# recursive-oss/rec

> A local inference engine for Recursive's language models, optimized for Apple Silicon and faster than llama.cpp. It runs the model on your machine and exposes an OpenAI-compatible API for clients.

- Magnitude: 5.2 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 134 total · +9 stars measured 2026-10-23, 00:37–03:24 UTC, ≈ 62 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Language models · Language: Python · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-21 · Last push: 2026-10-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/recursive-oss/rec · Homepage: https://docs.recursive.com/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/recursive-oss/rec

## Useful for

- Run the model locally and connect it to the pi or OpenCode harness
- Send a request to the model via the OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API
- Check hardware and installation compatibility with rec doctor

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-23 (UTC), 00:37–03:24: 125 → 134 stars (+9). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +62 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 134 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #169.
- About 9 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @audreyt (8,995 followers), @yagop (486 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: 12
- Issues and pull requests: 12
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 66 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5
- Latest release: v0.1.0 (2026-10-21)

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-21 … 2026-10-23: 72, 63, 9

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #169

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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 2026-10-23 03:35 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.