Open-source documentation software
1012 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged documentation, ranked by how closely documentation is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1012 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| frappe/lms Frappe Learning is a 100% open-source Learning Management System built on the Frappe Framework for creating structured courses with videos,… | 95 | 3311 | active |
| ekalinin/github-markdown-toc gh-md-toc is a dependency-free shell script that generates a table of contents for GitHub README.md files and wiki pages. It can process st… | 66 | 3303 | stable |
| Textualize/frogmouth Frogmouth is a Markdown viewer/browser that runs in the terminal, built with the Textual TUI framework. It supports opening local files or … | 21 | 3300 | active |
| yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown Markdown All in One is a Visual Studio Code extension that adds comprehensive Markdown editing features such as keyboard shortcuts, automat… | 68 | 3298 | active |
| plannotator/effective-html A collection of six installable agent skills (for Claude Code, Codex, and similar AI coding agents) that guide models in producing useful, … | 56 | 3289 | active |
| Peppermint-Lab/peppermint Peppermint is an open-source, self-hosted issue management and help desk application for tracking internal staff and customer requests. It … | 10 | 3162 | active |
| KhazP/vibe-coding-prompt-template A collection of structured prompt templates and an npx-installable CLI (vibeworkflow) that guides developers through turning an app idea in… | 80 | 3160 | active |
| mitsuhiko/agent-stuff A personal npm package (mitsupi) of skills, extensions, prompt commands, and themes for the Pi Coding Agent, published by Armin Ronacher. I… | 59 | 3148 | active |
| apache/netbeans Apache NetBeans is a free, open-source integrated development environment (IDE) supporting Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more, wit… | 91 | 3140 | active |
| Apiato Apiato is a PHP framework built on top of Laravel for creating scalable, testable, API-centric applications using the Porto architectural p… | 72 | 3108 | active |
| vanzan01/cursor-memory-bank A documentation-driven framework for the Cursor editor that provides persistent memory and a structured development workflow through six co… | 56 | 3060 | active |
| jsr-io/jsr JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript and TypeScript, serving as an npm-compatible alternative with native TypeScri… | 71 | 2982 | active |
| AcadHomepage AcadHomepage is a Jekyll-based template for building a modern, responsive academic personal homepage hosted on GitHub Pages. It automatical… | 74 | 2957 | active |
| jekyll/jekyll-admin A Jekyll plugin that adds a CMS-style graphical admin interface for authoring content and managing Jekyll sites. It consists of a Ruby-base… | 30 | 2926 | active |
| ChanceYu/front-end-rss An automated RSS aggregator that collects the latest front-end technology articles from popular newsletters and blogs, categorizes them, an… | 77 | 2901 | active |
| ljlm0402/typescript-express-starter An interactive CLI generator that scaffolds production-ready TypeScript Express REST API projects with a configurable stack. It offers 10+ … | 85 | 2871 | active |
| Sponge Sponge is a Go development framework built on a 'Definition is Code' philosophy that generates modular backend code from SQL, Protobuf, and… | 61 | 2870 | active |
| LyricTian/gin-admin A full-featured RBAC admin scaffolding framework for Go built on Gin, GORM 2.0, Casbin 2.0, and Wire dependency injection. It ships with JW… | 31 | 2867 | active |
| expo/skills A collection of official AI agent skills from the Expo team that give coding agents focused knowledge for building, deploying, upgrading, a… | 61 | 2836 | active |
| dromara/RuoYi-Vue-Plus RuoYi-Vue-Plus is a multi-tenant Java admin management system that rewrites RuoYi-Vue for distributed cluster scenarios, integrating Sa-Tok… | 90 | 2764 | active |
| Owl-Listener/designer-skills A collection of 241 agentic skills, 91 commands, and 33 plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, UI, interaction, and de… | 57 | 2734 | active |
| ray-x/go.nvim A feature-rich Neovim plugin for Go development, written in Lua, integrating gopls LSP, treesitter, DAP debugging, and AI assistance. It co… | 76 | 2661 | active |
| anthropics/claude-desktop-buddy A reference implementation and example firmware for the Bluetooth (BLE) maker API in Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, including an ES… | 46 | 2625 | active |
| HughYau/AcademicForge AcademicForge is a curated catalog and installer platform of AI agent skills for academic writing and research, targeting Claude Code, Open… | 57 | 2597 | active |
