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Top 100 Shell repositories on GitHub, ranked by stars
Shell's ranking is unusually top-heavy: two agent-skill repositories sit close to 300,000 stars, well above oh-my-zsh and the other long-standing favourites.
GitHub reports 3,328,586 repositories whose detected primary language is Shell. The 100 most-starred of them are listed below, ranked by stargazers_count. obra/superpowers leads with 295,643 stars, and the bar for 100th place is 11,718 stars. The median repository in this top 100 has 20,542 stars, and the most common licence is MIT (50 of 100 repositories).
- 100 repositories ranked
- 295,643 stars for #1
- 11,718 stars to enter the top 100
- 20,542 median stars in the top 100
- 3,328,586 repositories GitHub reports
- 563.4 KB JSONL file
The 100 most-starred Shell repositories
| # | Repository | ★ Stars | Forks | Open issues | Licence | Last push | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obra/superpowers | 295,643 | 26,402 | 310 | MIT | An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works. | |
| 2 | mattpocock/skills | 277,059 | 23,207 | 552 | MIT | Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory. | |
| 3 | ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh | 190,170 | 28,492 | 304 | MIT | 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins… | |
| 4 | msitarzewski/agency-agents | 157,225 | 25,363 | 181 | MIT | A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each… | |
| 5 | d3/d3 | 113,806 | 22,637 | 19 | ISC | Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada: | |
| 6 | papers-we-love/papers-we-love | 110,266 | 6,440 | 4 | — | Papers from the computer science community to read and discuss. | |
| 7 | nvm-sh/nvm | 95,270 | 10,487 | 392 | MIT | Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions. | |
| 8 | tw93/Mole | 69,351 | 2,460 | 14 | GPL-3.0 | 🐹 Clean, uninstall, analyze, optimize, and monitor your Mac. Free open-source CLI, plus a native Mac app. | |
| 9 | base/node | 68,348 | 3,267 | 0 | MIT | Everything required to run your own Base node | |
| 10 | youngyangyang04/leetcode-master | 62,612 | 12,294 | 262 | — | 《代码随想录》LeetCode 刷题攻略：200道经典题目刷题顺序，共60w字的详细图解，视频难点剖析，50余张思维导图，支持C++，Java，Python，Go，JavaScript等多语言版本，从此算法学习不再迷茫！🔥🔥 来看看，你会发现相见恨晚！🚀 | |
| 11 | pi-hole/pi-hole | 61,164 | 3,318 | 45 | NOASSERTION | A black hole for Internet advertisements | |
| 12 | romkatv/powerlevel10k | 55,203 | 2,447 | 153 | MIT | A Zsh theme | |
| 13 | dockur/windows | 53,513 | 4,944 | 13 | MIT | Windows inside a Docker container. | |
| 14 | sickcodes/Docker-OSX | 52,950 | 2,885 | 419 | GPL-3.0 | Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. | |
| 15 | acmesh-official/acme.sh | 47,781 | 5,676 | 105 | GPL-3.0 | A pure Unix shell script ACME client for SSL / TLS certificate automation | |
| 16 | pyenv/pyenv | 45,125 | 3,271 | 52 | MIT | Simple Python version management | |
| 17 | omacom/omarchy | 44,038 | 5,230 | 4,919 | MIT | Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux | |
| 18 | dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible | 41,712 | 3,651 | 62 | MIT | 📖 A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes. | |
| 19 | open-guides/og-aws | 36,463 | 3,882 | 174 | CC-BY-4.0 | 📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide | |
| 20 | inkonchain/node | 36,431 | 644 | 32 | MIT | How to run an Ink Node | |
| 21 | zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions | 36,114 | 1,939 | 203 | MIT | Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh | |
| 22 | VSCodium/vscodium | 33,514 | 1,880 | 155 | MIT | binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing | |
| 23 | mathiasbynens/dotfiles | 31,487 | 8,408 | 185 | MIT | :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS | |
| 24 | MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps | 29,797 | 6,760 | 10 | NOASSERTION | This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for many in the communi… | |
