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Knowledge projects on GitHub

Knowledge management, notes and knowledge base systems.

As of , the most-starred Knowledge projects on GitHub are what-happens-when (43.4K stars), cognee (32.5K stars) and hangzhou_house_knowledge (26.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Knowledge repositories with 190.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was cognee, with +62 stars in a day.

12Projects
190.7KStars in total
+133Stars in a day
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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.

+58

OpenLore

aakarim/OpenLore · ★ 1.5K

OpenLore is a self-hosted, agent-native knowledge server: point it at a folder of Markdown and every agent on the team (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CI jobs) reads the same files over SSH and MCP, with control over who can see and change what.

+4

docs

suitenumerique/docs · ★ 16.9K

Docs is an open-source collaborative text editor - a self-hostable alternative to Notion or Google Docs, built on Django and React. Teams write, organize and share documents together in real time.

+3

what-happens-when

alex/what-happens-when · ★ 43.4K

A long-form, extremely detailed walkthrough answering the classic interview question of what happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter, tracing the whole path from keypress to rendered page.

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12 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · alex/what-happens-when

    what-happens-when

    A long-form, extremely detailed walkthrough answering the classic interview question of what happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter, tracing the whole path from keypress to rendered page.

    43.4K
  2. #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. #3 · houshanren/hangzhou_house_knowledge

    hangzhou_house_knowledge

    A personal knowledge collection on how to buy a house in Hangzhou, written up after the author's own 2017 home-buying experience, covering districts, land types, floor area ratio, metro plans, demolition programs, and school zones.

    26.9K
  1. 4

    docs

    16.9Ksuitenumerique/docs · Python

    Docs is an open-source collaborative text editor - a self-hostable alternative to Notion or Google Docs, built on Django and React. Teams write, organize and share documents together in real time.

  2. 5

    frontend-challenges

    15Kfelipefialho/frontend-challenges

    A curated, public list of real front-end coding challenges that companies around the world use in their hiring process, collected into one repository so developers can practice with them.

  3. 6

    hacker-laws-zh

    12.5Knusr/hacker-laws-zh

    A Chinese translation of the hacker-laws project: a curated collection of laws, theories, principles and patterns that developers find useful, like Conway's Law, CAP Theorem, or the KISS Principle.

  4. 7

    sigma.js

    12.2Kjacomyal/sigma.js · TypeScript

    Sigma.js is an open-source JavaScript library for visualizing graphs of thousands of nodes and edges using WebGL rendering.

  5. 8

    test-your-sysadmin-skills

    11.9Ktrimstray/test-your-sysadmin-skills

    A free collection of 284 Linux/Unix sysadmin test questions with example answers, built to check your own knowledge or to run interviews and exams for sysadmin positions.

  6. 9

    typescript-tutorial

    10.7Kxcatliu/typescript-tutorial · TypeScript

    This is a free online book that teaches TypeScript from the perspective of a JavaScript developer, moving step by step through the type system and ES6 support TypeScript adds.

  7. 10

    Hyper-Extract

    4.2Kyifanfeng97/Hyper-Extract · Python

    Hyper-Extract is a CLI tool that turns unstructured documents (PDFs, Word, text, etc.) into structured knowledge — chunk corpora, lists, graphs, hypergraphs, and spatio-temporal graphs — using LLMs, all from a single command.

  8. 11

    EverRoom

    3KNxcoreAI/EverRoom · TypeScript

    EverRoom is a local-first personal workspace that connects your files, conversations, meetings, and AI agents into project-based 'Context Rooms', so agents work from verified evidence and memory instead of a blank chat.

  9. 12

    OpenLore

    1.5Kaakarim/OpenLore · Go

    OpenLore is a self-hosted, agent-native knowledge server: point it at a folder of Markdown and every agent on the team (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CI jobs) reads the same files over SSH and MCP, with control over who can see and change what.

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