# storytold/lightcraft

> An open-source clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom in pure Rust: non-destructive raw development, color grading, masking, presets and a photo library. Runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux, in the browser via WebAssembly, and can be driven by AI agents over MCP.

- Magnitude: 4.6 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 80 total · +33 stars today, ≈ 48 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Generative media · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-09-30 · Last push: 2026-10-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/lightcraft

## Useful for

- Develop raw photos with non-destructive exposure, color and tone curve edits
- Mask the sky or subject with gradients and apply local brightness and color adjustments
- Drive the library and edits from an AI agent over the MCP channel

## Why it’s here

- 33 stars so far today, about 47 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 3 days old and already has 80 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #165.
- About 12 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (392 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: 14
- Issues and pull requests: 6
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 24 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 9
- Latest release: v0.1.1 (2026-10-03)

## Stars per day, last 7 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-03: 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 46, 33

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #165

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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 2026-10-03 16:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.