12-factor-agents
What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers?
Growth we measured
53 daily star snapshots stored by whatstrending.ai, 2026-06-28 to 2026-09-22. GitHub shows today's number; this is the movement behind it.
- Ranked #478 by stars among the 2,291 repos we snapshot, using the latest star count we recorded for each.
- Rank movement: #179 on 2026-08-23 (25,423 stars) → #186 today — down 7 places among the 678 repos we snapshotted in both windows.
- Its 7-day pace is faster than 83% of the 1,133 repos where we can currently measure one (#193).
How this is measured. whatstrending.ai stores its own daily star and fork snapshot for every repo in its trending index. Every figure above is a delta between two of those stored rows — 53 snapshots for humanlayer/12-factor-agents between 2026-06-28 and 2026-09-22. Our history starts 2026-06-19; we hold nothing from before that date. Nothing here is estimated, interpolated or back-filled, and days without a snapshot are simply not plotted.
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