helix-editor/helix

Maintenance

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days

5

Human commits, 90 days

18

Human commits, 365 days

702

Bot share of commits, 365 days

7%

Last commit

Sep 29, 2026 (16 days ago)

Last human commit

Sep 29, 2026 (16 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

8

Last release

Jul 18, 2025 (1 year ago)

Median PR merge time

4 days

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 3% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.

• Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

464 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

4

Authors for 80% of commits

51

Contributors

415

Top committers

• archseer: 25% of commits
• the-mikedavis: 14% of commits
• matoous: 7% of commits
• m4rch3n1ng: 6% of commits
• kpbaks: 3% of commits

• Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 6, 2021 to Nov 11, 2021: about 225 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 29, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021: about 187 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 14, 2021 to Dec 18, 2021: about 234 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 18, 2022 to Jan 20, 2022: about 179 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 30, 2022 to Apr 20, 2022: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 29, 2022 to Jun 3, 2022: about 358 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 6, 2022 to Jun 9, 2022: about 153 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 1, 2022 to Sep 11, 2022: about 748 more stars than usual, peak 175 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 27, 2022 to Oct 5, 2022: about 422 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 9, 2022 to Oct 19, 2022: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 428 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.
• Nov 6, 2022 to Nov 9, 2022: about 294 more stars than usual, peak 178 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.
• Dec 7, 2022 to Dec 8, 2022: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 102 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.
• Mar 31, 2023 to Apr 4, 2023: about 422 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 22, 2023 to May 24, 2023: about 129 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 8, 2023 to Jun 12, 2023: about 256 more stars than usual, peak 110 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 26, 2023 to Oct 28, 2023: about 259 more stars than usual, peak 137 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, a new release.
• Mar 31, 2024 to Apr 4, 2024: about 351 more stars than usual, peak 168 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.
• Jul 15, 2024 to Jul 19, 2024: about 225 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Sep 10, 2024 to Sep 12, 2024: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 112 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 13, 2025 to Jan 14, 2025: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 12, 2025 to May 14, 2025: about 129 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 17, 2025 to Jul 18, 2025: about 152 more stars than usual, peak 147 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 10, 2025 to Oct 14, 2025: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 29, 2025 to Nov 4, 2025: about 223 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 7, 2026 to Mar 7, 2026: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.
• 5 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

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

• The star history looks organic.
• The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: helix-editor/helix