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Developer-productivity projects on GitHub

Tools that streamline everyday developer tasks and save time.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Developer-productivity projects on GitHub are ponytail (165.2K stars), it-tools (40.9K stars) and air (24.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Developer-productivity repositories with 232.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ponytail, with +758 stars in a day.

6Projects

232.2KStars in total

+774Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+758

ponytail

DietrichGebert/ponytail · ★ 165.2K

Ponytail is a skill for AI coding agents that channels the laziest senior dev in the room: the agent writes only what the task needs, on the belief that the best code is the code you never wrote.

it-tools

CorentinTh/it-tools · ★ 40.9K

It-tools is a free, open-source collection of handy online tools for developers and people working in IT — small utilities with great UX, gathered in one web app.

air

air-verse/air · ★ 24.1K

Air is a live-reloading command line utility for developing Go applications: run air in your project root and it rebuilds and restarts your app whenever code changes.

beta9

beam-cloud/beta9 · ★ 1.8K

An open-source runtime for serverless AI workloads — it runs Python code in autoscaling GPU containers that scale to zero. It's also the engine powering Beam, a fully managed cloud.

The all-time top

6 projects · by stars

#1 · DietrichGebert/ponytail
ponytail
Ponytail is a skill for AI coding agents that channels the laziest senior dev in the room: the agent writes only what the task needs, on the belief that the best code is the code you never wrote.
165.2K
#2 · CorentinTh/it-tools
it-tools
It-tools is a free, open-source collection of handy online tools for developers and people working in IT — small utilities with great UX, gathered in one web app.
40.9K
#3 · air-verse/air
air
Air is a live-reloading command line utility for developing Go applications: run air in your project root and it rebuilds and restarts your app whenever code changes.
24.1K

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beta9
1.8Kbeam-cloud/beta9 · Go
An open-source runtime for serverless AI workloads — it runs Python code in autoscaling GPU containers that scale to zero. It's also the engine powering Beam, a fully managed cloud.
5
leftopen
129SonghaiFan/leftopen · Swift
LeftOpen is a native macOS menu bar app and CLI that shows what is listening on localhost, identifies which project or process owns each port, and lets you gently close them.
6
awesome-efficient-devtools
88ejboy/awesome-efficient-devtools
A curated list of developer tools chosen for cutting overhead — compute, AI context and tokens, terminal noise, setup complexity, or workflow friction. It spans AI-context helpers, fast CLIs, lightweight monitoring, and environment managers.