What is openhub?

OpenHub is a terminal application that helps you discover and install AI coding tools, agent skills, and related packages. It runs entirely in a text-based interface that you control with keyboard shortcuts, so there is no graphical window or mouse clicking involved. The project is built in Python using the Textual framework and a local SQLite database, and it requires no setup or configuration to start using. The app opens to a dashboard showing panels of trending repositories, recent releases, fast-growing utilities, and lesser-known projects worth attention. You can browse curated collections organized around themes like an AI engineer starter pack or tools specific to editors like Cursor. A search feature lets you type what you are looking for and tolerates typos, matching across names, descriptions, topics, and use cases. Each project appears as a card with a quality rating, programming language tag, and difficulty level so you can quickly judge whether it fits your needs. One of OpenHub's main goals is compatibility across AI coding assistants. It exports tools using a format called SKILL.md, which works with several popular tools including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Roo Code, Cline, OpenCode, AutoGen, and CrewAI. Pressing a single key exports a skill file directly into the folder structure your AI assistant reads from, so the tool becomes usable without manual copying. The application boots quickly from a local cache while fetching fresh data from GitHub in the background. It logs every action you take, including installs, exports, failures, and removals, in a persistent local database. Quality scores and difficulty classifications come from deterministic algorithms rather than subjective judgment, and the project points to a separate technical document for details on how those work. Installation is available through standard Python package managers, and the codebase runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows with Python 3.10 or newer.