leaderboards // the goats

the biggest names on github, all time. live from the source.

most contributions

most followed

most starred

most contributions

the devs gitsmash tracks, ranked by all-time github contributions.

most followed developers

the most-followed humans on github — ranked by followers.

@torvalds

Linus Torvalds12 repos

325,414

followers

@karpathy

Andrej63 repos

223,382

followers

@claude

Claude0 repos

179,506

followers

@openai

OpenAI272 repos

134,950

followers

@microsoft

Microsoft8,313 repos

130,600

followers

@gustavoguanabara

Gustavo Guanabara8 repos

116,278

followers

@yyx990803

Evan You198 repos

111,496

followers

@deepseek-ai

DeepSeek39 repos

106,510

followers

@gaearon

dan301 repos

93,727

followers

@anthropics

Anthropic113 repos

88,246

followers

@github

GitHub564 repos

87,691

followers

@ruanyf

Ruan YiFeng77 repos

87,687

followers

@peng-zhihui

稚晖61 repos

87,441

followers

@sindresorhus

Sindre Sorhus1,141 repos

84,205

followers

@google

Google2,910 repos

79,382

followers

@bradtraversy

Brad Traversy329 repos

76,608

followers

@huggingface

Hugging Face469 repos

68,960

followers

@JakeWharton

Jake Wharton154 repos

68,699

followers

@TheAlgorithms

The Algorithms44 repos

64,231

followers

@lucidrains

Phil Wang420 repos

61,570

followers

@hiteshchoudhary

Hitesh Choudhary127 repos

61,011

followers

@IDouble

Alp ₿📈🚀🌕61 repos

60,594

followers

@rafaballerini

Rafaella Ballerini61 repos

59,971

followers

@tj

TJ296 repos

54,429

followers

most starred repos

the most-starred public repositories of all time.

codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

Markdown

550,147

stars

sindresorhus/awesome

😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics [NOTE: Pull requests are temporarily disabled until I have a chance to catch up with the existing ones]

511,473

stars

public-apis/public-apis

A collective list of free APIs

Python

483,819

stars

freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn math, programming, and computer science for free.

TypeScript

456,359

stars

EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

:books: Freely available programming books

Python

397,979

stars

openclaw/openclaw

The AI that really does things. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

TypeScript

390,659

stars

donnemartin/system-design-primer

Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.

Python

372,170

stars

nilbuild/developer-roadmap

Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers.

TypeScript

368,328

stars

jwasham/coding-interview-university

A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.

362,012

stars

vinta/awesome-python

The definitive list that answers "I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?"

Python

323,553

stars

awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

322,256

stars

obra/superpowers

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

Shell

292,181

stars

practical-tutorials/project-based-learning

Curated list of project-based tutorials

Python

284,954

stars

996icu/996.ICU

Repo for counting stars and contributing. Press F to pay respect to glorious developers.

277,248

stars

mattpocock/skills

Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

Shell

270,681

stars

affaan-m/ECC

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

JavaScript

268,392

stars

react/react

The library for web and native user interfaces.

JavaScript

250,783

stars

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

250,381

stars

NousResearch/hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you

Python

249,493

stars

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.

246,378

stars

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

TypeScript

237,655

stars

TheAlgorithms/Python

All Algorithms implemented in Python

Python

225,071

stars

multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.

215,540

stars

vuejs/vue

This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core

TypeScript

212,842

stars

anomalyco/opencode

The open source coding agent.

TypeScript

210,426

stars

most forked repos

the most-forked public repositories of all time.

jtleek/datasharing

The Leek group guide to data sharing

241,773

forks

octocat/Spoon-Knife

This repo is for demonstration purposes only.

HTML

159,600

forks

rdpeng/ProgrammingAssignment2

Repository for Programming Assignment 2 for R Programming on Coursera

143,304

forks

firstcontributions/first-contributions

🚀✨ Help beginners to contribute to open source projects

110,100

forks

ultraworkers/claw-code

An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.

Rust

108,355

forks

TheOdinProject/css-exercises

HTML

94,126

forks

Pierian-Data/Complete-Python-3-Bootcamp

Course Files for Complete Python 3 Bootcamp Course on Udemy

Jupyter Notebook

87,183

forks

SmartThingsCommunity/SmartThingsPublic

SmartThings open-source DeviceType Handlers and SmartApps code

Groovy

86,361

forks

jwasham/coding-interview-university

A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.

84,901

forks

github/gitignore

A collection of useful .gitignore templates

82,174

forks

openclaw/openclaw

The AI that really does things. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

TypeScript

82,161

forks

twbs/bootstrap

MDX

78,579

forks

tensorflow/tensorflow

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

C++

77,765

forks

k1tbyte/Wand-Enhancer

Advanced UX and interoperability extension for Wand (WeMod) app

76,145

forks

nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor

nightscout web monitor

JavaScript

73,381

forks

github/docs

The open-source repo for docs.github.com

TypeScript

68,868

forks

RikkaApps/websites

Websites for Rikka apps.

