Tracking 3,394 open and source-visible tool signals

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Track openness class, maintenance, shipping velocity, source coverage, and confidence so you can decide what to trust, replace, or bet on.

Health

Maintenance, uptime, repo, release, and public activity signals.

Shipping

Release velocity, changelog motion, and recent product updates.

Source Coverage

Bounded first-party evidence with explicit freshness and confidence signals.

Confidence

2.8k scored tools, 81 on evidence watch, 549 not scored.

Agent-ready evidence

Every tool profile speaks Markdown and JSON.

Agents can search, shortlist by use case, compare, inspect trends, and cite first-party source receipts without scraping the interface or loading the full catalog.

What Changed Today

Updated Oct 14, 2026. Newly added tools and notable score changes from the last 24 hours, plus the latest research.

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Newly Added Tools

Fresh arrivals

0

No newly added tools landed in the last 24 hours.

Notable Score Moves

Shifts in confidence

18

Big Movers This Week

Last 7 days ending Oct 14, 2026. Ranked by net score change and open-tool release activity.

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Fastest Open Shippers

Open/source-visible tools with the heaviest release activity in the last 7 days.

Shipping

No release activity was recorded in the last 7 days.

Weekly Ecosystem Pulse

Week of Oct 7, 2026 to Oct 14, 2026. Deterministic signals built from release and risk evidence.

Release Pulse

Release events

0

No tracked release activity landed in the last 7 days, so shipping momentum stayed quiet across the catalog.

Risk Pulse

Score drops

138

AI Agent Tools showed the most downward pressure with 23 tools slipping. Hemmelig had the sharpest drop at -87 points.

Open Tool Rankings

Health-first rankings exclude proprietary targets and unknown-license tools. The GitHub repos view is adoption-first for source-visible tools.

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Top GitHub Repos

Adoption-first view of tracked source-visible repositories, ordered by stars.

Stars
#RepoUse CaseOpennessStarsScore
01OpenClawopenclaw/openclawAi Agent ToolsOSI-approved OSS391.9k99
02everything-claude-codeaffaan-m/ECCAi Agent ToolsOSI-approved OSS278.2k96
03Hermes AgentNousResearch/hermes-agentAi Agent ToolsOSI-approved OSS253.4k99
04Reactreact/reactRuntime LibrariesOSI-approved OSS251k93
05OpenCodeanomalyco/opencodeAi Agent ToolsOSI-approved OSS213.2k98
06n8nn8n-io/n8nWorkflow AutomationFair-code, not OSI-approved207.2k99
07Visual Studio Codemicrosoft/vscodeCode EditingOSI-approved OSS193.7k98
08Firecrawlfirecrawl/firecrawlBrowser AutomationOSI-approved OSS191.2k94

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