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Task-queue projects on GitHub

Background task queue libraries and workers.

As of , the most-starred Task-queue projects on GitHub are asynq (13.8K stars), rq (10.7K stars) and moyin-creator (4.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 8 Task-queue repositories with 31.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Orbital, with +383 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+383

Orbital

zqiren/Orbital · ★ 904

Orbital is a local project agent: it keeps your project's state, decisions and history as plain files inside the project folder, so any coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — picks up where the last one stopped without re-explaining anything.

+5

asynq

hibiken/asynq · ★ 13.8K

Asynq is a Go library for queueing tasks and processing them asynchronously with workers, backed by Redis. It distributes work across multiple machines and is designed to be scalable yet easy to get started.

+4

moyin-creator

MemeCalculate/moyin-creator · ★ 4.7K

Moyin Creator (魔因漫创) is a production-grade AI tool for film and video creators that automates the whole pipeline from script to finished video: script parsing, character design, scene generation, storyboarding, and Seedance 2.0-powered image/video batch generation.

+1

effect-mq

TeamWarp/effect-mq · ★ 188

effect-mq is an Effect-native background job and message queue library: schema-first job definitions, a storage-agnostic queue core, a worker runtime, and stores for Postgres (via Drizzle) and Redis.

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8 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · hibiken/asynq

    asynq

    Asynq is a Go library for queueing tasks and processing them asynchronously with workers, backed by Redis. It distributes work across multiple machines and is designed to be scalable yet easy to get started.

    13.8K
  2. #2 · rq/rq

    rq

    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.

    10.7K
  3. #3 · MemeCalculate/moyin-creator

    moyin-creator

    Moyin Creator (魔因漫创) is a production-grade AI tool for film and video creators that automates the whole pipeline from script to finished video: script parsing, character design, scene generation, storyboarding, and Seedance 2.0-powered image/video batch generation.

    4.7K
  1. 4

    Orbital

    904zqiren/Orbital · Python

    Orbital is a local project agent: it keeps your project's state, decisions and history as plain files inside the project folder, so any coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — picks up where the last one stopped without re-explaining anything.

  2. 5

    tork

    820runabol/tork · Go

    Tork is a lightweight, distributed workflow engine written in Go. You define jobs made of multiple tasks, and each task runs as a simple script inside its own Docker container — on one machine or across many workers.

  3. 6

    effect-mq

    188TeamWarp/effect-mq · TypeScript

    effect-mq is an Effect-native background job and message queue library: schema-first job definitions, a storage-agnostic queue core, a worker runtime, and stores for Postgres (via Drizzle) and Redis.

  4. 7

    dsh-lowtide

    174KelaoHu/dsh-lowtide · TypeScript

    lowtide is a plugin for DeepSeek Harness (dsh) that lets you queue agent tasks during the day and have them run automatically, unattended, during DeepSeek's off-peak pricing hours, so you review a finished report later instead of waiting on the agent in real time.

  5. 8

    SolcQueue

    55centxyz/SolcQueue · JavaScript

    SolcQueue is a Solidity compiler API: you send it compile jobs (run synchronously or queued in the background) and it returns diagnostics and build artifacts, plus real-time job updates over SSE and metrics about its background workers.

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