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Task-automation shell and scripting language for Windows and cross-platform admin.

As of , the most-starred Powershell projects on GitHub are Microsoft-Activation-Scripts (195K stars), winutil (64.5K stars) and starship (60.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 71 Powershell repositories with 1.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was tv-vibehack, with +2.2K stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+2.2K

tv-vibehack

Gathin23/tv-vibehack · ★ 1.9K

A toolkit that strips bloatware and ads from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi (via ADB) and replaces the stock home screen with a clean, Apple TV-style launcher.

+246

Win11Debloat

Raphire/Win11Debloat · ★ 59.7K

Win11Debloat is a lightweight PowerShell script that removes pre-installed apps, disables telemetry, and tweaks the interface to declutter and customize Windows 10 and Windows 11.

+145

Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts · ★ 195K

Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) is an open-source tool that activates Windows and Office using methods like HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS, plus troubleshooting tools for failed activations.

+119

reverse-skill

zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill · ★ 42.6K

It is a skill pack that routes AI coding agents to the right reverse engineering, penetration testing, and security research methodology for a given task (APK, binary, JS, CTF, malware, etc.), checks which tools are installed, and runs a repeatable workflow instead of letting the agent guess commands.

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71 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

    Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

    Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) is an open-source tool that activates Windows and Office using methods like HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS, plus troubleshooting tools for failed activations.

    195K
  2. #2 · ChrisTitusTech/winutil

    winutil

    Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility (WinUtil) is a curated compilation of Windows system tasks: it streamlines installs, debloats with tweaks, troubleshoots, and configures Windows updates.

    64.5K
  3. #3 · starship/starship

    starship

    Starship is a minimal, extremely fast, and fully customizable command prompt that works with virtually any shell on any operating system, showing relevant context like git status, language versions, and more.

    60.3K
  1. 4

    Win11Debloat

    59.7KRaphire/Win11Debloat · PowerShell

    Win11Debloat is a lightweight PowerShell script that removes pre-installed apps, disables telemetry, and tweaks the interface to declutter and customize Windows 10 and Windows 11.

  2. 5

    PowerShell

    55.8KPowerShell/PowerShell · C#

    PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration tool/framework that includes a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a framework for processing cmdlets, optimized for structured data like JSON, CSV, XML and REST APIs.

  3. 6

    zx

    45.8Kgoogle/zx · JavaScript

    zx is a tool from Google that lets you write shell scripts in JavaScript instead of Bash, wrapping Node's child_process with argument escaping and sensible defaults.

  4. 7

    reverse-skill

    42.6Kzhaoxuya520/reverse-skill · PowerShell

    It is a skill pack that routes AI coding agents to the right reverse engineering, penetration testing, and security research methodology for a given task (APK, binary, JS, CTF, malware, etc.), checks which tools are installed, and runs a repeatable workflow instead of letting the agent guess commands.

  5. 8

    zoxide

    40.2Kajeetdsouza/zoxide · Rust

    zoxide is a smarter cd command that remembers which directories you use most frequently so you can jump to them with just a few keystrokes.

  6. 9

    awesome-shell

    37.8Kalebcay/awesome-shell

    A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides, and gizmos for the shell, inspired by awesome-php.

  7. 10

    WindTerm

    32.5KkingToolbox/WindTerm · C

    WindTerm is a free professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client and terminal built for DevOps, combining remote connections, a local shell and file transfer in one application.

  8. 11

    TradingAgents-CN

    32.3Khsliuping/TradingAgents-CN · Python

    TradingAgents-CN is a Chinese-enhanced learning and research platform built on a multi-agent LLM trading framework, helping Chinese-speaking users systematically study stock analysis using multiple AI agents for A-share, Hong Kong, and US markets. It explicitly does not issue real trading orders and is positioned for education and research only.

  9. 12

    atuin

    32Katuinsh/atuin · Rust

    Atuin replaces your shell history with a SQLite database, records extra context for every command, and adds a full-screen interactive search UI — with optional fully encrypted sync of history between machines.

