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Chain-of-thought projects on GitHub

Prompting techniques where models reason step by step before answering.

As of , the most-starred Chain-of-thought projects on GitHub are gpt-oss (20.5K stars), Foundations-of-LLMs (18.3K stars) and Awesome-Multimodal-Large-Language-Models (18.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Chain-of-thought repositories with 90.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was adhd, with +5 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

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adhd

UditAkhourii/adhd · ★ 4.4K

ADHD is a skill for coding agents that spawns several isolated, differently-framed reasoning branches in parallel, then runs a separate critic pass to score, prune, and deepen the survivors, instead of walking one shared chain of thought.

+4

gpt-oss

openai/gpt-oss · ★ 20.5K

The gpt-oss series: two open-weight language models from OpenAI — gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — built for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases. The repo itself adds reference implementations, tools, and example clients around the models.

+4

Foundations-of-LLMs

ZJU-LLMs/Foundations-of-LLMs · ★ 18.3K

An open-source textbook on the foundations of large language models, written by a team at Zhejiang University and freely available as a PDF.

+2

LLMSurvey

RUCAIBox/LLMSurvey · ★ 12.2K

It is the official GitHub page for the survey paper 'A Survey of Large Language Models' — a curated collection of papers and resources on how LLMs are built, adapted, and used.

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6 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · openai/gpt-oss

    gpt-oss

    The gpt-oss series: two open-weight language models from OpenAI — gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — built for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases. The repo itself adds reference implementations, tools, and example clients around the models.

    20.5K
  2. #2 · ZJU-LLMs/Foundations-of-LLMs

    Foundations-of-LLMs

    An open-source textbook on the foundations of large language models, written by a team at Zhejiang University and freely available as a PDF.

    18.3K
  3. #3 · BradyFU/Awesome-Multimodal-Large-Language-Models

    Awesome-Multimodal-Large-Language-Models

    A curated, continuously updated list of papers, models, datasets, and benchmarks tracking the latest advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) — models like GPT-4o, Gemini, and VITA that understand images, video, and audio alongside text.

    18.1K
  1. 4

    Thinking-Claude

    17Krichards199999/Thinking-Claude · TypeScript

    Thinking Claude is a project with two parts: a 'Thinking Protocol' - custom instructions that make Claude reason more deeply and systematically before answering - and a browser extension that renders that thinking process as neat, collapsible sections in the Claude.ai chat UI.

  2. 5

    LLMSurvey

    12.2KRUCAIBox/LLMSurvey · Python

    It is the official GitHub page for the survey paper 'A Survey of Large Language Models' — a curated collection of papers and resources on how LLMs are built, adapted, and used.

  3. 6

    adhd

    4.4KUditAkhourii/adhd · TypeScript

    ADHD is a skill for coding agents that spawns several isolated, differently-framed reasoning branches in parallel, then runs a separate critic pass to score, prune, and deepen the survivors, instead of walking one shared chain of thought.

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