Welcoming Repositories Index Shell Ecosystem
Top Welcoming Open-Source Shell Repositories
Top welcoming Shell repositories. Scored by real 90-day external PR merge rates, maintainer review turnaround speed, and first-time contributor success.
Updated daily • Mon, 31 Aug 2026 UTC
Tracked Repos
4,007
>100 stars verified
Avg Merge Rate
95%
90-day external PRs
Open GFIs
28
Beginner friendly issues
Welcoming Tier
35
S & A Tier maintainers
Ranked Shell Repositories
Showing top 50 of 4,007 ranked repositories
| Rank | Repository | Tier | Score | Merge Rate | Good First Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Community activities for supporting OAuth/OIDC and its related specifications to Keycloak | S•Elite | 79.0 | 97.2% | - |
| #2 | An interactive update notifier & applier for Arch Linux that assists you with important pre / post update tasks (including a systray applet and extensive CLI). | S•Elite | 78.2 | 94.1% | 1 |
| #3 | One-command setup of a complete Claude Code development environment with interactive wizard | B•Solid | 78.1 | 97.9% | - |
| #4 | Overlay for Gentoo Users. | S•Elite | 78.0 | 93.0% | - |
| #5 | Spell check action | B•Solid | 77.3 | 95.0% | - |
| #6 | Collection of automation scripts and utilities for RemnaWave project. Features deployment tools, configuration management, and workflow automation scripts to streamline development and operations | B•Solid | 76.6 | 100.0% | - |
| #7 | vitasdk/vdpm270 SDK installer and package "manager" for $VITASDK | S•Elite | 76.4 | 100.0% | - |
| #8 | dockur/tor211 Tor in a Docker container. | S•Elite | 75.4 | 100.0% | - |
| #9 | Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server for Java Edition that automatically installs/upgrades versions, modloaders, modpacks and more at startup | S•Elite | 75.2 | 88.3% | 9 |
| #10 | Helpful deployment scripts for Foreman and Katello | S•Elite | 75.2 | 94.6% | - |
| #11 | 200+ production open source Rails apps & engines in one repo. Search across real codebases with AI agents to research architectural patterns. | B•Solid | 74.9 | 100.0% | - |
| #12 | OpenEMR administration and deployment tooling | S•Elite | 74.3 | 95.5% | - |
| #13 | dockur/macos21,454 MacOS inside a Docker container. | B•Solid | 73.9 | 96.3% | - |
| #14 | Frix-x/klippain1,185 Generic Klipper configuration for 3D printers | S•Elite | 73.9 | 94.4% | - |
| #15 | Reptar, Downfall, Zenbleed, ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout, Foreshadow, Spectre, Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux & BSD | S•Elite | 73.8 | 94.6% | - |
| #16 | Exercism exercises in Bash. | S•Elite | 73.6 | 97.4% | - |
| #17 | A bundle of useful CircuitPython libraries from the CircuitPython community. | S•Elite | 73.4 | 100.0% | - |
| #18 | Firebolt Core is a free, self-hosted edition of Firebolt's distributed query engine (https://www.firebolt.io/); it provides high-performance data warehousing capabilities that can be deployed anywhere from a single laptop to enterprise datacenters. | S•Elite | 73.4 | 95.7% | - |
| #19 | msys2/MINGW-packages2,739 Package scripts for MinGW-w64 targets to build under MSYS2. | S•Elite | 73.4 | 94.5% | - |
| #20 | Open-source cloud native platform that automates and simplifies the deployment of virtualization, Kubernetes, and OpenStack infrastructure. | S•Elite | 73.3 | 87.9% | 12 |
| #21 | Gentoo overlay for security tools as well as the heart of the Pentoo Livecd | S•Elite | 73.2 | 94.1% | - |
| #22 | Mother of all VPNs | S•Elite | 73.1 | 95.7% | 2 |
| #23 | One of the official app stores for IceWhale products (CasaOS & ZimaOS), developed and maintained independently by BigBearTechWorld. This curated collection offers a wide range of carefully selected applications to enhance your CasaOS and ZimaOS experience. | B•Solid | 73.1 | 99.7% | - |
