Included repository
A public repository that is not a fork, archived, or disabled and that GitHub identifies as containing Hoon. Approved core exceptions, currently urbit/urbit and urbit/vere, are also included.
GitHub metrics / methodology
How the numbers are counted.
The site reports observable public development activity across the Urbit ecosystem. The figures are useful indicators, not an exhaustive census of everyone who contributes to Urbit.
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Definitions
Active repository
An included repository with at least one default-branch commit or merged pull request during the trailing six calendar months.
Active contributor
A unique, identifiable non-bot GitHub account that authored a default-branch commit or merged pull request during the active window across any included repository.
All-time contributor
A unique, identifiable non-bot account represented in GitHub’s contributor aggregation or as the author of a merged pull request across the current included repository set.
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Collection
Repository discovery combines configured Urbit-related organizations, a global search for public Hoon repositories, and audited manual inclusion and exclusion rules.
Contributors are deduplicated using GitHub’s numeric user IDs. The public dataset contains aggregate counts only—no contributor IDs, logins, names, email addresses, or email hashes are published.
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Reliability
A new snapshot is published only when every required request and pagination chain completes, both core repositories are present, and aggregate validation passes.
If collection is incomplete or GitHub returns an error, the last known-good snapshot remains published. Missing data is never presented as a measured zero.
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Limits
Mixed-language repositories that GitHub does not classify as Hoon may be missed outside configured organizations. Anonymous and unlinked commits are excluded rather than guessed.
Issues, reviews, comments, off-repository documentation, operations, design, community work, and other non-code contributions are not counted. GitHub’s contributor aggregation may also lag or omit identities it cannot link.