🐺OpenFang
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Open-source Agent Operating System
⭐ Very popular: 18k stars, gaining about 18 a week
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momentum
durability
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
why it's a big deal
- It treats the agent as a long-lived process, not a chat session - scheduled autonomous work is the default, the always-on shift the rest of the stack is racing to support.
- Its bundled “Hands” - seven capability packages that run on a schedule without prompting - reframe an agent as something that works in the background, where peers still wait for a human turn.
- Shipping as a single binary you install and leave on pushes agent tooling toward the operating-system tradition, not the notebook-and-API one it grew out of.
under the hood
- 14 Rust crates compiling to one binary, with a WASM dual-metered sandbox (fuel plus epoch interruption) for tool code and 16 security layers, including a Merkle hash-chain audit trail and Ed25519-signed manifests.
- 40 channel adapters (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Matrix and more) and 27 LLM providers behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with routing, fallback, and cost tracking.
- SQLite persistence with vector embeddings for memory, a Tauri 2.0 desktop app, and an OFP peer-to-peer protocol with HMAC-SHA256 auth across 140+ endpoints.
our take from PR#36, 2026-06-17
star history
- PR#36 18k 2026-06-17
- now 18k + 314 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
Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.
- 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 →
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