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Cron projects on GitHub

Job schedulers and cron job monitoring tools.

As of , the most-starred Cron projects on GitHub are hermes-agent (255K stars), paperclip (104K stars) and hacker-scripts (49.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 42 Cron repositories with 882.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was paperclip, with +507 stars in a day.

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882.2KStars in total
+1KStars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+507

paperclip

paperclipai/paperclip · ★ 104K

Paperclip is an open-source Node.js server and React UI for orchestrating a whole team of AI agents to run a business — assigning goals, tracking work, and managing costs from one dashboard instead of babysitting individual agent sessions.

+300

hermes-agent

NousResearch/hermes-agent · ★ 255K

Hermes Agent is a self-improving AI agent from Nous Research that creates and refines its own skills from experience, persists memory about you across sessions, and can be driven from a terminal or from chat apps like Telegram and Discord.

+44

celld

denoland/celld · ★ 5.8K

celld is an open-source daemon that lets you self-host a Cloudflare Workers application (Workers, Durable Objects, KV, Queues, D1, R2, Workflows, Cron Triggers, static assets) on your own machines instead of on Cloudflare's network, deployed straight from your existing wrangler.json.

+41

Orbital

zqiren/Orbital · ★ 927

Orbital is a local project agent: it keeps your project's state, decisions and history as plain files inside the project folder, so any coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — picks up where the last one stopped without re-explaining anything.

The all-time top

42 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · NousResearch/hermes-agent

    hermes-agent

    Hermes Agent is a self-improving AI agent from Nous Research that creates and refines its own skills from experience, persists memory about you across sessions, and can be driven from a terminal or from chat apps like Telegram and Discord.

    255K
  2. #2 · paperclipai/paperclip

    paperclip

    Paperclip is an open-source Node.js server and React UI for orchestrating a whole team of AI agents to run a business — assigning goals, tracking work, and managing costs from one dashboard instead of babysitting individual agent sessions.

    104K
  3. #3 · NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

    hacker-scripts

    A comedic collection of sysadmin automation scripts inspired by a viral forum post about a build engineer who scripted away every annoying chore, from faking late-night SSH activity to auto-replying to panicked client emails.

    49.9K
  1. 4

    acme.sh

    47.8Kacmesh-official/acme.sh · Shell

    acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script client for the ACME protocol that automatically issues, renews, and installs free SSL/TLS certificates from CAs like Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL.

  2. 5

    MoneyPrinterV2

    32.2KFujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinterV2 · Python

    MoneyPrinterV2 (MPV2) is a Python toolkit that automates ways to make money online, including a Twitter bot, a YouTube Shorts automator, Amazon affiliate marketing, and automated cold outreach to local businesses.

  3. 6

    xxl-job

    30.6Kxuxueli/xxl-job · Java

    XXL-JOB is a distributed task scheduling framework: a central scheduler triggers jobs across a cluster of executors, all managed from a web UI. It aims to be quick to develop with, simple to learn, lightweight and easy to extend, and many companies run it in production.

  4. 7

    hutool

    30.2Kchinabugotech/hutool · Java

    Hutool calls itself 'a set of tools that keep Java sweet': a rich, easy-to-use Java utility library whose tool classes help you get everyday development tasks done quickly.

  5. 8

    picoclaw

    30.1Ksipeed/picoclaw · Go

    An open-source personal AI assistant written entirely in Go by Sipeed: connect it to an LLM provider and chat with it from Telegram, Discord, Matrix, WeChat or the built-in Web UI.

  6. 9

    GitHub520

    30K521xueweihan/GitHub520 · Python

    GitHub520 publishes an up-to-date hosts file that maps GitHub's domains to fast, working IPs, fixing the broken images and slow loading that many users hit when browsing GitHub. It requires no software installation - you just update your system's hosts entries.

  7. 10

    OpenStock

    20.3KOpen-Dev-Society/OpenStock · TypeScript

    OpenStock is an open-source, self-hosted stock market tracking app: track real-time prices, set personalized alerts, and explore company insights as a free alternative to paid market platforms.

