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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π₯ | build-your-own-x codecrafters-io |
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. | Markdown | 535,628 β | 49,782 | Open Repo |
| π₯ | awesome sindresorhus |
π Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics | Repo | 492,071 β | 35,075 | Open Repo |
| π₯ | public-apis public-apis |
A collective list of free APIs | Shell | 454,257 β | 48,645 | Open Repo |
| 4 | freeCodeCamp freeCodeCamp |
freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn math, programming, and computer science for free. | JavaScript | 453,425 β | 45,153 | Open Repo |
| 5 | free-programming-books EbookFoundation |
:books: Freely available programming books | HTML | 393,642 β | 63,519 | Open Repo |
| 6 | openclaw openclaw |
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. π¦ | JavaScript | 385,047 β | 79,703 | Open Repo |
| 7 | developer-roadmap nilbuild |
Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers. | TypeScript | 363,489 β | 41,934 | Open Repo |
| 8 | system-design-primer donnemartin |
Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards. | Python | 360,473 β | 55,700 | Open Repo |
| 9 | coding-interview-university jwasham |
A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer. | Repo | 357,733 β | 79,209 | Open Repo |
| 10 | awesome-python vinta |
An opinionated list of Python frameworks, libraries, tools, and resources | Python | 311,991 β | 27,315 | Open Repo |
| 11 | project-based-learning practical-tutorials |
Curated list of project-based tutorials | Python | 276,348 β | 34,901 | Open Repo |
| 12 | superpowers obra |
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. | Shell | 265,686 β | 23,509 | Open Repo |
| 13 | ECC affaan-m |
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development f | Shell | 237,312 β | 35,947 | Open Repo |
| 14 | everything-claude-code affaan-m |
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development f | Shell | 237,312 β | 35,947 | Open Repo |
| 15 | hermes-agent NousResearch |
The agent that grows with you | Python | 224,855 β | 43,252 | Open Repo |
| 16 | vue vuejs |
This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core | TypeScript | 210,183 β | 33,769 | Open Repo |
| 17 | computer-science ossu |
π Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science! | HTML | 207,561 β | 24,968 | Open Repo |
| 18 | skills mattpocock |
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory. | Shell | 201,423 β | 17,291 | Open Repo |
| 19 | n8n n8n-io |
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host | Shell | 199,212 β | 59,457 | Open Repo |
| 20 | 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 | 199,125 β | 20,345 | Open Repo |
| 21 | tensorflow tensorflow |
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone | Starlark | 196,775 β | 74,266 | Open Repo |
| 22 | claw-code ultraworkers |
An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex β developed and maintained with no human inte | Python | 194,965 β | 105,133 | Open Repo |
| 23 | opencode anomalyco |
The open source coding agent. | Shell | 192,855 β | 24,276 | Open Repo |
| 24 | FreeDomain DigitalPlatDev |
DigitalPlat FreeDomain: Free Domain For Everyone | Repo | 190,498 β | 4,038 | Open Repo |
| 25 | vscode microsoft |
Visual Studio Code | JavaScript | 188,255 β | 39,926 | Open Repo |
| 26 | 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 | 185,790 β | 45,153 | Open Repo |
| 27 | yt-dlp yt-dlp |
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader | Makefile | 182,225 β | 15,457 | Open Repo |
| 28 | flutter flutter |
Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond | Dart | 178,161 β | 30,426 | Open Repo |
| 29 | ollama ollama |
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.2, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models. | TypeScript | 177,700 β | 16,922 | Open Repo |
| 30 | markitdown microsoft |
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. | Python | 171,191 β | 12,386 | Open Repo |