Argusic daily report, 28 September 2026

On 28 September 2026 (UTC) an AI agent tried to install and run 95 open-source projects on clean machines, with nobody helping: 112 attempts in all.

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 2026-09-29.

The day in numbers

Projects: 95
Attempts: 112
Runs: 68
Runs with mocks: 18
Could not verify: 6
Not yet verified: 3

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.

nginx31,745 stars, runs
nginx-proxy19,917 stars, could not verify
ky17,096 stars, could not verify
aiohttp16,565 stars, runs
lore8,835 stars, could not verify

All 95 projects, most starred first

subject	verdict	topic	stars	attempts	evidence
nginx	Runs	content-cache	31,745	1	log and recording
nginx-proxy	Could not verify	docker	19,917	2	log and recording
ky	Could not verify	fetch	17,096	2	log and recording
aiohttp	Runs	aiohttp	16,565	1	log and recording
cloudflared	Runs with mocks	cloudflare	15,952	1	log and recording
got	Runs	http	14,949	2	log and recording
tengine	Runs	forward-proxy	13,384	1	log and recording
reqwest	Runs	http	11,848	2	log and recording
resty	Runs	backoff	11,813	1	log and recording
webmagic	Runs	crawler	11,678	1	log and recording
feign	Runs with mocks	http-client	9,801	2	log and recording
microduck	Runs	Rust	8,924	1	log and recording
node-fetch	Runs	fetch	8,857	1	log and recording
shenyu	Runs	api-gateway	8,840	1	log and recording
lore	Could not verify	open-source	8,835	1	log and recording
openwhispr	Runs	ai	8,782	1	log and recording
flowchart.js	Runs	diagram	8,700	1	log and recording
VvvebJs	Runs	bootstrap	8,690	2	log and recording
Android-Debug-Database	Runs	android	8,685	2	log and recording
no-mistakes	Runs	Go	8,672	1	log and recording
ai-memory	Runs	Rust	8,566	1	log and recording
Sylius	Runs	api	8,543	1	log and recording
mongo-go-driver	Runs with mocks	database	8,539	1	log and recording
harness-sdk	Runs	agent-framework	8,521	2	log and recording
react-native-mmkv	Runs with mocks	android	8,507	1	log and recording
lamda	Runs with mocks	adb	8,493	1	log and recording
flowgram.ai	Runs	ai	8,472	1	log and recording
aos-ce	Runs	Rust	8,462	1	log and recording
open-slide	Runs	agent	8,451	2	log and recording
MiroThinker	Runs with mocks	agent	8,428	1	log and recording
ccpm	Runs	ai-agents	8,392	1	log and recording
helium	Runs	chrome	8,322	1	log and recording
deep-searcher	Runs with mocks	agent	8,286	2	log and recording
shardingsphere-elasticjob	Runs	cron	8,205	1	log and recording
Vision-Agents	Runs	agentic-ai	8,146	1	log and recording
fluent-bit	Runs	c	8,127	1	log and recording
crosspoint-reader	Runs	e-reader	8,110	1	log and recording
deepsec	Runs	TypeScript	8,047	1	log and recording
pivpn	Could not verify	openvpn	8,044	2	log and recording
open-codesign	Runs	ai-design	7,979	1	log and recording
mlx-audio	Runs with mocks	apple-silicon	7,960	1	log and recording
coroot	Runs	ai	7,944	1	log and recording
elasticsearch-dump	Runs with mocks	backup	7,940	2	log and recording
concourse	Runs with mocks	ci	7,909	1	log and recording
metalsmith	Runs	javascript	7,821	1	log and recording
BrowserSkill	Runs	agent	7,756	1	log and recording
GeoLibre	Runs	cesium	7,721	1	log and recording
kev	Runs with mocks	decision-model	7,653	1	log and recording
opentelemetry-collector	Runs	metrics	7,604	1	log and recording
libhv	Runs	curl	7,556	1	log and recording
gost	Runs	dns	7,550	1	log and recording
waha	Runs with mocks	ai-bot	7,504	1	log and recording
clappr	Runs	clappr	7,502	1	log and recording
better-sqlite3	Runs	database	7,499	1	log and recording
openllmetry	Runs	artifical-intelligence	7,456	1	log and recording
gocd	Runs	cd	7,434	1	log and recording
dbmate	Runs	clickhouse	7,417	1	log and recording
JMComic-Crawler-Python	Runs	18comic	7,380	1	log and recording
calico	Could not verify	cats	7,374	2	log and recording
experiential	Runs	Python	7,352	1	log and recording
browser-tools-mcp	Runs	ai	7,327	1	log and recording
evcc	Runs with mocks	battery	7,304	1	log and recording
claude-desktop-zh-cn	Could not verify	Python	7,300	2	log and recording
firstmate	Runs	Shell	7,295	1	log and recording
toydb	Runs	database	7,285	1	log and recording
boringtun	Runs	cloudflare	7,202	1	log and recording
cheat-on-content	Runs with mocks	Python	7,173	1	log and recording
Acode	Runs	android-application	7,165	1	log and recording
big-AGI	Runs	agi	7,133	1	log and recording
rod	Runs	automation	7,113	1	log and recording
middleman	Runs	middleman	7,111	1	log and recording
spicedb	Runs	abac	7,104	1	log and recording
plano	Runs	ai-gateway	7,068	1	log and recording
wstunnel	Runs	http2	7,064	1	log and recording
llm-scraper	Runs with mocks	ai	6,939	1	log and recording
trafilatura	Runs	article-extractor	6,883	1	log and recording
Backlog.md	Runs	agent	6,882	1	log and recording
annyang	Runs	speech	6,819	1	log and recording
node-crawler	Runs with mocks	cheerio	6,794	1	log and recording
aws-sam-cli	Runs	api-gateway	6,733	1	log and recording
greptimedb	Runs	ai-agents	6,717	1	log and recording
graphhopper	Runs	astar	6,713	1	log and recording
firebase-ios-sdk	Runs	ai	6,676	1	log and recording
ibis	Runs	bigquery	6,667	1	log and recording
ublacklist	Runs	blocker	6,646	1	log and recording
curl_cffi	Runs	akamai-fingerprint	6,610	1	log and recording
flagsmith	Not yet verified	cd	6,582	1	log and recording
agent-starter-pack	Runs	agents	6,560	2	log and recording
intentkit	Runs with mocks	agent-framework	6,513	1	log and recording
hibernate-orm	Runs	database	6,472	1	log and recording
flat	Runs with mocks	agora	6,438	2	log and recording
harlequin	Not yet verified	agent	6,431	1	log and recording
react-konva	Runs	canvas	6,423	2	log and recording
melonJS	Not yet verified	2d-game-engine	6,401	1	log and recording
async-http-client	Runs	ahc	6,398	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.