Task projects on GitHub

Task runners, schedulers, and async job libraries for automating work and workflows.

As of October 18, 2026, the most-starred Task projects on GitHub are ansible (71K stars), Python (35.4K stars) and beego (32.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Task repositories with 263.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ansible, with +17 stars in a day.

12Projects

263.2KStars in total

+35Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+17

ansible

ansible/ansible · ★ 71K

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system for configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc tasks, network automation, and multi-node orchestration.

Python

geekcomputers/Python · ★ 35.4K

A personal collection of small, standalone Python scripts covering automation, games, utilities, and web scraping, meant both to solve the author's own problems and to serve as learning examples for beginners.

task

go-task/task · ★ 16.3K

Task is a fast, cross-platform build tool and task runner written in Go. It is inspired by Make but built for modern workflows, and it has collected over 16,000 GitHub stars.

spug

openspug/spug · ★ 11.1K

Spug is a lightweight, agent-free ops platform built for small and medium-sized businesses that bundles host management, batch command execution, an online SSH terminal, file transfer, build/deploy pipelines, task scheduling, a configuration center, and monitoring/alerting into one web app.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

#1 · ansible/ansible
ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system for configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc tasks, network automation, and multi-node orchestration.
71K
#2 · geekcomputers/Python
Python
A personal collection of small, standalone Python scripts covering automation, games, utilities, and web scraping, meant both to solve the author's own problems and to serve as learning examples for beginners.
35.4K
#3 · beego/beego
beego
Beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for Go, aimed at rapid development of enterprise applications: RESTful APIs, web apps and backend services.
32.4K

4
xxl-job
30.6Kxuxueli/xxl-job · Java
XXL-JOB is a distributed task scheduling framework: a central scheduler triggers jobs across a cluster of executors, all managed from a web UI. It aims to be quick to develop with, simple to learn, lightweight and easy to extend, and many companies run it in production.
5
CodeIgniter
18.1Kbcit-ci/CodeIgniter · PHP
CodeIgniter is an open-source PHP framework (a toolkit) for building web applications faster by providing ready-made libraries for common tasks instead of writing everything from scratch.
6
task
16.3Kgo-task/task · Go
Task is a fast, cross-platform build tool and task runner written in Go. It is inspired by Make but built for modern workflows, and it has collected over 16,000 GitHub stars.
7
tui.calendar
12.7Knhn/tui.calendar · TypeScript
TOAST UI Calendar is a full-featured JavaScript calendar component that renders monthly, weekly, and daily views with drag-and-drop scheduling, provided as a plain JS library plus official React and Vue wrapper components.
8
grunt
12.2Kgruntjs/grunt · JavaScript
Grunt is a JavaScript task runner: you describe your project's repetitive tasks once, and Grunt executes them for you so you don't run each step by hand.
9
UniTask
11.3KCysharp/UniTask · C#
UniTask is a C# library that adds an efficient, allocation-free async/await implementation for Unity, letting you await Unity operations and coroutines directly.
10
spug
11.1Kopenspug/spug · JavaScript
Spug is a lightweight, agent-free ops platform built for small and medium-sized businesses that bundles host management, batch command execution, an online SSH terminal, file transfer, build/deploy pipelines, task scheduling, a configuration center, and monitoring/alerting into one web app.
11
rq
10.7Krq/rq · Python
RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for putting jobs on a queue and processing them in the background with worker processes, backed by Redis or Valkey.
12
taskview-community
1.3KGimanh/taskview-community · TypeScript
TaskView is a self-hosted project and task management platform that combines task tracking, custom workflows, developer integrations, analytics, and AI-assisted automation, built for teams that want a transparent alternative to SaaS task managers.