Argusic daily report, 7 October 2026

On 7 October 2026 (UTC) an AI agent tried to install and run 97 open-source projects on clean machines, with nobody helping: 119 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 2026-10-08.

The day in numbers

Projects: 97
Attempts: 119
Runs: 56
Runs with mocks: 25
Could not verify: 15
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.

pdf.js53,984 stars, runs
marketingskills53,594 stars, runs with mocks
windows53,551 stars, could not verify
prettier52,415 stars, runs
professional-programming51,607 stars, could not verify

All 97 projects, most starred first

subject	verdict	topic	stars	attempts	evidence
pdf.js	Runs	JavaScript	53,984	1	log and recording
marketingskills	Runs with mocks	claude	53,594	1	log and recording
windows	Could not verify	docker	53,551	2	log and recording
prettier	Runs	angular	52,415	1	log and recording
professional-programming	Could not verify	architecture	51,607	2	log and recording
jadx	Runs	android	50,773	1	log and recording
json	Runs	bson	50,737	1	log and recording
huginn	Runs	agent	50,027	2	log and recording
brew	Runs	brew	49,934	1	log and recording
ruff	Runs	linter	49,931	1	log and recording
pandas	Runs	alignment	49,927	1	log and recording
tmux	Runs	C	49,825	1	log and recording
slidev	Runs	markdown	48,962	1	log and recording
RxJava	Runs	flow	48,187	1	log and recording
photocraft	Could not verify	adobe	16,894	2	log and recording
zotero-mcp	Runs with mocks	ai-agent	5,273	1	log and recording
filmcraft	Runs	adobe	3,265	2	log and recording
answer-me-with-html	Runs	agent-skill	2,038	1	log and recording
Infernux	Runs with mocks	editor	1,604	2	log and recording
siddhi	Could not verify	cep	1,594	2	log and recording
open-edit	Runs	ai-agents	1,588	1	log and recording
pstack-claude	Runs	agent-skills	1,587	1	log and recording
MiniMax-MCP	Runs with mocks	image-generation	1,582	1	log and recording
cc-safety-net	Runs	ai-agents	1,582	1	log and recording
pi-mcp-adapter	Runs	ai	1,578	1	log and recording
Agentlas-OS	Runs	a2a	1,575	2	log and recording
watchstate	Runs	backup	1,575	1	log and recording
WordOps	Runs with mocks	automation	1,570	1	log and recording
nerdlog	Runs	devops-tools	1,569	1	log and recording
VibeVoice-ComfyUI	Runs with mocks	ai-audio	1,566	1	log and recording
relivator	Runs with mocks	drizzle-orm	1,566	1	log and recording
serverless-java-container	Runs	api	1,565	1	log and recording
better-agents	Runs	agent-framework	1,563	1	log and recording
fredy	Runs with mocks	appartment	1,563	1	log and recording
iocraft	Runs	cli	1,559	1	log and recording
rumdl	Runs	cli	1,557	1	log and recording
otterwiki	Runs	git	1,553	1	log and recording
patchright-python	Runs	automation	1,550	1	log and recording
amical	Runs	ai	1,549	1	log and recording
azure-skills	Could not verify	agent-skills	1,546	2	log and recording
lstr	Runs	cli	1,545	1	log and recording
terraform-mcp-server	Runs with mocks	Go	1,545	1	log and recording
devops-ai-guidelines	Runs with mocks	agentic-ai	1,544	1	log and recording
mcp-server-qdrant	Runs	claude	1,542	1	log and recording
agmsg	Runs	agent-communication	1,541	1	log and recording
minutes	Runs	agent-skills	1,539	1	log and recording
cobalt.rs	Runs	cobalt	1,538	1	log and recording
ComfyUI_Custom_Nodes_AlekPet	Runs	glm	1,532	1	log and recording
numa	Runs	ad-blocking	1,528	1	log and recording
duckduckgo-mcp-server	Runs with mocks	Python	1,525	1	log and recording
nodepress	Runs	blog	1,522	1	log and recording
winter	Runs	cms	1,520	1	log and recording
boss-zhipin-scraper	Runs with mocks	agent-skills	1,517	1	log and recording
jwt-cli	Runs	cli	1,516	1	log and recording
bitECS	Runs	ecs	1,515	1	log and recording
kohi	Runs	engine	1,514	1	log and recording
memfree	Runs with mocks	ai	1,513	2	log and recording
Tracely-ai	Runs	agent	1,511	1	log and recording
xleak	Runs	cli	1,506	1	log and recording
OpenContracts	Runs	agent	1,501	1	log and recording
tonzhon-music	Runs with mocks	antd	1,499	1	log and recording
kumo	Runs	aws	1,497	1	log and recording
postbot	Could not verify	article	1,491	2	log and recording
duckle	Could not verify	cdc	1,490	2	log and recording
ha-llmvision	Runs	ai	1,488	1	log and recording
ros-mcp-server	Runs with mocks	mcp	1,488	1	log and recording
brave-search-mcp-server	Could not verify	TypeScript	1,486	2	log and recording
ejdb	Could not verify	android	1,482	2	log and recording
gickup	Could not verify	backup	1,482	2	log and recording
KaibanJS	Could not verify	agentic	1,480	2	log and recording
phantom	Runs	ai-agents	1,480	2	log and recording
wreq-python	Runs	akamai	1,480	1	log and recording
agentql	Could not verify	agent	1,479	2	log and recording
drawio-mcp-server	Could not verify	TypeScript	1,479	2	log and recording
sequential-workflow-designer	Runs	agent-builder	1,475	1	log and recording
Portable-Local-Studio	Runs with mocks	image-generation	1,474	1	log and recording
voxelcore	Could not verify	game	1,473	2	log and recording
ttl	Runs with mocks	asn-lookup	1,471	1	log and recording
lambda-api	Runs	api	1,469	1	log and recording
bludit	Runs	blog	1,466	1	log and recording
qtap	Runs	containers	1,462	1	log and recording
app-platform	Runs with mocks	agent	1,458	1	log and recording
superlog	Runs with mocks	ai	1,458	1	log and recording
lnx	Runs with mocks	database	1,456	1	log and recording
scrapy-playwright	Runs with mocks	chrome-headless	1,454	1	log and recording
fscrawler	Not yet verified	crawler	1,453	1	log and recording
openserp	Runs with mocks	ai	1,452	1	log and recording
writer-framework	Runs	ai	1,450	1	log and recording
embyToLocalPlayer	Runs with mocks	bangumi	1,448	1	log and recording
MicroWARP	Runs with mocks	alpine	1,445	2	log and recording
OuteTTS	Runs with mocks	gguf	1,437	1	log and recording
odd-platform	Runs	alerting	1,435	1	log and recording
Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap	Runs	administration	1,434	1	log and recording
obsei	Runs	anonymization	1,434	1	log and recording
mongo-ruby-driver	Runs	mongodb	1,429	1	log and recording
TUI-ConsoleLauncher	Could not verify	android	1,427	2	log and recording
pghoard	Runs	aiven	1,424	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.