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Weekly · open-source AI · week 34, 2026

watermarks-remover + 11 more trending open-source AI repos · week 34, 2026

This week's trending open-source AI on GitHub — watermarks-remover, mole, AI, and more: the newest, Hacker News talk, a subfield spotlight, and the fastest-rising, drawn out of the noise.

Newest this week

guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover

Strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks: Unicode text hygiene, statistical rewrite hooks, and C2PA/metadata from PNG/JPEG/SVG/PDF/DOCX/HTML/MD. 12,260 stars already

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Talk of Hacker News

mole

mole is a deep-research agent in Go built around constraints most agents ignore: an enforced budget so it can't spiral, verified quotes so citations actually hold up, and a privacy boundary that keeps local data local. It landed 100 points on Hacker News—a solid pick if you're tired of agents you can't trust

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AI

AI agents are notoriously hard to observe once they hit prod. This unofficial Grafana Agent plugin brings Hermes Agent telemetry into your existing dashboards—no new observability stack required. Written in Python, it's pulling 27 points on Hacker News and worth a look if agent debugging currently means grepping logs

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Subfield spotlight

Dify

Dify (152k+ stars) packs agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and broad model/tool support into a single collaborative workspace. The pitch: build once, then deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted—so teams go prototype to production without rebuilding the stack underneath them

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open-webui

open-webui (148,979★) is a self-hosted, offline-capable UI for local and API-based LLMs. Point it at Ollama or the OpenAI API and get chat, RAG, document handling, and multi-model management—all on infrastructure you own. The go-to pick for teams that can't ship data to third parties

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LangChain

LangChain has grown from a clever LLM-chaining library into the agent engineering platform for Python. Tools, memory, retrieval, orchestration—it's the glue for building agents that actually ship. At 144K stars, it's still the default starting point for most teams going from prototype to production

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Fastest-rising

prime-agent

prime-agent is a self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. Written in TypeScript, it refines its own approach as it runs instead of starting fresh each time. Up +35 stars this week and worth watching if you build persistent agents. https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent

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stablyai/orca

stablyai/orca bills itself as an ADE—an agent development environment for running a fleet of parallel coding agents. Bring your own subscription, no lock-in, and work from desktop or mobile. Built in TypeScript, it added 25 stars this week. Worth a look if you're orchestrating more than one agent at a time: https://github.com/stablyai/orca

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anywhere-labs/deepseek-harness-desktop

anywhere-labs/deepseek-harness-desktop is a TypeScript desktop harness for DeepSeek. It's early-stage but gaining traction, +23 stars in a week. A clean starting point if you're integrating DeepSeek into desktop workflows

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Shipping hard

opencodex

opencodex is a universal provider proxy that decouples OpenAI's Codex CLI/App/SDK and Claude Code from their default models. Point them at Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, or local Ollama instead. TypeScript, and moving fast — 195 commits this past week

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open-city-ai/haidian

open-city-ai/haidian is putting up numbers: 189 commits and 5 PRs this week alone. An open-source HTML project with serious velocity behind it—the kind of pace that usually means something's brewing. Easy to explore, easy to contribute. Catch it before the crowd does: https://github.com/open-city-ai/haidian

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aipoch/open-science

aipoch/open-science is an open-source, model-agnostic AI workbench aimed squarely at scientific discovery—not demos. Bring your own model, run structured experiments, own the stack. Written in TypeScript with serious momentum: 69 commits this week. Worth watching if AI-for-research is your lane. https://github.com/aipoch/open-science

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