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Star momentum, maintenance concentration, contributor health, and codebase change — one report built from public repository data.

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Current stars
104,903
Activity since
2017
Latest activity
Sep 2026

Public star activity

Last 30 days
+41
Last 90 days
+50
Actions / day
35
Public star actions
stars from August 12, 2017 to September 16, 2026, peaking at 114,740.115k STARS9 YR 1 MO115kSEP 2026AUG 2017

114,740 stars on September 16, 2026.

stars by date
Datestars
August 12, 201740
August 29, 2017115
September 7, 2017135
October 6, 2017162
October 25, 2017213
November 4, 2017231
November 24, 2017274
December 12, 2017312
December 23, 2017327
January 10, 2018363
January 29, 2018394
February 13, 2018407
March 3, 2018443
March 21, 2018485
April 1, 2018501
April 24, 2018534
May 11, 2018566
May 20, 2018583
June 6, 2018650
June 23, 2018687
July 4, 2018707
July 23, 2018753
August 9, 2018786
August 19, 2018831
September 6, 2018874
September 26, 2018914
October 4, 2018942
October 23, 2018990
November 9, 20181,038
November 20, 20181,064
December 9, 20181,116
December 24, 20181,172
January 1, 20191,194
January 17, 20191,291
February 3, 20191,341
February 11, 20191,359
February 27, 20191,446
March 15, 20191,517
March 22, 20191,545
April 7, 20191,619
April 24, 20191,711
May 1, 20191,749
May 17, 201938,546
June 2, 201943,359
June 9, 201944,788
June 25, 201948,171
July 11, 201949,922
July 18, 201950,333
August 3, 201951,179
August 19, 201952,267
August 26, 201952,629
September 11, 201953,524
September 27, 201954,405
October 5, 201954,757
October 20, 201955,352
November 5, 201956,111
November 13, 201956,458
November 28, 201957,181
December 14, 201957,948
December 22, 201958,249
January 6, 202058,769
January 22, 202059,668
February 6, 202060,229
February 14, 202060,606
March 1, 202061,333
March 16, 202062,029
March 24, 202062,544
April 9, 202063,251
April 25, 202064,105
May 2, 202064,517
May 18, 202065,396
June 3, 202068,089
June 10, 202068,481
June 26, 202069,380
July 12, 202070,030
July 19, 202070,261
August 4, 202071,214
August 20, 202071,788
August 28, 202072,043
September 13, 202072,555
September 29, 202073,062
October 6, 202073,264
October 22, 202073,765
November 7, 202074,287
November 14, 202074,526
November 30, 202075,099
December 16, 202075,532
December 24, 202075,911
January 8, 202176,298
January 24, 202176,873
February 1, 202177,292
February 16, 202177,843
March 4, 202178,382
March 12, 202178,584
March 27, 202178,971
April 12, 202179,399
April 20, 202179,684
May 5, 202180,159
May 24, 202180,496
June 1, 202181,236
June 16, 202181,619
July 2, 202181,995
July 10, 202182,152
July 25, 202182,980
August 10, 202183,499
August 18, 202183,677
September 4, 202184,183
September 20, 202184,625
September 28, 202184,816
October 14, 202185,065
November 4, 202185,358
November 12, 202185,545
November 27, 202185,942
December 13, 202186,307
December 21, 202186,768
January 5, 202287,076
January 21, 202287,477
January 29, 202287,664
February 13, 202288,721
March 1, 202289,118
March 9, 202289,530
March 25, 202289,966
April 9, 202290,347
April 17, 202290,539
May 3, 202291,043
May 18, 202291,534
May 26, 202291,710
June 11, 202292,073
June 26, 202292,332
July 4, 202292,451
July 20, 202292,744
August 4, 202293,086
August 12, 202293,444
August 28, 202293,847
September 12, 202294,120
September 20, 202294,330
October 6, 202294,590
October 21, 202294,875
October 29, 202295,050
November 14, 202295,320
November 29, 202295,533
December 7, 202295,646
December 23, 202296,126
January 7, 202396,398
January 15, 202396,541
January 31, 202396,915
February 15, 202397,212
February 23, 202397,369
March 11, 202397,643
March 26, 202397,914
April 3, 202398,066
April 19, 202398,331
May 4, 202398,571
May 12, 202398,720
May 28, 202399,007
June 13, 202399,323
June 20, 202399,464
July 6, 202399,728
July 22, 202399,987
July 29, 2023100,084
August 14, 2023100,382
August 30, 2023100,624
September 6, 2023100,721
September 22, 2023100,956
October 8, 2023101,532
October 15, 2023101,678
October 31, 2023101,949
November 16, 2023102,194
November 23, 2023102,334
December 9, 2023102,665
December 25, 2023102,893
January 2, 2024102,999
January 17, 2024103,235
February 2, 2024103,663
February 10, 2024103,956
February 25, 2024104,208
March 12, 2024104,497
March 20, 2024104,618
April 4, 2024104,871
April 20, 2024105,138
May 5, 2024105,382
May 13, 2024105,552
May 29, 2024105,815
June 13, 2024106,040
June 21, 2024106,154
July 7, 2024106,379
July 22, 2024106,637
July 30, 2024106,754
August 15, 2024106,975
August 31, 2024107,253
September 7, 2024107,354
September 23, 2024107,630
October 9, 2024107,922
October 16, 2024108,032
November 1, 2024108,341
November 17, 2024108,675
November 24, 2024108,765
December 10, 2024109,010
December 26, 2024109,243
January 2, 2025109,328
January 18, 2025109,649
February 3, 2025109,860
February 10, 2025110,260
February 26, 2025110,534
March 14, 2025110,811
March 22, 2025110,942
April 6, 2025111,156
April 22, 2025111,365
April 30, 2025111,587
May 15, 2025111,816
May 31, 2025112,098
June 8, 2025112,171
June 23, 2025112,288
July 9, 2025112,405
July 17, 2025112,477
August 1, 2025112,593
August 17, 2025112,739
August 25, 2025112,816
September 9, 2025113,254
September 25, 2025113,479
October 3, 2025113,540
October 24, 2025113,687
November 9, 2025113,778
November 17, 2025113,811
December 2, 2025113,877
December 18, 2025113,955
December 26, 2025114,009
January 10, 2026114,102
January 26, 2026114,199
February 3, 2026114,252
February 18, 2026114,327
March 6, 2026114,416
March 14, 2026114,458
March 31, 2026114,504
April 17, 2026114,586
April 25, 2026114,612
May 13, 2026114,657
June 7, 2026114,690
June 24, 2026114,699
September 16, 2026114,740

