walkinglabs/hands-on-modern-rl
🚀 An open-source, hands-on curriculum bridging the gap from basic RL concepts to LLM alignment, RLVR, and advanced Agentic systems.
4.6k stars · 335 forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 92% 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.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 4
- Human commits, 90 days
- 295
- Human commits, 365 days
- 762
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 1, 2026 (13 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 1, 2026 (13 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 8
- Last release
- Jun 18, 2026 (3 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 5 hours
Responsiveness: of 20 recent issues, 80% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 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
- 500 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 22
Top committers
- sanbuphy: 92% of commits
- wangzh12023: 1% of commits
- Billy1900: 1% of commits
- yuwen-lu: 1% of commits
- divo12: 1% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- May 15, 2026 to May 23, 2026: about 371 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a new release.
- May 31, 2026 to Jun 1, 2026: about 286 more stars than usual, peak 293 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 7, 2026 to Aug 14, 2026: about 479 more stars than usual, peak 160 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 13, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 49 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 15, 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
- No license found
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
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- Oct 15, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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