| liukuo362573/YiShaAdmin YiShaAdmin is an open-source admin management system built on .NET Core MVC with a clean Bootstrap/jQuery UI. It provides role-based permis… | 32 | 2578 | active |
| ming1016/SwiftPamphletApp A macOS knowledge handbook app built with SwiftUI, SwiftData, and Swift Concurrency that organizes Apple/Swift development knowledge points… | 36 | 2558 | active |
| mono0926/LicensePlist LicensePlist is a Swift command-line tool that automatically generates a Plist of license notices for all dependencies of an iOS applicatio… | 95 | 2534 | active |
| r-lib/devtools devtools is an R package that streamlines R package development with functions for loading, documenting, testing, building, and installing … | 85 | 2519 | stable |
| docmd-io/docmd docmd is a zero-configuration documentation compiler that turns a folder of Markdown files into a static documentation website, client-side… | 81 | 2516 | active |
| ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools EF Core Power Tools is a Visual Studio extension and cross-platform CLI (efcpt) for Entity Framework Core that provides GUI-based reverse e… | 67 | 2515 | active |
| boston-dynamics/spot-sdk The Boston Dynamics Spot SDK for developing applications and payloads that control the Spot quadruped robot. It includes a Python client li… | 75 | 2502 | active |
| K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer An AI-powered deep research and scientific writing tool that generates publication-ready papers, reports, posters, grant proposals, and lit… | 83 | 2493 | active |
| dsphper/lanhu-mcp A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates the Lanhu design collaboration platform with AI coding assistants like Cursor, Claude… | 81 | 2458 | active |
| bashly-framework/bashly Bashly is a Ruby-based command line tool that generates feature-rich, standalone bash CLI scripts from a simple YAML configuration file. It… | 97 | 2457 | stable |
| jpsim/SourceKitten SourceKitten is a Swift framework and command line tool that links with sourcekitd.framework to interact with SourceKit. It parses Swift AS… | 90 | 2426 | stable |
| CatalaLang/catala Catala is a domain-specific programming language for deriving faithful-by-construction algorithms from legislative texts via literate progr… | 94 | 2417 | active |
| learnhouse/learnhouse LearnHouse is a next-generation open-source learning management system (LMS) for creating, sharing, and selling educational content. It com… | 100 | 2404 | active |
| antonbabenko/terraform-skill An Agent Skills-compatible plugin that gives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, etc.) best-practice knowledge for … | 68 | 2399 | active |
| open-wc/open-wc Open Web Components (open-wc) is a collection of guides, recommendations, generators, and tools for developing web components in JavaScript… | 88 | 2398 | active |
| Hextra Hextra is a modern, batteries-included Hugo theme for building beautiful documentation, blog, and static websites. It provides built-in ful… | 95 | 2391 | active |
| hacksalot/HackMyResume A Node.js command-line tool that generates polished résumés and CVs in multiple formats (HTML, Markdown, LaTeX, MS Word, PDF, plain text, J… | 23 | 9331 | maintenance |
| Doks Doks is a documentation theme and starter template for the Thulite web framework, built on Hugo and npm. It provides a fast, accessible, SE… | 98 | 2362 | active |
| imathis/octopress Octopress is a Ruby-based framework built on top of Jekyll that provides a polished, responsive blogging theme and a set of rake tasks and … | 32 | 9233 | maintenance |
| AgriciDaniel/claude-blog claude-blog is a Claude Code skill suite that writes, optimizes, audits, localizes, and refreshes blog content through a multi-agent pipeli… | 79 | 2330 | active |
| wondelai/skills A collection of 62 MIT-licensed AI agent skills (50 frameworks distilled from bestselling business and engineering books plus 12 guided met… | 78 | 2317 | active |
| liferay/liferay-portal Liferay DXP (formerly Liferay Portal) is a Java-based digital experience platform combining a CMS, DAM, portals, commerce, search, personal… | 75 | 2266 | active |
| Esri/arcgis-python-api The ArcGIS API for Python is a Pythonic library for working with maps, geospatial data, and web GIS, supporting spatial analysis, deep lear… | 89 | 2217 | active |
| mrgoonie/claudekit-skills A curated collection of Agent Skills (workflows, guardrails, and integration hints) for Claude Code, installable as a plugin marketplace. I… | 47 | 2217 | active |
| rogden/tailwind-config-viewer A local UI tool for visually browsing your Tailwind CSS configuration file, letting you navigate theme sections and copy class names to the… | 23 | 2216 | stable |
| rswag/rswag Rswag extends rspec-rails request specs with a Swagger-based DSL for describing and testing Rails API operations, then generates OpenAPI (S… | 67 | 2202 | active |
