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Daemon projects on GitHub

Running software as a background daemon or system service

As of , the most-starred Daemon projects on GitHub are gbrain (30.9K stars), containerd (21.4K stars) and fail2ban (18.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 20 Daemon repositories with 219K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was microduck, with +47 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+47

microduck

pollen-robotics/microduck · ★ 9.5K

Microduck is a tiny biped duck robot (about 25cm, 800g), and this repo is the robot's brain: Rust daemons that run a 50Hz control loop driving fifteen servos using reinforcement-learning policies exported to ONNX.

+22

fsearch

noahdunnagan/fsearch · ★ 2.1K

FSearch is a whole-disk file search tool for macOS that finds any file by name in about a millisecond, tolerates typos, and can search inside file contents using an index.

+21

gbrain

garrytan/gbrain · ★ 30.9K

GBrain is a memory-and-knowledge layer for AI coding agents: instead of raw search hits it returns synthesized, well-cited answers across your pages, people, companies and ideas, plus a self-wiring knowledge graph and an explicit note on what it doesn't know yet. Garry Tan (YC's CEO) built it to run his own OpenClaw and Hermes agents.

+8

transmission

transmission/transmission · ★ 15.3K

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client, available in several flavors across platforms.

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20 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · garrytan/gbrain

    gbrain

    GBrain is a memory-and-knowledge layer for AI coding agents: instead of raw search hits it returns synthesized, well-cited answers across your pages, people, companies and ideas, plus a self-wiring knowledge graph and an explicit note on what it doesn't know yet. Garry Tan (YC's CEO) built it to run his own OpenClaw and Hermes agents.

    30.9K
  2. #2 · containerd/containerd

    containerd

    containerd is an industry-standard container runtime — a daemon for Linux and Windows that manages the complete container lifecycle of its host: image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision, and low-level storage and network attachments. It's a CNCF graduated project.

    21.4K
  3. #3 · fail2ban/fail2ban

    fail2ban

    Fail2Ban is a daemon that scans log files like /var/log/auth.log, spots hosts making too many failed login attempts, and bans them by updating system firewall rules for a configurable amount of time.

    18.8K
  1. 4

    statsd

    18.1Kstatsd/statsd · JavaScript

    StatsD is a network daemon that listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP. It aggregates them and forwards the results to pluggable backend services such as Graphite.

  2. 5

    telegraf

    17.9Kinfluxdata/telegraf · Go

    Telegraf is an open-source agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data. It ships with 300+ plugins covering system monitoring, cloud services, and messaging.

  3. 6

    systemd

    16.8Ksystemd/systemd · C

    systemd is the system and service manager for Linux — the init system that brings the OS up at boot and supervises services while it runs.

  4. 7

    transmission

    15.3Ktransmission/transmission · C++

    Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client, available in several flavors across platforms.

  5. 8

    openvpn

    14.7KOpenVPN/openvpn · C

    OpenVPN is an open-source VPN daemon — a background service that creates a secure, encrypted tunnel over the public internet, so your device can reach a private network as if it were directly connected.

  6. 9

    memcached

    14.3Kmemcached/memcached · C

    Memcached is a high-performance, multithreaded, event-based key/value cache store designed for use in distributed systems.

  7. 10

    forever

    13.8Kforeversd/forever · JavaScript

    forever is a simple CLI tool that keeps a given script running continuously, restarting it if it crashes or exits.

  8. 11

    onedrive

    12.9Kabraunegg/onedrive · Python

    A free, open-source Microsoft OneDrive client for Linux that syncs files with OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint document libraries.

  9. 12

    spotifyd

    10.8KSpotifyd/spotifyd · Rust

    Spotifyd is an open-source Spotify client that runs as a background UNIX daemon instead of a GUI app, streaming music just like the official client but more lightweight.

  10. 13

    microduck

    9.5Kpollen-robotics/microduck · Rust

    Microduck is a tiny biped duck robot (about 25cm, 800g), and this repo is the robot's brain: Rust daemons that run a 50Hz control loop driving fifteen servos using reinforcement-learning policies exported to ONNX.

  11. 14

    fsearch

    2.1Knoahdunnagan/fsearch · Rust

    FSearch is a whole-disk file search tool for macOS that finds any file by name in about a millisecond, tolerates typos, and can search inside file contents using an index.

  12. 15

    grok-register

    521xinxinshuhao-create/grok-register · Python

    grok-register is an automated toolkit that registers x.ai (Grok) accounts, extracts their SSO tokens, mints OAuth access/refresh tokens via Device Flow, and runs a daemon that keeps replenishing an account pool for an API gateway like grok2api.

  13. 16

    memex

    266nicosuave/memex · Rust

    Memex indexes your local coding-agent conversations (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more) so you can search past work, read original transcripts, and resume sessions in the original tool.

  14. 17

    ssh-clipboard

    244standardagents/ssh-clipboard · Rust

    ssh-clipboard syncs your clipboard across macOS and Linux machines over SSH: copy on one computer, paste on another, with text, images, files, and rich content kept in their native formats. There is no cloud component.

  15. 18

    spec-ptc

    223alexzhang13/spec-ptc · Python

    sPTC (speculative programmatic tool-calling) is a technique and small library that speculates and queues tool calls hidden inside a partially-generated REPL code block, so harnesses like RLM or CodeAct can start expensive sub-LLM/tool calls before the model even finishes writing the code.

  16. 19

    hp-laser-1008a-macos

    175Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos · C

    It is a native macOS driver that lets the HP Laser 1003/1006/1008 (a/w) printers — HP's rebadged Samsung SPL3 laser printers — print normally via Cmd-P, since HP never shipped a working macOS driver for them.

  17. 20

    lossless-memory

    144aru-labs/lossless-memory · Python

    A lossless long-term memory layer for a personal AI: every conversation line is kept verbatim with a timestamp, and queries like 'what did we decide last Tuesday night' return the actual lines in order instead of a summary.

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