Argusic daily report, 5 October 2026

On 5 October 2026 (UTC) an AI agent tried to install and run 95 open-source projects on clean machines, with nobody helping: 104 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 2026-10-06.

The day in numbers

Projects: 95
Attempts: 104
Runs: 70
Runs with mocks: 19
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.

ai-hedge-fund63,854 stars, runs
last30days-skill63,578 stars, runs
socket.io63,218 stars, runs
minimind63,211 stars, runs
Codewhale41,053 stars, could not verify

All 95 projects, most starred first

subject	verdict	topic	stars	attempts	evidence
ai-hedge-fund	Runs	Python	63,854	1	log and recording
last30days-skill	Runs	ai-prompts	63,578	1	log and recording
socket.io	Runs	javascript	63,218	1	log and recording
minimind	Runs	artificial-intelligence	63,211	1	log and recording
coolify	Runs	coolify	62,620	1	log and recording
marktext	Runs	dark-mode	62,144	1	log and recording
redux	Runs	redux	61,482	1	log and recording
sway	Not yet verified	compiler	61,402	1	log and recording
pocketbase	Runs	authentication	61,287	1	log and recording
spring-framework	Runs	spring	60,272	1	log and recording
starship	Runs	bash	60,159	1	log and recording
rclone	Runs	azure-blob	60,117	1	log and recording
jquery	Runs	jquery	59,867	1	log and recording
Codewhale	Could not verify	agent-orchestration	41,053	2	log and recording
quivr	Runs with mocks	ai	39,578	1	log and recording
rea	Runs with mocks	agent-skills	5,302	1	log and recording
asd-ste100-skill	Runs	Python	3,724	1	log and recording
AgentENV	Runs	Rust	3,591	1	log and recording
PanWatch	Runs	a-share	2,008	1	log and recording
yas	Runs	docker	1,987	1	log and recording
codejar	Runs	code-editor	1,986	1	log and recording
mcp-memory-service	Runs	agent-memory	1,985	1	log and recording
transcribe.cpp	Runs	asr	1,985	1	log and recording
amazon-q-developer-cli	Runs	agent	1,983	1	log and recording
contextplus	Runs	mcp-server	1,983	1	log and recording
resterm	Runs	api-client	1,978	1	log and recording
carapace-bin	Runs	bash	1,977	1	log and recording
TokenTracker	Runs	ai-coding-tools	1,970	1	log and recording
minimax-code	Runs	coding-agents	1,970	1	log and recording
home-assistant-config	Runs	appdaemon	1,968	1	log and recording
workbuddy2api-panel	Runs with mocks	admin-panel	1,968	1	log and recording
gnvim	Runs	gtk	1,961	1	log and recording
kibi	Runs	1024	1,955	1	log and recording
gita	Runs	cli	1,947	1	log and recording
forest	Runs	declarative-http-client	1,946	2	log and recording
lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-map-card	Could not verify	deebot	1,943	2	log and recording
snapai	Runs with mocks	ai	1,941	1	log and recording
walrus	Runs	apache-kafka	1,934	1	log and recording
fastmod	Runs	cli	1,930	1	log and recording
full-stack-ai-agent-template	Runs with mocks	agent-framework	1,928	1	log and recording
tldx	Runs	cli	1,928	1	log and recording
zeroshot	Runs	agent-loops	1,922	1	log and recording
voiden	Runs	api-client	1,919	1	log and recording
12306-mcp	Runs	12306	1,917	1	log and recording
SeekStorm	Runs	ai-search	1,916	1	log and recording
deconz-rest-plugin	Runs	conbee	1,906	1	log and recording
waku-agent	Runs	agent-framework	1,904	1	log and recording
ISpotify	Runs with mocks	linux	1,901	1	log and recording
grepai	Runs	ai	1,901	1	log and recording
paca	Runs with mocks	ai-agent	1,891	1	log and recording
x-crawl	Runs	ai	1,888	1	log and recording
evlog	Runs	debugging	1,884	1	log and recording
devops-basics	Could not verify	ansible	1,882	2	log and recording
QZoneExport	Runs	backup	1,875	1	log and recording
jido	Runs	agent-framework	1,875	1	log and recording
autorestic	Runs	backup	1,872	1	log and recording
gortex	Runs	ai-tools	1,860	1	log and recording
gantt	Runs	dhtmlx	1,857	1	log and recording
pr-lens	Runs	agent-skills	1,857	1	log and recording
slack-mcp-server	Runs with mocks	assistants	1,857	1	log and recording
pg-aiguide	Runs	ai	1,855	1	log and recording
agent-ui	Could not verify	agent	1,853	2	log and recording
mcp-gsc	Runs with mocks	claude	1,850	1	log and recording
trpc-agent-go	Runs	a2a	1,845	1	log and recording
open-webSearch	Runs with mocks	TypeScript	1,842	1	log and recording
opc-skills	Runs	agent-skills	1,841	1	log and recording
OpenCCU	Runs with mocks	buildroot	1,840	2	log and recording
browserless	Runs	automation	1,839	1	log and recording
sharing	Runs	android	1,839	1	log and recording
wg-portal	Runs	ldap	1,836	1	log and recording
durdraw	Runs	animation	1,834	1	log and recording
cli	Runs with mocks	cli	1,830	1	log and recording
robustmq	Could not verify	agent-communication	1,829	2	log and recording
Dive	Runs with mocks	ai	1,826	1	log and recording
diskover-community	Runs with mocks	crawler	1,822	1	log and recording
engo	Runs	engo	1,822	1	log and recording
rsmq	Runs	fifo	1,822	2	log and recording
Ferrite	Runs	cross-platform	1,821	1	log and recording
APIPark	Runs with mocks	ai	1,817	1	log and recording
portabase	Runs	backup	1,815	1	log and recording
env-cmd	Runs	command-line-tool	1,814	1	log and recording
yt-fts	Runs with mocks	chromadb	1,811	1	log and recording
kaplay	Runs	game-dev	1,809	1	log and recording
mcp-brasil	Runs	ai-agents	1,802	1	log and recording
npq	Runs	appsec	1,794	1	log and recording
CoreCoder	Runs	ai-agent	1,793	1	log and recording
Genie-TTS	Runs	gpt-sovits	1,790	1	log and recording
cloudburn	Runs	amazon-web-services	1,790	1	log and recording
docs-mcp-server	Runs	agentic-ai	1,785	1	log and recording
eva.js	Runs	canvas2d	1,782	1	log and recording
MeiGen-AI-Design-MCP	Runs	ai-image-generation	1,778	1	log and recording
greenmask	Runs with mocks	anonymization	1,777	2	log and recording
kubetail	Runs	cluster	1,771	1	log and recording
telegram-mcp	Runs with mocks	admin	1,770	1	log and recording
openclaw-android	Runs with mocks	ai	1,769	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.