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Directory projects on GitHub

Curated directories listing bots, agents, or community tools.

As of , the most-starred Directory projects on GitHub are awesome (521.7K stars), public-apis (490.6K stars) and awesome-mcp-servers (96.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 38 Directory repositories with 1.4M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was awesome, with +512 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19

+512

awesome

sindresorhus/awesome · ★ 521.7K

It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

+480

public-apis

public-apis/public-apis · ★ 490.6K

A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

+247

awesome-decomp-games

SubmitGame/awesome-decomp-games · ★ 2K

A curated, automatically updated list of games that have been decompiled, recompiled, or otherwise reverse-engineered, covering decomps, static recomps, source ports, engine remakes, and browser ports, with each entry rated for quality.

+202

awesome-dsh-plugin

awesome-dsh-plugin/awesome-dsh-plugin · ★ 19.5K

A curated, community-maintained list of plugins for DeepSeek Harness (dsh), DeepSeek's open-source coding agent. Each entry links to a plugin repo you can install with one command.

The all-time top

38 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · sindresorhus/awesome

    awesome

    It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

    521.7K
  2. #2 · public-apis/public-apis

    public-apis

    A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

    490.6K
  3. #3 · punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers

    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.

    96.6K
  1. 4

    chinese-independent-developer

    61.9K1c7/chinese-independent-developer

    A massive curated list of indie projects made by Chinese independent developers, aggregating apps, SaaS tools, and websites that others are building on the side.

  2. 5

    remote-jobs

    40.9Kremoteintech/remote-jobs · JavaScript

    This is the source code behind remoteintech.company, a community-maintained directory of remote-friendly tech companies for job seekers.

  3. 6

    ai-guide

    21.4Kliyupi/ai-guide · JavaScript

    A free, open AI knowledge base by Chinese developer Yupi (程序员鱼皮): curated AI guides, tool reviews and news, plus his zero-basics Vibe Coding tutorial with prompt collections, tool-picking guides and an AI concepts encyclopedia.

  4. 7

    awesome-dsh-plugin

    19.5Kawesome-dsh-plugin/awesome-dsh-plugin · JavaScript

    A curated, community-maintained list of plugins for DeepSeek Harness (dsh), DeepSeek's open-source coding agent. Each entry links to a plugin repo you can install with one command.

  5. 8

    proposals

    19.2Ktc39/proposals

    The official TC39 repository that tracks every proposal for future JavaScript (ECMAScript) features — a living index of what is being considered for the next versions of the language standard.

  6. 9

    carrot

    17.2Kxx025/carrot

    Carrot is a curated Chinese-language directory of AI tools and sites, listing chatbots, agents, image/video generators, and dev tools, with notes on which are free, require login, or need international network access.

  7. 10

    ToolsOfTheTrade

    17.2Kcjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

    A curated, categorized list of SaaS and self-hosted tools that startups and developers use instead of building and hosting their own infrastructure, originally collected from Hacker News discussions.

  8. 11

    public-api-lists

    16.2Kpublic-api-lists/public-api-lists

    A community-maintained, hand-curated catalog of 730+ free public APIs across 48 categories — from Animals and Anime to Weather.

  9. 12

    vagas

    15.4Kfrontendbr/vagas

    A GitHub repository where companies and recruiters post front-end developer job openings in Brazil by opening GitHub issues, run by the FrontendBR community.

  10. 13

    OSINT-Framework

    12.3Klockfale/OSINT-Framework · JavaScript

    OSINT Framework is a curated, browsable index of free OSINT (open-source intelligence) tools and resources, organized into a clickable category tree so you can find the right tool for a given task.

  11. 14

    lists

    11.6Kjnv/lists

    It is a meta-directory that collects links to hundreds of other curated lists found on GitHub and elsewhere, split into a 'Non-technical' section (hobbies, food, books, etc.) and a 'Technical' section (dev resources, APIs, frameworks).

  12. 15

    clawhub

    9.5Kopenclaw/clawhub · TypeScript

    ClawHub is the public skill registry for OpenClaw: a place to publish, version, and search text-based agent skills (a SKILL.md plus supporting files), plus a catalog of OpenClaw code and bundle plugins.

  13. 16

    awesome-agent-skills

    6.3Kheilcheng/awesome-agent-skills · TypeScript

    A community-curated directory of 'Agent Skills' - plain-text SKILL.md files that teach AI assistants like Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot how to perform specific tasks on demand, without retraining.

  14. 17

    relayAPI

    5.2Kzzsting88/relayAPI · TypeScript

    This is a Chinese-language guide that reviews and ranks third-party 'AI API relay stations' (中转站) — resellers that let users in China tap into OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and other AI model APIs more cheaply and without official account bans.

  15. 18

    NoSignups

    4.5KBraveOPotato/NoSignups · TypeScript

    NoSignups (formerly FckSignups) is a curated directory of open-source, in-browser tools that work instantly without creating an account, giving an email, or being tracked.

  16. 19

    awesome-freellm-apis

    4.4Kopen-free-llm-api/awesome-freellm-apis

    This is a curated, machine-readable directory of 499+ free LLM APIs from 30+ providers (Google Gemini, NVIDIA NIM, Groq, OpenRouter, and more), letting you find, compare, and configure free models in seconds.