The last 90 days run behind its lifetime average, which is ordinary for a mature project.

Observed activity milestones: 100 around Aug 20171k around Nov 201810k around May 2019100k around Jul 2023

The commit history reads microsoft/terminal a second time

methodology

Fix-labelled changes, file change frequency, ownership concentration and maintenance cadence, each computed from this repository's analyzed commit window. None of them is derived from stars, which is why they are allowed to disagree with the curve above.

Fix-labelled changes
Fix-labelled changes for microsoft/terminal
File change frequency
File change frequency for microsoft/terminal
Bus factor
Bus factor for microsoft/terminal
Maintenance pulse
Maintenance pulse for microsoft/terminal
Contributors
Contributors for microsoft/terminal
Language activity
Language activity for microsoft/terminal
Commit activity
Commit activity for microsoft/terminal
Recent TODO/FIXME movement
Recent TODO/FIXME movement for microsoft/terminal

Attention is not adoption.

Stars against usage

No published package was detected for this repository, so there is nothing to lay over star growth.

Earned badges

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Maintenance, ownership and star-momentum signals, computed from the same commit and star history and embeddable as static images.

Reading badge evidence for microsoft/terminal.

Notes on microsoft/terminal

How many stars does microsoft/terminal have?
GitHub currently reports 104,903 stars for microsoft/terminal. The chart itself is rebuilt from historical star data, which records star actions and not unstars, so it reads as an attention signal rather than a net star count.
What does recent star activity look like for terminal?
gitdebt observed about 50 public star actions for microsoft/terminal over the latest 90 days of archive coverage (about 41 in the latest 30). This is an approximate attention signal, not a net-star count, because unstars are not present. That's below its lifetime average activity pace, which is common for mature projects.
Is terminal still active?
Public archive data shows about 41 star actions for microsoft/terminal in the latest 30 days of coverage. For repository activity, use the commit heatmap, commit trend, and contributor charts on this page.
When was terminal created?
microsoft/terminal was created on August 11, 2017. The first public star activity observed for microsoft/terminal is from Aug 2017.

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