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Help-wanted projects on GitHub

Projects and issues actively seeking external contributor help.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred Help-wanted projects on GitHub are aspnetcore (38.5K stars), cognee (32.5K stars) and IPTV (21.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Help-wanted repositories with 159.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was cognee, with +62 stars in a day.

9Projects

159.3KStars in total

+121Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+62

cognee

topoteretes/cognee · ★ 32.5K

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.

+36

IPTV

Free-TV/IPTV · ★ 21.2K

A community-maintained M3U playlist of free-to-watch live TV channels from around the world — local over-the-air feeds plus free internet services. You load it into any IPTV player.

cocoindex

cocoindex-io/cocoindex · ★ 11.7K

CocoIndex is an incremental engine that turns codebases, meeting notes, inboxes, Slack, PDFs, and videos into live, continuously fresh context for AI agents and LLM apps, using minimal incremental processing instead of stale batch jobs.

Tel-Agent

Dpro-at/Tel-Agent · ★ 1.1K

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.

The all-time top

9 projects · by stars

#1 · dotnet/aspnetcore
aspnetcore
ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building modern cloud-connected applications like web apps, IoT apps, and mobile backends.
38.5K
#2 · topoteretes/cognee
cognee
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.
32.5K
#3 · Free-TV/IPTV
IPTV
A community-maintained M3U playlist of free-to-watch live TV channels from around the world — local over-the-air feeds plus free internet services. You load it into any IPTV player.
21.2K

4
runtime
18.4Kdotnet/runtime · C#
This is the source code for the .NET runtime itself - the code that builds the runtime, its base class libraries, and the shared host (dotnet) installers for all supported platforms.
5
electron-builder
14.7Kelectron-userland/electron-builder · TypeScript
Electron-builder packages an Electron app into ready-to-distribute installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with auto-update support built in out of the box.
6
cocoindex
11.7Kcocoindex-io/cocoindex · Rust
CocoIndex is an incremental engine that turns codebases, meeting notes, inboxes, Slack, PDFs, and videos into live, continuously fresh context for AI agents and LLM apps, using minimal incremental processing instead of stale batch jobs.
7
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.
8
pypdf
10.3Kpy-pdf/pypdf · Python
A free and open-source pure-python PDF library: it splits, merges, crops and transforms the pages of PDF files, and can add custom data, viewing options and passwords to them.
9
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.