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rtk-ai/rtk

Breakoutrank #5

CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

81.8k+7.7k · 7d 5.2k 273est. Apache-2.0Rustpushed 1d ago
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Composite

78

conf 65%

Momentum

86

conf 60%

Vitality (PVI)

69

conf 67%

Community

66

conf 60%

Security & maint.

92

conf 85%

Ecosystem influence

75

conf 60%

Opportunity

76

conf 60%

Breakout · 7d

84%

conf 71%

Executive summary

rtk is currently classified as breakout with a composite score of 78/100. Momentum (86) and vitality (69) diverge — attention is running ahead of maintenance depth. Estimated 7-day gain of 7,730 stars against a 81.8k-star base. Risk is assessed as low; the interpretable model puts its probability of entering the top trend cohort within 7 days at 84%.

Analyst note

AI-drafted · numbers from tracked data

The momentum-vs-vitality relationship suggests that a project with higher vitality (69/100) is more likely to experience significant growth, but only if it has sufficient momentum (86/100). In this case, the estimated 7-day breakout probability of 84% indicates that there's a moderate chance of a successful breakout within the next week. This implies that adopting or building on Rtk-ai/rtk now could be a good strategy, as long as vitality is high and momentum is present to drive growth.

90-day trajectory

+29.5k · 30d
2026-06-302026-09-27

Score breakdown

Every input, weight and normalized value — nothing hidden. Inputs marked est. are estimated until the full ingestion pipeline lands.

Momentum

Star velocityest.25%100
Star accelerationest.15%56
Fork velocityest.10%100
Contributor growthest.10%80
Issue activity growthest.10%95
PR activity growthest.10%78
External mention velocityest.10%94
Release event impactest.5%78
Trending-rank persistenceest.5%67

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 100%

Project Vitality Index

Commit consistency20%97
Release cadenceest.15%59
PR responsivenessest.15%58
Issue responsivenessest.15%36
Contributor diversityest.10%90
Maintainer continuityest.10%66
Documentation qualityest.5%67
Dependency freshnessest.5%74
Security hygieneest.5%78

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 67% · coverage 100%

Security & maintenance

Release recency25%97
License clarity20%92
Maintenance status25%97
Dependency stalenessest.15%83
Bus factorest.15%86

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 85% · coverage 100%

Ecosystem influence

Dependent repositoriesest.30%90
Quality-weighted dependentsest.20%71
Documentation citationsest.15%63
Contributor overlapest.15%62
Registry adoptionest.10%51
Topic centralityest.10%100

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 92% · missing: packageRegistryAdoption