cactus-compute/needle
Automation foundation model for tiny devices: 2-bit, 8-29 MB, tool calls, ASR, structured extraction and embeddings on phones, wearables, smart homes, robots, cars and microcontrollers.
14k stars · 961 forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 76% 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
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 52
- Human commits, 90 days
- 113
- Human commits, 365 days
- 348
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (11 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (11 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 30
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 2 days
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 93% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 29 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 348 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 3
- Contributors
- 35
Top committers
- HenryNdubuaku: 76% of commits
- ncylich: 3% of commits
- LeonSGP43: 2% of commits
- kevin9327: 2% of commits
- jakmro: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- May 12, 2026 to Jun 4, 2026: about 2.5k more stars than usual, peak 746 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Jul 12, 2026 to Jul 22, 2026: about 534 more stars than usual, peak 214 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 10, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026: about 7.3k more stars than usual, peak 666 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.
- Sep 19, 2026 to Sep 24, 2026: about 753 more stars than usual, peak 345 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.
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
- cactus-needle (PYPI): latest 3.2.2, published Oct 14, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: cactus-compute/needle, deps.dev: PyPI cactus-needle
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution