# libracoder/kiri

> A lightweight container runtime written in Rust for macOS, Windows and Linux, compatible with the Docker Engine API and CLI. It replaces Docker Desktop and OrbStack by running containers in a single small Linux VM.

- Magnitude: 6.2 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 1,222 total · +30 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–01:28 UTC, ≈ 274 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-11-02 · Last push: 2026-11-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/libracoder/kiri · Homepage: https://runkiri.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/libracoder/kiri

## Useful for

- Run existing Docker images via docker --context kiri without changing tools
- Spin up a local single-node Kubernetes cluster with kiri k8s start
- Migrate images, volumes and containers from OrbStack or Docker Desktop with kiri import

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:02–01:28: 1192 → 1222 stars (+30). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +274 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2.2× that of the previous 5 days.
- The repository is 7 days old and already has 1,222 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- About 24 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @RandyMcMillan (522 followers).

## 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: 80
- Issues and pull requests: 81
- Watchers: 10
- Average over the last week: 214 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 24
- Latest release: v0.1.18 (2026-11-06)

## Stars per day, last 8 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-02 … 2026-11-09: 0, 65, 138, 194, 206, 372, 249, 30

## Magnitude by day, last 5 days

11-05 5.7, 11-06 5.8, 11-07 6.1, 11-08 6.7, 11-09 6.2

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/krdn/mcp-servers.md

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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 2026-11-09 01:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.