Vue

67,060

forks

EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

:books: Freely available programming books

Python

66,857

forks

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

66,064

forks

microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

Jupyter Notebook

63,465

forks

n8n-io/n8n

Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.

TypeScript

60,908

forks

digitalinnovationone/dio-lab-open-source

Repositório do lab "Contribuindo em um Projeto Open Source no GitHub" da Digital Innovation One.

Jupyter Notebook

60,019

forks

ChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat

✨ Zero-config AI chat assistant. No API key needed — sign up and instantly chat with GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek & 100+ top models. Pay-as-you-go saves you more. Available on Web, iOS, macOS, Android, Linux, Windows.

TypeScript

58,970

forks

donnemartin/system-design-primer

Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.

Python

58,650

forks

opencv/opencv

Open Source Computer Vision Library

C++

57,036

forks

hottest repos of 2026

the most-starred repositories created in 2026.

mattpocock/skills

Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

Shell

270,681

stars

affaan-m/ECC

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

JavaScript

268,392

stars

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

TypeScript

237,655

stars

multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.

215,540

stars

ultraworkers/claw-code

An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.

Rust

195,294

stars

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

JavaScript

146,910

stars

garrytan/gstack

Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA

TypeScript

134,340

stars

Graphify-Labs/graphify

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.

Python

121,871

stars

VoltAgent/awesome-design-md

A collection of DESIGN.md files analysis by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matching UI.

118,335

stars

JuliusBrussee/caveman

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman.

108,067

stars

addyosmani/agent-skills

Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

JavaScript

99,487

stars

nexu-io/open-design

🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. 🤖 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / DeepSeek Harness / OpenCode & 20+ CLIs via BYOK.

TypeScript

98,326

stars

karpathy/autoresearch

AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

Python

96,887

stars

Leonxlnx/taste-skill

Taste-Skill - gives your AI good taste. stops the AI from generating boring, generic slop

JavaScript

90,636

stars

paperclipai/paperclip

The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

TypeScript

89,754

stars

odysseus-dev/odysseus

Self-hosted AI workspace.

Python

87,636

stars

koala73/worldmonitor

Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface

TypeScript

87,475

stars

Panniantong/Agent-Reach

Give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet. Read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu — one CLI, zero API fees.

Python

85,788

stars

Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything

Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

TypeScript

84,342

stars

rtk-ai/rtk

CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

Rust

81,833

stars

stablyai/orca

Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and remote runtime.

TypeScript

79,534

stars

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

Python

73,958

stars

career-ops-hq/career-ops

Open-source AI job search: scan job portals, evaluate listings into a structured A-H report with a global 1-5 score, tailor your CV, track applications — runs locally in your AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity…)

JavaScript

72,926

stars

tt-a1i/archify

Agent skill for beautiful, verifiable architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle diagrams—self-contained HTML with motion and crisp export.

JavaScript

72,761

stars

colbymchenry/codegraph

Pre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, CoPilot, and Hermes Agent — fewer tokens, fewer tool calls, 100% local

72,185

stars

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leaderboards // the goats

most contributions

@gcp64

@weblate

@alexey-milovidov

@rgbkrk

@binarywang

@keith

@Tyriar

@JonnyBurger

@behdad

@cmungall

@bradfitz

@mokagio

@jessfraz

@seveibar

@charliermarsh

@Bekacru

@jaywcjlove

@peters

@lawrencecchen

@valyala

@Git-on-my-level

@howardjohn

@Alexey-T

@arvinxx

@zeke

most followed developers

@torvalds

@karpathy

@claude

@openai

@microsoft

@gustavoguanabara

@yyx990803

@deepseek-ai

@gaearon

@anthropics

@github

@ruanyf

@peng-zhihui

@sindresorhus

@google

@bradtraversy

@huggingface

@JakeWharton

@TheAlgorithms

@lucidrains

@hiteshchoudhary

@IDouble

@rafaballerini

@tj

most starred repos

codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

sindresorhus/awesome

public-apis/public-apis

freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

openclaw/openclaw

donnemartin/system-design-primer

nilbuild/developer-roadmap

jwasham/coding-interview-university

vinta/awesome-python

awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

obra/superpowers

practical-tutorials/project-based-learning

996icu/996.ICU

mattpocock/skills

affaan-m/ECC

react/react

torvalds/linux

NousResearch/hermes-agent

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

TheAlgorithms/Python

multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

vuejs/vue

anomalyco/opencode

most forked repos

jtleek/datasharing