Smol DeveloperDead

The "junior developer" agent that popularised whole-repo generation from a prompt.

Is it still shipping?

No. Smol Developer has not had a commit in 2.4 years. StillShipping scores it dead at 0/100.

freshness 0/100

Every night it was read41 nightly readings, August 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026. Bar height is freshness out of 100; the ink is the verdict that night.

65, maintained25, dead

August 1, 2026September 13, 2026

How the verdict was reached

read September 13, 2026 from the GitHub API for smol-ai/developer

Every signal behind Smol Developer's verdict, and what each one moved the score by
Signal	Value	Effect	Why
Base	100	100	Every row starts at 100, and the effects below move it.
Last commit	2.4 years ago, April 7, 2024	-96	No push in 888 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	too few issues to sample	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
Floored at 0		+6	The signals totalled -6; 0 is the floor.
Freshness	0/100	0	25 and below is dead.