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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
104,900
Activity since
2017
Latest activity
Sep 2026

Public star activity

Last 30 days
+41
Last 90 days
+51
Actions / day
35
Public star actions
stars from August 12, 2017 to September 14, 2026, peaking at 114,739.115k STARS9 YR 1 MO115kSEP 2026AUG 2017

114,739 stars on September 14, 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 2, 20191,337
February 11, 20191,359
February 27, 20191,446
March 14, 20191,506
March 22, 20191,545
April 7, 20191,619
April 23, 20191,703
May 1, 20191,749
May 17, 201938,546
June 1, 201943,180
June 9, 201944,788
June 25, 201948,171
July 10, 201949,848
July 18, 201950,333
August 3, 201951,179
August 18, 201952,223
August 26, 201952,629
September 11, 201953,524
September 26, 201954,349
October 4, 201954,714
October 20, 201955,352
November 5, 201956,111
November 12, 201956,417
November 28, 201957,181
December 14, 201957,948
December 21, 201958,231
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 24, 202064,051
May 2, 202064,517
May 18, 202065,396
June 2, 202068,021
June 10, 202068,481
June 26, 202069,380
July 11, 202070,003
July 19, 202070,261
August 4, 202071,214
August 19, 202071,761
August 28, 202072,043
September 13, 202072,555
September 28, 202073,031
October 6, 202073,264
October 22, 202073,765
November 6, 202074,261
November 14, 202074,526
November 30, 202075,099
December 15, 202075,504
December 23, 202075,888
January 8, 202176,298
January 23, 202176,691
January 31, 202177,251
February 16, 202177,843
March 3, 202178,342
March 11, 202178,554
March 27, 202178,971
April 11, 202179,376
April 19, 202179,657
May 5, 202180,159
May 23, 202180,461
May 31, 202181,207
June 16, 202181,619
July 1, 202181,974
July 9, 202182,136
July 25, 202182,980
August 9, 202183,478
August 17, 202183,654
September 4, 202184,183
September 20, 202184,625
September 27, 202184,800
October 14, 202185,065
November 4, 202185,358
November 11, 202185,517
November 27, 202185,942
December 13, 202186,307
December 20, 202186,743
January 5, 202287,076
January 21, 202287,477
January 28, 202287,639
February 13, 202288,721
March 1, 202289,118
March 8, 202289,501
March 24, 202289,930
April 9, 202290,347
April 16, 202290,514
May 2, 202291,023
May 18, 202291,534
May 25, 202291,681
June 10, 202292,051
June 26, 202292,332
July 3, 202292,429
July 19, 202292,731
August 4, 202293,086
August 11, 202293,418
August 27, 202293,830
September 12, 202294,120
September 20, 202294,330
October 5, 202294,576
October 21, 202294,875
October 29, 202295,050
November 13, 202295,305
November 29, 202295,533
December 7, 202295,646
December 22, 202296,110
January 7, 202396,398
January 15, 202396,541
January 30, 202396,898
February 15, 202397,212
February 23, 202397,369
March 10, 202397,624
March 26, 202397,914
April 3, 202398,066
April 18, 202398,310
May 4, 202398,571
May 12, 202398,720
May 27, 202398,987
June 12, 202399,300
June 20, 202399,464
July 5, 202399,705
July 21, 202399,975
July 29, 2023100,084
August 13, 2023100,363
August 29, 2023100,611
September 6, 2023100,721
September 21, 2023100,941
October 7, 2023101,519
October 15, 2023101,678
October 30, 2023101,931
November 15, 2023102,176
November 23, 2023102,334
December 8, 2023102,648
December 24, 2023102,877
January 1, 2024102,982
January 16, 2024103,214
February 1, 2024103,562
February 9, 2024103,934
February 24, 2024104,192
March 11, 2024104,482
March 19, 2024104,603
April 3, 2024104,862
April 19, 2024105,128
May 5, 2024105,382
May 12, 2024105,535
May 28, 2024105,803
June 13, 2024106,040
June 20, 2024106,138
July 6, 2024106,368
July 22, 2024106,637
July 30, 2024106,754
August 14, 2024106,959
August 30, 2024107,235
September 7, 2024107,354
September 22, 2024107,609
October 8, 2024107,895
October 16, 2024108,032
October 31, 2024108,323
November 16, 2024108,652
November 24, 2024108,765
December 9, 2024108,995
December 25, 2024109,224
January 2, 2025109,328
January 17, 2025109,635
February 2, 2025109,846
February 10, 2025110,260
February 25, 2025110,519
March 13, 2025110,793
March 21, 2025110,928
April 5, 2025111,132
April 21, 2025111,351
April 29, 2025111,580
May 14, 2025111,802
May 30, 2025112,086
June 7, 2025112,161
June 22, 2025112,280
July 8, 2025112,396
July 16, 2025112,465
July 31, 2025112,588
August 16, 2025112,732
August 24, 2025112,809
September 8, 2025113,234
September 24, 2025113,469
October 2, 2025113,531
October 23, 2025113,681
November 8, 2025113,776
November 16, 2025113,803
December 1, 2025113,873
December 17, 2025113,952
December 25, 2025114,002
January 9, 2026114,098
January 25, 2026114,193
February 2, 2026114,248
February 17, 2026114,325
March 5, 2026114,408
March 13, 2026114,453
March 30, 2026114,499
April 16, 2026114,583
April 24, 2026114,607
May 11, 2026114,656
June 6, 2026114,688
June 21, 2026114,698
September 14, 2026114,739

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 104,900 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 51 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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