| 25 | community-scripts/ProxmoxVE | 29,736 | 2,918 | 15 | MIT | Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition) | |
| 26 | 233boy/v2ray | 29,692 | 16,586 | 286 | GPL-3.0 | 最好用的 V2Ray 一键安装脚本 & 管理脚本 | |
| 27 | hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn | 28,646 | 6,519 | 1 | NOASSERTION | Set up your own IPsec VPN server in just a few minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2. Supports Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, Alpin… | |
| 28 | shengxinjing/programmer-job-blacklist | 28,394 | 1,769 | 171 | MIT | :see_no_evil:程序员找工作黑名单，换工作和当技术合伙人需谨慎啊 更新有赞 | |
| 29 | OthmanAdi/planning-with-files | 27,299 | 2,267 | 11 | MIT | Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and c… | |
| 30 | mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes | 27,247 | 6,511 | 1 | NOASSERTION | Our next-generation, interactive app is currently in beta! Come try it out at terminalthemes.com! Over 600 terminal color schemes/themes f… | |
| 31 | nvie/gitflow | 26,782 | 2,614 | 0 | NOASSERTION | Git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model. | |
| 32 | powerline/fonts | 26,321 | 3,121 | 184 | — | Patched fonts for Powerline users. | |
| 33 | lxgw/LxgwWenKai | 26,167 | 644 | 4 | OFL-1.1 | An open-source Chinese font derived from Fontworks' Klee One. 一款开源中文字体，基于 FONTWORKS 出品字体 Klee One 衍生。 | |
| 34 | yuaotian/go-cursor-help | 26,120 | 3,145 | 1 | MIT | 解决Cursor在免费订阅期间出现以下提示的问题: Your request has been blocked as our system has detected suspicious activity / You've reached your trial request… | |
| 35 | a2aproject/A2A | 26,017 | 2,647 | 278 | Apache-2.0 | Agent2Agent (A2A) is an open protocol enabling communication and interoperability between opaque agentic applications. | |
| 36 | Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios | 25,776 | 3,660 | 61 | MIT | Turn Claude Code into a full game dev studio — 49 AI agents, 72 workflow skills, and a complete coordination system mirroring real studio h… | |
| 37 | VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents | 25,511 | 2,946 | 2 | MIT | A collection of 100+ specialized Claude Code subagents covering a wide range of development use cases | |
| 38 | gpakosz/.tmux | 25,421 | 3,587 | 24 | MIT | Oh my tmux! My self-contained, pretty & versatile tmux configuration made with 💛🩷💙🖤❤️🤍 | |
| 39 | kholia/OSX-KVM | 23,686 | 2,041 | 24 | — | Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid sp… | |
| 40 | dylanaraps/neofetch | 23,666 | 1,776 | 467 | MIT | 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ | |
| 41 | StreisandEffect/streisand | 23,440 | 1,940 | 237 | NOASSERTION | Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge… | |
| 42 | zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting | 23,016 | 1,374 | 214 | BSD-3-Clause | Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh. | |
| 43 | drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide | 22,538 | 1,463 | 5 | MIT | Community guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS. | |
| 44 | mack-a/v2ray-agent | 22,013 | 5,552 | 36 | AGPL-3.0 | Xray、Tuic、hysteria2、sing-box 八合一一键脚本 | |
| 45 | lewagon/dotfiles | 21,831 | 28,897 | 4 | MIT | Default configuration for Le Wagon's students | |
| 46 | dockur/macos | 21,602 | 1,134 | 6 | MIT | MacOS inside a Docker container. | |
| 47 | rockerBOO/awesome-neovim | 21,450 | 1,068 | 7 | CC0-1.0 | Collections of awesome neovim plugins. | |
| 48 | jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh | 21,065 | 3,390 | 1 | MIT | 🎭 277 个即插即用的 AI 专家角色 — 支持 Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot 等 20 种工具，覆盖工程/设计/营销/金融等 20 个部门。含 64 个中国市场原创智能体（小红书/抖音/微信/飞书/钉钉/Qt 上位机/机械设计）。搭配编排器 agen… | |
| 49 | Nyr/openvpn-install | 20,650 | 5,066 | 0 | MIT | OpenVPN road warrior installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora | |
| 50 | spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt | 20,583 | 970 | 130 | MIT | 🚀✨ Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt | |
| 51 | agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps | 20,502 | 1,529 | 1 | — | 🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps | |
