Month - Permanent archive

May 2026

Permanent archive for May 2026, ranking tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained during that calendar month from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking data.

Answer capsule

As of June 21, 2026, May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings ranks tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained in the selected period. multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills leads with +6.1k stars, followed by mattpocock/skills and nexu-io/open-design. GitStarClub generates this visible ranking from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking and repository data, without runtime search, a database, or AI. - GitStarClub

Data as of
June 21, 2026
Source
GitStarClub

May 2026

In May 2026, multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills led GitHub with +6,109 stars, ahead of mattpocock/skills and nexu-io/open-design. mattpocock/skills grew fastest, up 10%. 11 repositories first crossed 10,000 stars (e.g. mattpocock/skills, shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice).

Daily movement

Most stars added

May 2026 GitHub repositories by stars gained

  1. 1
    +6.1kUnknown
  2. 2
    +5.8kShell
  3. 3
    +5.1kTypeScript
  4. 4
    +4.5kPython
  5. 5
    +3.5kRust
  6. 6
    +3.4kShell
  7. 7
    +3.2kTypeScript
  8. 8
    +2.9kPython
  9. 9
    affaan-m/ECC218.9k
    +2.8kJavaScript
  10. 10
    +2.7kTypeScript
  11. 11
    ruvnet/ruflo60.4k
    +2.7kTypeScript
  12. 12
    +2.7kRust
  13. 13
    +2.3kRust
  14. 14
    +2.0kPython
  15. 15
    +2.0kShell
  16. 16
    +1.9kPython
  17. 17
    +1.8kUnknown
  18. 18
    +1.8kPython

Fastest growth

May 2026 GitHub repositories by growth rate

  1. 1
    +9.9%Shell
  2. 2
    +6%Shell
  3. 3
    ruvnet/ruflo60.4k
    +5.9%TypeScript
  4. 4
    +5.5%Python
  5. 5
    +5.2%Unknown
  6. 6
    +4.6%Python
  7. 8
    +4.2%Rust
  8. 9
    +4.1%Python
  9. 10
    +4%Python

Newcomers

May 2026 GitHub repositories crossing 10k stars

  1. 10k crossing day: May 15, 2026Shell
  2. 10k crossing day: May 23, 2026HTML
  3. 10k crossing day: May 9, 2026Python
  4. 10k crossing day: May 2, 2026TypeScript
  5. 10k crossing day: May 4, 2026Ruby
  6. 10k crossing day: May 14, 2026Python
  7. 10k crossing day: May 11, 2026TypeScript
  8. 10k crossing day: May 2, 2026Python
  9. 10k crossing day: May 14, 2026Unknown
  10. 10k crossing day: May 17, 2026TypeScript

Complete ranking

Complete May 2026 GitHub repository rankings

  1. 1
    +6.1kUnknown
  2. 2
    +5.8kShell
  3. 3
    +5.1kTypeScript
  4. 4
    +4.5kPython
  5. 5
    +3.5kRust
  6. 6
    +3.4kShell
  7. 7
    +3.2kTypeScript
  8. 8
    +2.9kPython
  9. 9
    affaan-m/ECC218.9k
    +2.8kJavaScript
  10. 10
    +2.7kTypeScript
  11. 11
    ruvnet/ruflo60.4k
    +2.7kTypeScript
  12. 12
    +2.7kRust
  13. 13
    +2.3kRust
  14. 14
    +2.0kPython
  15. 15
    +2.0kShell
  16. 16
    +1.9kPython
  17. 17
    +1.8kUnknown
  18. 18
    +1.8kPython
  19. 19
    +1.7kPython
  20. 20
    +1.7kShell
  21. 22
    +1.6kTypeScript
  22. 24
    +1.5kPython
  23. 25
    +1.5kTypeScript
  24. 26
    +1.5kTypeScript
  25. 27
    rtk-ai/rtk64.0k
    +1.5kRust
  26. 28
    +1.5kRust
  27. 29
    +1.5kPython
  28. 30
    +1.4kRust
  29. 31
    antirez/ds414.7k
    +1.4kC
  30. 32
    +1.4kJavaScript
  31. 33
    +1.3kPython
  32. 34
    +1.3kTypeScript
  33. 35
    +1.3kPython
  34. 36
    +1.3kTypeScript
  35. 37
    +1.2kPython
  36. 38
    +1.2kUnknown
  37. 39
    +1.2kPython
  38. 40
    +1.2kTypeScript
  39. 41
    +1.2kJavaScript
  40. 42
    +1.2kPython
  41. 43
    +1.1kPython
  42. 45
    +1.1kShell
  43. 46
    +1.1kHTML
  44. 47
    +1.0kPython
  45. 49
    +1.0kGo
  46. 51
    +935TypeScript
  47. 52
    +924Rust
  48. 53
    +914Python
  49. 54
    +902Python
  50. 55
    +860JavaScript
  51. 57
    +836Markdown
  52. 58
    +820Python
  53. 59
    +815TypeScript
  54. 60
    +810TypeScript
  55. 61
    +772TeX
  56. 62
    +768JavaScript
  57. 63
    openai/codex92.2k
    +765Rust
  58. 65
    +754TypeScript
  59. 67
    +746Java
  60. 68
    +741Swift
  61. 70
    +713TypeScript
  62. 71
    +713Go
  63. 72
    +704Python
  64. 73
    +701JavaScript
  65. 74
    +700TypeScript
  66. 75
    +697TypeScript
  67. 76
    +692HTML
  68. 77
    +669TypeScript
  69. 78
    +668TypeScript
  70. 79
    yt-dlp/yt-dlp172.1k
    +650Python
  71. 80
    +637Python
  72. 82
    +632JavaScript
  73. 83
    +612Python
  74. 84
    +609Python
  75. 85
    +607Python
  76. 86
    +604Go
  77. 87
    +601C++
  78. 90
    +596TypeScript
  79. 91
    +580Python
  80. 92
    +553Elixir
  81. 93
    +553Ruby
  82. 94
    +551Unknown
  83. 95
    +549Python
  84. 96
    +545Python
  85. 97
    +539JavaScript
  86. 98
    +537Python
  87. 100
    +533Rust

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Frequently asked questions

What does May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings rank?

As of June 21, 2026, May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings ranks tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained in the selected period.

Which repository leads May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings?

multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills leads May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings with +6.1k stars.

Who follows multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills in May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings?

mattpocock/skills appears next in the visible ranking with +5.8k stars.

Does May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings use live database queries?

No. GitStarClub renders May 2026 GitHub Star Rankings from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking and repository data.