Every number below comes from a public, verifiable API — GitHub traffic and releases, the jsDelivr CDN, and the registry's own state files. No private analytics, no tracking pixel.
Downloads = git clones + jsDelivr CDN file hits + GitHub release asset downloads. A clone pulls the whole
registry; a CDN hit is a single agent file fetched by an installer or an agent. GitHub only exposes a rolling
14-day traffic window, so scripts/build_metrics.py snapshots it daily into
state/metrics_history.json, deduplicated by date — the all-time total grows from the first day of
tracking and never double-counts.
On downloads. The headline figure adds repository clones, CDN file hits and release asset
downloads. Be aware that GitHub counts every actions/checkout as a clone, and this
repository runs a dozen scheduled and push-triggered workflows — so clones, the largest component,
are substantially self-generated. The estimated CI baseline is published as
ci_clone_estimate alongside clones_excluding_ci_estimate in the snapshot.
Agent file fetches is the narrowest and most trustworthy number on this page.
On critic scores. Only reviews written by a model count toward a critic score. When no model backend is reachable the panel falls back to a deterministic rubric — a line-count and regex heuristic — and those verdicts are reported separately and never published as a critic score. An agent no model has read shows as unrated rather than fresh.
On reviews. Only real user reviews from state/reviews.json — submitted through the
GitHub issues API — are counted in the review total, the average rating, and the review leaderboards.
The registry also carries engine-generated curator notes in state/curator_reviews.json;
those are shown separately and labelled "engine notes", never mixed into the headline number.
On unique counts. GitHub reports uniques per 14-day window, not per day, so daily unique figures cannot be summed into a true all-time unique. The headline unique cloners figure is GitHub's own 14-day number; the "daily-unique sum" beside it is an upper bound, since one machine cloning on three days counts three times. Clone counts and CDN hits have no such caveat — they are plain event counts and do accumulate exactly.