  17. 20

    scraping-apis-for-devs

    4Kcporter202/scraping-apis-for-devs · JavaScript

    A giant categorized directory of 2,622 ready-to-use scraping APIs for pulling data from websites, social media, e-commerce sites, job boards, real estate listings and more, so you don't have to build scrapers from scratch.

  18. 21

    definitive-opensource

    3.6Kmustbeperfect/definitive-opensource · Python

    A curated, continuously maintained list of the best consumer-facing open source software, covering desktop apps, self-hosted services, and CLI tools, deliberately excluding developer-facing languages, frameworks, and libraries.

  19. 22

    awesome-decomp-games

    2KSubmitGame/awesome-decomp-games · Python

    A curated, automatically updated list of games that have been decompiled, recompiled, or otherwise reverse-engineered, covering decomps, static recomps, source ports, engine remakes, and browser ports, with each entry rated for quality.

  20. 23

    folkbench

    2KFolkbench/folkbench · Rust

    Folkbench is a benchmark and directory site for AI API relay providers (中转站) that resell access to models like GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek. It tracks each provider's availability rate, P95 response time, and pricing per model so you can compare them with real data instead of marketing claims.

  21. 24

    awesome-remote-mcp-servers

    1.6Kpunkpeye/awesome-remote-mcp-servers

    A curated, categorized directory of remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that you connect to over the network instead of running locally, covering everything from CRM and databases to browser automation and payments.

  22. 25

    ai-coding-welfare

    1.1Kpanxunying/ai-coding-welfare · JavaScript

    A navigation site that lists free or discounted relay/charity services (API proxies) for using Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, aggregating each site's free quota, supported models, and pricing, with data refreshed automatically and one-click configuration scripts.

  23. 26

    free-ai-tools

    1KShaikhWarsi/free-ai-tools · TypeScript

    It is a curated, frequently-updated list of free and low-cost AI tools: LLM API providers, coding copilots, AI-native IDEs, CLI agents, RAG infrastructure, and local model options, aimed at helping developers build AI apps without paying $200/month.

  24. 27

    awesome-jev

    981heyjunpenn/awesome-jev · Astro

    A verified, community-maintained catalog of open-source projects built with Jev — TypeSafe AI's System One model for typed decisions inside software. The README snapshot covers 832 unique public GitHub repositories.

  25. 28

    awesome-claude-video-skills

    741zhuyansen/awesome-claude-video-skills

    A curated, security-graded list of 183 open-source repos containing skills, plugins and toolkits that let coding agents like Claude Code and Codex create video, from motion graphics to full explainer videos.

  26. 29

    awesome-nuclear

    509paulromano/awesome-nuclear

    A curated directory of open source software for nuclear science and engineering: roughly 75 codes and tools spanning particle transport, nuclear data, fuel cycle, thermal hydraulics, and multiphysics, each a one-liner with a link.

  27. 30

    dsh-top100

    493evaldock-account/dsh-top100 · TypeScript

    dsh-top100 is a discovery, validation and trend index for the public plugin ecosystem of DeepSeek Harness (DSH): it ranks plugin repositories and catalogs Agent Skills by public GitHub signals.

  28. 31

    awesome-dsh-plugin

    430bruc3van/awesome-dsh-plugin · JavaScript

    A curated, auto-updating directory of DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugins. It crawls GitHub daily for repos tagged dsh-plugin, manually reviews each one to remove tag-squatters, and organizes real plugins by category, popularity, and use case so you can find the right one in about 30 seconds.

  29. 32

    awesome-grokbot

    362kydlikebtc/awesome-grokbot · Python

    A curated catalog of 725 live x.ai/bot share links for Grok Bot, with every link status-checked, every entry attributed to its source, bilingual EN/Chinese summaries, a JSON schema, CI, and a searchable website.

  30. 33

    submitmap-mcp

    276FifthWye/submitmap-mcp

    SubmitMap MCP is a remote MCP server that gives AI agents structured access to SubmitMap, a directory of product launch platforms and startup directories, where each platform is a typed record with eligibility rules, disqualifiers, submission steps, approval time and dofollow status.

  31. 34

    botdirectory.ai

    265elie222/botdirectory.ai · Astro

    A community-maintained directory of ready-to-use agent prompts for Grok Bot, Rakazo, and any other agent — copy a prompt and paste it into your agent to turn it into a scheduled bot for things like email triage, daily briefings, SEO fixes, or churn warnings.

  32. 35

    product-weekly-rank

    215discoverhubgroup/product-weekly-rank

    A weekly-updated digest that ranks the top 20 trending open-source GitHub projects by star growth, published every week.

  33. 36

    Blue-Whale-Harness

    197leenkcool/Blue-Whale-Harness · HTML

    A catalog of plugins for DeepSeek Harness (DSH): it tracks every DSH-related repo on GitHub (currently 1970), verifies which ones are genuine DSH plugins (1831), and presents them as a searchable, filterable, sortable online table plus a Markdown plugin list.

  34. 37

    Australia-Casual-Part-Time-Jobs

    194workopia/Australia-Casual-Part-Time-Jobs · JavaScript

    A GitHub repo that lists casual, part-time and seasonal job postings from Australian employer career pages, rebuilt daily by Workopia, with 1,056 selected roles shown in the current snapshot.

  35. 38

    awesome-mcp-servers

    191mcpHQ/awesome-mcp-servers · JavaScript

    A hand-curated, link-checked catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — tools that let AI applications connect to databases, developer tools, browsers, cloud services and more.

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