awesome-devtools
github.com/absozero/awesome-devtools ↗A list of awesome developer tools and apps that I use.
Use this list with your AI agent
Add the Context Awesome MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client, then ask:
"Show me cli applications resources from awesome-devtools"
Installation instructions →What's inside
CLI Applications
- Act
Run GitHub Actions workflows locally, useful for testing CI before pushing.
- Age
A simple modern file encryption tool with small keys and unix-style usage.
- Agg
A command line tool to turn asciinema terminal recordings into animated GIF files.
- Algernon
An open source web server with rendering markown and much more out of the box.
- Android Debug Bridge
The official command line tool to manipulate and debug android devices/applications.
- Aria2
A command line downloader with fast speeds
Desktop apps
- Alacritty
A minimalist, high-performance GPU rendered terminal emulator.
- Antigravity
An agent-first AI development environment from Google for delegating coding tasks to autonomous agents.
- Antimicrox
Assign game controller input to keys on the computer.
- Blender
A piece of free and open source software that enables a full pipeline for people wanting to build useful items with 3d in computing,
- Bottles
Software that is helping manage windows software running on linux with a great GUI.
- Cursor
An AI-powered code editor for codebase-aware chat, edits, and agentic development workflows.
Operating systems
- Arch Linux
A open source distribution built on linux, staying on the bleeding edge, but providing users the latest software
- Linux
Technically a kernel, but in this context I use it(gnu/linux) to describe the underlying system under many free and open source distributions of linux.
Resources
- Awesome Cheatsheets
A collection of cheat sheets for programming languages, frameworks, and dev tools.
- Awesome Lists
A huge index of curated awesome lists across many software and learning topics.
- Build Your Own X
A collection of tutorials for learning by rebuilding tools like shells, databases, and emulators.
- Carbon
A tool to make beautiful pictures of code.
- Cloud Shell
A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage.
- Draw.io
An open source whiteboard and diagramming tool that I use to plan projects and sketch outlines.
Frameworks
- Bash-it
A full featured bash frameworks that comes with batteries and a plugin system out of the box.
- Hugo
A fast static site generator for building websites from content and templates.
- MdBook
A tool to build online books and documentation from Markdown files.
- Oh-my-bash
Another bash framework which tries to replicate oh-my-zsh for bash.
- Pocketbase
A small backend in a single executable with database, auth, file storage, and an admin UI.
Selfhosted Apps
- Caddy
A web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS as a major built-in feature.
- Code-server
Run VS Code on a server and use it from a browser.
- Dufs
A simple file server with uploads, search, access control, and WebDAV support.
- File Browser
A selfhosted web file manager for browsing, uploading, and managing server files.
- Phpmyadmin
Web UI for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases without living in the database shell.
- Ttyd
Share a terminal over the web through a small selfhosted server.
Miscellaneous
- Conventional Commits
A commit message convention that makes changelogs and semantic versioning easier to automate.
Tools
- Distrobox
A tool used to spin up multiple operating systems with access to your home sirectory and leverages container technologies like podman and docker to do so.
- Docker
A open tool for containerization, to run applications on multiple places the same.
- GitHub Copilot
GitHub's AI coding assistant for completions, chat, and agentic software development workflows.
- KVM
Linux kernel virtualization support for running virtual machines with hardware acceleration.
- OpenClaw
An open-source autonomous AI assistant framework for running persistent agents through messaging and tool integrations.
- Podman
Another container manager, known as podman, that uses a non-root system with no daemon and a focus on the lifetime of containers.
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