| azimuttapp/azimutt Azimutt is a full-stack database exploration tool offering a next-generation ERD that scales to large, messy real-world schemas, plus data … | 73 | 2190 | active |
| Runme Runme is an open-source tool that makes Markdown documentation executable, running shell commands and code snippets directly from fenced co… | 95 | 2179 | active |
| JuneYaooo/nihaisha-nishi-tcm An Agent Skill for Claude Code / Codex / OpenClaw that organizes Ni Haixia's traditional Chinese medicine course materials into a searchabl… | 57 | 2179 | active |
| atomicstrata/llm-wiki-compiler llmwiki is a Node.js CLI knowledge compiler that turns raw sources (papers, docs, notes, PDFs, URLs) into an interlinked, citation-traceabl… | 81 | 2169 | active |
| kythe/kythe Kythe is a pluggable, mostly language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code, providing a standard schema and interchang… | 84 | 2168 | active |
| ThinkCMF ThinkCMF is an open-source content management framework built on ThinkPHP 8, supporting both PHP-FPM and Swoole modes. It provides a multi-… | 43 | 2158 | active |
| Micke-K/IntuneManagement A PowerShell application with a WPF UI for managing Microsoft Intune and Azure objects such as policies, profiles, and configurations. It s… | 86 | 2113 | active |
| oss-review-toolkit/ort The OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) is a FOSS policy automation toolkit that analyzes project dependencies, scans licenses and copyrights, checks … | 94 | 2098 | active |
| sanluan/PublicCMS PublicCMS is an open-source Java content management system built on Spring Boot, FreeMarker, and Hibernate Search, designed to support tens… | 94 | 2097 | active |
| conventional-changelog/standard-version standard-version is a Node.js CLI utility that automates semantic version bumping and CHANGELOG.md generation based on Conventional Commits… | 61 | 7985 | maintenance |
| RivoLink/leaf leaf is a terminal-based Markdown previewer written in Rust that renders files with rich formatting, syntax highlighting, LaTeX math, and M… | 75 | 2058 | active |
| certsocietegenerale/FIR FIR (Fast Incident Response) is a self-hosted cybersecurity incident management platform built with Django. It enables CSIRTs, CERTs, and S… | 65 | 2044 | active |
| xaoxuu/hexo-theme-stellar Stellar is a Hexo theme that combines a blog, wiki documentation system, columns, and notebooks into one integrated personal knowledge base… | 98 | 2039 | active |
| AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow Answer Overflow is an open-source application that indexes Discord server threads into searchable, SEO-friendly web pages so community know… | 66 | 2020 | active |
| secure-77/Perlite Perlite is a self-hosted, web-based markdown viewer optimized for Obsidian vaults, serving as an open-source alternative to Obsidian Publis… | 54 | 1983 | active |
| glittercowboy/taches-cc-resources A curated collection of custom Claude Code resources including 27 slash commands, 9 skills, and 3 auditor subagents for structured workflow… | 47 | 1983 | active |
| iiab/iiab Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) is a self-hosted 'learning hotspot' application that turns a Raspberry Pi or Linux machine into an offline digital… | 68 | 1981 | active |
| aipoch/medical-research-skills A curated library of 550+ SKILL.md-compatible agent skills for medical and biomedical research, covering evidence insights, protocol design… | 70 | 1971 | active |
| Dendron Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based personal knowledge management (PKM) tool built for developers, integrating natively … | 52 | 7467 | maintenance |
| jupyter/nbconvert nbconvert is the Jupyter project's tool for converting .ipynb notebooks into static formats such as HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Reveal.js slides, Mar… | 91 | 1939 | stable |
| TencentEdgeOne/edgeone-makers-tools Official AI agent skills package for Tencent EdgeOne Makers, installable into AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and CodeBud… | 58 | 1894 | active |
| twitter/communitynotes The public repository for Twitter/X's Community Notes, hosting the open-source scoring algorithm code, documentation, and a template AI not… | 76 | 1890 | active |
| ofdrw/ofdrw OFDRW is an open-source Java library for reading, writing, and manipulating OFD (Open Fixed-layout Document) files, a Chinese national stan… | 90 | 1875 | active |
| VoidenHQ/voiden Voiden is an offline, Git-native API workspace built with Electron and TypeScript that lets developers design, test, and document APIs in p… | 85 | 1861 | active |
| questflowai/investorskills An open-source library of portable, plain-text 'investor skill' packages (SKILL.md files plus investment schemas) that encode the judgment … | 55 | 1861 | active |
