Open source

The AI code worth reading

Most of what the paid tools are built on is free and sitting on GitHub. These are the 120 most-starred projects across 10 areas — pulled live from the GitHub API, so the star counts and activity dates are real, not remembered.

4.7Mstars represented
120repositories
10areas

Browse by what you're building

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Agent Frameworks

Frameworks for building software that plans, uses tools, and acts on its own.

12 repositories
🧩

Building With LLMs

The plumbing: chains, orchestration, prompt management, and app scaffolding.

12 repositories
💻

Run Models Locally

Everything you need to run a capable model on your own hardware, offline and free.

12 repositories
🔎

RAG & Vector Search

Vector databases and retrieval stacks for pointing a model at your own documents.

12 repositories
🎛️

Training & Fine-Tuning

Libraries for adapting an existing model to your data rather than starting over.

12 repositories
🎨

Image & Video Generation

Open-source generation and editing — the models behind most of the paid tools.

12 repositories
🎙️

Speech & Audio

Transcription, text-to-speech, and voice cloning you can self-host.

12 repositories
⌨️

AI Coding Tools

Editors, pair programmers, and agents that write and refactor code.

12 repositories
📚

Learn & Reference

Curated reading lists, course repos, and hands-on tutorials, ranked by how many people starred them.

12 repositories
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Prompting & Evaluation

Prompt libraries, testing harnesses, and tools that measure whether output is any good.

12 repositories

Most starred overall

Across every area, ranked by GitHub stars.

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ECC

affaan-m

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

★ 232k · JavaScript · MITai-agentsanthropicclaude
updated today View on GitHub →

f.k.a. Awesome ChatGPT Prompts. Share, discover, and collect prompts from the community. Free and open source — self-host for your organization with complete privacy.

★ 166k · HTMLaiartificial-intelligenceawesome-list
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firecrawl

firecrawl

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥

★ 154k · TypeScript · AGPL-3.0aiai-agentsai-crawler
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langchain

langchain-ai

The agent engineering platform.

★ 142k · Python · MITagentsaiai-agents
updated today View on GitHub →
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ComfyUI

Comfy-Org

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

★ 122k · Python · GPL-3.0aicomfycomfyui
updated today View on GitHub →
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gemini-cli

google-gemini

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.

★ 106k · TypeScript · Apache-2.0aiai-agentscli
updated today View on GitHub →
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browser-use

browser-use

🌐 Make websites accessible for AI agents. Automate tasks online with ease.

★ 106k · Python · MITai-agentsai-toolsbrowser-automation
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MoneyPrinterTurbo

harry0703

利用 AI 大模型和自动化工作流,根据主题或关键词一键生成高清短视频。Generate HD short videos from a topic or keyword with an automated AI workflow.

★ 99k · Python · MITai-video-generatorcontent-creationffmpeg
updated 2 days ago View on GitHub →
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graphify

Graphify-Labs

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 CLI: local deterministic AST parsing, every edge explained, no vector store.

★ 94k · Python · MITai-agentsantigravityast
updated today View on GitHub →

Where this comes from: Repositories are fetched from the GitHub REST API, sorted by star count, one search per area. Archived repositories and forks are excluded. Last refreshed 22 July 2026. Nothing on this page is a paid placement.