smol-machines/smolvm
An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.
6.7k stars · 331 forks · Rust
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 82% 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.
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 420
- Human commits, 90 days
- 836
- Human commits, 365 days
- 1.9k
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (9 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (9 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 19
- Last release
- Oct 14, 2026 (8 hours ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 23 recent issues, 91% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 1 hour.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
- Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 500 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 53
Top committers
- BinSquare: 82% of commits
- LoganGrasby: 5% of commits
- NickyHeC: 4% of commits
- BABTUNA: 4% of commits
- Bnjoroge1: 1% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- Apr 13, 2026 to May 8, 2026: about 2.9k more stars than usual, peak 769 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Jun 6, 2026 to Jun 7, 2026: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 10, 2026 to Aug 23, 2026: about 857 more stars than usual, peak 328 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: 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
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: smol-machines/smolvm
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