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How Claude Code Works

Deep dive into Claude Code internals — architecture, agent loop, context engineering, and more. / 深入解析 Claude Code 源码:架构、Agent 循环、上下文工程、工具系统等

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#1

Claude Code From Scratch

Similarity 154Trust 94Excellent 100

Build your own Claude Code from scratch. 🔍 Claude Code 开源了 50 万行代码,读不动?用 ~4000 行 TypeScript / Python 从零复现核心架构,11 章分步教程带你理解 coding agent 精髓

1.4K starsMay 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add Windy3f3f3f3f/claude-code-from-scratch
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Hermes Agent

Similarity 144Trust 96Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

192K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
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Nanobot

Similarity 144Trust 93Excellent 100

Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.

44K starsJun 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot
#4

Claude Devtools

Similarity 139Trust 91Excellent 100

The missing DevTools for Claude Code — inspect session logs, tool calls, token usage, subagents, and context window in a visual UI. Free, open source.

3.6K starsMay 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add matt1398/claude-devtools
#5

Learn Claude Code

Similarity 136Trust 95Excellent 100

Bash is all you need - A nano claude code–like 「agent harness」, built from 0 to 1

67K starsJun 15, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code
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Zcf

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Zero-Config Code Flow for Claude code & Codex

6.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add UfoMiao/zcf
#7

AI Coding Guide Zh

Similarity 132Trust 94Excellent 100

Claude Code + OpenClaw + Codex 中文教程 | 36篇完整教程 | 18万字 | 三线学习路径 | 小白到企业实战

4.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushagent-frameworksAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add KimYx0207/AI-Coding-Guide-Zh
#8

Claude Code Source Code

Similarity 132Trust 83Strong 82

Claude code source code

916 starsMay 21, 2026 pushagent-frameworksAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add 777genius/claude-code-source-code
#9

Fulling

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Fulling is an AI-powered Full-stack Engineer Agent. Built with Next.js, Claude, shadcn/ui, and PostgreSQL. Use kubernetes as infra.

2.4K starsMay 22, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add FullAgent/fulling
#10

Nexu

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

The simplest desktop client for OpenClaw 🦞 — bridge your Agent to WeChat, Feishu, Slack & Discord in one click. Works with Claude Code, Codex & any LLM. BYOK, Oauth, local-first, chat from your phone 24/7.

3.1K starsApr 26, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add nexu-io/nexu
#11

Obsidian Second Brain

Similarity 131Trust 91Excellent 100

Cross-CLI skill for Obsidian: turn your vault into a living AI-first second brain across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and OpenCode. 43 commands - now with /obsidian-architect to document your codebase, key-less web research, Google Calendar, and self-rewriting notes.

2.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain
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CoreCoder

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 99

Minimal AI coding agent (~1,400 LoC Python) inspired by Claude Code. Works with any LLM. Think NanoGPT for coding agents. Formerly NanoCoder.

1.1K starsMay 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add he-yufeng/CoreCoder
#13

Claude Mem

Similarity 129Trust 99Excellent 100

Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini, Hermes, Copilot, OpenCode + More

82K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksJavaScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add thedotmack/claude-mem
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10x

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 93

⚡️ 10x - Up to 20x faster AI coding with multi-step Superpowers. Open-source agent with smart model routing, BYOK, fully self-hosted.

1.4K starsJan 5, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add ntegrals/10x
#15

Oh My Openagent

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

omo/lazycodex: The coding agent for tokenmaxxers;the one and only agent harness for complex codebases. For your Codex, for your OpenCode

63K starsJun 19, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent
#16

Commands

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 87

A collection of production-ready slash commands for Claude Code

2.5K starsOct 12, 2025 pushagent-frameworksAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add wshobson/commands

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