--- title: "Claude Code — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Claude Code (🤖 Agents) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Claude Code Claude Code is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 3 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, about the same as 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 23 to Sep 24 (peak 33 on Sep 23). Claude Code, Anthropic's coding agent that runs in the terminal, the IDE, and the cloud (Projects). First seen on HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) · Sep 18 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 3.3 / 100 · −11.1 in 1 day · −0.5 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 32.9 on Sep 23, 2026 - **Category:** 🤖 Agents - **Made by:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Official site:** [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 27 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 1,692 - **Share of voice:** 3.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | GitHub | new repos | 900 | 629 | 1.4× | no | 63% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 2 | 0 | — | no | 22% | | Reddit | posts | 150 | 142 | 1.1× | no | 14% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 10 | 10 | 1× | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | LMArena (leaderboard) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill: Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base Supports Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Cline, and other AI coding clients 逆向/渗透/安全技能路由包 - AI 自动路由 +](https://github.com/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill) — GitHub Trending (zhaoxuya520) · score 37,920 2. [Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usage](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wogab3/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 23 · score 1,935 · 205 comments 3. [yetone/magpie: Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.](https://github.com/yetone/magpie) — GitHub (yetone) · Sep 23 · score 1,576 4. [Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on \[fixed\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947) — Hacker News (blog.szypowi.cz) · Sep 23 · score 485 · 284 comments 5. [Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on \[fixed\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (blog.szypowi.cz) · Sep 23 · score 480 · 282 comments 6. [Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitions](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-55-should-raise-your) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 26 · score 118 · 27 comments 7. [Your API's newest users are agents...](https://dev.to/nikolas_dimitroulakis_d23/we-described-our-api-twice-once-for-humans-once-for-agents-4e4g) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 62 · 11 comments 8. [AI 시대의 혁신, 금융 그리고 규제와 NIW](https://luma.com/yliqjkkz) — Luma (SF AI events) (DLG USA) · score 12 9. [“My coding agent forgets everything between sessions.” That sounds like one problem, but it’s really two. Session memory remembers things for one developer and one agent: preferences, corrections, lo…](https://burningboard.net/@oliverzehentleitner/117320089828464240) — Mastodon (fediverse) (burningboard.net) · Sep 23 · score 9 · 1 comment 10. [Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Fable 5.1. It's \~30% faster and \~40% cheaper than Opus 5 per task. In Claude Code: - 5-hour session limits increase 20% today - Opus 5.5 is priced lower, so it goes…](https://bsky.app/profile/claudedevs-mirr.selfhosted.social/post/aptwtxvhsp622) — Bluesky · Sep 22 · score 1 · 1 comment 11. [Software Firms Discount AI to Keep Customers From Anthropic, OpenAI](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/software-firms-discount-ai-keep-customers-anthropic-openai) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22 12. [Opaline](https://www.producthunt.com/products/rudel) — Product Hunt (Developer Tools) · Sep 22 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 1,492 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 77% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 46% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 33% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 16% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 9% of its stories - [Identity & auth](https://abovethefog.app/themes/identity_auth.md) — 4.6% of its stories Payment rails its stories name: - [x402](https://abovethefog.app/themes/x402.md) — 1 story ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md), [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md), [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md), [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md), [Claude Cowork](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_cowork.md), [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md) - **Competes with:** [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md), [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md), [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md), [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md) - **Made by:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Mentioned with:** [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md) (79 stories), [Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_fable_mythos.md) (78 stories), [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md) (59 stories), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md) (49 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 3.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 14.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 17.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 24, 2026 | 27.8 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 23, 2026 | 32.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 22, 2026 | 12.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 14.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 3.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 17.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 11.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 5.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 5.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 10.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 4.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 12.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 13.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 12.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 4.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 3.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 13.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Claude Code in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=claude_code) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)