  8. 11

    suna

    20.3Kkortix-ai/suna · TypeScript

    Kortix (Suna) is an open-source AI Management System — an alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work — where your agents, their shared skills, company memory and connectors all live in one git repo that your whole company owns and can audit.

  9. 12

    iii

    18.8Kiii-hq/iii · Rust

    iii is a real-time engine for your backend stack: queues, cron, HTTP, state, observability, agents, and sandboxes are collapsed into one live system surface where every service is composable and observable.

  10. 13

    bull

    16.3KOptimalBits/bull · JavaScript

    Bull is a Redis-based queue package for Node.js for handling distributed jobs and messages — background tasks, scheduled work and message passing, written for rock solid stability and atomicity.

  11. 14

    qm

    15.4Kyc-software/qm · TypeScript

    An open-source multiplayer agent harness for work: one AI agent that a whole company shares, reachable from Slack and a web app. It is built for teams of people working with the agent together, not for a single person.

  12. 15

    hermes-desktop

    14.4Kfathah/hermes-desktop · TypeScript

    Hermes One is a community-maintained native desktop app for installing, configuring, and chatting with Hermes Agent — a self-improving AI assistant with tool use, multi-platform messaging, and a closed learning loop.

  13. 16

    cron

    14.2Krobfig/cron · Go

    It is a Go library that implements cron-style job scheduling, letting you run functions on a schedule inside a Go program instead of relying on the system cron daemon.

  14. 17

    ironclaw

    12.7Knearai/ironclaw · Rust

    IronClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant — an Agent OS focused on privacy, security and extensibility, written in Rust. Its core principle: your assistant works for you, and all your data stays local and under your control.

  15. 18

    crawlab

    12.3Kcrawlab-team/crawlab · Go

    Crawlab is an open-source distributed web crawler management platform: you upload spiders written in any language, run them across a cluster of machines, and manage tasks, schedules and results from a web UI.

  16. 19

    schedule

    12.3Kdbader/schedule · Python

    Schedule is a lightweight Python library for running jobs periodically using a simple, readable syntax, like running a function every 10 seconds or every Monday.

  17. 20

    docker-pi-hole

    11.7Kpi-hole/docker-pi-hole · Shell

    This is the official Docker image for Pi-hole, a network-wide ad blocker, letting you run Pi-hole as a container on your own Linux hardware instead of installing it directly on the OS.

  18. 21

    nginx-ui

    11.6K0xJacky/nginx-ui · Go

    Nginx UI is a web-based admin panel for managing an Nginx server: editing site configs, viewing logs, issuing SSL certificates, and monitoring server stats, all through a browser instead of the command line.

  19. 22

    examples

    11.5Kserverless/examples · JavaScript

    A large collection of ready-to-deploy boilerplate services and examples for the Serverless Framework, covering AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions and more, with patterns for REST/HTTP APIs, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, GraphQL, IoT, and MCP servers written in Node.js, Go, Java, and .NET.

  20. 23

    rq

    10.7Krq/rq · Python

    RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for putting jobs on a queue and processing them in the background with worker processes, backed by Redis or Valkey.

  21. 24

    SSPanel-UIM

    10.4KAnankke/SSPanel-UIM · PHP

    SSPanel-UIM is a self-hosted, PHP-based management panel for proxy services, built for Shadowsocks(2022), V2Ray, Trojan, and TUIC. It handles user accounts, nodes, billing, and subscription distribution for people running their own proxy business.

  22. 25

    healthchecks

    10.4Khealthchecks/healthchecks · Python

    Healthchecks is an open-source cron job monitoring service: your cron jobs and scheduled tasks ping it over HTTP or email, and if an expected ping does not arrive on time, it sends out alerts.

  23. 26

    Hangfire

    10.2KHangfireIO/Hangfire · C#

    Hangfire is a library for .NET and .NET Core that lets you run fire-and-forget, delayed, and recurring background jobs inside your application, without needing a Windows Service or a separate worker process.

