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rea ★ 441K

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

rank001 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryFrameworks & Platforms
OpenClaw ★ 394K

An AI assistant that acts, not just answers

rank002 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryAI Interaction & Interfaces
ECC ★ 299K

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor

rank003 licenseMIT written inJavaScript categoryFrameworks & Platforms
Hermes Agent ★ 262K

Desktop AI agent with persistent memory across platforms

rank004 licenseMIT written inPython categoryAI Interaction & Interfaces
react ★ 252K

The library for web and native user interfaces.

rank005 licenseMIT written inJavaScript categoryFrameworks & Platforms
OpenCode ★ 225K

AI coding agent for terminal, IDE, and desktop

rank006 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryAI Assisted Coding
n8n ★ 210K

Visual workflow automation with code flexibility and AI agents

rank007 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript categoryAutomation
firecrawl ★ 200K

rank008 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript categoryMiscellaneous
vscode ★ 195K

Visual Studio Code

rank009 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryIDEs & Code Editors
ponytail ★ 186K

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

rank010 licenseMIT written inJavaScript categoryAI Development Platforms
Ollama ★ 186K

Run open-source LLMs locally on your own machine

rank011 licenseMIT written inGo categoryMachine Learning Infrastructure
stable-diffusion-webui ★ 165K

Stable Diffusion web UI

rank012 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPython categoryAI Interaction & Interfaces
Dify ★ 161K

Build and deploy AI agents and RAG pipelines visually

rank013 licenseNOASSERTION written inPython categoryAI Development Platforms
Open WebUI ★ 158K

One interface for every AI model you run or connect

rank014 licenseNOASSERTION written inSvelte categoryAI Interaction & Interfaces
Langflow ★ 156K

Visual builder for AI agents and RAG pipelines

rank015 licenseMIT written inPython categoryFrameworks & Platforms
langchain ★ 149K

The agent engineering platform.

rank016 licenseMIT written inPython categoryAI Development Platforms
ComfyUI ★ 146K

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.

rank017 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPython categoryAI Interaction & Interfaces
graphify ★ 144K

Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini

rank018 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython categoryAI Development Platforms
next.js ★ 143K

The React Framework

rank019 licenseMIT written inJavaScript categoryBlogging & Personal Sites
Excalidraw ★ 135K

Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn aesthetic

rank020 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryDesign & Visualization
llama.cpp ★ 134K

Run LLMs locally with minimal setup, maximum hardware support

rank021 licenseMIT written inC++ categoryMachine Learning Infrastructure
kubernetes ★ 129K

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

rank022 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo categoryCloud Infrastructure Management
RustDesk ★ 129K

Self-hosted remote desktop you fully control

rank023 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inRust categoryRemote Desktop & Access
generative-ai-for-beginners ★ 123K

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

rank024 licenseMIT written inJupyter Notebook categoryAI Development Platforms
pi ★ 121K

Minimal terminal coding agent you can fully customize

rank025 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryAI Assisted Coding
Browser Use ★ 120K

Let AI agents control any browser, at scale

rank026 licenseMIT written inPython categoryData Extraction & Web Scraping
Godot ★ 120K

Free 2D and 3D game engine for cross-platform projects

rank027 licenseMIT written inC++ categoryGaming
Orca ★ 119K

Run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, side by side

rank028 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryAI Assisted Coding
Immich ★ 118K

Self-hosted photo and video backup for your own server

rank029 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript categoryStorage Solutions
caveman ★ 118K

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman.

rank030 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo categoryAI Assisted Coding
three.js ★ 118K

JavaScript 3D Library.

rank031 licenseMIT written inJavaScript categoryGaming
Supabase ★ 115K

Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps

rank032 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript categoryFrameworks & Platforms
claude-mem ★ 115K

Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context b

rank033 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript categoryAI Development Platforms
Paperclip ★ 112K

Org chart, budgets, and governance for AI agent teams

rank034 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryAI Assisted Coding
frp ★ 110K

A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

rank035 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo categoryNetworking & Connectivity
Agent-Reach ★ 110K

Give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet. Read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu — one CLI, zero API fees.

rank036 licenseMIT written inPython categoryAI Development Platforms
open-design ★ 107K

🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine:

rank037 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript categoryDesign & Prototyping
fastapi ★ 105K

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

rank038 licenseMIT written inPython categoryAPI Development & Testing
Neovim ★ 103K

Hyperextensible, Lua-powered Vim-based text editor

rank039 licenseNOASSERTION written inVim Script categoryIDEs & Code Editors
ant-design ★ 100K

An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

rank040 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryDesign & Prototyping
playwright ★ 100K

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

rank041 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript categoryTesting & Quality Assurance
Scrapling ★ 99K

🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl! Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.gg/EMgGbDce

rank042 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inPython categoryData Extraction & Web Scraping
LocalSend ★ 98K

Share files securely across all devices without servers

rank043 licenseApache-2.0 written inDart categoryFile Management & Sync
OpenCut ★ 98K

Open source video editor that runs in your browser

rank044 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryPhoto & Video Editors
vllm ★ 97K

A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

rank045 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython categoryMachine Learning Infrastructure
manim ★ 96K

Animation engine for explanatory math videos

rank046 licenseMIT written inPython categoryDesign & Prototyping
puppeteer ★ 96K

JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox

rank047 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript categoryFrameworks & Platforms
odysseus ★ 95K

Self-hosted AI workspace.

rank048 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPython categoryAI Interaction & Interfaces
archify ★ 95K

Agent skill for beautiful, verifiable architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle diagrams—self-contained HTML with motion and crisp export.

rank049 licenseApache-2.0 written inJavaScript categoryFrameworks & Platforms
Zed ★ 94K

High-performance code editor built for speed and AI

rank050 licenseNOASSERTION written inRust categoryIDEs & Code Editors
ragflow ★ 94K

RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context la

rank051 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo categoryAI Development Platforms
Uptime Kuma ★ 93K

Self-hosted uptime monitoring with a clean dashboard

rank052 licenseMIT written inJavaScript categoryMonitoring & Observability
OpenHands ★ 93K

Autonomous coding agents that complete real engineering tasks

rank053 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryAI Assisted Coding
PaddleOCR ★ 92K

Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports

rank054 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython categoryAI Development Platforms
Home Assistant ★ 92K

Local control smart home automation with privacy first

rank055 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython categoryInternet of Things (IoT)
storybook ★ 91K

Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation

rank056 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryDocumentation & Knowledge Base
Understand-Anything ★ 91K

Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude C

rank057 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryDocumentation & Knowledge Base
Mermaid ★ 91K

Text-based diagramming that renders in code and docs

rank058 licenseMIT written inTypeScript categoryBusiness Intelligence & Reporting
hugo ★ 90K

The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

rank059 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo categoryContent Management Systems (CMS)
worldmonitor ★ 90K

Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness in

rank060 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript categoryMonitoring & Observability