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Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
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Collection of extracted System Prompts from popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini
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Game Bytes
Wave Drifter was a game created for the 2025 GitHub Game Off. A high-speed naval action roguelite where drifting, boosting, and cannon fire turn your ship into an unstoppable sea menace. Play it now!
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npm is a package manager for JavaScript included with Node.js.
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Kimi Code CLI is your next CLI agent.
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Official repo for spec & SDK of MCP Apps protocol - standard for UIs embedded AI chatbots, served by MCP servers
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Memory for 24/7 proactive agents like openclaw (moltbot, clawdbot).
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Game Engines
Frameworks for building games across multiple platforms.
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Ranger
Repo maintenance is hard — you could use a hand
Ranger is a sidekick for repo maintainers. It reduces the burden of repository maintenance by automating common tasks, like:
- Auto-merging pull requests when all the status checks pass
- Auto-closing issues when a specific label is applied after a preconfigured amount of time
- Creating frequent comments in a standardized manner
- Auto-deleting branches after pull requests have been merged
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AI agent toolkit: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI & web UI libraries, Slack bot, vLLM pods
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Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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A WhatsApp client library for NodeJS that connects through the WhatsApp Web browser app
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A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
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CLI for common Playwright actions. Record and generate Playwright code, inspect selectors and take screenshots.
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The ultimate space for work and life — to find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level — enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
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Renovate
Mend Renovate | Dependency Update Automation
Renovate: an open-source tool which automatically creates pull requests for all types of dependency updates. Includes crowdsourced test and package adoption data are used to flag potentially risky updates and enable auto-merging for those that meet user-defined conditions.
How Renovate works:
- Scans your repos to detect dependencies (wide package manager support)
- Checks if any newer versions exist
- Raises PRs for available updates