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anomalyco/opencode

The open source coding agent.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro Electron React Tailwind CSS Bun npm

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-21
History: 85 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6,021 open

209,179

stars

Forks: 27,568
Commits: 15,776 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yt-dlp/yt-dlp

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#cli #downloader #python #sponsorblock #youtube-dl #youtube-downloader

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-21
History: 10 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 2,661 open

192,177

stars

Forks: 16,674
Commits: 23,998 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2026-02-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-21
History: 13 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 4,123 open

141,304

stars

Forks: 10,657
Commits: 18,977 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +29 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

neovim/neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script CMake

GitHub topics

#api #c #lua #neovim #nvim #text-editor

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 19 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,975 open

103,016

stars

Forks: 7,191
Commits: 38,482 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +38 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +80 +0.2%

Website GitHub

nvbn/thefuck

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#python #shell

Updated: 2024-07-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-04-08
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 461 open

97,880

stars

Forks: 3,962
Commits: 1,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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junegunn/fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

Stack

Go Bundler Go modules

GitHub topics

#bash #cli #fish #fzf #go #neovim

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-23
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 332 open

83,535

stars

Forks: 4,984
Commits: 3,755 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jesseduffield/lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

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Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #git #terminal

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-13
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,053 open

82,627

stars

Forks: 3,047
Commits: 8,286 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tw93/Mole

🐹 Keep your Mac and PC clean, light, and running like new. Fast open-source CLI, plus native Mac and Windows apps.

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Stack

Shell Go modules

GitHub topics

#analyzer #appcleaner #clean #cleaner #cleanmymac #command-line

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-23
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

70,682

stars

Forks: 2,501
Commits: 3,637 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +806 +1.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +120 +3.4%

Website GitHub

BurntSushi/ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #command-line-tool #gitignore #grep #recursively-search

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-27
History: 10 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 203 open

68,582

stars

Forks: 3,513
Commits: 2,287 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tldr-pages/tldr

Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.

AI dev

Stack

Markdown npm pip

GitHub topics

#android #bsd #cheatsheet #cheatsheets #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-08
History: 45 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 279 open

63,682

stars

Forks: 5,402
Commits: 23,689 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sharkdp/bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.

Stack

Rust Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #git #hacktoberfest #rust #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-21
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 523 open

60,592

stars

Forks: 2,818
Commits: 4,031 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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starship/starship

☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

Stack

Rust Vite Vue Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bash #fish #fish-prompt #fish-theme #oh-my-zsh #powershell

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-02
History: 9 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 1,059 open

60,251

stars

Forks: 2,700
Commits: 4,438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rclone/rclone

"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#azure-blob #azure-blob-storage #azure-files #backblaze-b2 #cloud-storage #dropbox

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-18
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,276 open

59,830

stars

Forks: 5,407
Commits: 10,366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jesseduffield/lazydocker

The lazier way to manage everything docker

AI dev

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-04-19
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-11
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 304 open

53,100

stars

Forks: 1,694
Commits: 892 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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helix-editor/helix

A post-modern modal text editor.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#kakoune #rust #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-20
History: 11 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 1,682 open

46,328

stars

Forks: 3,775
Commits: 7,689 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sharkdp/fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #filesystem #hacktoberfest #regex #rust

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-09
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 203 open

44,784

stars

Forks: 1,154
Commits: 2,044 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

Unitech/pm2

Node.js/Typescript/Bun Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#command-line #command-line-tool #deploy #load-balancer #monitoring #node

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-21
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,109 open

43,301

stars

Forks: 2,733
Commits: 5,239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aria2/aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#bittorrent #cpp11 #download #ftp #http #metalink

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-17
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,178 open

42,675

stars

Forks: 3,934
Commits: 5,447 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sxyazi/yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #asyncio #cli #command-line #concurrency #cross-platform

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 64 open

42,635

stars

Forks: 1,039
Commits: 1,550 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vim/vim

The official Vim repository

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script

GitHub topics

#c #cross-platform #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2004-06-13
History: 13 history points
License: Vim
Issues: 1,633 open

40,978

stars

Forks: 6,139
Commits: 24,548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

schollz/croc

Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:

AI dev

Stack

Go React Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#data-transfer #file-sharing #golang #pake #peer-to-peer #tcp

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-17
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

40,524

stars

Forks: 1,625
Commits: 2,513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ajeetdsouza/zoxide

A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#autojump #bash #cli #command-line #command-line-tool #elvish

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-05
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 149 open

39,724

stars

Forks: 910
Commits: 636 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

httpie/cli

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-testing #cli #client #curl

Updated: 2024-12-17
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-25
History: 75 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 338 open

38,533

stars

Forks: 4,004
Commits: 1,797 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

casey/just

🤖 Just a command runner

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-06-17
History: 45 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 172 open

35,734

stars

Forks: 843
Commits: 1,979 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jqlang/jq

Command-line JSON processor

Stack

C Pipenv

GitHub topics

#jq

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-18
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 450 open

35,708

stars

Forks: 2,984
Commits: 1,951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

derailed/k9s

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#go #golang #k8s #k8s-cluster #k9s #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-25
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 74 open

34,597

stars

Forks: 2,277
Commits: 2,198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chubin/wttr.in

:partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#ascii-art #curl #terminal #weather #weather-api #weather-app

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-26
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 333 open

30,653

stars

Forks: 1,276
Commits: 2,073 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

micro-editor/micro

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #cross-platform #editor #go #golang #micro

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-11
History: 48 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 945 open

29,559

stars

Forks: 1,363
Commits: 3,548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

charmbracelet/glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #excitement #hacktoberfest #markdown

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-04
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 235 open

27,527

stars

Forks: 778
Commits: 875 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cookiecutter/cookiecutter

A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.

Stack

Python pytest Starlette pip uv

GitHub topics

#cookiecutter #python

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-14
History: 17 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 326 open

25,146

stars

Forks: 2,291
Commits: 3,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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