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Top 23 Shell Automation Projects
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AppSignal
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Project mention: Every way to automate a Mac setup, ranked by mass of YAML you'll write | dev.to | 2026-02-14
Jeff Geerling's mac-dev-playbook is the popular option here. Idempotent, which is nice. But writing enterprise YAML to install VS Code on your personal laptop feels absurd. And when a playbook fails, the error messages read like server logs.
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- repo: https://github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform rev: v1.108.1 hooks: - id: terraform_fmt - id: terraform_validate args: - --hook-config=--retry-once-with-cleanup=true - id: terraform_docs args: - --args=--lockfile=false - id: terraform_tflint args: - --args=--config=__GIT_WORKING_DIR__/.tflint.hcl - id: terraform_trivy
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Project mention: No audio from the Home Assistant Nabu puck: use assist_satellite.announce | dev.to | 2026-06-23
It's not your call. The Piper add-on had crashed and never came back. TTS has no engine, so the message never gets synthesized and nothing speaks. Piper crashing on TTS calls is not just us: Piper: Crash after any TTS call (addons #3379) reports exactly this — ConnectionResetError then a FileNotFoundError on an empty audio path, i.e. the synthesis never produced a file. With no watchdog, a crashed Piper stays down and there's no obvious symptom pointing at it.
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multi-agent-shogun
Samurai-inspired multi-agent system for Claude Code. Orchestrate parallel AI tasks via tmux with shogun → karo → ashigaru hierarchy.
Project mention: Show HN: Multi-agent-shogun – tmux and YAML mailbox for parallel AI agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-10 -
bastille
Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
Project mention: Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-05I’ve found Bastille really simple and great for creating and managing jails https://bastillebsd.org/
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SaaSHub
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selfhost-ai
One-command installer for a self-hosted AI stack on your own server: n8n, Ollama, Open WebUI, OpenClaw, Dify, Flowise, Supabase, ComfyUI, Qdrant & 30+ tools. Docker Compose, automatic HTTPS via Caddy, built-in monitoring. Free Zapier/Make alternative.
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claude_code_agent_farm
Orchestration framework for running 20+ Claude Code agents in parallel: automated bug fixing, best-practices sweeps, lock-based coordination, and real-time tmux monitoring
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aeon
The most autonomous AI agent framework: runs unattended on GitHub Actions, self-healing skills, drives Claude Code, Grok, Codex & more. No approval loops. Configure once, forget forever. (by aeonfun)
git clone https://github.com/aeonfun/aeon && cd aeon ./aeon init ./aeon init creates your repo and connects GitHub, a model, and Telegram; ./aeon opens the same dashboard locally on localhost:5555. Everything the dashboard does is also an ./aeon CLI command or a /aeon chat command, installable as a Claude Code or Codex plugin. If you want a stable point to pin to instead of main, releases exist now, starting with v0.1.0.
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shepherd
Docker swarm service for automatically updating your services whenever their image is refreshed (by containrrr)
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superclaude
🚀 Give Claude AI superpowers for GitHub workflows. Transform "fix stuff" commits into professional messages, generate intelligent changelogs, and get AI code reviews - all with one command. (by gwendall)
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hideIt.sh
Automagically hide/show a window by its name when the cursor is within a defined region or you mouse over it.
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cursor-rules-and-prompts
A comprehensive, open-source collection of rules and prompts designed to guide Cursor AI in generating better, more consistent code. Enhance code quality, enforce coding standards, and streamline development workflows automatically.
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verify-changed-files
:octocat: Github action to verify file changes that occur during the workflow execution.
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docker-terragrunt
Dockerized framework with Terraform, Terragrunt, Python, Make, Docker, Git, and all needed components to easily manage cloud infrastructure.
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Apple-Music-CLI-Player
A simple command-line Apple Music controller script which includes a "Now Playing" widget function, a playback function, and a list-out function for your Mac's Music.app library, written in sh.
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changelog-updater-action
A GitHub Action to automatically update a "Keep a Changelog" CHANGELOG with the latest release notes.
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Automation projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Compose-Examples | 7,387 |
| 2 | mac-dev-playbook | 7,057 |
| 3 | pre-commit-terraform | 3,783 |
| 4 | addons | 2,226 |
| 5 | wait-for | 1,963 |
| 6 | multi-agent-shogun | 1,423 |
| 7 | bastille | 1,105 |
| 8 | selfhost-ai | 938 |
| 9 | claude_code_agent_farm | 920 |
| 10 | aeon | 766 |
| 11 | ansible-for-kubernetes | 728 |
| 12 | Mido | 672 |
| 13 | shepherd | 596 |
| 14 | qvm-create-windows-qube | 399 |
| 15 | superclaude | 327 |
| 16 | hideIt.sh | 253 |
| 17 | cursor-rules-and-prompts | 249 |
| 18 | github-misc-scripts | 237 |
| 19 | verify-changed-files | 213 |
| 20 | docker-terragrunt | 179 |
| 21 | Apple-Music-CLI-Player | 179 |
| 22 | changelog-updater-action | 158 |
| 23 | pimod | 149 |
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