ianarawjo/ChainForge
An open-source visual programming environment for battle-testing prompts to LLMs.
3k stars · 259 forks · TypeScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 93% 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
- 40
- Human commits, 90 days
- 53
- Human commits, 365 days
- 55
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 3, 2026 (11 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 3, 2026 (11 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 4
- Last release
- Sep 16, 2026 (28 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 2 hours
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
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 55 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 14
Top committers
- ianarawjo: 93% of commits
- Vein05: 4% of commits
- cerebrixos: 2% of commits
- likeskymore: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- May 23, 2023 to Jun 3, 2023: about 581 more stars than usual, peak 299 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Aug 7, 2023 to Aug 11, 2023: about 216 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Mar 21, 2024 to Mar 29, 2024: about 247 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 8, 2024 to Nov 10, 2024: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Nov 3, 2025 to Nov 5, 2025: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 29 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
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- chainforge (PYPI): latest 0.3.7.6, published Oct 1, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: ianarawjo/ChainForge, deps.dev: PyPI chainforge
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- Oct 15, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 3 hours ago · method 2026.10.2