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the runtime your coding agents live on

⭐ Very popular: 30k stars, gaining about 3k a week

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repo profile

vintage 2026 launched this year
delivery product
language Rust
license Apache-2.0

momentum

total stars 30k
stars added last week +3k
binary downloads 101k total · GitHub releases
commits / week 65 steady · +1% vs prior mo
issues closed 98% closed same-day, median
contributors 78 (+20 in 15d)
release cadence weekly
last activity today

durability

openness permissive
bus factor 1 solo
top-author share 84% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 14k/mo (+154%/mo) · + 21k total since PR#37

star history

PR#37 · 9k30k now Mar 2026Aug 2026
  1. PR#37 9k 2026-07-01
  2. now 30k + 21k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.

+11 understory score output 97 · clout 86
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#37 2026-07-01 below the radar

    A terminal-native multiplexer for herding many agents at once

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