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Maintenance, uptime, repo, release, and public activity signals.
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Shipping
Release velocity, changelog motion, and recent product updates.
Source Coverage
Bounded first-party evidence with explicit freshness and confidence signals.
Confidence
2.8k scored tools, 78 on evidence watch, 554 not scored.
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What Changed Today
Updated Sep 11, 2026. Newly added tools and notable score changes from the last 24 hours, plus the latest research.
Newly Added Tools
Fresh arrivals
No newly added tools landed in the last 24 hours.
Latest Blog Entries
Latest research
Notable Score Moves
Shifts in confidence
- +41
- +23
- -20
- +19
- +11
Big Movers This Week
Last 7 days ending Sep 11, 2026. Ranked by net score change and open-tool release activity.
Score Risers
Tools gaining confidence over the last 7 days.
| # | Tool | Delta | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | APITable | +56 | 58 |
| 02 | Nixopus | +48 | 61 |
| 03 | Telegram Support Bot | +45 | 46 |
| 04 | Hovod | +43 | 68 |
| 05 | ChatOllama | +42 | 52 |
Score Drops
Tools losing confidence over the last 7 days.
| # | Tool | Delta | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | OpenPlanr | -34 | 53 |
| 02 | Pentagi | -33 | 58 |
| 03 | Contentful | -31 | 59 |
| 04 | Confide | -29 | 26 |
| 05 | Mito | -28 | 18 |
Fastest Open Shippers
Open/source-visible tools with the heaviest release activity in the last 7 days.
| Tool | Releases | Shipping |
|---|---|---|
| Sirius Web | 1 | 95 |
Weekly Ecosystem Pulse
Week of Sep 4, 2026 to Sep 11, 2026. Deterministic signals built from release and risk evidence.
Release Pulse
Release events
Low-Code Platforms led shipping activity with 1 release events across 1 tools in the last 7 days.
Risk Pulse
Score drops
AI Agent Tools showed the most downward pressure with 20 tools slipping. OpenPlanr had the sharpest drop at -34 points.
Open Tool Rankings
Health-first rankings exclude proprietary targets and unknown-license tools. The GitHub repos view is adoption-first for source-visible tools.
Open Tool Standouts
Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, then adoption.
| # | Tool | Use Case | Openness | Stars | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Hermes Agent | Ai Agent Tools | OSI-approved OSS | 243.6k | 99 |
| 02 | OpenClaw | Ai Agent Tools | OSI-approved OSS | 389.3k | 99 |
| 03 | n8n | Workflow Automation | Fair-code, not OSI-approved | 203.8k | 99 |
| 04 | Visual Studio Code | Code Editing | OSI-approved OSS | 191.5k | 99 |
| 05 | Rust | Language Runtimes Toolchains | OSI-approved OSS | 118k | 99 |
License-Safe Picks
OSI-approved tools with the strongest current ToolVitals signals.
| # | Tool | Use Case | Health | Shipping | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Hermes Agent | Ai Agent Tools | 99 | 100 | 99 |
| 02 | OpenClaw | Ai Agent Tools | 99 | 99 | 99 |
| 03 | Visual Studio Code | Code Editing | 99 | 99 | 99 |
| 04 | Rust | Language Runtimes Toolchains | 99 | 99 | 99 |
| 05 | RAGFlow | Ai Agent Tools | 99 | 99 | 99 |
Top GitHub Repos
Adoption-first view of tracked source-visible repositories, ordered by stars.
| # | Repo | Use Case | Openness | Stars | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | OpenClawopenclaw/openclaw | Ai Agent Tools | OSI-approved OSS | 389.3k | 99 |
| 02 | everything-claude-codeaffaan-m/ECC | Ai Agent Tools | OSI-approved OSS | 256k | 97 |
| 03 | Reactreact/react | Runtime Libraries | OSI-approved OSS | 249.7k | 95 |
| 04 | Hermes AgentNousResearch/hermes-agent | Ai Agent Tools | OSI-approved OSS | 243.6k | 99 |
| 05 | OpenCodeanomalyco/opencode | Ai Agent Tools | OSI-approved OSS | 206.1k | 98 |
| 06 | n8nn8n-io/n8n | Workflow Automation | Fair-code, not OSI-approved | 203.8k | 99 |
| 07 | Visual Studio Codemicrosoft/vscode | Code Editing | OSI-approved OSS | 191.5k | 99 |
| 08 | AutoGPTSignificant-Gravitas/AutoGPT | Ai Agent Tools | OSI-approved OSS | 187.2k | 97 |
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