| 52 | githubnext/monaspace | 19,695 | 324 | 63 | OFL-1.1 | An innovative superfamily of fonts for code | |
| 53 | tj/n | 19,516 | 759 | 5 | MIT | Node version management | |
| 54 | docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver | 18,902 | 2,050 | 89 | MIT | Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container. | |
| 55 | deviantony/docker-elk | 18,392 | 6,872 | 5 | MIT | The Elastic stack (ELK) powered by Docker and Compose. | |
| 56 | tj/git-extras | 18,117 | 1,228 | 93 | MIT | GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more | |
| 57 | unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins | 18,046 | 612 | 7 | BSD-3-Clause | A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials. | |
| 58 | taizilongxu/interview_python | 17,399 | 5,478 | 34 | — | 关于Python的面试题 | |
| 59 | source-foundry/Hack | 17,364 | 658 | 155 | NOASSERTION | A typeface designed for source code | |
| 60 | termux/termux-packages | 17,097 | 4,439 | 1,121 | NOASSERTION | A package build system for Termux. | |
| 61 | rupa/z | 17,060 | 1,175 | 108 | WTFPL | z - jump around | |
| 62 | thibmaek/awesome-raspberry-pi | 16,949 | 1,153 | 33 | NOASSERTION | 📝 A curated list of awesome Raspberry Pi tools, projects, images and resources | |
| 63 | rbenv/rbenv | 16,734 | 1,428 | 17 | MIT | Manage your app's Ruby environment | |
| 64 | CISOfy/lynis | 16,435 | 1,636 | 222 | GPL-3.0 | Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and syste… | |
| 65 | quickemu-project/quickemu | 16,411 | 747 | 76 | MIT | Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines | |
| 66 | angristan/openvpn-install | 16,158 | 3,339 | 27 | MIT | Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more | |
| 67 | ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes | 16,111 | 2,506 | 95 | NOASSERTION | A curated list for awesome kubernetes sources :ship::tada: | |
| 68 | winapps-org/winapps | 16,038 | 512 | 85 | NOASSERTION | Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including N… | |
| 69 | kaldi-asr/kaldi | 15,493 | 5,352 | 262 | NOASSERTION | kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project. | |
| 70 | Bash-it/bash-it | 15,271 | 2,315 | 8 | MIT | A community Bash framework. | |
| 71 | DaoCloud/public-image-mirror | 15,162 | 1,574 | 11 | Apache-2.0 | 很多镜像都在国外。比如 gcr 。国内下载很慢，需要加速。致力于提供连接全世界的稳定可靠安全的容器镜像服务。 | |
| 72 | tteck/Proxmox | 15,160 | 2,490 | 0 | MIT | Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts | |
| 73 | tmux-plugins/tpm | 15,112 | 501 | 145 | MIT | Tmux Plugin Manager | |
| 74 | nelvko/clash-for-linux-install | 14,947 | 1,645 | 30 | MIT | 😼 优雅地使用基于 clash/mihomo 的代理环境 | |
| 75 | sorin-ionescu/prezto | 14,571 | 4,420 | 198 | MIT | The configuration framework for Zsh | |
| 76 | sindresorhus/pure | 14,436 | 1,007 | 0 | MIT | Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt | |
| 77 | itzg/docker-minecraft-server | 14,383 | 1,925 | 137 | Apache-2.0 | Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server for Java Edition that automatically installs/upgrades versions, modloaders, modpacks and more… | |
| 78 | trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook | 14,313 | 1,137 | 6 | MIT | How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things. | |
| 79 | foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM | 13,940 | 1,140 | 362 | — | Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM. | |
| 80 | pystardust/ani-cli | 13,937 | 885 | 11 | GPL-3.0 | A cli tool to browse and play anime | |
| 81 | nodesource/distributions | 13,849 | 3,106 | 27 | MIT | NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions | |
| 82 | hq450/fancyss | 13,778 | 3,239 | 224 | GPL-3.0 | fancyss is a project providing tools to across the GFW on asuswrt/merlin based router. | |
| 83 | juewuy/ShellCrash | 13,554 | 1,879 | 54 | GPL-3.0 | Run sing-box/mihomo as client in shell | |
| 84 | bin456789/reinstall | 13,550 | 2,194 | 45 | GPL-3.0 | 一键DD/重装脚本 (One-click reinstall OS on VPS) | |
