nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

2

Human commits, 90 days

27

Human commits, 365 days

105

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

6

Last release

none found

Median PR merge time

12 days

Responsiveness: of 7 recent issues, 57% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

105 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

4

Contributors

173

Top committers

• oriori1703: 65% of commits
• tjdevries: 10% of commits
• nathanzeng: 4% of commits
• ollien: 2% of commits
• stephansama: 2% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 29, 2022 to Dec 1, 2022: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 12, 2022 to Dec 12, 2022: about 26 more stars than usual, peak 29 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 16, 2022 to Jan 10, 2023: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 237 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 18, 2023 to Feb 21, 2023: about 132 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 13, 2023 to Mar 13, 2023: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 12, 2023 to Jul 13, 2023: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 21, 2023 to Aug 22, 2023: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 27, 2023 to Aug 28, 2023: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 27, 2023 to Sep 28, 2023: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 6, 2023 to Nov 14, 2023: about 421 more stars than usual, peak 154 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 26, 2023 to Dec 29, 2023: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 29, 2024 to Jan 29, 2024: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 3, 2024 to Mar 13, 2024: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 285 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 16, 2025 to Mar 18, 2025: about 310 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 13, 2025 to May 14, 2025: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 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

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim