswire) · On X

Skipped this week: A reverse-engineering repo showing over 100,000 new stars in a week (suspicious spike and legal risk); A software reverse-engineering framework (not relevant to readers); A voice-cloning studio (sensitive use); HyperFrames (already featured in the Oct 17 issue).

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