smol-ai/developer · freshness 0/100 · rescored August 3, 2026
Smol Developer
The "junior developer" agent that popularised whole-repo generation from a prompt.
The answer
No. Smol Developer has not had a commit in 2.3 years, and StillShipping scores it dead at 0/100.
| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | 2.3 years ago | -96 | No push in 847 days — over a year of silence. |
| Commits, 90 days | 0 | none | No commits at all in the last 12 weeks — the recency band above already carries the silence. |
| 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 1 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 | MIT | not scored | |
| Stars | 12,182 | not scored | |
| Open issues | 70 | not scored |
The same verdict, in words
Against it: No push in 847 days — over a year of silence. No tagged releases. Version history has to be read from commits, so there is no cadence to score. Nobody has committed in the last 90 days. For it: The signals totalled -6; 0 is the floor.
Last push 2.3 years ago, 0 commits in the last 90 days, no tagged releases, 0 committers in 90 days. Read from the GitHub API; smol-ai/developer carries 12,182 stars and 70 open issues.
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