I was reading the Github of an assistant project I'm interested in, and one of the comments said it was looking in dire health. This made me wonder about the state of each project.
So I made a list of all the major tools I knew, added a bunch more I never heard of from an awesome-claw-clones or whatever repo, and crunched the data. The script for the data was vibecoded, I just gave instructions to Claude, disclaimer.
The definition of Bus Factor I used is: the minimum number of contributors whose combined commits account for more than half of the project's history. Not exactly the real definition, but I'm not familiar with any of these projects, plus you can use the stats to see the top dev's % and make up your own mind.
I used commit count as the only metric. So a single 300-line 'proper' commit has less weight than 2 commits that fixed typos in the doc. This is just for a reddit post, not arxiv.
| Repo | Bus Factor | Top Author | Top Author Contrib % | Cmt Feb | Cmt Mar | Cmt Apr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| picoclaw | 15 | Hoshina | 7.6% | 567 | 662 | 323 |
| QwenPaw | 6 | Yuexiang XIE | 12.2% | 51 | 618 | 382 |
| zeroclaw | 4 | Argenis | 26.5% | 1228 | 1162 | 317 |
| nanobot | 3 | Re-bin | 41.2% | 552 | 484 | 609 |
| ironclaw | 3 | Illia Polosukhin | 29.0% | 256 | 499 | 349 |
| nanoclaw | 2 | gavrielc | 47.6% | 186 | 282 | 509 |
| agent-zero | 2 | frdel | 42.3% | 183 | 349 | 98 |
| openclaw | 1 | Peter Steinberger | 58.8% | 6988 | 8704 | 14586 |
| hermes-agent | 1 | Teknium | 51.7% | 425 | 1955 | 3644 |
| moltis | 1 | Fabien Penso | 91.6% | 1321 | 421 | 1008 |
| nullclaw | 1 | Igor Somov | 57.5% | 437 | 968 | 185 |
| AstrBot | 1 | Soulter | 67.7% | 334 | 283 | 177 |
| angel-claw | 1 | Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer | 100.0% | 83 | 57 | 92 |
| moxxy | 1 | Michal Makowski | 65.8% | 0 | 83 | 69 |
| troublemaker | 1 | Anonymous | 100.0% | 56 | 163 | 57 |
| zeptoclaw | 1 | qhkmdev90 | 81.5% | 382 | 153 | 52 |
| microclaw | 1 | everettjf | 84.7% | 588 | 237 | 31 |
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Dead projects (total collapse in April):
| Repo | Bus Factor | Top Author | Top Author Contrib % | Cmt Feb | Cmt Mar | Cmt Apr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hermitclaw | 2 | James Campbell | 43.2% | 44 | 0 | 0 |
| mimiclaw | 2 | Asklv | 40.2% | 138 | 41 | 0 |
| pickle-bot | 1 | zane | 99.2% | 661 | 276 | 10 |
| safeclaw | 1 | Claude | 84.5% | 38 | 50 | 4 |
| lettabot | 1 | Cameron | 67.7% | 220 | 133 | 3 |
| Clawlet | 1 | Kxrbx | 67.6% | 122 | 22 | 1 |
| subzeroclaw | 1 | jmlago | 100.0% | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| atombot | 1 | daegwang | 100.0% | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| autobot | 1 | Vitalii Elenhaupt | 89.8% | 65 | 23 | 0 |
| babyclaw | 1 | YOUR NAME | 100.0% | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| droidclaw | 1 | Sanju Sivalingam | 94.8% | 213 | 0 | 0 |
| picobot | 1 | louisho5 | 91.8% | 50 | 35 | 0 |
| shrew | 1 | Salim | 100.0% | 14 | 3 | 0 |
| supaclaw | 1 | Vincenzo Domina | 99.3% | 124 | 25 | 0 |
| tinyclaw | 1 | Jian | 93.9% | 80 | 117 | 0 |
| zclaw | 1 | tnm | 92.2% | 117 | 49 | 0 |
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