karpathy/nanochat

Maintenance

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

0

Human commits, 365 days

432

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Jul 3, 2026 (3 months ago)

Last human commit

Jul 3, 2026 (3 months ago)

Authors, 90 days

0

Last release

none found

Median PR merge time

10 days

Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 13% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 19 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

432 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

3

Contributors

51

Top committers

• karpathy: 64% of commits
• svlandeg: 14% of commits
• suraj-self: 3% of commits
• lukestanley: 2% of commits
• ericsilberstein: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Feb 1, 2026 to Feb 11, 2026: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 431 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 8, 2026 to Mar 26, 2026: about 4.2k more stars than usual, peak 826 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 19, 2026 to May 21, 2026: about 178 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

• 3 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.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: karpathy/nanochat