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Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

Trail-Code at a glance

Category
Coding agents
Website
trailhq.com/graft

Is Trail-Code growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Trail-Code ranked #163 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #60 in Coding agents, with a momentum score of 49 out of 100. Its main package had about 30k downloads that week, +1% against its own 4-week average.

New GitHub stars per week for Trail-Code12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 1.4k, 1.3k, 889, 504, 1.7k, 1.4k, 567, 295, 407, 516, 405, 279 new stars, an average of 803 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
Show the weekly numbers
New GitHub stars per week for Trail-Code
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 20261.4k
Aug 16, 20261.3k
Aug 23, 2026889
Aug 30, 2026504
Sep 6, 20261.7k
Sep 13, 20261.4k
Sep 20, 2026567
Sep 27, 2026295
Oct 4, 2026407
Oct 11, 2026516
Oct 18, 2026405
Oct 25, 2026279

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

Trail-Code alternatives

Other AI coding agents on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

Coding agents ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1CindyCindy is an open-source AI agent app for desktop and mobile that combines Claude Code, Codex and Pi across your connected devices.8.8k–
#2OpenMausBotOpenMausBot is an open-source desktop chat app where each contact is a local Claude, Codex, or Grok CLI agent with its own computer.9.6k–
#3OrcaOrca is a desktop agent development environment for running Claude Code, Codex, and other CLI coding agents in parallel, each in its own…111.7k–
#4OpenBotOpenBot is an open-source, self-hosted template for AI coworkers that each get their own browser, files and granted tools, with every…9.1k–
#5Agent ReachAgent Reach is a Python CLI that lets AI agents search and read platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili and…107.2k–
#6Skill RecorderSkill Recorder is a desktop app that records your on-screen work session and turns it into a reusable agent Skill or Automation.5.6k–

All AI coding agents, ranked

Trail-Code FAQ

How popular is Trail-Code?

Trail-Code has 11k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 279 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 803 a week. Its main package had about 30k downloads that week, +1% against its own 4-week average. That made it #60 among AI coding agents on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to Trail-Code?

Other AI coding agents on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: Cindy (#1), OpenMausBot (#2), Orca (#3), OpenBot (#4), Agent Reach (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

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