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Developer-tools projects on GitHub

Software that helps developers write, debug, ship, and maintain code.

As of , the most-starred Developer-tools projects on GitHub are awesome-selfhosted (327.3K stars), superpowers (300.8K stars) and skills (294.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 2,924 Developer-tools repositories with 52.4M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was rea, with +17.7K stars in a day.

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  1. #1 · awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

    awesome-selfhosted

    It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

    327.3K
  2. #2 · obra/superpowers

    superpowers

    Superpowers is a software development methodology for coding agents: composable skills plus bootstrap instructions that steer your agent into a disciplined build process instead of just writing code.

    300.8K
  3. #3 · mattpocock/skills

    skills

    Agent skills - slash commands for AI coding agents - that Matt Pocock uses daily for real engineering, not vibe coding: small, composable, and built to work with any model.

    294.3K
  1. 4

    rea

    290.9Kmorluto/rea · TypeScript

    REA lets AI coding agents reverse engineer apps, binaries, websites, and other software through a single MCP server and CLI, returning findings with the evidence behind them so an agent can explain a feature or rebuild it.

  2. 5

    ECC

    281.5Kaffaan-m/ECC · JavaScript

    ECC is a performance-optimization system (a harness) for coding agents: it plans before building, verifies changes with tests, reviews its own work from a fresh context, remembers what matters, and turns repeated wins into reusable skills. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and other agent harnesses.

  3. 6

    deepseek-harness

    251.2Kdeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · TypeScript

    DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is an open-source agent harness from DeepSeek AI, built entirely on an everything-is-a-plugin architecture and powered by the Cordis composability engine.

  4. 7

    andrej-karpathy-skills

    220.4Kmultica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

    A single CLAUDE.md file (also distributable as a Claude Code plugin) that encodes four guidelines derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on common LLM coding pitfalls, meant to make Claude Code behave more carefully and avoid overengineering.

  5. 8

    opencode

    214.4Kanomalyco/opencode · TypeScript

    OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that helps you write, explore, and edit code, available as a CLI and now also as a beta desktop app.

  6. 9

    claw-code

    194.9Kultraworkers/claw-code · Rust

    Claw Code is the public Rust implementation of 'claw', a CLI coding-agent harness. By its own README it is less a production tool and more an 'agent-managed museum exhibit' maintained entirely by AI agents/harnesses with no human intervention, in the spirit of (but unaffiliated with) Claude Code.

  7. 10

    vscode

    193.8Kmicrosoft/vscode · TypeScript

    This is the open-source repository ('Code - OSS') where Microsoft and the community develop Visual Studio Code, a free code editor with built-in debugging, Git, and extension support.

  8. 11

    firecrawl

    192.2Kfirecrawl/firecrawl · TypeScript

    Firecrawl turns any website into clean, LLM-ready data by crawling, scraping, and searching the web, delivering markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots that AI agents can consume directly.

  9. 12

    markitdown

    190.7Kmicrosoft/markitdown · Python

    MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility that converts files like PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV/JSON/XML, ZIP archives, EPubs and even YouTube URLs into Markdown, designed for feeding documents into LLMs and text analysis pipelines.

  10. 13

    ohmyzsh

    190Kohmyzsh/ohmyzsh · Shell

    Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration, with 300+ optional plugins and 150+ bundled themes for your terminal.

  11. 14

    awesome-go

    188.8Kavelino/awesome-go · Go

    A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries, and software, organized by category.

  12. 15

    AutoGPT

    187.6KSignificant-Gravitas/AutoGPT · Python

    AutoGPT is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and running AI agents that carry out complete workflows. You describe an outcome in plain English or build it step by step in a visual builder, then run the agent on demand, on a schedule, or from a trigger.

  13. 16

    skills

    181.6Kanthropics/skills · Python

    This is Anthropic's public repository of Agent Skills for Claude: folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads dynamically to get better at specific tasks like document creation, data analysis, or enterprise workflows.

  14. 17

    gitignore

    176Kgithub/gitignore

    GitHub's official collection of .gitignore templates: ready-made ignore rules for popular languages, tools and operating systems, and the list behind the .gitignore choosers on GitHub.com.

  15. 18

    ponytail

    165.2KDietrichGebert/ponytail · JavaScript

    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.

