Trending repos are easy to star and hard to actually use. Here are five that are climbing GitHub this week, each with one concrete thing you can do with it and the exact steps to get there.

Steps come from each project's README. Review them before you run anything, especially commands that install software or take API keys.

1. yetone/magpie: run Claude Code on DeepSeek instead of Claude

magpie is a local gateway and menu bar app that lets agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI use models from many providers, with routing and failover.

Time: about 30 minutes. Level: intermediate.

Install magpie: curl -fsSL https://usemagpie.ai/install.sh | sh (or download the app).

Add your provider key: magpie provider add deepseek sk-... with your own key.

Point Claude Code at it: magpie claude deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro

Start a new Claude Code session.…