Open Source Governance

  1. Anthropic's knowledge-work-plugins at 31,595 Stars: 123 Marketplace Entries, 11 in the README, and Only 2 of 17 Plugins Ship a Slash Command

    Anthropic's own plugin repo advertises 11 plugins and 'no code, no build steps'. Cloned on 2026-10-23 it contains 123 marketplace entries (101 pinned to 93 vendor repos), …

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  2. Headroom at 77,253 Stars: 300 Log Lines Compressed to Zero, and Four Different Savings Numbers for the Same Tool

    Headroom advertises 20% fewer tokens for coding agents and 60-95% for JSON. Measured on 2026-10-22, a 300-line log became 35 tokens: '[300 lines compressed to 0. Retrieve …

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  3. Ponytail at 169,651 Stars: a 2,721-Byte Ruleset, and the 26% Saving That Shrinks to 1.7% Once the Code Is Checked

    Ponytail sells a -53% code and -26% cost win from a single markdown file. Recomputing its own published per-task table by tier: on the 18 tasks with execution-based …

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  4. ai-memory: 24 Agents, One Memory, and the Four Harnesses That Silently Drop the Handoff

    ai-memory (akitaonrails/ai-memory) claims more than twenty harnesses feed one shared memory. Its own support matrix splits those 39 integration rows into 24 with …

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  5. 96,636 Stars, 152 Watchers, 115.6M Downloads: What Orca's Release Feed Actually Proves

    Orca (stablyai/orca) shows 96,636 stars but only 152 watchers — 0.157%, against 0.555–0.641% for four mature repos I measured the same day. I summed the download count of …

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  6. 36,921 Stars, 85% Markdown: An Audit of Anthropic's Financial-Services Agent Repository

    Anthropic's financial-services repository hit #1 on GitHub Trending on September 23, 2026 with 36,921 stars and 665 stars gained that day. Cloning it tells a different …

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