| tuanchauict/MonoSketch MonoSketch is a fully client-side web application for creating ASCII diagrams and text-based visualizations. It runs entirely in the browse… | 48 | 1820 | active |
| moxi624/mogu_blog_v2 MoguBlog is a front-end/back-end separated blog system built on a Java microservices architecture (Spring Cloud + Spring Boot + MyBatis-Plu… | 29 | 1811 | active |
| minecraft-dev/MinecraftDev An open-source IntelliJ IDEA plugin providing first-class IDE support for Java Minecraft modding and server plugin development. It supports… | 95 | 1810 | active |
| IWE IWE is a Rust-based tool that turns a directory of plain Markdown files into a queryable knowledge graph, exposed through an LSP server for… | 86 | 1774 | active |
| RackulaLives/Rackula Rackula is a self-hostable, drag-and-drop server rack layout designer for planning and visualizing rack deployments. It uses real device im… | 83 | 1744 | active |
| zhontai Admin A full-stack, front-end/back-end separated admin permission management system built on .NET 10, Vue3, uniapp, and element-plus. It provides… | 91 | 1728 | active |
| Review Board Review Board is an open-source, web-based code and document review tool supporting many version control systems like Git, Perforce, Mercuri… | 87 | 1724 | active |
| NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit A hand-crafted collection of Claude Code Skills and plugins implementing context engineering techniques to improve AI coding agent output q… | 78 | 1719 | active |
| Coopydood/ultimate-macOS-KVM A Python-based automation toolkit and guide for creating macOS virtual machines on Linux using KVM/QEMU, with OpenCore bootstrapping and op… | 63 | 1711 | active |
| cweijan/vscode-office A VS Code extension that adds preview and editing support for office and design file formats such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF, EPUB, PS… | 72 | 1693 | active |
| nvim-telekasten/telekasten.nvim A Neovim plugin written in Lua for managing a markdown-based zettelkasten/wiki with journal support, built on telescope.nvim. It provides s… | 61 | 1691 | active |
| ferrocene/ferrocene Ferrocene is a safety-critical Rust toolchain, a downstream fork of the official Rust compiler, qualified for use in safety- and mission-cr… | 73 | 1689 | active |
| statiqdev/Statiq Statiq is a flexible and extensible static site generation framework for .NET, evolving from the Wyam project. It provides over 100 modules… | 57 | 1688 | active |
| AvdLee/Swift-Concurrency-Agent-Skill A packaged Agent Skill in the open Agent Skills/Agent Plugin format that injects expert Swift Concurrency knowledge into AI coding assistan… | 78 | 1677 | active |
| Project Fluent Fluent is a localization system whose FTL syntax lets translators write natural-sounding, asymmetric translations with locale-specific logi… | 52 | 1677 | stable |
| mozilla/kitsune Kitsune is the Django-based web application that powers Mozilla Support (support.mozilla.org), providing a community support platform with … | 92 | 1657 | active |
| joplin/plugins The official Joplin plugin repository, a curated registry of community plugins for the Joplin note-taking application, updated every 30 min… | 68 | 1647 | active |
| eth-p/bat-extras A collection of Bash scripts that integrate the bat syntax-highlighting pager with other command-line tools like ripgrep, man, git diff, an… | 23 | 1635 | active |
| xinliangnote/go-gin-api A modular API framework built on the Gin web framework for Go, bundling common features like CORS, JWT auth, zap logging, Prometheus metric… | 23 | 5974 | maintenance |
| typicms/typicms TypiCMS is a modular, multilingual content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. It ships with modules for pages, news, eve… | 92 | 1619 | active |
| PhalApi PhalApi (π framework) is a lightweight open-source PHP framework focused on API/interface service development, supporting HTTP, SOAP, and R… | 68 | 1601 | active |
| pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow A ready-to-fork Claude Code template repository for AI-assisted academic work with LaTeX/Beamer, Quarto, and R. It orchestrates specialized… | 77 | 1598 | active |
| GBSOSS/skill-from-masters A skill for AI agent platforms like Claude Code and Codex that helps users create new AI skills grounded in proven methodologies from recog… | 43 | 1589 | active |
| axoviq-ai/synthadoc Synthadoc is an open-source, domain-agnostic LLM knowledge compilation engine that transforms raw documents into structured, human-readable… | 82 | 1587 | active |
| awslabs/diagram-as-code A Go-based CLI tool (awsdac) that generates AWS architecture diagrams from human-readable YAML definitions, following AWS diagram guideline… | 85 | 1585 | active |