| 85 | myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox | 13,505 | 1,119 | 1 | GPL-2.0 | Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS | |
| 86 | awslabs/git-secrets | 13,409 | 1,250 | 132 | Apache-2.0 | Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories | |
| 87 | Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k | 13,407 | 911 | 166 | MIT | Powerlevel9k was a tool for building a beautiful and highly functional CLI, customized for you. P9k had a substantial impact on CLI UX, and… | |
| 88 | k4m4/terminals-are-sexy | 13,140 | 652 | 155 | CC0-1.0 | 💥 A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers. | |
| 89 | tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect | 13,090 | 561 | 305 | MIT | Persists tmux environment across system restarts. | |
| 90 | haoel/haoel.github.io | 13,072 | 2,036 | 179 | — | ||
| 91 | JetBrains/JetBrainsMono | 13,061 | 375 | 207 | OFL-1.1 | JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers | |
| 92 | google/oss-fuzz | 12,693 | 2,915 | 795 | Apache-2.0 | OSS-Fuzz - continuous fuzzing for open source software. | |
| 93 | p8952/bocker | 12,684 | 748 | 15 | GPL-3.0 | Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash | |
| 94 | alex000kim/nsfw_data_scraper | 12,595 | 2,840 | 16 | MIT | Collection of scripts to aggregate image data for the purposes of training an NSFW Image Classifier | |
| 95 | skywind3000/awesome-cheatsheets | 12,590 | 2,087 | 24 | MIT | 超级速查表 - 编程语言、框架和开发工具的速查表，单个文件包含一切你需要知道的东西 :zap: | |
| 96 | ansible/ansible-examples | 12,069 | 8,017 | 88 | — | A few starter examples of ansible playbooks, to show features and how they work together. See http://galaxy.ansible.com for example roles… | |
| 97 | k4m4/movies-for-hackers | 11,928 | 933 | 131 | CC0-1.0 | 🎬 A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch. | |
| 98 | fuzhengwei/CodeGuide | 11,923 | 4,228 | 44 | Apache-2.0 | :books: 本代码库是作者小傅哥多年从事一线互联网 Java 开发的学习历程技术汇总，旨在为大家提供一个清晰详细的学习教程，侧重点更倾向编写Java核心内容。如果本仓库能为您提供帮助，请给予支持(关注、点赞、分享)！ | |
| 99 | BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds | 11,774 | 1,546 | 30 | MIT | ||
| 100 | jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else | 11,718 | 265 | 21 | MIT | Blame someone else for your bad code. |
Fork counts include open pull requests in
open_issues_count, because that is how GitHub's API reports it.
Descriptions are truncated to 140 characters; the full text is in the JSONL
download.
Download the Shell data
- JSONL — raw GitHub Search API objects (563.4 KB, 100 lines)
- Markdown table of the same ranking
- All 30 JSONL files
curl -sSL -o shell.jsonl \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/havaianasdestruido/top100/main/data/JSONL/shell.jsonl
jq -r '.full_name + " " + (.stargazers_count|tostring)' shell.jsonl | head -10How this list is built
A single GitHub Search API request per language —
?q=language:shell&sort=stars&order=desc&per_page=100
— refreshed hourly by a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow and committed back to
the repository. The records are never reshaped: every field GitHub returned is
preserved. The methodology page covers the query,
the rate limits, the fields the Search API omits and the known limitations, and the
field reference documents every JSON key.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most-starred Shell repository on GitHub?
obra/superpowers is the most-starred Shell repository with 295,643 stars as of 5 October 2026, ahead of mattpocock/skills (277,059) and ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh (190,170).
How many Shell repositories are on GitHub?
GitHub reports 3,328,586 public repositories whose detected primary language is Shell. Top100 ranks the 100 most-starred of them; 100th place currently needs 11,718 stars.
How do I download the top 100 Shell repositories as JSON?
Download data/JSONL/shell.jsonl — 100 lines, each the complete GitHub Search API object for one repository, including topics, licence, every count and every timestamp. A readable Markdown table of the same ranking is also published.