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Good-first-issue projects on GitHub

Beginner-friendly issues and projects for first-time open-source contributors.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Good-first-issue projects on GitHub are terminal (105.2K stars), awesome-for-beginners (90.3K stars) and twenty (58.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 17 Good-first-issue repositories with 622K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was cognee, with +51 stars in a day.

17Projects

622KStars in total

+311Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+51

cognee

topoteretes/cognee · ★ 32.4K

Cognee is an open-source AI memory platform that gives AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions, turning text, code, and conversations into a queryable knowledge graph.

+43

FinceptTerminal

Fincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal · ★ 32.6K

Fincept Terminal is a free, open-source desktop finance terminal in the spirit of a Bloomberg terminal: institutional-grade market analytics, AI research agents and trading tools combined in one application.

+41

awesome-for-beginners

MunGell/awesome-for-beginners · ★ 90.3K

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.

+40

twenty

twentyhq/twenty · ★ 58.4K

Twenty is an open-source CRM built as an alternative to Salesforce, aimed at technical teams who want to customize objects, fields, views, workflows and agents instead of being locked into a closed platform.

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17 projects · by stars

#1 · microsoft/terminal
terminal
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.
105.2K
#2 · MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
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.
90.3K
#3 · twentyhq/twenty
twenty
Twenty is an open-source CRM built as an alternative to Salesforce, aimed at technical teams who want to customize objects, fields, views, workflows and agents instead of being locked into a closed platform.
58.4K

4
first-contributions
56.4Kfirstcontributions/first-contributions
A beginner-friendly tutorial repository that walks newcomers through making their very first open source contribution, step by step.
5
Files
46Kfiles-community/Files · C#
Files is a modern, open-source file manager for Windows that helps users organize their files and folders, featuring multitasking, file tags, and deep system integrations.
6
puter
43.8KHeyPuter/puter · TypeScript
Puter is an open-source, self-hostable 'internet computer' — a web-based desktop environment that bundles everyday apps, cloud storage, and a developer platform (AI, database, serverless workers) accessible from any browser.
7
refine
35.9Krefinedev/refine · TypeScript
Refine is an open-source React framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, and B2B applications with a high degree of flexibility.
8
FinceptTerminal
32.6KFincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal · C++
Fincept Terminal is a free, open-source desktop finance terminal in the spirit of a Bloomberg terminal: institutional-grade market analytics, AI research agents and trading tools combined in one application.
9
cognee
32.4Ktopoteretes/cognee · Python
Cognee is an open-source AI memory platform that gives AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions, turning text, code, and conversations into a queryable knowledge graph.
10
signoz
32.4KSigNoz/signoz · TypeScript
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry: logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and dashboards in one tool for debugging production apps and monitoring AI agents.
11
responsively-app
25.3Kresponsively-org/responsively-app · TypeScript
A modified web browser built with Electron for responsive web development: you preview your site on many devices at once and interact with all of them in sync. It is pitched as a must-have dev tool for web developers.
12
gradle
18.9Kgradle/gradle · Groovy
Gradle is a highly scalable build automation tool that handles everything from large multi-project enterprise builds to quick development tasks, across many languages.
13
openvino
11Kopenvinotoolkit/openvino · C++
OpenVINO is Intel's open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference — it takes trained deep learning models for vision, speech, NLP, and generative AI and runs them faster, from edge devices to cloud servers.
14
cloudstream
11Krecloudstream/cloudstream · Kotlin
CloudStream is a free, open-source Android app for streaming and downloading media. It works as an extension-based media center for phones and TVs.
15
Checkmate
11Kbluewave-labs/Checkmate · TypeScript
Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool that monitors server uptime, response times, hardware (CPU, RAM, disk), and incidents in real time with dashboards and status pages.
16
omni-tools
10.3Kiib0011/omni-tools · TypeScript
A self-hosted web app bundling dozens of browser-based utilities for everyday tasks: image and video editing, PDF work, text and data conversions, date and math calculators. No ads, no tracking.
17
Tel-Agent
1.1KDpro-at/Tel-Agent · Python
Tel-Agent is an open-source, self-hosted gateway that connects a phone line to an AI agent: calls arrive over SIP, get checked against your routing rules, and are either passed to a human, blocked, or handled by an AI that can transfer calls, take messages, check a calendar, or call any HTTP endpoint. Every call is recorded, transcribed, and searchable.