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anomalyco/opencode

The open source coding agent.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro Electron React Tailwind CSS Bun npm

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-21
History: 84 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5,020 open

195,640

stars

Forks: 25,078
Commits: 15,368 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-21
History: 9 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 2,585 open

182,916

stars

Forks: 15,724
Commits: 23,948 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: 10 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 4,129 open

140,810

stars

Forks: 10,670
Commits: 18,977 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-08-11
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,880 open

101,723

stars

Forks: 7,018
Commits: 37,674 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: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 453 open

97,568

stars

Forks: 3,952
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: 2026-07-27
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-23
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 323 open

82,000

stars

Forks: 2,824
Commits: 3,700 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jesseduffield/lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

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Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #git #terminal

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,017 open

81,238

stars

Forks: 2,973
Commits: 8,075 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: 2026-08-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-27
History: 9 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 175 open

67,228

stars

Forks: 2,725
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: 2026-08-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-08
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 291 open

63,273

stars

Forks: 5,354
Commits: 23,329 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: 2026-08-11
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-21
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 420 open

60,182

stars

Forks: 1,630
Commits: 4,006 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: 2026-07-27
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-02
History: 7 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 1,022 open

59,110

stars

Forks: 2,604
Commits: 4,349 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

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: 2026-08-07
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-18
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,226 open

58,994

stars

Forks: 5,293
Commits: 10,105 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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 290 open

52,308

stars

Forks: 1,667
Commits: 892 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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helix-editor/helix

A post-modern modal text editor.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#kakoune #rust #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-20
History: 10 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 1,608 open

45,818

stars

Forks: 3,680
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: 2026-07-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-09
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 182 open

43,897

stars

Forks: 1,102
Commits: 1,988 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,101 open

43,268

stars

Forks: 2,720
Commits: 5,232 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: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,158 open

41,704

stars

Forks: 3,891
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 npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

41,575

stars

Forks: 987
Commits: 1,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

vim/vim

The official Vim repository

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2004-06-13
History: 12 history points
License: Vim
Issues: 1,633 open

40,740

stars

Forks: 6,114
Commits: 24,278 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: 2026-08-10
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-05
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 135 open

38,616

stars

Forks: 860
Commits: 626 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: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-25
History: 74 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 322 open

38,375

stars

Forks: 3,985
Commits: 1,797 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 React Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

38,121

stars

Forks: 1,510
Commits: 2,257 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: 2026-08-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-18
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 472 open

35,441

stars

Forks: 1,824
Commits: 1,934 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: 2026-07-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-06-17
History: 44 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 170 open

35,086

stars

Forks: 829
Commits: 1,971 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: 2026-08-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-25
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 134 open

34,272

stars

Forks: 2,238
Commits: 2,148 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: 2026-07-18
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-26
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 324 open

30,182

stars

Forks: 1,257
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: 2026-08-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-11
History: 47 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,037 open

29,255

stars

Forks: 1,348
Commits: 3,529 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: 2026-08-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-04
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 222 open

26,922

stars

Forks: 746
Commits: 873 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 15 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 305 open

25,032

stars

Forks: 2,259
Commits: 3,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#bsdfetch #command-line #fastfetch #fetch #flashfetch #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

24,003

stars

Forks: 849
Commits: 7,598 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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