# Thought Machine — developer ecosystem report

- GitHub org: `thought-machine`
- Category: dev_tool
- Overall score: 33.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #680
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-22

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 48.0 | #505 | ~22% |
| Education | 51.0 | #748 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 8.0 | #924 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 36.0 | #428 | ~16% |
| Reach | 40.0 | #499 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 21.0 | #619 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/thought-machine
- Website: https://www.thoughtmachine.net
- Docs: https://docs.thoughtmachine.net

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 3,004 |
| Forks | 425 |
| Open issues | 218 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [please](https://github.com/thought-machine/please) | 2,606 | Go | High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds. |
| [pleasings](https://github.com/thought-machine/pleasings) | 96 | Python | Addons & new build rules for Please |
| [dracon](https://github.com/thought-machine/dracon) | 93 | Go | Security scanning & static analysis tool |
| [prometheus-cardinality-exporter](https://github.com/thought-machine/prometheus-cardinality-exporter) | 50 | Go | Metric cardinality exporter for Prometheus |
| [aws-service-quotas-exporter](https://github.com/thought-machine/aws-service-quotas-exporter) | 33 | Go | Exports AWS service quotas as Prometheus metrics |
| [please-examples](https://github.com/thought-machine/please-examples) | 30 | Starlark | A small set of example projects for the Please build system. |
| [falco-probes](https://github.com/thought-machine/falco-probes) | 15 | Go | Automated build and mirror of eBPF kernel probes for use as a driver with the Falco runtime security agent (https://falc |
| [please-servers](https://github.com/thought-machine/please-servers) | 12 | Go | Various servers related to plz. |
| [please-vscode](https://github.com/thought-machine/please-vscode) | 12 | TypeScript | VSCode plugin for Please |
| [finance-messaging](https://github.com/thought-machine/finance-messaging) | 10 | Go | A collection of standard financial messages in a variety of formats, including ISO 20022 messages |
| [please-intellij](https://github.com/thought-machine/please-intellij) | 7 | Kotlin | — |
| [phabricator](https://github.com/thought-machine/phabricator) | 6 | PHP | TM Phabricator changes |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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