openai/openai-cookbook

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

12

Human commits, 90 days

60

Human commits, 365 days

199

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

24

Last release

none found

Median PR merge time

7 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

199 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

9

Authors for 80% of commits

30

Contributors

376

Top committers

• kkahadze-oai: 13% of commits
• minh-hoque: 8% of commits
• msingh-openai: 7% of commits
• vb-openai: 7% of commits
• alfozan: 6% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jun 3, 2022 to Jun 5, 2022: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 25 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jun 9, 2022 to Jun 10, 2022: about 14 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Nov 30, 2022 to Dec 14, 2022: about 513 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 8, 2023 to Jan 19, 2023: about 3.9k more stars than usual, peak 973 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 2, 2023 to Mar 10, 2023: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 599 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 15, 2023 to Jun 17, 2023: about 668 more stars than usual, peak 452 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 2, 2023 to Aug 3, 2023: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 15, 2023 to Aug 18, 2023: about 548 more stars than usual, peak 261 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 6, 2023 to Nov 17, 2023: about 719 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 26, 2024 to Mar 26, 2024: about 122 more stars than usual, peak 151 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 14, 2024 to May 17, 2024: about 248 more stars than usual, peak 140 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 22, 2024 to Nov 23, 2024: about 299 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 8, 2025 to Feb 8, 2025: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 15, 2025 to Apr 18, 2025: about 380 more stars than usual, peak 214 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 8, 2025 to Jul 9, 2025: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 6, 2025 to Aug 14, 2025: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 283 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 31, 2025 to Jan 5, 2026: about 562 more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 11 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

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: openai/openai-cookbook