GitHub Repos Worth Knowing
The open-source AI projects that matter right now — stars, licence and what each one does.
3 repositories
karpathy
autoresearch
AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
95k 13kPython
headroomlabs-ai
headroom
Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.
agentaianthropicclaude-code
68k 5.3kPython Apache-2.0
rohitg00
ai-engineering-from-scratch
Learn it. Build it. Ship it for others.
agentsaiai-agentsai-engineering
52k 9.0kPython MIT
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