Trending open-source tools

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Net GitHub Star growth over roughly 24-hour snapshots, normalized by snapshot interval.

10 projects

  1. hermes-agent

    #1

    A personal AI agent that runs locally or on remote infrastructure with terminal, messaging, memory, skills, and scheduled automation.

    NousResearch · AI apps

    ★ 250,668+242 ★
  2. codex

    #2

    OpenAI’s coding agent that runs locally, with terminal, IDE, and desktop-app entry points.

    openai · Developer tools

    ★ 127,430+230 ★
  3. claude-code

    #3

    An agentic coding tool for the terminal that understands codebases, handles routine development tasks, explains code, and works with Git workflows.

    anthropics · Developer tools

    ★ 148,842+142 ★
  4. spec-kit

    #4

    An open-source CLI toolkit for Spec-Driven Development that guides AI coding agents through structured specification, planning, and code generation steps.

    github · Developer tools

    ★ 139,752+136 ★
  5. financial-services

    #5

    Financial services reference agents, skills, and MCP connectors for Claude and Managed Agents.

    anthropics · AI apps

    ★ 38,403+133 ★
  6. CLI-Anything

    #6

    A toolkit for generating and managing agent-callable CLIs for existing software, with CLI-Hub, generation workflows, and skill/plugin integrations.

    HKUDS · Developer tools

    ★ 51,148+102 ★
  7. llama.cpp

    #7

    A lightweight LLM inference engine implemented in C/C++, supporting various hardware backends and model quantization.

    ggml-org · Developer tools

    ★ 129,982+99 ★
  8. codebase-memory-mcp

    #8

    A high-performance MCP server that builds local persistent knowledge graphs for millisecond-latency code intelligence and structural queries.

    DeusData · Developer tools

    ★ 45,550+93 ★
  9. bookorbit

    #9

    Self-hosted library for ebooks, PDFs, audiobooks, and comics with progress sync across web, Kobo, and KOReader.

    bookorbit · Open source & self-hosting

    ★ 5,062+84 ★
  10. excalidraw

    #10

    An open-source virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams with real-time collaboration.

    excalidraw · Design & creation

    ★ 133,342+70 ★

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