Coding Agent Heat Index — AI skill for Claude Code
Daily leaderboard ranking 12 AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, Aider, Codex, Gemini CLI and more) by real momentum.
How to install Coding Agent Heat Index
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open PurpleHaze2320/coding-agent-heat-index and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Coding Agent Heat Index does
Daily leaderboard ranking 12 AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, Aider, Codex, Gemini CLI and more) by real momentum. Heat Score based on stars, commits, releases, issues, community, forks, npm downloads.
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README
🔥 Coding Agent Heat Index
[](https://github.com/PurpleHaze2320/coding-agent-heat-index/actions/workflows/track.yml) [](https://github.com/PurpleHaze2320/coding-agent-heat-index) [](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [](https://github.com/PurpleHaze2320/coding-agent-heat-index/stargazers)
The daily leaderboard for AI coding agents. Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, Aider, Codex, Gemini CLI and 6 more — ranked by real momentum, not marketing.
Tracking **12** agents | **756.7k** combined stars | **+0** stars this week | Updated **2026-08-25 08:42 UTC**
Why This Exists
Every week a new AI coding tool drops and claims to be the "best." Developers are picking sides like sports fans — Cursor loyalists, Cline power users, Aider purists, Claude Code believers. But nobody is measuring who is actually winning based on real usage, velocity, and community momentum.
This bot crawls GitHub and npm every day and calculates a **Heat Score (0–100)** for every major coding agent, based on seven weighted signals: star velocity, release cadence, commit activity, issue health, community size, fork ratio, and weekly npm downloads. No vibes, no vendor-picked benchmarks — just the data.
🏆 The Leaderboard
| Rank | Agent | Heat | Stars | ⭐ 7d | Commits (4w) | Last Release | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Codex CLI | 🔥🔥 69.4 | 117.6k | — | 1129 | 1 day ago | cli-agent |
| 2 | Gemini CLI | 🔥🔥 69.1 | 106.7k | — | 66 | 5 days ago | cli-agent |
| 3 | [Kilo Code](https://gith |
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