microsoft/autogen · freshness 35/100 · rescored August 3, 2026
AutoGen
Conversational multi-agent framework; the research line behind Agent Framework.
The answer
Barely. AutoGen is still open but slowing down — last commit 4 months ago, freshness 35/100.
| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | 4 months ago | -45 | No push in 109 days. That is longer than a quarter. |
| Commits, 90 days | 0 | none | No commits at all in the last 12 weeks — the recency band above already carries the silence. |
| Last release | python-v0.7.5 · 10 months ago | -12 | Last release 306 days ago against a 6-day cadence — over three times its own gap. |
| Release cadence | 6 days, median | not scored | |
| Issue response | too few issues to sample | none | Not enough recent issues to measure a response time. |
| Unanswered issues | 100% of 4 sampled | not scored | |
| Committers, 90 days | 0 | -8 | Nobody has committed in the last 90 days. |
| Bus factor | 0 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | CC-BY-4.0 | not scored | |
| Stars | 60,180 | not scored | |
| Open issues | 558 | not scored |
The same verdict, in words
Against it: No push in 109 days. That is longer than a quarter. Last release 306 days ago against a 6-day cadence — over three times its own gap. Nobody has committed in the last 90 days.
Last push 4 months ago, 0 commits in the last 90 days, last release python-v0.7.5 10 months ago, 0 committers in 90 days. Read from the GitHub API; microsoft/autogen carries 60,180 stars and 558 open issues.
The rest of orchestrators
8 tools shown| Tool | Category | Status | Freshness | Last commit | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MetaGPTFoundationAgents/MetaGPT | Orchestrators | Dead | 12 | 6mo | 70k |
| AgentGPTreworkd/AgentGPT | Orchestrators | Archived | 0 | 15mo | 36k |
| BabyAGIyoheinakajima/babyagi | Orchestrators | Dead | 16 | 6mo | 22k |
| Agentictransitive-bullshit/agentic | Orchestrators | Archived | 0 | 6mo | 18k |
| SuperAGITransformerOptimus/SuperAGI | Orchestrators | Dead | 0 | 19mo | 18k |
| nanobrowsernanobrowser/nanobrowser | Orchestrators | Dead | 12 | 8mo | 14k |
| mcp-agentlastmile-ai/mcp-agent | Orchestrators | Dead | 12 | 6mo | 8.5k |
| OpenManusFoundationAgents/OpenManus | Orchestrators | Slowing | 37 | 6mo | 58k |