  16. 19

    agency-agents

    160.7Kmsitarzewski/agency-agents · Shell

    A growing roster of meticulously crafted AI agent personalities — each a specialized expert with its own voice, workflows, and deliverables, ready to plug into your AI coding assistant.

  17. 20

    langflow

    155.8Klangflow-ai/langflow · Python

    Langflow is a platform for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows with a visual, drag-and-drop interface.

  18. 21

    claude-code

    151.2Kanthropics/claude-code · TypeScript

    Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that runs in your terminal. It understands your codebase and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows through natural language commands.

  19. 22

    javascript

    148.1Kairbnb/javascript · JavaScript

    A JavaScript style guide from Airbnb covering conventions for types, variables, functions, classes, modules, naming, whitespace, and more, described as 'a mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript'.

  20. 23

    langchain

    148Klangchain-ai/langchain · Python

    LangChain is a framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications: it chains together interoperable components and third-party integrations to simplify AI app development.

  21. 24

    awesome-llm-apps

    142.1KShubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps · Python

    A collection of 100+ open-source AI agent, agent skill, and RAG app examples - hand-built, tested end-to-end, and released under Apache-2.0 so you can clone, run, or even sell them.

  22. 25

    spec-kit

    141.6Kgithub/spec-kit · Python

    Spec Kit is an open source toolkit for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) — you write specs, plans, and tasks that an AI coding agent turns into working code, instead of writing code first and documentation as an afterthought.

  23. 26

    free-for-dev

    139.7Kripienaar/free-for-dev · HTML

    A curated list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings that have free tiers useful for DevOps engineers, sysadmins, and infrastructure developers.

  24. 27

    go

    139.3Kgolang/go · Go

    Go is an open source programming language for building simple, reliable, and efficient software; this repository holds the language's canonical Git repository.

  25. 28

    gstack

    136.7Kgarrytan/gstack · TypeScript

    gstack is Garry Tan's personal Claude Code setup: a pack of 23 opinionated skills that act like a full engineering team (CEO, eng manager, designer, reviewer, QA, security officer, release engineer) inside Claude Code.

  26. 29

    ui-ux-pro-max-skill

    136.6Knextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill · Python

    UI UX Pro Max is an AI skill that gives coding assistants design intelligence — industry-specific style, color, typography and UX reasoning rules — so they can generate professional UI/UX across many frameworks and platforms.

  27. 30

    llama.cpp

    131.4Kggml-org/llama.cpp · C++

    llama.cpp is a plain C/C++ implementation for running LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance, either locally or in the cloud.

  28. 31

    codex

    129.6Kopenai/codex · Rust

    Codex is a lightweight coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally in your terminal, helping you write and work with code using natural language.

  29. 32

    graphify

    127.3KGraphify-Labs/graphify · Python

    Graphify turns a whole codebase — plus its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs — into a queryable knowledge graph you traverse instead of grepping files.

  30. 33

    react-native

    126.7Kreact/react-native · C++

    React Native lets you build native mobile apps for Android, iOS, and other platforms using React. UI is described in JavaScript but rendered with real native platform components, not a webview.

  31. 34

    electron

    123.4Kelectron/electron · C++

    Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by apps like Visual Studio Code.

  32. 35

    node

    122.4Knodejs/node · JavaScript

    Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets you run JavaScript code outside a browser, typically for servers and command-line tools.

  33. 36

    awesome-design-md

    121.9KVoltAgent/awesome-design-md

    This is a curated collection of DESIGN.md files — plain-text design system documents analyzed from real websites like Claude, Stripe, Nike and Tesla — that you drop into a project so an AI coding agent generates UI matching that brand's visual language.

  34. 37

    rust

    120.4Krust-lang/rust · Rust

    This is the main source repository for the Rust programming language — it contains the compiler (rustc), the standard library, and documentation.

  35. 38

    awesome-mac

    116.3Kjaywcjlove/awesome-mac · Swift

    It is a curated, categorized list of high-quality macOS software, covering everything from text editors and developer tools to design apps, utilities, and security tools.

  36. 39

    pi

    115.7Kearendil-works/pi · TypeScript

    Pi is an agent harness: a toolkit of packages for building and running AI agents, including a self-extensible interactive coding agent CLI, a unified multi-provider LLM API, an agent runtime, and a terminal UI library.

  37. 40

    caveman

    113.1KJuliusBrussee/caveman · Go

    Caveman is a skill plus an optional local proxy for AI coding agents that makes them answer in short, caveman-style prose instead of padded explanations, cutting roughly 65% of output tokens and up to 33% of input tokens in the project's own benchmarks without changing the technical content of the answer.

