Argusic daily report, 2 October 2026

On 2 October 2026 (UTC) an AI agent tried to install and run 90 open-source projects on clean machines, with nobody helping: 98 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 2026-10-03.

The day in numbers

Projects: 90
Attempts: 98
Runs: 65
Runs with mocks: 20
Could not verify: 5

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.

bottom14,079 stars, runs
gh-dash12,580 stars, runs with mocks
shell_gpt12,293 stars, runs with mocks
inshellisense10,715 stars, runs
Libraries.dev4,035 stars, could not verify

All 90 projects, most starred first

subject	verdict	topic	stars	attempts	evidence
bottom	Runs	bottom	14,079	1	log and recording
gh-dash	Runs with mocks	bubbles	12,580	1	log and recording
shell_gpt	Runs with mocks	chatgpt	12,293	1	log and recording
inshellisense	Runs	autocomplete	10,715	1	log and recording
console	Runs	cli	9,812	1	log and recording
hunk	Runs	agents	9,468	1	log and recording
bubbles	Runs	cli	8,965	1	log and recording
presenterm	Runs	cli	8,891	1	log and recording
sd	Runs	cli	7,381	1	log and recording
himalaya	Runs	cli	7,380	1	log and recording
agent-scripts	Runs	ai-agents	7,193	1	log and recording
pastel	Runs	cli	6,512	1	log and recording
alive-progress	Runs	alive	6,312	1	log and recording
Strata	Runs with mocks	C++	6,222	1	log and recording
viddy	Runs	cli	5,425	1	log and recording
colorls	Runs	cli	5,141	1	log and recording
YouPlot	Runs	cli	4,856	1	log and recording
tmuxp	Runs	cli	4,588	1	log and recording
adhd	Runs with mocks	adhd	4,338	1	log and recording
anti-slop	Runs	accessibility	4,320	1	log and recording
AI-Engineering-Coach	Runs	TypeScript	4,309	1	log and recording
magpie	Runs	claude-code	4,267	1	log and recording
baoyu-design	Runs	agent-skills	4,239	1	log and recording
chat-on-steroids	Runs	automation	4,227	1	log and recording
printfilm	Runs	Python	4,100	1	log and recording
skills	Runs	Shell	4,097	1	log and recording
shuohao-skills	Runs	JavaScript	4,048	1	log and recording
serenity-skill	Runs	agent-skills	4,044	2	log and recording
Libraries.dev	Could not verify	beam	4,035	2	log and recording
Codex-X	Runs with mocks	Rust	4,011	1	log and recording
stemdeck	Runs	JavaScript	3,993	1	log and recording
doxx	Runs	cli	3,764	1	log and recording
hyperresearch	Runs with mocks	agents	3,753	1	log and recording
open-seo-mcp-skills	Could not verify	ai-seo	3,133	2	log and recording
social-media-research-skills	Runs with mocks	agent-skills	3,082	1	log and recording
sidex	Runs with mocks	code-editor	3,050	1	log and recording
quill	Runs	async	3,044	1	log and recording
remirror	Runs	browser	3,035	1	log and recording
shadcn-ui-mcp-server	Runs	ai	3,012	1	log and recording
headway	Runs	directions	3,005	1	log and recording
ddgs	Runs	api	2,998	1	log and recording
markdownify-mcp	Runs	ai	2,998	1	log and recording
readme-ai	Runs	agents	2,996	1	log and recording
obsidian-local-rest-api	Runs with mocks	TypeScript	2,982	1	log and recording
userver	Could not verify	async	2,978	2	log and recording
google-play-scraper	Runs	api	2,977	1	log and recording
autoflow	Could not verify	chatbot	2,976	2	log and recording
tinysearch	Runs	bloom-filter	2,976	1	log and recording
opengap	Runs	agent	2,968	1	log and recording
dooit	Runs	cli	2,960	1	log and recording
erupt	Runs	annotation	2,918	1	log and recording
sveltia-cms	Runs	cms	2,904	1	log and recording
Raneto	Runs	editor	2,902	1	log and recording
openspot-music-app	Runs	android	2,894	2	log and recording
fast-cli	Runs	cli-app	2,884	1	log and recording
corona	Runs with mocks	android	2,881	1	log and recording
js-reverse-mcp	Runs with mocks	anti-detection	2,875	1	log and recording
ccs	Runs with mocks	ai-gateway	2,869	1	log and recording
sponge	Runs	ai-assistant	2,869	1	log and recording
create-pull-request	Runs	actions-workspace	2,854	1	log and recording
vexa	Runs	api	2,846	1	log and recording
lin-cms-vue	Runs	cms	2,840	1	log and recording
nomnoml	Runs	class-diagram	2,837	1	log and recording
crawler	Runs	concurrency	2,831	1	log and recording
tach	Runs	ci	2,830	1	log and recording
twscrape	Runs with mocks	data-collection	2,824	1	log and recording
homebridge-config-ui-x	Runs	gui	2,803	1	log and recording
liftbridge	Runs with mocks	cloud-native	2,802	1	log and recording
solon	Runs	aop-framework	2,792	1	log and recording
agent-toolkit-for-aws	Runs	Python	2,785	1	log and recording
geziyor	Runs	crawler	2,780	1	log and recording
mcp-proxy	Runs	mcp	2,770	1	log and recording
trustgraph	Runs with mocks	agent	2,769	1	log and recording
iredis	Runs	command-line-tool	2,759	1	log and recording
erda	Runs with mocks	apm	2,756	1	log and recording
media-chrome	Runs	audio	2,753	1	log and recording
spider	Runs	ai-agent	2,751	1	log and recording
nikola	Runs	python	2,745	1	log and recording
substance	Runs	annotations	2,734	1	log and recording
database-lab-engine	Runs	branching	2,732	1	log and recording
paper-search-mcp	Runs	ai-scientist	2,732	1	log and recording
dotfiles	Could not verify	backup	2,725	2	log and recording
changed-files	Runs	actions	2,724	1	log and recording
trieve	Runs with mocks	actix	2,719	1	log and recording
danghuangshang	Runs with mocks	ai	2,703	1	log and recording
web-maker	Runs with mocks	chrome-extension	2,699	1	log and recording
cassandra-gocql-driver	Runs with mocks	cassandra	2,697	1	log and recording
argo-events	Runs	argo	2,696	1	log and recording
metamcp	Runs	mcp	2,693	1	log and recording
krakend-ce	Runs	ai-gateway	2,689	2	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.