  10. 13

    cmder

    27Kcmderdev/cmder · PowerShell

    Cmder is a console emulator package for Windows, created out of pure frustration over the lack of a usable console there. It wraps ConEmu with a major config overhaul, a Monokai color scheme, clink and a custom prompt layout.

  11. 14

    winget-cli

    26.5Kmicrosoft/winget-cli · C++

    WinGet is the Windows Package Manager client - a tool for quickly discovering and installing the packages that make your PC environment special, straight from the command line.

  12. 15

    go-cursor-help

    26.1Kyuaotian/go-cursor-help · Shell

    A command-line tool that resets Cursor's free trial when the editor blocks you with 'suspicious activity' or trial-limit messages, by making Cursor treat your machine as a brand-new device.

  13. 16

    asdf

    25.6Kasdf-vm/asdf · Go

    asdf is a CLI tool that manages multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis — like gvm, nvm, rbenv and pyenv all in one. You add a plugin for each language you use.

  14. 17

    Scoop

    24.7KScoopInstaller/Scoop · PowerShell

    Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows that lets you install apps from the terminal with minimal friction, similar to Homebrew on macOS.

  15. 18

    cli

    24.3Kurfave/cli · Go

    urfave/cli is a Go package for building command line tools. You declare commands, subcommands, and flags in Go, and it handles argument parsing, the help system, and shell completion for you.

  16. 19

    oh-my-posh

    23.6KJanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh · Go

    oh-my-posh is a cross-platform prompt theme engine: it renders the prompt line you see in your terminal, and it is built to be highly customizable and extensible.

  17. 20

    hub

    23Kmislav/hub · Go

    hub is a command-line tool that wraps git to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier, like creating pull requests or forking repos from the terminal.

  18. 21

    SpotX

    22.8KSpotX-Official/SpotX · PowerShell

    SpotX is a patcher for the official Spotify desktop client on Windows: it blocks banner, video and audio ads and changes some hidden client features. It ships as a set of install scripts you run once.

  19. 22

    core

    22Kdotnet/core · PowerShell

    The official home of .NET release notes and news: a table of every version under active support or development, with release dates, support phases, latest patch versions, and links to the full notes.

  20. 23

    tiny11builder

    20.7Kntdevlabs/tiny11builder · C#

    tiny11builder is a PowerShell script that automates building a trimmed-down Windows 11 ISO by stripping out bloatware like Edge, OneDrive, Xbox apps, Clipchamp, and more.

  21. 24

    Windows10Debloater

    18.8KSycnex/Windows10Debloater · PowerShell

    A PowerShell script/utility that debloats Windows 10 by removing pre-installed apps, stopping some telemetry, preventing Cortana from being used as your search index, and disabling unnecessary scheduled tasks.

  22. 25

    terminalizer

    16.2Kfaressoft/terminalizer · JavaScript

    Terminalizer is a command-line tool that records your terminal session and turns it into an animated GIF image, or gives you a link to an online web player for sharing.

  23. 26

    Office-Tool

    14.5KYerongAI/Office-Tool · PowerShell

    Office Tool Plus is a free tool for deploying and managing Microsoft Office — it downloads, installs, modifies and activates Office products, and bundles repair and cleanup utilities.

  24. 27

    semaphore

    14.3Ksemaphoreui/semaphore · Go

    Semaphore UI is a modern web interface and API for running and managing Ansible playbooks, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, PowerShell and Bash scripts, so you don't have to deploy from a terminal anymore.

  25. 28

    Playnite

    14.3KJosefNemec/Playnite · C#

    Playnite is an open source video game library manager and launcher. It brings games from third-party launchers like Steam, Epic and GOG, plus emulated titles, into one unified interface.

  26. 29

    Winhance

    14Kmemstechtips/Winhance · C#

    Winhance is a free Windows enhancement utility that debloats, optimizes and customizes Windows 10 and 11, combining app management, privacy and performance tweaks, and theming in one GUI app.

