14 open source projects written in Shell
Every Shell project in the registry, ranked by GitHub stars — license and last push on every entry, data pulled live from the GitHub API every night.
Mole ★ 68K Mac cleaner, app manager, and system monitor in one
Dokku ★ 32K Self-hosted mini-PaaS for deploying applications easily
ProxmoxVE ★ 30K Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition)
agency-agents-zh ★ 21K 🎭 277 个即插即用的 AI 专家角色 — 支持 Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot 等 20 种工具，覆盖工程/设计/营销/金融等 20 个部门。含 64 个中国市场原创智能体（小红书/抖音/微信/飞书/钉钉/Qt 上位机/机械设计）。搭配编排器 agency-orchestrator，一句话即
lynis ★ 16K Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentles
nb ★ 8.4K CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + mo
ccpm ★ 8.4K Project management skill system for Agents that uses GitHub Issues and Git worktrees for parallel agent execution.
ONLYOFFICE Docs ★ 6.9K Complete office suite for documents, spreadsheets & more
arscontexta ★ 3.5K Claude Code plugin that generates individualized knowledge systems from conversation. You describe how you think and work, have a conversation and get a complet
Collabora Online ★ 3.4K Open-source document editing suite for secure collaboration
vps-audit ★ 3.1K lightweight, dependency-free bash script for security, performance auditing and infrastructure monitoring of Linux servers.
pentest-ai-agents ★ 2.2K Turn Claude Code into your offensive security research assistant. Specialized AI subagents for authorized penetration testing plan engagements, analyze recon, r
devops-basics ★ 1.9K 🚀 Practical and document place for DevOps toolchain
Publish-Docker-Github-Action ★ 794 A Github Action used to build and publish Docker images
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source projects are written in Shell?
This registry tracks 14 Shell projects, with 205,045 GitHub stars between them and a median of 6,910 stars. The most-adopted is Mole at 67,621 stars.
Which Shell projects are most actively maintained?
12 of the 14 projects were pushed in the last 90 days. Each entry above shows its exact last-push date, so you can filter out dormant projects before committing to one.
What licence are Shell projects usually under?
13 of the 14 carry an explicit open-source licence across 5 distinct licences, and the licence is shown on every card. Permissive licences (MIT, Apache-2.0) are the safest default for commercial use; check the copyleft ones individually.
Should I use Shell or Python for my project?
Both are viable. Shell is the better default if your team already knows it or the libraries you need are written in it; Python may suit you better if you need the ecosystem, tooling or performance profile it is known for. The registry lists 14 Shell projects to work from.