# cortexapps/engrams

> Self-hosted orchestrator for AI coding agents: runs each agent in its own Firecracker microVM, snapshots it when idle and restores it on the next prompt. Deployed in your own cloud via Terraform and Helm.

- Magnitude: 2.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 32 total · +19 stars today, ≈ 24 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: Rust · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-04-27 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/cortexapps/engrams · Homepage: https://engramsfactory.com/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/cortexapps/engrams

## Useful for

- Deploy the agent orchestrator in your own GKE or EKS via Terraform and Helm
- Start a Claude Code session against a built OCI image and read logs via CLI
- Set up an automation for pull request review or Slack thread replies

## Why it’s here

- 19 stars so far today, about 23 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 23× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Engrams, an open source alternative to Devin” — 15 points, 2 h ago.

## 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: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 1,565
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.10.0 (2026-10-01)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-02 … 2026-10-01: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 3, 19

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Engrams, an open source alternative to Devin — 15 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923064

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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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 2026-10-01 18:33 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.