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10 projects
- 1NousResearchAI apps★ 250,668
hermes-agent
#1A personal AI agent that runs locally or on remote infrastructure with terminal, messaging, memory, skills, and scheduled automation.
NousResearch · AI apps
★ 250,668+242 ★ - 2openaiDeveloper tools★ 127,430
codex
#2OpenAI’s coding agent that runs locally, with terminal, IDE, and desktop-app entry points.
openai · Developer tools
★ 127,430+230 ★ - 3anthropicsDeveloper tools★ 148,842
claude-code
#3An 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 ★ - 4githubDeveloper tools★ 139,752
spec-kit
#4An 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 ★ - 5anthropicsAI apps★ 38,403
financial-services
#5Financial services reference agents, skills, and MCP connectors for Claude and Managed Agents.
anthropics · AI apps
★ 38,403+133 ★ - 6HKUDSDeveloper tools★ 51,148
CLI-Anything
#6A 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 ★ - 7ggml-orgDeveloper tools★ 129,982
llama.cpp
#7A lightweight LLM inference engine implemented in C/C++, supporting various hardware backends and model quantization.
ggml-org · Developer tools
★ 129,982+99 ★ - 8DeusDataDeveloper tools★ 45,550
codebase-memory-mcp
#8A high-performance MCP server that builds local persistent knowledge graphs for millisecond-latency code intelligence and structural queries.
DeusData · Developer tools
★ 45,550+93 ★ - 9bookorbitOpen source & self-hosting★ 5,062
bookorbit
#9Self-hosted library for ebooks, PDFs, audiobooks, and comics with progress sync across web, Kobo, and KOReader.
bookorbit · Open source & self-hosting
★ 5,062+84 ★ - 10excalidrawDesign & creation★ 133,342
excalidraw
#10An open-source virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams with real-time collaboration.
excalidraw · Design & creation
★ 133,342+70 ★
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