# zai-org/ZCode

> Z.ai's coding agent workbench: an Electron desktop app, browser UI and terminal Agent CLI. The repo contains the client, backend, shared UI and the agent CLI/runtime sources.

- Magnitude: 1.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 8,560 total · +2 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:07–01:32 UTC, ≈ 17 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: TypeScript · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-20 · Last push: 2026-11-04
- GitHub: https://github.com/zai-org/ZCode · Homepage: https://zcode.z.ai/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/zai-org/ZCode

## Useful for

- Run the zcode terminal agent in TUI mode on a project
- Start the agent's web UI with zcode --web on a local port
- Build the ZCode desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:07–01:32: 8558 → 8560 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +17 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 50 days old and already has 8,560 stars.
- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #84.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## 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: 2,668
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 58
- Average over the last week: 22 per day
- Usual pace: 42 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v3.17.2 (2026-11-04)

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

2026-10-11 … 2026-11-09: 40, 43, 60, 47, 41, 29, 24, 29, 64, 43, 44, 42, 42, 34, 38, 37, 44, 23, 35, 19, 20, 15, 27, 27, 38, 19, 20, 19, 15, 2

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-27 2.8, 10-28 2.7, 10-29 2.5, 10-30 2.6, 10-31 2.0, 11-01 2.1, 11-02 2.1, 11-03 2.3, 11-04 2.3, 11-05 2.6, 11-06 2.2, 11-07 2.2, 11-08 2.1, 11-09 1.9

## Hacker News

- ZCode, embroiled in a controversy over stealing user code, is now open source — 5 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782440

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #84

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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.