github

GitHub Joined May 2008 View on GitHub

Stars
761,810
across 427 public repos
Rank
#8
of 94,827 organizations, top 0.01%

Repositories with 50+ stars

github's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
50

A collection of useful .gitignore templates

176,438
65

💫 Toolkit to help you get started with SDD or any other process!

Python 149,145
740

Community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot.

JavaScript 41,001
1,010

GitHub's official MCP Server

Go 34,361
1,934

Documentation for GitHub Copilot

23,159
2,168

The open-source repo for docs.github.com

TypeScript 21,409
3,203

📚 Community guides for open source creators

HTML 15,792
3,915

GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

Go 13,639
4,746

Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot

Vim Script 11,709
4,872

GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.

Python 11,392
5,332

Multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services

Java 10,674
5,535

CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security

CodeQL 10,336
6,495

Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages

Haskell 9,041
6,567

GitHub public roadmap

8,968
7,763

A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

Ruby 7,783
7,980

Code that'll help you kickstart a personal website that showcases your work as a software developer.

HTML 7,609
9,671

Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent...

DIGITAL Command Language 6,441
9,800

AI coding assistant for Xcode

Swift 6,381
10,412

Determines which markup library to use to render a content file (e.g. README) on GitHub

Ruby 6,057
11,354

GitHub Agentic Workflows

Go 5,609
12,510

Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

HTML 5,150
13,053

Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub

Ruby 4,955
13,666

**Archived** Style guide & coding conventions for Swift projects

4,751
14,394

Emoji images and names.

Ruby 4,539
15,542

A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

HTML 4,236
15,706

Mona Sans, a variable font from GitHub

Shell 4,193
16,077

Compute various size metrics for a Git repository, flagging those that might cause problems

Go 4,102
16,275

Web component extensions to the standard <time> element.

JavaScript 4,059
18,966

DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details - optional scripts for hubot, opt in via hubot-scripts.json

CoffeeScript 3,528
19,906

Squad: AI agent teams for any project

TypeScript 3,373
20,371

Trigger an action on an element with a keyboard shortcut.

JavaScript 3,301
20,478

Set of boilerplate scripts describing the normalized script pattern that GitHub uses in its projects.

Shell 3,284
20,816

Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults

Ruby 3,231
21,072

Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices.

3,191
21,601

The GitHub Archive Program & Arctic Code Vault

3,122
22,561 EJS 2,994
23,230

Learn how to get started using the GitHub Copilot CLI!

Tape 2,914
23,307

GitHub's Web Component collection.

JavaScript 2,905
24,743

Continuous integration server built on top of Jenkins and Hubot

Ruby 2,743
26,661

Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software.

2,550
26,957

GitHub Extension for Visual Studio

C# 2,521
27,620

Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories

2,457
27,633

GitHub Load Balancer Director and supporting tooling.

C 2,456
27,808

Datasets, tools, and benchmarks for representation learning of code.

Jupyter Notebook 2,443
29,665

The GitHub Copilot app is an agent-native desktop experience for finding, running, steering, and landing software work across your GitHub repositories.

2,288
30,202

GitHub's employee intellectual property agreement, open sourced and reusable

2,249
30,234

Software U2F authenticator for macOS

Swift 2,247
30,984

Collaborative development on GitHub's site policies, procedures, and guidelines

2,195
31,099

A public place for all platform sample projects.

Shell 2,188
31,436

Client side accessibility error scanner.

JavaScript 2,164
33,521

Gather, curate, and feature stories of public servants and civic hackers using GitHub as part of their open government innovations

HTML 2,030
34,634

Hubot Sans, a variable font from GitHub

Shell 1,967
36,144

Legacy GitHub Services Integration

Ruby 1,888
36,421

A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages

Ruby 1,874
37,336

GitHub resources and information for the developer community in India

Ruby 1,829
38,977

GitHub Stacked PRs

Go 1,756
41,008

Actions for running CodeQL analysis

TypeScript 1,670
41,214

**Archived** Style guide & coding conventions for Objective-C projects

1,661
41,486

An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API

1,650
41,716

Resources related to GitHub Security Lab

C 1,641
42,172

A site that displays up to date COVID-19 stats, powered by fastpages.

