// hall of fame
Understory of the Month
Each month we crown the repo shipping hardest relative to the attention it gets: high output (commits & releases) over modest clout (star velocity), among projects above 25k stars. Both are 0 to 100 monthly indices; the score is output minus clout. A project can win more than once.
Haystack deepset-ai · 26k stars +39 output 99 · clout 60 Haystack posted a near-perfect output index of 99/100 for Jun 2026: commits and releases among the busiest we track, with real but unremarkable star growth (clout 60/100). Score is simply output minus clout, so those two land it at +39: a 26k-star project still building faster than even that following rewards.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
// past winners
2026
3 winners- May 2026 +35
MLflow output 100 · clout 65 The open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models. MLflow enables teams of all sizes to debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production-quality AI applications while controlling costs and managing access to models and data.
- Apr 2026 +35
Infisical output 100 · clout 65 Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.
- Mar 2026 +37 Infisical output 100 · clout 63
Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.
- Feb 2026 +40
Composio output 100 · clout 60 Composio powers 1000+ toolkits, tool search, context management, authentication, and a sandboxed workbench to help you build AI agents that turn intent into action.
- Jan 2026 +39 Composio output 100 · clout 61
Composio powers 1000+ toolkits, tool search, context management, authentication, and a sandboxed workbench to help you build AI agents that turn intent into action.
2025
3 winners- Dec 2025 +36 Infisical output 100 · clout 64
Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.
- Nov 2025 +36 Infisical output 100 · clout 64
Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.
- Oct 2025 +38 MLflow output 100 · clout 62
The open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models. MLflow enables teams of all sizes to debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production-quality AI applications while controlling costs and managing access to models and data.
- Sep 2025 +36
cognee output 100 · clout 64 Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.
- Aug 2025 +34 cognee output 97 · clout 63
Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.
All-time
most awardedoutput = commits & releases, clout = star velocity, both as 0–100 monthly indices; score = output − clout for that month. A repo needs 25k+ stars at month end to qualify, so this is the award for major projects still out-shipping their attention. Refreshed daily. Looking for the smaller quiet shippers too? Rank the repos by understory score. Brand-new repos shipping hard before their stars arrive are on the Starbound watchlist.