  38. 41

    TypeScript

    111.5Kmicrosoft/TypeScript · Go

    TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript: JavaScript extended with a type system, developed by Microsoft for building large applications.

  39. 42

    deno

    108.7Kdenoland/deno · Rust

    Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that focuses on secure defaults and good developer experience. It's built on V8, Rust, and Tokio.

  40. 43

    gemini-cli

    107.4Kgoogle-gemini/gemini-cli · TypeScript

    Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent that brings Google's Gemini models directly into your terminal, letting you chat, generate code, and run tools from the command line.

  41. 44

    agent-skills

    107.4Kaddyosmani/agent-skills · JavaScript

    A collection of 25 production-grade engineering skills that encode senior-engineer workflows, quality gates, and best practices so AI coding agents follow them consistently across the whole development lifecycle.

  42. 45

    nodebestpractices

    105.7Kgoldbergyoni/nodebestpractices · Dockerfile

    A curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.

  43. 46

    terminal

    105.2Kmicrosoft/terminal · C++

    This is the source code for Windows Terminal, a modern tab-based terminal app for Windows, plus the original Windows console host (conhost.exe) that powers classic command-line apps, both maintained in the same repo.

  44. 47

    create-react-app

    103.2Kreact/create-react-app · JavaScript

    Create React App is a command-line tool that sets up a new React single-page app with zero build configuration, preconfiguring webpack, Babel, ESLint, and a test runner for you.

  45. 48

    fastapi

    103.1Kfastapi/fastapi · Python

    FastAPI is a modern Python web framework for building APIs using standard Python type hints, with automatic data validation and interactive documentation.

  46. 49

    neovim

    103Kneovim/neovim · Vim Script

    Neovim is a fork of Vim, a modal text editor, rebuilt to be more extensible, maintainable, and friendly to multiple contributors and advanced UIs.

  47. 50

    claude-mem

    101.3Kthedotmack/claude-mem · TypeScript

    Claude-Mem gives coding agents persistent memory across sessions: it captures everything your agent does, compresses it with AI, and injects the relevant context back into future sessions.

  48. 51

    angular

    101.1Kangular/angular · TypeScript

    Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript.

  49. 52

    material-ui

    99.2Kmui/material-ui · JavaScript

    Material UI is a comprehensive library of React components implementing Google's Material Design system, used to build web UIs quickly with pre-built buttons, inputs, dialogs, and more.

  50. 53

    Agent-Reach

    98.4KPanniantong/Agent-Reach · Python

    Agent Reach is a capability layer that gives an AI agent the ability to actually read and search the internet — Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu, RSS, web pages and more — instead of hitting paywalls, 403s or login walls.

  51. 54

    app-ideas

    98.2Kflorinpop17/app-ideas

    A curated collection of application ideas you can build to practice coding, organized into beginner, intermediate, and advanced tiers with detailed specs for each project.

  52. 55

    taste-skill

    98.1KLeonxlnx/taste-skill · JavaScript

    Taste Skill is a set of portable skills for AI coding agents: they upgrade AI-built interfaces with stronger layout, typography, motion, and spacing instead of boilerplate-looking UIs.

  53. 56

    thefuck

    97.9Knvbn/thefuck · Python

    The Fuck is a command-line app that corrects your previous mistyped console command. Run 'fuck' after a failed command and it suggests a fixed version to run instead.

  54. 57

    tailwindcss

    97.9Ktailwindlabs/tailwindcss · TypeScript

    Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces by composing small, single-purpose classes directly in your markup.

  55. 58

    playwright

    97.9Kmicrosoft/playwright · TypeScript

    Playwright is a framework for web testing and automation that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API, usable in test suites, automation scripts, and as a tool for AI agents.

  56. 59

    awesome-mcp-servers

    96.5Kpunkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers

    A curated, community-maintained list of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — tools that let AI agents and LLM apps connect to external data sources, APIs, and services.

  57. 60

    bun

    96.3Koven-sh/bun · Rust

    Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript and TypeScript toolkit that bundles a runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager into a single executable called bun.

  58. 61

    puppeteer

    95.7Kpuppeteer/puppeteer · TypeScript

    Puppeteer is a JavaScript library that gives you a high-level API to control Chrome or Firefox programmatically, either over the DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi.