Jupyter Notebook 1,623
43,696

Crawl a website and run it through Google lighthouse

JavaScript 1,567
44,944

Press the . key on any repo

1,523
47,648

Catalyst is a set of patterns and techniques for developing components within a complex application.

TypeScript 1,437
49,774

A GitHub CLI extension to generate a 3D model of your GitHub contribution history

Go 1,374
51,056

GitHub Developer site

Ruby 1,338
53,433

GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities

1,274
54,667

Community health files for the @GitHub organization

1,242
54,870

GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan and automate the migration of Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Bitbucket, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions.

C# 1,237
55,036

🚲 Contribute to the open source community every Friday

HTML 1,233
57,554

A Statsd-compatible metrics aggregator

C 1,174
58,466

Ask for assistance right in your terminal.

1,154
60,259

Cocoa framework for improving AppKit

Objective-C 1,116
65,197

Binaries for the CodeQL CLI

1,020
69,914

Welcome to GitHub's Green Software Directory!

943
71,730

Explore machine learning and data science with Codespaces

Jupyter Notebook 917
74,794

Rust implementation of stack graphs

Rust 877
82,837

🔏 A small WebAuthn API wrapper that translates to/from pure JSON using base64url.

TypeScript 787
82,837

Recursos e informações do GitHub para a comunidade tech do Brasil.

Ruby 787
85,042

A modal dialog that's opened with <details>.

JavaScript 765
86,218

Helping open source program offices get started

754
88,547

EXPERIMENTAL password management app. Don't use this.

Ruby 733
88,654

freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service

Go 732
91,265

Small library to parse plain text email content

Ruby 709
92,231

A collection of Ruby libraries for working with SQL on top of ActiveRecord's connection

Ruby 701
96,027

Code style checking for GitHub's Ruby projects

Ruby 670
96,277

GitHub Actions extension for VS Code

TypeScript 668
96,536

GitHub's ops focused Elasticsearch library

Go 666
96,922

An S/MIME signing utility for use with Git

Go 663
104,664

A menu opened with <details>.

JavaScript 610
106,288

Starter workspace to use with the CodeQL extension for Visual Studio Code.

CodeQL 600
107,716

Official GitHub Maven Plugins

Java 591
108,557

Enabling Branch Deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions - If you find this project useful, give it a star! ⭐️

TypeScript 586
109,278

Replaced by https://github.com/github/scientist

Ruby 582
109,973

GitHub Innovation Graph

Python 578
110,690 JavaScript 574
111,758

A client-side includes tag.

JavaScript 568
115,256

An extension for Visual Studio Code that adds rich language support for CodeQL

TypeScript 549
115,431 548
118,031

The Open Source Survey

535

Among 94,827 organizations

630k–1m stars: 7 organizations, including github

Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

Languages

  1. Python 162k stars, 21% · 9 repos
  2. Go 64.8k stars, 9% · 23 repos
  3. JavaScript 64.3k stars, 8% · 57 repos
  4. Ruby 43.7k stars, 6% · 38 repos
  5. HTML 37.7k stars, 5% · 14 repos
  6. TypeScript 35k stars, 5% · 31 repos
  7. Shell 12.1k stars, 2% · 8 repos
  8. Vim Script 11.7k stars, 2% · 1 repo

and 15 more languages

When they were made

100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2009 and 2026

Quick stats

Next rank
+2,001 stars to reach #7
Public repos
427, 269 with 50+ stars
Popular repos
12 over 10k stars, 2 over 100k stars
Top repo
gitignore, #50 of all repos, 23% of stars
Smaller repos
3,697 stars from repos under 50

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