The AI Billboard Week 05 — The Curse Is Dead: First Title Defense Ever Survived, and OpenAI Codex Went 8.8x Overnight

The companion to Week 05 of The AI Billboard — the weekly chart show where AI tools are ranked by one honest number: GitHub stars gained per day. THIS WEEK'S DRAMA: the curse is DEAD. DeepSeek Harness faced the one test no champion had ever passed — a title defense — lost 76% of its pace under gravity and kept the crown anyway, because 5,304/day is still 3.2x the field (and at 11 days old it is now the 3rd-biggest repo on the board, 191,583 stars). THE VERTICAL VETERAN: OpenAI Codex — five straight weeks of ~190/day, the only tool to survive every board — added 10,263 stars in six days (8.8x) and jumped #10 to #2, the biggest move in board history, the week GPT-5.6 landed inside Codex. THE MILESTONE: OpenCode crossed 200,000 stars. THE DEBUT: Prime Agent walks in at #9, measured on our own ledger. Plus the purge (last week's +173% comeback collapsed −65%), the fell-off-the-board table, the outside-the-field watchlist, the Week-06 field expansion (10 new repos started their clocks — Unsloth, Excalidraw, Immich, OpenHands + 6 more), and every ranked tool's full deep-dive episode linked in chart order. No sponsors, no vibes — the math decides, we narrate. Independent analysis from Hyperautomation Labs. (Week 04 pack archived at hyperautomationlabs.co/chart-wk04.pdf, Week 03 at hyperautomationlabs.co/chart-wk03.pdf, Week 02 at hyperautomationlabs.co/chart-wk02.pdf, Week 01 at hyperautomationlabs.co/chart-wk01.pdf.)

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