  27. 30

    runner-images

    13.5Kactions/runner-images · PowerShell

    It's the source code GitHub uses to build the VM images behind GitHub-hosted Actions runners and Microsoft-hosted Azure Pipelines agents — Ubuntu, macOS and Windows machines pre-loaded with development tools.

  28. 31

    cheat

    13.5Kcheat/cheat · Go

    cheat is a command-line tool for creating and viewing interactive cheatsheets. It was built to remind *nix system administrators of options for commands they use often, but not often enough to remember.

  29. 32

    RemoveWindowsAI

    13.4Kzoicware/RemoveWindowsAI · PowerShell

    RemoveWindowsAI is a PowerShell script that force-removes Copilot, Recall, Image Creator and other AI features Microsoft keeps adding to Windows 11, to improve privacy, security and user experience.

  30. 33

    PowerSploit

    13.1KPowerShellMafia/PowerSploit · PowerShell

    PowerSploit is a collection of PowerShell modules that penetration testers use during all phases of an assessment, covering code execution, persistence, privilege escalation, credential theft, exfiltration and reconnaissance on Windows systems.

  31. 34

    choco

    11.5Kchocolatey/choco · C#

    Chocolatey (choco) is a command-line package manager for Windows, similar to apt-get or yum but for Windows software.

  32. 35

    sql-server-samples

    11.3Kmicrosoft/sql-server-samples · PowerShell

    This is Microsoft's official repository of code samples demonstrating how to use SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure SQL Edge, including sample databases, demos, and feature walkthroughs.

  33. 36

    inshellisense

    10.7Kmicrosoft/inshellisense · TypeScript

    inshellisense brings IDE-style autocomplete to the terminal: as you type, a suggestion box appears with completions for 600+ command line tools.

  34. 37

    Whisper

    10.7KConst-me/Whisper · C++

    A Windows port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition model that runs inference on the GPU using DirectCompute instead of CUDA, delivering much faster transcription than the official PyTorch implementation.

  35. 38

    BloodHound-Legacy

    10.6KSpecterOps/BloodHound-Legacy · PowerShell

    BloodHound Legacy is a security tool that uses graph theory to map hidden relationships and attack paths inside an Active Directory environment, helping find the shortest route to Domain Admin — hence its tagline 'Six Degrees of Domain Admin'.

  36. 39

    MagiskOnWSALocal

    10.6KLSPosed/MagiskOnWSALocal · Shell

    A set of build scripts that generates a custom Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) installer with Magisk root and Google Apps (Play Store) built in, ready to install on Windows 11.

  37. 40

    nishang

    10.2Ksamratashok/nishang · PowerShell

    Nishang is a framework and large collection of PowerShell scripts and payloads for offensive security, penetration testing, and red teaming, covering every phase of an engagement.

  38. 41

    vscode-dark-islands

    8.5Kbwya77/vscode-dark-islands · Shell

    Islands Dark is a dark color theme for VS Code-compatible editors, inspired by the easemate IDE and the JetBrains Islands theme. It adds floating glass-like panels, rounded corners and smooth animations.

  39. 42

    claude-desktop-zh-cn

    7.7Kjavaht/claude-desktop-zh-cn · PowerShell

    An unofficial patch that adds a Chinese interface to the Claude Desktop app: Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), Traditional Chinese for Taiwan (zh-TW) and Hong Kong (zh-HK), on macOS, Windows and Linux.

  40. 43

    coreutils

    5.3Kmicrosoft/coreutils · Rust

    A Microsoft-maintained build of uutils/coreutils, findutils, and grep - the familiar Unix commands (ls, cp, cat, grep, find) packaged as a single native multi-call binary for Windows.

  41. 44

    pebrel

    3.5KKuddev/pebrel · Rust

    Pebrel is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux that brings local shells, SSH/SFTP remote access, and AI command-line tools like Claude Code and Codex into one native desktop workspace.

