HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models

Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"

29.6k stars · 6.7k forks · Jupyter Notebook

This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.

Healthy

Healthy: no known risks in the checks that ran.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: people (Only 3 human commits were found, too few to judge who maintains the project.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Complete

Steady

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 3
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Apr 24, 2026 (5 months ago)
Last human commit: Apr 24, 2026 (5 months ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: under an hour

Responsiveness: of 1 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Only 1 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Partial

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 3 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 3
Contributors: 11

Top committers

Anand1405: 33% of commits
MaartenGr: 33% of commits
yfgrepcat: 33% of commits

Only 3 human commits were found, too few to judge who maintains the project.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Sep 16, 2024 to Oct 17, 2024: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 196 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 11, 2024 to Nov 13, 2024: about 167 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 2, 2024 to Dec 5, 2024: about 318 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jan 14, 2025 to Jan 16, 2025: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 18, 2025 to Feb 19, 2025: about 206 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 18, 2025 to Apr 21, 2025: about 396 more stars than usual, peak 227 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 3, 2025 to May 16, 2025: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 336 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 8, 2025 to Jul 11, 2025: about 656 more stars than usual, peak 385 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 25, 2025 to Aug 27, 2025: about 545 more stars than usual, peak 382 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Oct 18, 2025 to Oct 19, 2025: about 182 more stars than usual, peak 150 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 2, 2025 to Nov 6, 2025: about 509 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 30, 2025 to Jan 3, 2026: about 429 more stars than usual, peak 187 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 3, 2026 to Feb 4, 2026: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 10, 2026 to Feb 26, 2026: about 2.5k more stars than usual, peak 409 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 14, 2026 to Mar 19, 2026: about 708 more stars than usual, peak 301 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 5, 2026 to May 6, 2026: about 180 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 10, 2026 to Aug 11, 2026: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 20, 2026 to Aug 22, 2026: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 99 in one day, a flat block of stars. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Sep 28, 2026 to Sep 28, 2026: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

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Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 10 hours ago · method 2026.10.2