stanfordnlp/dspy
DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models
38.6k stars · 3.4k forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 41 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- 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.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 65
- Human commits, 90 days
- 152
- Human commits, 365 days
- 434
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 15%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 41
- Last release
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 9 hours
Responsiveness: of 18 recent issues, 22% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 20 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 424 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 30
- Contributors
- 410
Top committers
- isaacbmiller: 44% of commits
- MaximeRivest: 8% of commits
- chenmoneygithub: 4% of commits
- okhat: 3% of commits
- TomeHirata: 2% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jun 15, 2023 to Jun 16, 2023: about 47 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 24, 2023 to Sep 14, 2023: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 254 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.
- Sep 24, 2023 to Sep 25, 2023: about 147 more stars than usual, peak 132 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 12, 2024 to Jan 13, 2024: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 27, 2024 to Feb 29, 2024: about 223 more stars than usual, peak 161 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 25, 2024 to Sep 26, 2024: about 147 more stars than usual, peak 155 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 5, 2024 to Dec 12, 2024: about 339 more stars than usual, peak 129 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.
- Apr 11, 2025 to Apr 15, 2025: about 387 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 6, 2025 to Jun 14, 2025: about 500 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 8, 2026 to Aug 11, 2026: about 347 more stars than usual, peak 181 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 15, 2026 to Aug 18, 2026: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 4 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
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- dspy (PYPI): latest 3.4.1, published Oct 12, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: stanfordnlp/dspy, deps.dev: PyPI dspy
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Computed 14 hours ago · method 2026.10.2