Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmy
⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary.
6k stars · 585 forks · Rust
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 100% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 101
- Human commits, 365 days
- 196
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Aug 30, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 30, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Aug 30, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 5 recent issues, 60% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 18 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 196 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 1
Top committers
- Michael-A-Kuykendall: 100% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- Apr 25, 2026 to Apr 29, 2026: about 629 more stars than usual, peak 275 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 17, 2026 to May 22, 2026: about 391 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
- shimmy (CARGO): latest 2.6.4, published Aug 30, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmy, deps.dev: Cargo shimmy
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2