# Observal/Axl

> A local-first agent harness for coding: a single daemon owns the session, model loop, tools, and history, while clients (TUI, SDK) connect over a typed protocol. For developers who want durable resumable sessions and sandboxed tools.

- Magnitude: 5.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 983 total · +171 stars today, ≈ 294 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: TypeScript · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-08-30 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/Observal/Axl · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Observal/Axl

## Useful for

- Run the TUI coding agent on a repo with sessions that survive restarts
- Connect a custom client to the daemon via the TypeScript SDK for the same session
- Sandbox the agent's shell commands using Bubblewrap or Podman

## Why it’s here

- 171 stars so far today, about 294 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 1 per day, so that's 235× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 3.7× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 25 days old and already has 983 stars.
- Top new repositories this month: #91.
- About 19 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 687
- Issues and pull requests: 415
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 155 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 15

## Stars per day, last 26 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-30 … 2026-09-24: 6, 5, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 7, 1, 0, 1, 5, 82, 242, 252, 107, 101, 171

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this month: #91

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 10:53 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.