alpcanaydin/tusk

A fast, native, keyboard-driven database client for macOS. 20 databases, an AI assistant that shows its work, free and open source.

Developer toolsRust#ai-assistant#clickhouse#database#database-client#database-gui

4.8 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 30, 2026, 09:19 UTC.

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About the project

A native macOS database client built in Rust on GPUI: supports 20 databases, an editable data grid, a SQL editor, and an AI assistant that writes queries but never runs them itself.

Useful for

Connect to PostgreSQL or ClickHouse over an SSH tunnel and browse tables
Edit cells in a table and save all changes in a single transaction
Ask the AI assistant to write a SQL query from the schema and run it manually

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

10 stars so far today, about 51 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 2 days old and already has 104 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #137.
About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 104
Today: 10 · ≈ 51 by evening
Forks: 6
Issues and pull requests: 10
Watchers: 3
Language: Rust
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.1.1 · September 29, 2026
Created: September 28, 2026
Last push: September 29, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 30, 2026Top new repositories this week: #137

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