Argusic daily report, 11 October 2026

On 11 October 2026 (UTC) an AI agent tried to install and run 97 open-source projects on clean machines, with nobody helping: 111 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 2026-10-12.

The day in numbers

Projects: 97
Attempts: 111
Runs: 72
Runs with mocks: 21
Could not verify: 3
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.

GhidraMCP11,047 stars, runs with mocks
monid3,673 stars, runs
lemo-opuscar1,890 stars, runs
invisible_puppeteer1,413 stars, runs
pup1,028 stars, could not verify

All 97 projects, most starred first

subject	verdict	topic	stars	attempts	evidence
GhidraMCP	Runs with mocks	Java	11,047	1	log and recording
monid	Runs	ai-agents	3,673	1	log and recording
lemo-opuscar	Runs	agent-skills	1,890	1	log and recording
invisible_puppeteer	Runs	browser-automation	1,413	1	log and recording
GoAnime	Runs	ani-cli	1,119	1	log and recording
wreq	Runs	akamai	1,066	2	log and recording
kindling	Runs with mocks	ebpf	1,064	1	log and recording
CORAL	Runs	agent-framework	1,062	1	log and recording
parse-video	Runs with mocks	crawler	1,061	1	log and recording
pisa	Runs	information-retrieval	1,059	1	log and recording
zed-globalization	Runs	ai-translation	1,058	1	log and recording
minima	Runs with mocks	ai	1,053	1	log and recording
PiDeck	Runs	agent	1,050	1	log and recording
pint	Runs	linter	1,049	1	log and recording
arcade-mcp	Runs	ai	1,048	1	log and recording
rbfx	Runs with mocks	3d-engine	1,043	1	log and recording
parallel-code	Runs	ai-agents	1,042	1	log and recording
DSHA	Runs	android	1,041	1	log and recording
awesome-vibecoded-saas	Runs	ai-apps	1,041	1	log and recording
onetun	Runs with mocks	boringtun	1,041	1	log and recording
pingoo	Runs	akamai	1,041	2	log and recording
opentelemetry-go-instrumentation	Runs with mocks	ebpf	1,037	1	log and recording
wireguird	Runs	gui	1,036	1	log and recording
anymd	Runs	ai-agents	1,035	1	log and recording
product-apim	Runs	api-gateway	1,035	2	log and recording
CliRelay	Runs	ai-gateway	1,033	1	log and recording
SWE-AF	Runs with mocks	agent-factory	1,033	2	log and recording
k8up	Runs	backup	1,033	1	log and recording
yt-short-clipper	Runs with mocks	ai-video	1,032	2	log and recording
expo-github-action	Runs	actions	1,030	1	log and recording
themes	Runs	cli	1,029	1	log and recording
pup	Could not verify	cli	1,028	2	log and recording
dscode	Runs with mocks	agentic	1,027	1	log and recording
zoetrope	Runs	agent-visualization	1,027	1	log and recording
mariadb-operator	Runs	agent-skills	1,026	1	log and recording
rmqtt	Runs	5g	1,025	1	log and recording
HomeAssistant-OctopusEnergy	Runs	energy-consumption	1,022	1	log and recording
wikiman	Runs	arch-wiki	1,022	1	log and recording
zerocode	Runs	api	1,017	1	log and recording
claude-code-memory-setup	Runs	ai-tools	1,016	1	log and recording
figwright	Runs	ai	1,015	1	log and recording
mcpc	Runs	ai-agents	1,015	1	log and recording
mcp-google-sheets	Runs with mocks	google	1,012	1	log and recording
tetra	Runs	2d-game-framework	1,011	2	log and recording
easy-agent	Runs	agent	1,010	1	log and recording
ClawBench	Runs with mocks	agent-evaluation	1,009	1	log and recording
FlashRank	Runs	cross-encoder	1,008	1	log and recording
stormcrawler	Runs	apache-storm	1,007	1	log and recording
goose	Runs	goose	1,002	1	log and recording
SleekDB	Runs	api	1,000	1	log and recording
ha-wyzeapi	Runs	bulb	1,000	1	log and recording
codealmanac	Runs	ai	997	1	log and recording
onedump	Runs	backup	997	1	log and recording
OpenCompany	Runs	ai	993	1	log and recording
fence	Could not verify	bubblewrap	989	2	log and recording
git-graph	Runs	command-line	989	1	log and recording
whisper-flow	Runs	pypi-package	987	1	log and recording
XGP-save-extractor	Runs with mocks	a-plague-tale-requiem	985	1	log and recording
stashbase	Runs	ai-agents	985	2	log and recording
monolingual	Runs with mocks	bilingual	983	1	log and recording
sdk-go	Runs	durable-execution	983	1	log and recording
totum-mit	Runs	crm-platform	980	1	log and recording
invoice_printer	Runs	command-line-tool	978	1	log and recording
home-assistant-tapo-p100	Runs with mocks	energy	977	1	log and recording
arkit	Runs with mocks	architecture	969	1	log and recording
NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter	Could not verify	microsoft-cognitive-services	968	2	log and recording
skills	Runs	3d-generation	968	1	log and recording
x-reader	Runs	ai-agents	966	1	log and recording
due	Runs	actor	965	1	log and recording
sandboxd	Runs	agent-infrastructure	964	1	log and recording
VoiceStreamAI	Runs	ai	961	1	log and recording
abstruse	Runs	cd	961	2	log and recording
Mastodon.py	Runs with mocks	api	959	1	log and recording
luvus	Runs	agent	959	1	log and recording
generator-office	Runs	add-ins	957	2	log and recording
workbuddy2api-hub	Runs	api-gateway	957	1	log and recording
geo-three	Runs	3d-tiles	956	1	log and recording
Client	Runs	api	954	1	log and recording
mcp-sequential-thinking	Runs	mcp	954	1	log and recording
mle	Runs	c	954	1	log and recording
serverless-domain-manager	Runs with mocks	amazon-certificate-manager	953	1	log and recording
amber	Runs	command-line-tool	952	1	log and recording
fluid-player	Runs	html5-player	951	2	log and recording
pytools	Runs	hubble	951	1	log and recording
ChattyPlay-Agent	Runs	agent	949	2	log and recording
sigal	Runs	galleria	946	1	log and recording
glas	Not yet verified	3d	944	1	log and recording
x-kit	Runs with mocks	crawler	944	1	log and recording
botium-speech-processing	Runs with mocks	botium	943	1	log and recording
gooey-pi	Runs	coding-agents	943	1	log and recording
siteone-crawler	Runs	analyzer	942	1	log and recording
icrawler	Runs	bing-image	933	1	log and recording
jiwer	Runs	automatic-speech-recognition	933	1	log and recording
codex-slides	Runs	agent-skills	931	1	log and recording
Whale	Runs with mocks	coding-agent	930	1	log and recording
binance	Runs	api	929	1	log and recording
vonage-php-sdk-core	Runs	developer-destination	929	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.