  42. 45

    WindowsDeveloperConfig

    3.2Kmicrosoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig · PowerShell

    A Microsoft repo with three opinionated PowerShell setups for configuring a Windows dev machine: a full dev-workstation installer, a WSL/Linux shell beautifier called WSL Comfort, and single-language toolchain installers.

  43. 46

    tv-vibehack

    1.9KGathin23/tv-vibehack · Java

    A toolkit that strips bloatware and ads from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi (via ADB) and replaces the stock home screen with a clean, Apple TV-style launcher.

  44. 47

    LASRecomp

    1.3Kpeiikai/LASRecomp · C

    LAS Recomp statically recompiles The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch, 2019) into a native application for Windows, macOS and Linux, with a built-in randomizer.

  45. 48

    winutil-cn

    1.1Kyasewang1337-svg/winutil-cn · PowerShell

    A Chinese-localized Windows 11 utility for managing software (install/upgrade/uninstall via WinGet or Chocolatey) and maintaining the system (tweaks, Windows Update control, Windows 10/11 ISO creation). It's a fork of Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility, translated and maintained by Holha1337.

  46. 49

    fauxnix

    99420000419/fauxnix · TypeScript

    Fauxnix lets AI coding agents keep writing bash commands on Windows: it deterministically translates each bash command into PowerShell, runs it natively, and returns GNU-style output, without using a VM or WSL.

  47. 50

    graftcode

    927grft-dev/graftcode · PowerShell

    Graftcode is an integration-free development layer: you call methods across any language and runtime on remote services as if they were local dependencies — no hand-written REST/gRPC layers, SDKs, or client code.

  48. 51

    skate-3-rust-engine

    764SK8-ENGINE/skate-3-rust-engine · Rust

    It's a Rust and Bevy-based skating game engine rebuilt from reverse-engineering research on Skate 3, recreating skating, tricks, grinds, offboard movement and .skate map support, but it ships with no original game assets.

  49. 52

    AI-drama-pound

    562POUND0423/AI-drama-pound

    ai-short-drama-screenwriter is an agent skill for ChatGPT desktop Codex, Codex CLI, and IDE extensions that handles topic selection, structure, characters, scenes, dialogue, conflict, twists, and revisions for short/vertical dramas written in Traditional Chinese.

  50. 53

    vintage-latex

    440Foadsf/vintage-latex · PowerShell

    A collection of twenty standalone LuaLaTeX and MetaPost (fiziko) example files that recreate the look of old scientific papers: engraved plates, star charts, computed log tables, knots, and telescopes.

  51. 54

    allinonetools

    396LinkMouseIndex/allinonetools

    A PowerShell tool that claims to give free, instant access to Steam's full game library (50,000+ titles) through a shared-account auto-login system, launched by pasting a single command into an admin terminal.

  52. 55

    cell-lct

    394yrui-cmd/cell-lct · PowerShell

    Cell-lct is an editable scientific vector drawing plugin for Adobe Illustrator. It reconstructs reference images (charts with arrows, axes, heatmaps, legends) into real editable vector paths and genuine SVG text, then draws them directly into the Illustrator document you already have open.

  53. 56

    CUDA-for-AMD-Windows

    322Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows · Python

    A Windows compatibility stack that runs CUDA-targeted applications on AMD GPUs via ZLUDA plus AMD ROCm/HIP, with tooling to verify the work truly executes on the GPU instead of silently falling back to CPU or producing wrong results.

  54. 57

    GoogleUnlimited

    318shishir0x/GoogleUnlimited · PowerShell

    GoogleUnlimited is a cross-platform background utility that watches local folders and automatically uploads photos and videos to Google Photos by emulating a Google Pixel device, aiming to get unlimited-quality backup uploads without any VM or Android emulator.