  59. 62

    nvm

    95.6Knvm-sh/nvm · Shell

    nvm (Node Version Manager) is a POSIX-compliant bash script that lets you install, switch between, and manage multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine.

  60. 63

    odysseus

    93.7Kodysseus-dev/odysseus · Python

    Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace that bundles chat, agents, deep research, a document editor, email, notes, tasks, and calendar around local or API models.

  61. 64

    zed

    91.8Kzed-industries/zed · Rust

    Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, designed to feel extremely fast and support real-time collaboration.

  62. 65

    core

    91.6Khome-assistant/core · Python

    Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that puts local control and privacy first, letting you connect and control smart home devices from one hub instead of relying on cloud services.

  63. 66

    servers

    91.3Kmodelcontextprotocol/servers · JavaScript

    This is a collection of reference server implementations for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), showing how to give LLMs secure, controlled access to tools and data sources.

  64. 67

    storybook

    91.3Kstorybookjs/storybook · TypeScript

    Storybook is a frontend workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation, used by thousands of teams for UI development, testing, and documentation.

  65. 68

    OpenHands

    91.1KOpenHands/OpenHands · TypeScript

    OpenHands Agent Canvas is a self-hosted control center for running and managing AI coding agents like OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini, letting you start conversations and automate tasks such as generating reports or decomposing GitHub issues.

  66. 69

    uv

    90.8Kastral-sh/uv · Rust

    uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. It aims to replace pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, twine, and virtualenv with a single tool.

  67. 70

    mermaid

    90.7Kmermaid-js/mermaid · TypeScript

    Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that lets you create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and more from simple Markdown-inspired text definitions instead of a drag-and-drop editor.

  68. 71

    awesome-for-beginners

    90.3KMunGell/awesome-for-beginners

    A curated list of open-source projects that have issues specifically labeled for first-time contributors (like 'good first issue' or 'first-timers-only'), organized by programming language.

  69. 72

    vue-element-admin

    90.1KPanJiaChen/vue-element-admin · Vue

    vue-element-admin is a production-ready front-end solution for building admin interfaces, built on Vue and the element-ui component toolkit.

  70. 73

    svelte

    88.4Ksveltejs/svelte · JavaScript

    Svelte is a compiler that turns declarative UI components into efficient vanilla JavaScript, which then surgically updates the DOM directly instead of shipping a heavy runtime framework to the browser.

  71. 74

    Understand-Anything

    86.7KEgonex-AI/Understand-Anything · TypeScript

    Understand Anything analyzes your codebase (or a knowledge-base/wiki) with a multi-agent pipeline and turns it into an interactive knowledge graph of every file, function, class and dependency, which you can explore in a visual dashboard.

  72. 75

    archify

    84.6Ktt-a1i/archify · JavaScript

    Archify is an agent skill that turns a codebase, system description, or plan into a polished, interactive diagram (architecture, workflow, sequence, data flow, or lifecycle) directly inside a coding agent's chat.

  73. 76

    rtk

    83.7Krtk-ai/rtk · Rust

    rtk is a CLI proxy that filters and compresses command outputs before they reach your LLM context, cutting 60-90% of the bash output your coding agent reads and lowering token costs.

  74. 77

    fzf

    83.6Kjunegunn/fzf · Go

    fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder and interactive terminal toolkit. You pipe any list into it and interactively filter it with fuzzy matching, then it writes your selection to stdout.

  75. 78

    vite

    83.4Kvitejs/vite · TypeScript

    Vite is a frontend build tool that gives you an instant dev server with fast Hot Module Replacement during development, and bundles your code for production using Rolldown.

  76. 79

    lobehub

    83.3Klobehub/lobehub · TypeScript

    LobeHub is a self-hosted platform that acts as your 'Chief Agent Operator', letting you hire, schedule, and manage a whole team of AI agents instead of juggling separate chat windows.

  77. 80

    lazygit

    83.3Kjesseduffield/lazygit · Go

    Lazygit is a simple terminal UI (TUI) for git that lets you stage, commit, rebase, merge and branch through an interactive visual interface instead of memorizing git CLI commands.

  78. 81

    impeccable

    82.1Kpbakaus/impeccable · Rust

    Impeccable is a design language for AI coding agents: one skill, 24 commands, live browser iteration, and 59 deterministic detector rules that make AI-generated frontend design better.

