About AwesomeRepos

This page tells you what AwesomeRepos is, where its facts come from, and which rules it keeps.

What AwesomeRepos is

AwesomeRepos is a factual index of open-source repositories on GitHub. It helps developers judge, with facts, if a repository is real, alive, and worth their time. It is free. The pages with repository facts are public. You need an account only for Bookmarks, Saved Views, and the MCP server.

Where the facts come from

• Each day, AwesomeRepos asks GitHub for the stars, the forks, the last push, and the archive state of each repository in the index. Each answer is an Observation.
• The Star History of a repository is the net stars that it gains each day. The days before the first Observation come from the star history on GitHub.
• AwesomeRepos calculates the Attention Score from the Star History. The formula is published, so you can see why a repository has its rank.
• The health facts come from the community files and the releases on GitHub, and from OpenSSF Scorecard.
• The dependencies in the index come from the dependency graph on GitHub and from deps.dev.

How a repository enters the index

A repository enters the index when it gains 100 or more net stars in 7 days, at any size. Some repositories came from the first dataset. A repository stays in the index when it is archived or when it stops rising. The lists do not show a repository that matches the Withholding Rule, but its page stays and shows the measured facts.

The rules that AwesomeRepos keeps

• No promotion changes a rank, a list, or a score.
• There is no single “best” score. The Attention Score measures only attention.
• Each claim cites a source or a measured fact.
• A project of the makers of AwesomeRepos, such as Workhorse, shows only in a slot with the label “From the makers of AwesomeRepos”.

For developers and AI agents

The guide for AI agents is /llms.txt. The home page and each 404 page also answer in Markdown. The sitemap lists each page that search engines can index.

Contact

To send a question or to report an error, see Contact. To learn what the site records, see Privacy.