microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · freshness 100/100 · rescored August 4, 2026
ai-agents-for-beginners
18 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
The answer
Yes. ai-agents-for-beginners is actively maintained — last commit 5 days ago, freshness 100/100.
| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | 5 days ago | none | Pushed 5 days ago. |
| Commits, 90 days | 100+ | none | 100+ commits in the last 12 weeks. |
| Last release | never tagged | -2 | No tagged releases. Version history has to be read from commits, so there is no cadence to score. |
| Release cadence | no cadence to read | not scored | |
| Issue response | too few issues to sample | none | Not enough recent issues to measure a response time. |
| Unanswered issues | 100% of 2 sampled | not scored | |
| Committers, 90 days | 6 | +2 | 6 people committed in the last 90 days. |
| Bus factor | 3 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | MIT | not scored | |
| Stars | 71,164 | not scored | |
| Open issues | 0 | not scored |
The same verdict, in words
Against it: No tagged releases. Version history has to be read from commits, so there is no cadence to score. For it: 6 people committed in the last 90 days.
Last push 5 days ago, 100+ commits in the last 90 days, no tagged releases, 6 committers in 90 days. Read from the GitHub API; microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners carries 71,164 stars and 0 open issues.
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