GitHub Giants
Top 30 AI Projects by Stars
A durable popularity snapshot of the most-starred open source AI repositories on GitHub, useful for spotting category leaders and long-term community trust.
Most-Starred Open Source AI Repos
Use this list to understand category leaders, benchmark community gravity, and find projects worth evaluating in depth.
Stars are an imperfect metric, but they remain the cleanest public proxy for developer awareness and project reach.
| # | Repository | Description | Language | Stars | Forks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | build-your-own-x codecrafters-io |
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. | Markdown | 551,072 ⭐ | 50,906 | Open Repo |
| 🥈 | awesome sindresorhus |
😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics [NOTE: Pull requests are temporarily disabled until I have a chanc | Repo | 513,250 ⭐ | 36,076 | Open Repo |
| 🥉 | public-apis public-apis |
A collective list of free APIs | Shell | 485,209 ⭐ | 52,163 | Open Repo |
| 4 | freeCodeCamp freeCodeCamp |
freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn math, programming, and computer science for free. | JavaScript | 456,619 ⭐ | 47,172 | Open Repo |
| 5 | free-programming-books EbookFoundation |
:books: Freely available programming books | HTML | 398,282 ⭐ | 63,809 | Open Repo |
| 6 | openclaw openclaw |
The AI that really does things. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 | JavaScript | 391,160 ⭐ | 80,974 | Open Repo |
| 7 | system-design-primer donnemartin |
Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards. | Python | 372,818 ⭐ | 56,887 | Open Repo |
| 8 | developer-roadmap nilbuild |
Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers. | TypeScript | 368,674 ⭐ | 42,240 | Open Repo |
| 9 | awesome-python vinta |
The definitive list that answers "I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?" | Python | 324,529 ⭐ | 27,728 | Open Repo |
| 10 | superpowers obra |
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. | Shell | 293,932 ⭐ | 26,005 | Open Repo |
| 11 | project-based-learning practical-tutorials |
Curated list of project-based tutorials | Python | 285,552 ⭐ | 35,809 | Open Repo |
| 12 | skills mattpocock |
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory. | Shell | 273,824 ⭐ | 22,903 | Open Repo |
| 13 | ECC affaan-m |
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development f | Shell | 270,664 ⭐ | 40,304 | Open Repo |
| 14 | everything-claude-code affaan-m |
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development f | Shell | 270,664 ⭐ | 40,304 | Open Repo |
| 15 | hermes-agent NousResearch |
The agent that grows with you | Python | 250,597 ⭐ | 53,243 | Open Repo |
| 16 | andrej-karpathy-skills multica-ai |
A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfa | Repo | 216,164 ⭐ | 21,656 | Open Repo |
| 17 | vue vuejs |
This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core | JavaScript | 212,850 ⭐ | 33,424 | Open Repo |
| 18 | opencode anomalyco |
The open source coding agent. | Shell | 211,329 ⭐ | 27,598 | Open Repo |
| 19 | computer-science ossu |
🎓 Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science! | HTML | 209,672 ⭐ | 25,170 | Open Repo |
| 20 | n8n n8n-io |
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host | Shell | 206,464 ⭐ | 60,538 | Open Repo |
| 21 | FreeDomain DigitalPlatDev |
Free domain registration and practical DNS learning resources for everyone. | Markdown | 202,029 ⭐ | 4,426 | Open Repo |
| 22 | tensorflow tensorflow |
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone | Starlark | 200,656 ⭐ | 76,428 | Open Repo |
| 23 | claw-code ultraworkers |
An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human inte | Python | 195,281 ⭐ | 104,134 | Open Repo |
| 24 | yt-dlp yt-dlp |
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader | Makefile | 194,787 ⭐ | 16,717 | Open Repo |
| 25 | vscode microsoft |
Visual Studio Code | JavaScript | 193,355 ⭐ | 42,500 | Open Repo |
| 26 | markitdown microsoft |
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. | Python | 187,889 ⭐ | 13,826 | Open Repo |
| 27 | AutoGPT Significant-Gravitas |
AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so tha | Python | 187,648 ⭐ | 45,079 | Open Repo |
| 28 | firecrawl firecrawl |
🔥 Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. A web data API to search, scrape, and access more source | Dockerfile | 187,574 ⭐ | 9,877 | Open Repo |
| 29 | ollama ollama |
Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models. | TypeScript | 182,024 ⭐ | 17,732 | Open Repo |
| 30 | HelloGitHub 521xueweihan |
:octocat: 分享 GitHub 上有趣、入门级的开源项目。Share interesting, entry-level open source projects on GitHub. | Python | 179,565 ⭐ | 12,779 | Open Repo |