Argusic daily report, 27 September 2026

On 27 September 2026 (UTC) an AI agent tried to install and run 95 open-source projects on clean machines, with nobody helping: 108 attempts in all, 2 of them cut short by our own tooling and not counted.

Verdicts as they stood at the end of that day. A project tested again since may have moved; its own page always shows the current verdict. Written 2026-09-28.

The day in numbers

Projects: 95
Attempts: 108
Runs: 71
Runs with mocks: 18
Could not verify: 5
Not yet verified: 1

Five from the day

Chosen by a fixed rule, not by hand: the three most starred projects of the day, then the most starred one that runs, then the most starred one that could not be verified.

frp109,662 stars, runs
axios109,236 stars, runs
traefik64,985 stars, runs
GPT-SoVITS62,212 stars, runs
dia19,399 stars, could not verify

All 95 projects, most starred first

subject	verdict	topic	stars	attempts	evidence
frp	Runs	expose	109,662	1	log and recording
axios	Runs	hacktoberfest	109,236	1	log and recording
traefik	Runs	consul	64,985	1	log and recording
GPT-SoVITS	Runs	text-to-speech	62,212	1	log and recording
lux	Runs	bilibili	31,706	2	log and recording
ArchiveBox	Runs	archivebox	28,635	1	log and recording
jenkins	Runs	cicd	26,595	1	log and recording
colly	Runs	crawler	25,535	1	log and recording
proxy_pool	Runs	crawler	23,735	1	log and recording
guzzle	Runs with mocks	curl	23,452	1	log and recording
coze-studio	Runs with mocks	agent	21,649	2	log and recording
qinglong	Runs	crontab	19,907	1	log and recording
dia	Could not verify	ai	19,399	2	log and recording
yaak	Runs	bruno-alternative	19,258	1	log and recording
katana	Runs	cli	17,585	1	log and recording
volkswagen	Runs	cheat	15,463	1	log and recording
newspaper	Runs	crawler	15,163	1	log and recording
mitosis	Runs	angular	14,416	1	log and recording
agent-framework	Runs	agent-framework	13,831	1	log and recording
puck	Runs	ai	13,372	1	log and recording
crawlab	Runs	crawlab	12,277	1	log and recording
claude-skills	Runs	ai-agents	11,653	1	log and recording
JoltPhysics	Runs	c-plus-plus	11,616	1	log and recording
MemOS	Runs with mocks	agent	11,613	1	log and recording
cocoindex	Runs	agentic-data-framework	11,607	1	log and recording
fireworks-tech-graph	Runs	agent-workflows	11,567	1	log and recording
lancedb	Runs	approximate-nearest-neighbor-search	11,544	2	log and recording
no-ai-slop	Runs with mocks	Python	11,441	1	log and recording
jsoup	Runs	css	11,400	2	log and recording
wireguard-install	Could not verify	linux	11,300	2	log and recording
camofox-browser	Runs	ai-agent	11,247	1	log and recording
opensre	Runs with mocks	ai-sre	11,240	1	log and recording
oomwoo	Runs	3d-printing	11,229	1	log and recording
FerretDB	Could not verify	database	11,082	2	log and recording
hive	Runs	agent	11,076	1	log and recording
kakoune	Runs	c-plus-plus	11,075	1	log and recording
crm	Runs	TypeScript	10,927	1	log and recording
dtm	Runs	cadence	10,923	1	log and recording
codex-security	Runs with mocks	ai-security	10,867	1	log and recording
brag	Runs	Python	10,840	1	log and recording
xiaozhi-esp32-server	Runs with mocks	dify	10,691	1	log and recording
voltagent	Runs	agents	10,681	1	log and recording
cangjie-skill	Runs	agent-workflows	10,667	1	log and recording
artemis	Runs with mocks	ai-agents	10,474	1	log and recording
aichat	Runs with mocks	ai	10,471	1	log and recording
patent-disclosure-skill	Runs with mocks	chinese	10,401	1	log and recording
a-stock-data	Runs	a-share	10,392	1	log and recording
velero	Runs with mocks	backup	10,316	1	log and recording
pinchtab	Runs with mocks	browser-automation	10,309	1	log and recording
Amphion	Runs with mocks	audio-generation	10,307	1	log and recording
astrid	Could not verify	agent-runtime	10,278	2	log and recording
cloudflare-os	Runs	TypeScript	10,159	1	log and recording
RealtimeSTT	Runs	python	10,150	1	log and recording
usql	Runs	command-line	10,128	1	log and recording
PixelRAG	Runs	agent	10,110	1	log and recording
cassandra	Runs	cassandra	10,104	1	log and recording
osiris	Runs	TypeScript	10,063	1	log and recording
sea-orm	Runs	database	9,907	1	log and recording
watermill	Runs	cqrs	9,907	1	log and recording
gsd-core	Runs	claude-code	9,902	1	log and recording
kanboard	Runs	agile	9,885	1	log and recording
streama	Runs	media	9,819	1	log and recording
tile38	Runs	database	9,738	1	log and recording
dbal	Runs	database	9,705	1	log and recording
ralph-claude-code	Runs	ai	9,639	1	log and recording
Fyrox	Runs	3d	9,568	1	log and recording
crawlee-python	Runs	apify	9,559	1	log and recording
openbrowser	Runs	ai-agents	9,547	1	log and recording
claude-for-legal	Runs	Python	9,542	1	log and recording
mobilerun	Runs	ai-agents	9,488	1	log and recording
higress	Could not verify	ai-gateway	9,465	2	log and recording
xgo	Runs	ai-native	9,458	1	log and recording
cadence	Runs	cadence	9,457	1	log and recording
cloudnative-pg	Runs	automated-failover	9,368	1	log and recording
risingwave	Runs	apache-iceberg	9,350	1	log and recording
certimate	Runs	acme	9,333	2	log and recording
starlight	Runs	astro	9,316	2	log and recording
coai	Runs	ai-gateway	9,315	3	log and recording
knowledge-catalog	Runs	TypeScript	9,310	1	log and recording
xgplayer	Runs	dash	9,301	1	log and recording
computer	Runs	TypeScript	9,295	1	log and recording
terax-ai	Runs	agents	9,255	1	log and recording
kaneo	Runs	hono	9,250	1	log and recording
local-deep-research	Runs	academia	9,138	1	log and recording
firezone	Runs with mocks	cloud	9,105	1	log and recording
PraisonAI	Runs with mocks	agents	9,103	1	log and recording
sled	Runs	b-plus-tree	9,093	1	log and recording
astron-agent	Runs with mocks	agent	9,080	1	log and recording
speech_recognition	Runs	audio	8,991	1	log and recording
gpt-instruct	Runs with mocks	Python	8,885	1	log and recording
lore	Not yet verified	open-source	8,828	1	log and recording
orbitdb	Runs	crdt	8,812	1	log and recording
wgcf	Runs	client	8,737	1	log and recording
postgres	Runs	client	8,733	1	log and recording
aimeos-laravel	Runs with mocks	aimeos	8,704	1	log and recording

How a verdict is reached: the methodology. Every project tested so far: the subjects. GPU cloud and VPS prices: servers. Laptops and desktops for programming and AI: hardware. Earlier days: the daily archive.