  79. 82

    FiraCode

    82.1Ktonsky/FiraCode · Clojure

    Fira Code is a free monospaced font designed for programmers, which uses ligatures to turn common multi-character symbol sequences (like -> or ==) into single, easier-to-read glyphs.

  80. 83

    spring-boot

    81.7Kspring-projects/spring-boot · Java

    Spring Boot is a Java framework that helps you create production-grade, Spring-powered applications and services with minimal configuration fuss.

  81. 84

    hoppscotch

    80.6Khoppscotch/hoppscotch · TypeScript

    Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem for building, testing and debugging REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, MQTT, Server-Sent Events and Socket.IO APIs, positioned as an open alternative to Postman or Insomnia.

  82. 85

    screenshot-to-code

    80.4Kabi/screenshot-to-code · Python

    Screenshot-to-code converts screenshots, mockups, Figma designs, and screen recordings into clean, functional code using AI models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini.

  83. 86

    github-readme-stats

    79.8Kanuraghazra/github-readme-stats · JavaScript

    A service that generates dynamic SVG stat cards (commits, stars, PRs, rank) and a top-languages card you can embed in your GitHub profile README.

  84. 87

    MiroFish

    79.8K666ghj/MiroFish · Python

    MiroFish is an AI-powered multi-agent simulation engine that builds a high-fidelity digital parallel world from real-world seed data (breaking news, policy drafts, financial signals) and lets thousands of independent agents interact to forecast future outcomes.

  85. 88

    code-server

    79.6Kcoder/code-server · TypeScript

    code-server runs VS Code on a remote machine and lets you access the full editor through a web browser, so you can code from any device.

  86. 89

    learn-claude-code

    78.7KshareAI-lab/learn-claude-code · Python

    It is an educational repository that teaches how to build an 'agent harness' (the operational environment around an LLM) from scratch, using Claude Code as the reference implementation, across 17 progressive Python lessons.

  87. 90

    cpython

    77.7Kpython/cpython · Python

    This is the official source code repository for CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language, written mainly in C.

  88. 91

    awesome-claude-skills

    77.3KComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills · Python

    A comprehensive and curated list of 1000+ production-ready Claude Skills and Plugins for enhancing productivity across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and other coding agents like Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity.

  89. 92

    tesseract

    77Ktesseract-ocr/tesseract · C++

    Tesseract is an open source OCR engine: it ships as the libtesseract library plus a command line program called tesseract that reads text out of images.

  90. 93

    imgui

    76.7Kocornut/imgui · C++

    Dear ImGui is a bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++ that outputs optimized vertex buffers you render in your own 3D-pipeline-enabled application. It is aimed at tooling, debug UIs, and visualization rather than end-user application UIs.

  91. 94

    openai-cookbook

    76.7Kopenai/openai-cookbook · Jupyter Notebook

    A collection of example code and guides for accomplishing common tasks with the OpenAI API, covering things like prompting, embeddings, function calling, and retrieval.

  92. 95

    ruflo

    75.8Kruvnet/ruflo · TypeScript

    Ruflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.

  93. 96

    json-server

    75.7Ktypicode/json-server · JavaScript

    json-server lets you spin up a fully working fake REST API in under 30 seconds, with no backend code to write — just a single JSON file defining your data.

  94. 97

    headroom

    75.5Kheadroomlabs-ai/headroom · Python

    Headroom compresses everything an AI agent reads - tool outputs, logs, RAG chunks, files, and conversation history - before it reaches the LLM, cutting tokens while keeping the same answers. It ships as a library, a local proxy, and an MCP server.

  95. 98

    Front-End-Checklist

    74.5Kthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist · MDX

    Front-End Checklist is an open-source front-end quality system that turns front-end best practices into a practical review workflow, usable by humans and AI agents via web, MCP server, or this README.

  96. 99

    OpenBB

    74.3Kopenbq-org/OpenBB · Python

    Open Data Platform (ODP) by OpenBB is an open-source toolset that lets you integrate proprietary, licensed, and public financial data sources once and then consume them everywhere: in Python, Excel, OpenBB Workspace, AI agents via MCP, or REST APIs.

  97. 100

    codegraph

    74.3Kcolbymchenry/codegraph · C

    CodeGraph pre-indexes your codebase into a knowledge graph of every symbol, call edge, and dependency, so AI coding agents get the exact code they need in one call instead of crawling files.

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