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strelov1
freehire
strelov1/freehire
SElite
520·Go

freehire — the open-source search engine for job seekers

#ats#careers#hiring
97%
Merge Rate
1d
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
53 GFI
Scorecard
AvaProtocol
EigenLayer-AVS
AvaProtocol/EigenLayer-AVS
SElite
82·Go

AvaProtocol Ethereum Automation Build on EigenLayer

#eigenlayer#eigenlayer-avs#eigenlayer-operators
97%
Merge Rate
11h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
VuteTech
bor
VuteTech/bor
SElite
158·Go

Bor Enterprise Linux Desktop Policy Management

100%
Merge Rate
19h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
kerlenton
mcpsnoop
kerlenton/mcpsnoop
SElite
346·Go

Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP servers, live in your terminal.

#bubbletea#claude#cli
92%
Merge Rate
9h
Review Time
70%
1st-Timers
4 GFI
Scorecard
git-pkgs
forge
git-pkgs/forge
SElite
211·Go

Go library and CLI for working with git forges. Supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, and Bitbucket Cloud through a single interface.

#cli#git-forge#github
98%
Merge Rate
1d
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
10 GFI
Scorecard
open-octo
octo-agent
open-octo/octo-agent
SElite
52·Go

Private, self-hosted AI agent — your models and data stay on your machine. A feature-rich coding + assistant toolset across eight interfaces (CLI, Web, desktop, IM, VS Code, Obsidian, SDK, Mobile), all in one fast, zero-dependency Go binary.

#agent#ai-agent#anthropic
97%
Merge Rate
5d
Review Time
75%
1st-Timers
3 GFI
Scorecard
versenilvis
IRIS
versenilvis/IRIS
SElite
1.2k·Go

A shell auto-completion tool for your terminal

93%
Merge Rate
2d
Review Time
83%
1st-Timers
3 GFI
Scorecard
mozilla-ai
cq
mozilla-ai/cq
SElite
1.2k·Go

An open standard for shared agent learning. Agents persist, share, and query collective knowledge so they stop rediscovering the same failures independently.

#agents#go#python
96%
Merge Rate
11h
Review Time
88%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
git-pkgs
git-pkgs
git-pkgs/git-pkgs
SElite
181·Go

About A git subcommand for analyzing package/dependency usage in git repositories over time

#dependencies#git#git-commands
88%
Merge Rate
<1h
Review Time
50%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
favonia
cloudflare-ddns
favonia/cloudflare-ddns
SElite
2.9k·Go

🌟 A small, feature-rich, and robust Cloudflare DDNS updater

#cloudflare#ddns#ddns-client
97%
Merge Rate
1d
Review Time
50%
1st-Timers
6 GFI
Scorecard
MaaEnd
MaaEnd
MaaEnd/MaaEnd
SElite
3.7k·Go

MaaEnd 终末地小助手:基于视觉 AI 的「明日方舟:终末地」自动化工具

90%
Merge Rate
2d
Review Time
66%
1st-Timers
13 GFI
Scorecard
zzet
gortex
zzet/gortex
SElite
1.5k·Go

High-performance code-intelligence engine for AI agents and IDE, supports 257 languages, multi repositories, based on graph, with access via CLI, MCP Server, and API. AI coding agents teammate - expose only needed information, cutting token usage up to 50x. 100% local. Discord: https://discord.gg/39MFHu3J5d

#ai-tools#antigravity#claude-code
92%
Merge Rate
2d
Review Time
86%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
gogpu
wgpu
gogpu/wgpu
SElite
173·Go

Pure Go WebGPU Implementation

#directx12#go#golang
95%
Merge Rate
3d
Review Time
88%
1st-Timers
5 GFI
Scorecard
hookdeck
outpost
hookdeck/outpost
SElite
1.0k·Go

Open Source Outbound Webhooks and Event Destinations Infrastructure

#amazon-eventbridge#aws-sqs#eventdestinations
92%
Merge Rate
<1h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
Gthulhu
Gthulhu
Gthulhu/Gthulhu
SElite
399·Go

eBPF-based workload orchestration platform, built for Cloud Native ecosystem.

90%
Merge Rate
6h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
genai-io
san
genai-io/san
SElite
72·Go

Small context, native speed, open all the way down — an open-source terminal agent runtime. One 12 MB Go binary, zero runtime deps.

88%
Merge Rate
9h
Review Time
90%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
lxc
incus-os
lxc/incus-os
SElite
1.1k·Go

Immutable Linux OS to run Incus

#hacktoberfest
98%
Merge Rate
3d
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
4 GFI
Scorecard
YoanWai
agent-manager
YoanWai/agent-manager
SElite
353·Go

The fastest workflow for every AI coding agent. Live status, quick prompts, worktrees, and diff review from one tmux TUI.

#agentic#ai-agents#bubbletea
92%
Merge Rate
22h
Review Time
80%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
lerd-env
lerd
lerd-env/lerd
SElite
1.1k·Go

Open-source, Herd-like local PHP development environment for Linux and macOS. Automatic .test domains, per-project PHP/Node isolation, one-command TLS. Podman-native, rootless.

#developer-tools#laravel#linux
97%
Merge Rate
2d
Review Time
90%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
agntcy
dir
agntcy/dir
SElite
176·Go

Distributed Announce and Discovery of Multi-Agentic-Systems

88%
Merge Rate
24h
Review Time
81%
1st-Timers
5 GFI
Scorecard

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