  24. 27

    nullclaw

    8.1Knullclaw/nullclaw · Zig

    nullclaw is a fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure: one small static Zig binary that you self-host and connect to your chat apps and AI providers.

  25. 28

    xyops

    6.3Kpixlcore/xyops · JavaScript

    xyOps is a self-hosted platform for job scheduling, visual workflow automation, server monitoring, alerting, and incident response — the next generation of the Cronicle scheduler.

  26. 29

    celld

    5.8Kdenoland/celld · Rust

    celld is an open-source daemon that lets you self-host a Cloudflare Workers application (Workers, Durable Objects, KV, Queues, D1, R2, Workflows, Cron Triggers, static assets) on your own machines instead of on Cloudflare's network, deployed straight from your existing wrangler.json.

  27. 30

    mimiclaw

    5.8Kmemovai/mimiclaw · C

    MimiClaw turns a $5 ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a personal AI assistant you talk to through Telegram, complete with local memory and tool-calling, running entirely on a tiny chip with no Linux, no Node.js, and no server involved.

  28. 31

    sdk-rust

    4.3Kastrid-runtime/sdk-rust · Rust

    This is the Rust SDK for building Astrid 'capsules' - sandboxed WASM modules that act as user-space processes in the Astrid OS model, with safe typed access to kernel services like filesystem, IPC, networking, storage, approval, and scheduling.

  29. 32

    serpbear

    2.1Ktowfiqi/serpbear · TypeScript

    SerpBear is an open-source app that tracks your website's keyword positions in Google and notifies you when rankings change.

  30. 33

    prod-FARM-IOS-Core

    1.7KGit-Agni/prod-FARM-IOS-Core · TypeScript

    An open-source, self-hosted application that operates a farm of real physical iPhones from a Mac, with guided device registration, live video/remote control, PostgreSQL-backed scheduling, and a built-in TikTok automation plugin.

  31. 34

    onedump

    994liweiyi88/onedump · Go

    Onedump is a command-line database administration tool that backs up (and restores) MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to various storage destinations like local disk, S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, or SFTP.

  32. 35

    Orbital

    927zqiren/Orbital · Python

    Orbital is a local project agent: it keeps your project's state, decisions and history as plain files inside the project folder, so any coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — picks up where the last one stopped without re-explaining anything.

  33. 36

    tork

    820runabol/tork · Go

    Tork is a lightweight, distributed workflow engine written in Go. You define jobs made of multiple tasks, and each task runs as a simple script inside its own Docker container — on one machine or across many workers.

  34. 37

    Hermes-Bot-Mode

    668NousResearch/Hermes-Bot-Mode · JavaScript

    A desktop plugin for the Hermes Agent app that turns your agent profiles into a roster of named bots, each with its own chat, avatar, personality, and schedule, plus bot-to-bot messaging. The repo is archived because this feature is now bundled directly into Hermes Desktop.

  35. 38

    gate

    516hezhanleiok/gate · Python

    It automates scraping VPN Gate's SSTP home-broadband/datacenter nodes, verifies each one with a checker Worker, groups them by country, and publishes an auto-rotating node list that edgetunnel can pull as chained proxy entries.

  36. 39

    learn-agent

    361ryzqi/learn-agent · TypeScript

    A 20-chapter Chinese-language tutorial that builds a production-grade AI agent harness from scratch, pairing each chapter's article with a runnable TypeScript code snapshot.

  37. 40

    effect-mq

    188TeamWarp/effect-mq · TypeScript

    effect-mq is an Effect-native background job and message queue library: schema-first job definitions, a storage-agnostic queue core, a worker runtime, and stores for Postgres (via Drizzle) and Redis.

  38. 41

    bareloop

    183OpenLucasKaka/bareloop · Python

    BareLoop is a transparent, OpenAI-compatible coding-agent runtime written in plain Python that keeps the model/tool/result loop visible instead of hiding it inside a framework.

  39. 42

    carno.js

    111carnojs/carno.js · TypeScript

    An opinionated application framework for Bun and TypeScript: NestJS-style structure and Spring-style enterprise patterns — controllers, services, modules, dependency injection — on Bun's fast runtime.

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