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Zero-dependencies projects on GitHub

Software with no external dependencies, often minimal or single-file implementations

As of , the most-starred Zero-dependencies projects on GitHub are kimi-k3-in-c (9.9K stars), Jantt (6.2K stars) and pele (4.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Zero-dependencies repositories with 21.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on November 2 was shim, with +412 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Nov 2

+412

shim

Balanov/shim · ★ 431

A tiny, local-first AI harness for people who prefer a terminal. It ships as one static binary with zero dependencies, has no TUI and no telemetry, and lets you wire any model, MCP servers and Agent Skills together through a natural-language CLI.

+268

kimi-k3-in-c

FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c · ★ 9.9K

An inference engine for the 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, written in portable C99. It runs on a plain CPU in as little as 8 GB of RAM — no GPU, no BLAS, no framework — streaming the 1.56 TB checkpoint straight off disk.

+130

Jantt

AhmadHassan-BTed/Jantt · ★ 6.2K

Jantt is an AI-native, dependency-free Gantt chart engine that turns a plain JSON document into an interactive, draggable timeline, usable via script tag, React, Next.js, Node CLI, or AI agent pipelines.

+93

pele

obsidianmd/pele · ★ 4.2K

Pele is a lightweight library that renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG, built for speed and with no runtime dependencies.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c

    kimi-k3-in-c

    An inference engine for the 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, written in portable C99. It runs on a plain CPU in as little as 8 GB of RAM — no GPU, no BLAS, no framework — streaming the 1.56 TB checkpoint straight off disk.

    9.9K
  2. #2 · AhmadHassan-BTed/Jantt

    Jantt

    Jantt is an AI-native, dependency-free Gantt chart engine that turns a plain JSON document into an interactive, draggable timeline, usable via script tag, React, Next.js, Node CLI, or AI agent pipelines.

    6.2K
  3. #3 · obsidianmd/pele

    pele

    Pele is a lightweight library that renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG, built for speed and with no runtime dependencies.

    4.2K
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    agent-purge

    1.2KZiChuanLan/agent-purge · JavaScript

    agent-purge lets you write one persona (system prompt) and apply it across many coding agent CLIs at once — Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Grok, pi, Hermes, omp, zcode — either replacing or injecting their default system prompts, managed from a local CLI plus a web console.

  2. 5

    shim

    431Balanov/shim · Go

    A tiny, local-first AI harness for people who prefer a terminal. It ships as one static binary with zero dependencies, has no TUI and no telemetry, and lets you wire any model, MCP servers and Agent Skills together through a natural-language CLI.

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