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anomalyco/opencode

The open source coding agent.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro Electron React Tailwind CSS Bun npm

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-21
History: 60 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4,759 open

186,750

stars

Forks: 23,436
Commits: 15,033 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2,078 +1.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +133 +0.9%

Website GitHub

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: 2026-06-30
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-21
History: 7 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 2,511 open

174,409

stars

Forks: 14,712
Commits: 23,908 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: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-21
History: 9 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 4,130 open

140,676

stars

Forks: 10,681
Commits: 18,977 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 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: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,910 open

100,864

stars

Forks: 6,944
Commits: 37,110 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 454 open

97,481

stars

Forks: 3,949
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: 2026-07-06
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 327 open

81,597

stars

Forks: 2,811
Commits: 3,669 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jesseduffield/lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

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Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #git #terminal

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 992 open

79,947

stars

Forks: 2,896
Commits: 7,695 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-07-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-27
History: 7 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 204 open

65,720

stars

Forks: 2,617
Commits: 2,219 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: 2026-07-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-08
History: 27 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 311 open

63,123

stars

Forks: 5,338
Commits: 23,159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +40 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +66 +0.3%

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: 2026-07-01
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 387 open

59,524

stars

Forks: 1,574
Commits: 3,963 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: 2026-07-08
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-02
History: 6 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 1,007 open

58,766

stars

Forks: 2,580
Commits: 4,322 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-18
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,181 open

58,095

stars

Forks: 5,185
Commits: 9,848 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: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 285 open

52,064

stars

Forks: 1,653
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: 2026-06-30
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-20
History: 8 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 1,573 open

45,062

stars

Forks: 3,587
Commits: 7,607 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: 2026-07-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-09
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 176 open

43,686

stars

Forks: 1,091
Commits: 1,976 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Unitech/pm2

Node.js/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: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-21
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,083 open

43,232

stars

Forks: 2,712
Commits: 5,232 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,148 open

41,334

stars

Forks: 3,870
Commits: 5,447 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

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Stack

Vim Script

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2004-06-13
History: 10 history points
License: Vim
Issues: 1,628 open

40,588

stars

Forks: 6,089
Commits: 24,030 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.

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

40,100

stars

Forks: 923
Commits: 1,451 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 pip

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2024-12-17
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-25
History: 56 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 312 open

38,315

stars

Forks: 3,971
Commits: 1,797 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-06-30
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-05
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 141 open

37,774

stars

Forks: 836
Commits: 614 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:

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

35,397

stars

Forks: 1,399
Commits: 2,222 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: 2026-07-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-18
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 458 open

35,080

stars

Forks: 1,806
Commits: 1,929 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: 2026-07-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-06-17
History: 27 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 172 open

34,783

stars

Forks: 820
Commits: 1,964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +83 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +36 +1.9%

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: 2026-07-13
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 138 open

34,136

stars

Forks: 2,218
Commits: 2,138 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-07-08
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-26
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 323 open

30,074

stars

Forks: 1,254
Commits: 2,070 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-07-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-11
History: 30 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,029 open

29,041

stars

Forks: 1,342
Commits: 3,529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +30 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +3 +0.1%

Website GitHub

charmbracelet/glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #excitement #hacktoberfest #markdown

Updated: 2026-04-26
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 211 open

26,184

stars

Forks: 717
Commits: 866 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: 14 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 302 open

24,998

stars

Forks: 2,251
Commits: 3,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

semantic-release/semantic-release

:package::rocket: Fully automated version management and package publishing

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#automation #changelog #package #publish #release #release-automation

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 396 open

23,858

stars

Forks: 1,809
Commits: 2,179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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