instar
Coherence infrastructure for self-evolving AI agents — on the Claude Code or Codex subscription you already have.
npm says
60,111 / week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
probably humans
≈ 43,511–44,351 / week
best guess 43,931 high confidence
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 4, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people actually use instar?
npm counted 60,111 downloads of instar in the last 7 days. That count includes every tarball fetch: registry mirrors, security scanners, CI pipelines and crawlers as well as people. humanloads estimates that about 43,931 of them (likely range 43,511–44,351) were real human installs, with high confidence. That puts 27% of npm's weekly count down to robots.
Is instar still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 1.3.1650, came out on Nov 4, 2026. The last 12 months saw 2,229 stable releases, typically 1 day apart, plus 1 pre-release. It was first published on Feb 19, 2026. npm lists 1 maintainer.
Is instar still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 9% over 3 months. Last week, 100% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 1, the latest one; the most used single version was 1.3.1354, with 1%. Weekdays get 1.05× the downloads of weekends, so there is no clear work-week rhythm. Over the last 12 months, 133,309 downloads arrived in publish spikes and were attributed to mirrors. Crawlers account for about 2,230 downloads a week, roughly 1 per version.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with an honest confidence level.