| #24 | Community-curated bundles of Tizen applications. All-in-one releases for easy installation on your Tizen devices. | S•Elite | 72.9 | 100.0% | - |
| #25 | S•Elite | 72.8 | 85.7% | - | |
| #26 | DDC Control Monitor Database | S•Elite | 72.8 | 93.2% | - |
| #27 | Software ports for the Haiku operating system. | S•Elite | 72.6 | 90.8% | 1 |
| #28 | Bonsai Demo | S•Elite | 72.4 | 90.0% | - |
| #29 | The Unix Shell | S•Elite | 72.3 | 100.0% | - |
| #30 | Primary source of truth for the Docker "Official Images" program | S•Elite | 72.2 | 93.8% | - |
| #31 | 🐳🐱Docker Clash: 主流协议平台全兼容，内置精美UI面板，一键部署，世界触手可及。✨ | B•Solid | 72.2 | 100.0% | - |
| #32 | testssl/testssl.sh9,183 Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port | S•Elite | 72.2 | 92.5% | - |
| #33 | Vibe-Coding is easy. DevOps is hard. OpenCode & Git token-efficient AI agent automation for your app, business, and personal development. Opinionated tools, services, CLI & API stack for speed, security, and 24/7 results. Open-source first. SOTA everything. Try on your repos for money-making magic. | S•Elite | 72.1 | 89.5% | - |
| #34 | My personal list of Neovim plugins | B•Solid | 71.9 | 98.9% | - |
| #35 | AppImages That Truly Work On Any Linux System (Even musl-libc and non-FHS systems) | S•Elite | 71.8 | 93.8% | 3 |
| #36 | Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek. | S•Elite | 71.4 | 94.4% | - |
| #37 | basecamp/gh-signoff2,002 Local CI. Sign off on your own work. | S•Elite | 71.4 | 100.0% | - |
| #38 | Backup and Restore Bitwarden | B•Solid | 71.3 | 100.0% | - |
| #39 | Installation scripts and binaries for the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 bootloader EEPROMs | S•Elite | 71.2 | 100.0% | - |
| #40 | A package management system and repository tailored specifically for reMarkable tablets. | S•Elite | 71.2 | 89.1% | - |
| #41 | High quality tv & radio logos for your channels, also known as picons. | S•Elite | 71.1 | 93.5% | - |
| #42 | Linux fixes for Samsung Galaxy Book 3, 4 & 5 — webcam, speakers, microphone, and more | S•Elite | 71.1 | 93.3% | - |
| #43 | Home assistant addon to host a n8n.io instance | B•Solid | 71.1 | 88.7% | - |
| #44 | B•Solid | 71.0 | 90.0% | - | |
| #45 | NUMA-Aware Contention-Free Dynamically-Auto-Tuning Bash-Native Streaming Parallelization Engine | B•Solid | 70.9 | 93.4% | - |
| #46 | A simple yet powerfull testing library for bash scripts. | B•Solid | 70.8 | 96.2% | - |
| #47 | Contains the documentation for Projectsveltos | S•Elite | 70.7 | 95.5% | - |
| #48 | Superdesk is an end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution, and publishing platform. | B•Solid | 70.6 | 88.2% | - |
| #49 | Consciously set all groups to block | S•Elite | 70.6 | 96.7% | - |
| #50 | Self-hosted email server with Docker/Kubernetes support. Features IMAP, SMTP, spam filtering, webmail, and web admin. | B•Solid | 70.6 | 100.0% | - |
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Frequently Asked Questions: Shell Open Source
What is the most welcoming Shell open-source repository?
The highest-ranked Shell repository on GetMerged is currently keycloak/keycloak-oauth-sig, with a C-Rank score of 79.0/100 and a 97.2% PR merge rate.
How can I find good first issues in Shell?
You can browse verified beginner-friendly issues in Shell by visiting our curated Good First Issues directory at getmerged.abhishekco.de/good-first-issue/shell.
What makes a Shell repository ‘Super Welcoming’ on GetMerged?
A ‘Super Welcoming’ (S-Tier) Shell repository demonstrates an external PR merge rate above 80%, a median first response time within 24 to 48 hours, active review feedback, and clear onboarding documentation.