awesome-ai-dev-tools/templates

# Awesome AI Dev Tools

> Curated ranking of AI-powered developer tools, sorted by GitHub stars.
> Updated daily by GitHub Actions.

📊 **[Interactive dashboard with star-history charts →](https://awesome-ai-dev-tools.pages.dev/)**

**Last updated:** {{.UpdatedAt}} · **Tracked:** {{.Total}} repos
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**Top 7-day mover:** [{{ .TopMover.NameWithOwner }}]({{ .TopMover.URL }}) ({{ formatDelta .TopMover.Delta true }} stars)
{{- end }}

| # | Repo | Stars | Δ7d | Language | Last push | Description |
|---|------|------:|----:|----------|-----------|-------------|
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| {{ .Rank }} | [{{ .NameWithOwner }}]({{ .URL }}) | {{ formatStars .Stars }} | {{ formatDelta .Delta7d .HasDelta }} | {{ .Language }} | {{ .PushedAt }} | {{ .Description }} |
{{- end }}

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## How it works

1. `data/agents.yml` is the curated source list.
2. A daily GitHub Actions workflow (`.github/workflows/update.yml`) runs the Go updater.
3. The updater fetches live repo metadata via the GitHub GraphQL API in one batched query.
4. Star counts are appended to `data/history.jsonl` for 7-day delta computation.
5. This `README.md` and `data/metadata.json` are regenerated and committed back to the repo.
6. That push triggers Cloudflare Pages, which runs `go run . -build` to render the [dashboard](https://awesome-ai-dev-tools.pages.dev/) from the committed data — no API token needed at build time. See [docs/DEPLOY.md](./docs/DEPLOY.md).

**Δ7d:** Change in stars over the past 7 days; `—` means fewer than 7 days of history.

## Contributing

**Inclusion criteria** — a repo belongs on this list when it is:

1. **A developer tool built around AI** — something a developer uses to build software, where an LLM is central to what it does. That covers agents that write, edit, or review code; agent development environments that run and coordinate them; and AI-assisted editors, terminals, and review tools. Libraries, SDKs, model weights, and prompt or skill collections are out of scope — this list ranks tools you *use*, not building blocks you *import*. General-purpose assistants and multi-agent "digital workforce" apps are out as well, even when one of their agents can write code — the tool itself has to be aimed at building software.
2. **At least 1,000 GitHub stars** — a hard floor, enforced by the updater. An entry below it is dropped from the ranking automatically, so the threshold is never waived for an individual entry.
3. **Open source and actively maintained** — no push in **6 months** means the entry is dropped. The daily run flags anything past **3 months** for review, so the ranking reflects tools people can actually use today.

Archived or abandoned repos are kept only when they are historically significant, and are marked as such in [`data/agents.yml`](data/agents.yml).

Add an agent to [`data/agents.yml`](data/agents.yml):

```yaml
agents:
  - owner: github-username-or-org
    repo: repository-name
    description: Terminal coding agent that edits files and runs commands in your repo
    tags: [terminal, byo-model, interactive, community]
```

**Tags** describe a tool across five facets — the [dashboard](https://awesome-ai-dev-tools.pages.dev/) filters on them, OR within a facet and AND across facets:

| Facet | Tags |
|-------|------|
| Surface (at least one) | `terminal` · `editor-plugin` · `ide` · `desktop` · `web` · `self-hosted` |
| Model access | `byo-model` · `single-vendor` · `local-models` |
| Workflow | `interactive` · `autonomous` · `review` · `app-builder` · `research` · `orchestration` |
| Integration | `mcp` · `acp` · `headless` |
| Origin (at most one) | `vendor` · `community` |

Apply a tag only when the repo's own README, docs, or topics back it up. See [`docs/CONTRIBUTING.md`](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) for what each tag means.

Open a PR. The next daily run picks it up automatically.

PRs are validated automatically by CI (`go run . -check`): owner/repo must be non-empty and look like a real GitHub slug, every tag must come from the vocabulary above with at least one surface tag and at most one origin tag, an optional `description` must be one line of at most 140 characters without `|`, and duplicates (case-insensitive) are rejected.

## License

Apache-2.0