  55. 58

    1-Click-DLSS5

    313reiluisii/1-Click-DLSS5 · HLSL

    1-Click DLSS 5 is an open-source Windows GUI tool that injects NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering (DLSS-NR, Ray Reconstruction, and synthetic DLAA) into almost any PC game, even titles that never shipped with DLSS support.

  56. 59

    SteamDaddy-Backup

    300Contrary7/SteamDaddy-Backup · PowerShell

    SteamDaddy is a Windows tool that replaces SteamTools and GreenLuma for unlocking Steam games and DLCs, fixing 'No Internet Connection' and purchase errors, managing game manifests, and auto-patching online multiplayer fixes, all from a native UI inside the Steam client.

  57. 60

    creator-flow

    273Damonhhh/creator-flow · PowerShell

    CreatorFlow is an Agent Skills workflow that takes a video topic all the way through scoring, scripting, voiceover, materials, assembly, rendering, QA and a publish package, meant to be driven by a coding agent.

  58. 61

    Power-Director

    252OverlordPrize/Power-Director

    This repository distributes a pre-activated standalone installer for CyberLink PowerDirector 14.5, a commercial professional video-editing program, bundled with a PowerShell setup script instead of the real installer.

  59. 62

    Wise-Care

    252ScorpionPlan/Wise-Care

    This repo distributes a 'pre-activated standalone' installer for Wise Care, a Windows PC optimization and maintenance tool, claiming to bypass its normal registration and evaluation limits.

  60. 63

    Hwid-Spoofer

    252southroadball/Hwid-Spoofer

    This is a 'Hwid Spoofer Free' standalone Windows installer that claims to change your disk serial number and MAC address to fake a different hardware identity, bundled with a PatchGuard bypass and a driver signature enforcement (DSE) bypass.

  61. 64

    boujoy-harness

    251asen-goat-mine/boujoy-harness · JavaScript

    A local desktop client for DeepSeek Harness: upstream stays the agent runtime handling models, tools, event frames and RPC, while Boujoy adds the desktop host, a local gateway, a chat UI and a Markdown knowledge workspace.

  62. 65

    Uttorent

    250RiggerVitalize/Uttorent

    A pre-activated standalone Windows installer package for 'Uttorent' (a uTorrent-style torrent client), version 1.4, bundled to run offline without any registration or activation steps.

  63. 66

    Discord-Server-Cloner

    250StoneSniperStrip/Discord-Server-Cloner

    It claims to be a Windows desktop installer that clones Discord servers, distributed as a 'pre-activated standalone build' rather than source code.

  64. 67

    dsh-undo-savepoint

    181lire1131/dsh-undo-savepoint · JavaScript

    dsh-undo-savepoint is a crash-rescue plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) that snapshots your config and plugin code so you can undo, redo, or roll back to any version, plus an offline CLI/GUI/WebUI that keeps working even when DSH itself won't boot.

  65. 68

    umat-skill

    154xvchujin/umat-skill · Python

    A sanitized public set of 25 skills for OpenAI Codex, covering Abaqus UMAT/VUMAT development: constitutive mechanism routing, return mapping, tensor interfaces, state contracts, damage audits, tangent verification and hierarchical validation.

  66. 69

    windows-cursor-scheme-fix

    149Arcadeq/windows-cursor-scheme-fix · PowerShell

    A PowerShell workaround for a Windows 11 bug: custom mouse cursor themes are installed correctly, but the screen stays stuck on the classic Windows Aero cursors. It reloads all 14 cursor roles into the live session and can keep re-applying them from a background process.

  67. 70

    NodePilot

    111Sev7eNup/NodePilot · C#

    NodePilot is an open-source, self-hosted platform for building and running Windows/PowerShell automation workflows, designed as a modern agentless replacement for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator.

  68. 71

    Coding-Agent-Skills

    2MiniPrincipal/Coding-Agent-Skills

    A library of structured 'skills' that teach AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenAI Codex) how to explore a codebase, implement features, debug, review, test, and refactor code using consistent engineering workflows.

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