huggingface/alignment-handbook
Robust recipes to align language models with human and AI preferences
5.7k stars · 497 forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: no known risks in the checks that ran.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- Partly checked: people (Only 1 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
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 1
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 75%
- Last commit
- Sep 23, 2026 (21 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Apr 8, 2026 (6 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 2 days
Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Most commits in the last year come from bots.
- Only 0 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
- 1 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 33
Top committers
- paulinebm: 100% of commits
- Only 1 human commits were found, too few to judge who maintains the project.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 10, 2023 to Oct 24, 2023: about 684 more stars than usual, peak 244 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.
- Oct 26, 2023 to Nov 5, 2023: about 493 more stars than usual, peak 119 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 10, 2023 to Nov 16, 2023: about 789 more stars than usual, peak 232 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.
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
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- alignment-handbook (PYPI): latest 0.3.0, published Sep 19, 2024
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: huggingface/alignment-handbook, deps.dev: PyPI alignment-handbook
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
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