Argusic daily report, 30 September 2026

On 30 September 2026 (UTC) an AI agent tried to install and run 94 open-source projects on clean machines, with nobody helping: 111 attempts in all, 1 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 2026-10-01.

The day in numbers

Projects: 94
Attempts: 111
Runs: 71
Runs with mocks: 16
Could not verify: 7

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.

OpenResearch6,304 stars, runs
Octop6,097 stars, runs
autoharness5,981 stars, runs
torlink5,810 stars, runs
OpenExecutive5,427 stars, could not verify

All 94 projects, most starred first

subject	verdict	topic	stars	attempts	evidence
OpenResearch	Runs	Rust	6,304	1	log and recording
Octop	Runs	agent	6,097	1	log and recording
autoharness	Runs	agent-skills	5,981	1	log and recording
torlink	Runs	crossplatform	5,810	1	log and recording
im-not-ai	Runs	agent-skills	5,806	1	log and recording
SenseNova-Skills	Runs with mocks	agent	5,731	1	log and recording
magnitude	Runs	Rust	5,722	1	log and recording
SoftwareCopyright-Skill	Runs with mocks	Python	5,702	1	log and recording
PaperSpine	Runs	Python	5,696	1	log and recording
GPT-Image2-Skill	Runs with mocks	agent-skills	5,611	1	log and recording
eve	Runs	agent	5,429	1	log and recording
OpenExecutive	Could not verify	ai	5,427	2	log and recording
zerolang	Runs	C	5,378	1	log and recording
floral-notepaper	Could not verify	macos	5,347	2	log and recording
micrometer	Runs	cloud-native	4,906	1	log and recording
obsidian-mind	Runs	ai-agents	4,782	1	log and recording
go-recipes	Could not verify	awesome	4,780	2	log and recording
f3d	Runs	3d	4,733	2	log and recording
infinity	Runs	ai-native	4,731	2	log and recording
zrok	Runs	file-sharing	4,728	1	log and recording
werf	Runs	buildah	4,725	1	log and recording
ggez	Runs	crates	4,698	1	log and recording
jx	Runs	accelerator	4,692	1	log and recording
deep-research	Could not verify	anthropic	4,691	2	log and recording
codex-keysmith	Runs	cli	4,662	1	log and recording
notion-mcp-server	Runs	TypeScript	4,654	1	log and recording
obsidian-second-brain	Runs	agent-skills	4,652	1	log and recording
macroquad	Runs	android	4,643	1	log and recording
fastrtc	Runs	artificial-intelligence	4,630	1	log and recording
Bubble-Card	Could not verify	button	4,617	2	log and recording
github-pages-deploy-action	Runs with mocks	action	4,610	1	log and recording
emissary	Runs	ambassador	4,525	1	log and recording
sentrysearch	Runs	chromadb	4,525	1	log and recording
LongMemory	Runs	ai	4,513	1	log and recording
zsh-vi-mode	Runs	antigen	4,458	1	log and recording
mcp-obsidian	Runs with mocks	Python	4,454	1	log and recording
MOSS-TTS-Nano	Runs	audio-tokenizer	4,432	1	log and recording
tuios	Runs	ai-agents	4,417	1	log and recording
mcpo	Runs	mcp	4,388	1	log and recording
mcp-server-chart	Runs	antv	4,387	1	log and recording
open-claude-cowork	Runs with mocks	aiagents	4,360	1	log and recording
tbls	Runs with mocks	bigquery	4,353	1	log and recording
mcp-server-cloudflare	Runs	TypeScript	4,340	1	log and recording
USearch	Runs	approximate-nearest-neighbor-search	4,325	1	log and recording
flint-chart	Runs	ai-agents	4,322	1	log and recording
optillm	Runs	agent	4,305	2	log and recording
WhisperLive	Runs	dictation	4,303	1	log and recording
httprunner	Could not verify	adb	4,296	2	log and recording
Toshi	Runs	elasticsearch	4,255	1	log and recording
CodeGraphContext	Runs	codegraph	4,239	1	log and recording
svgbob	Runs	ascii	4,232	1	log and recording
excel-mcp-server	Runs	ai	4,207	1	log and recording
react-ace	Runs	ace	4,207	1	log and recording
LittleJS	Runs	box2d	4,185	1	log and recording
petdex	Runs with mocks	claude-code	4,179	1	log and recording
kubefwd	Runs	api-rest	4,172	2	log and recording
skill-recorder	Runs	agent-skills	4,168	1	log and recording
MOSS-TTS	Runs with mocks	audio	4,151	1	log and recording
AIHOT	Runs	ai	4,104	1	log and recording
scrape-it	Runs	node-scraper	4,069	1	log and recording
urllib3	Runs	http	4,065	1	log and recording
pagescms	Runs	11ty	4,052	1	log and recording
RealtimeTTS	Runs	python	4,040	1	log and recording
obsidian-tasks	Runs	obsidian-plugin	4,035	1	log and recording
dockly	Runs with mocks	cli	4,034	1	log and recording
mtail	Runs	bytecode	4,032	1	log and recording
docker-volume-backup	Runs	backup	4,027	1	log and recording
homelable	Runs	diagram	4,015	2	log and recording
twill	Runs	cms	3,978	1	log and recording
lektor	Runs	cms	3,949	1	log and recording
tox	Runs	actions	3,942	1	log and recording
react-lifecycle-methods-diagram	Runs	cheatsheet	3,930	1	log and recording
fast-agent	Runs	a2a	3,925	2	log and recording
Pico	Runs	cms	3,905	1	log and recording
LumixEngine	Runs	3d-game-engine	3,888	2	log and recording
smart-admin	Could not verify	ant-design-vue	3,888	2	log and recording
claudia	Runs with mocks	api-gateway	3,882	2	log and recording
zvec-grep	Runs	ai-agents	3,852	1	log and recording
dumi	Runs	docs-generator	3,801	2	log and recording
nba_api	Runs with mocks	analysis	3,790	1	log and recording
mm-wiki	Runs with mocks	api-docs	3,775	1	log and recording
vim-anywhere	Runs with mocks	keyboard-shortcuts	3,769	1	log and recording
lunar	Runs	e-commerce	3,745	2	log and recording
pinme	Runs	ai-tools	3,745	1	log and recording
ATAC	Runs	api	3,733	1	log and recording
curlie	Runs	api-client	3,729	1	log and recording
anything-analyzer	Runs	2api	3,726	1	log and recording
java-sdk	Runs	java	3,715	1	log and recording
lazycodex	Runs with mocks	ai	3,705	1	log and recording
CPA-Manager-Plus	Runs	ai-gateway	3,697	1	log and recording
abtop	Runs	ai-agents	3,685	1	log and recording
odigos	Runs with mocks	dotnet	3,675	1	log and recording
content	Runs	cms	3,670	1	log and recording
framework	Runs	d3	3,654	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.