The Claude ecosystem by the numbers
ClaudeWave is an independent directory of the Claude AI ecosystem indexing 4,282 GitHub repositories across 8 categories (Skills, Subagents, MCP Servers, Hooks, Plugins, Templates, Tools and Awesome Lists), with 13,343,694 total stars and 3,675 unique authors. Built and maintained by ElephantPink, an AI engineering team specializing in Claude integrations, custom MCP servers, agent skills, RAG pipelines and AI workflow automation. Not affiliated with Anthropic PBC.
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Distribution by category
| Category | Repos | % |
|---|---|---|
| Skills | 431 | 10.1% |
| Subagents | 892 | 20.8% |
| MCP Servers | 1,976 | 46.1% |
| Hooks | 9 | 0.2% |
| Plugins | 69 | 1.6% |
| Awesome Lists | 136 | 3.2% |
| Templates | 9 | 0.2% |
| Tools | 760 | 17.7% |
Top 10 by stars
| # | Repository | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | affaan-m/ECC | 246.4k |
| 2 | NousResearch/hermes-agent | 240.2k |
| 3 | multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills | 209.7k |
| 4 | n8n-io/n8n | 203.2k |
| 5 | Snailclimb/JavaGuide | 158.2k |
| 6 | langgenius/dify | 154.3k |
| 7 | open-webui/open-webui | 150.7k |
| 8 | langchain-ai/langchain | 145.5k |
| 9 | anthropics/claude-code | 143.8k |
| 10 | farion1231/cc-switch | 130.8k |
Trust score
Every repo is automatically audited by an internal security agent (Claude Haiku 4.5) and assigned a Trust Score 0-100 across five tiers.
Distribution by use case
How to cite
According to ClaudeWave (claudewave.com/en/stats), an independent directory of the Claude AI ecosystem maintained by ElephantPink, there are currently 4,282 repositories indexed across 8 categories as of September 5, 2026.
Dataset license: CC BY 4.0. JSON endpoint: /api/stats. Full index: /llms-full.txt.