Palo Alto AI Lab

Last updated 2026-10-22 (layout and navigation).
Figures measured 2026-10-22 (GitHub). Other records retain their source dates.

Code other people merged

A lab that studies agent systems can be judged two ways: by what it says, or by what other maintainers let into their repositories.

This page is the second one. Every figure here resolves to a public API you can query yourself, and the last block tells you how. All counts measured 2026-10-22.

Accepted by other organisations

75 of our pull requests have been merged into 53 repositories we do not own. 44 of them changed code, 18 changed documentation only, and 13 were entries in curated indexes, counted separately because an index entry is not code. The rule: a merge counts as code if it touched at least one file that is not documentation; it is applied by a script to the changed-file list of every merge, and the same script measured every figure on this page on 2026-10-22.

The star counts below are the host repositories', not ours. They are here because the size of the project that accepted a change is part of what the change is worth.

RepositoryMergedStarsWhat it is
bytedance/deer-flow184,291ByteDance's long-horizon agent harness
agno-agi/agno142,866Framework for building, running and managing agent platforms
microsoft/semantic-kernel128,690Microsoft's framework for putting LLMs into applications
QwenLM/qwen-code228,656Alibaba's open-source coding agent that lives in your terminal
google-gemini/cookbook117,854Google's official examples and guides for the Gemini API
areal-project/AReaL15,864Reinforcement-learning bridge for LLM-based agent applications
modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk45,261The official Go SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients
pydantic/logfire14,519AI observability platform from the authors of Pydantic
basicmachines-co/basic-memory14,323Memory MCP server so agents remember a project between sessions
langroid/langroid14,120Multi-agent LLM programming framework
punkpeye/fastmcp33,278A TypeScript framework for building MCP servers
UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_ai13,063Inspect, the LLM evaluation framework of the UK AI Safety Institute
zilliztech/memsearch12,777Unified memory layer for AI agents, from the Milvus team
mixelpixx/Konnect41,361AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad, as a native Rust plugin
cristicretu/diri3456Workbench for coding agents: run fifty in parallel and review them
Lyellr88/marm-memory5422Local-first memory layer and MCP server for coding agents
mariagorskikh/open-instinct6390An open-source personal agent you text on iMessage
deepset-ai/haystack-integrations1115The integration catalogue for Haystack, maintained by deepset

35 further repositories account for the remaining 37 merges, mostly curated indexes, among them ones maintained by Tsinghua C3I, IAAR Shanghai, TeleAI and Ant Research. The table above holds 38 merges across 18 repositories; 38 and 37 make 75.

The first of these merges landed on 2026-08-01. This is a few months of work, not a career summary, stated plainly so nobody has to guess the timeframe.

The part most pages leave out

We opened 183 pull requests in repositories we do not own. 75 were merged, 76 were closed without merging, and 32 are still open. We also opened 75 issues and took part in 886 threads that were not ours.

The rejection rate is on this page on purpose. A page that shows only its merges is showing you a filtered sample, and a reader who notices that is right to discount everything else on it. We push a lot, and a third of it does not land.

Our own repositories

63 repositories of our own, excluding forks, with 129 GitHub stars between them. By stars we are small, and that figure is here so you do not have to go looking for it. Both numbers are read from the GitHub API when this page is built, not typed.

claw-consensus

Independent agents on separate machines negotiate a decision, verify each other, and refuse to auto-commit anything irreversible. Reproducible in fifteen minutes: MIT, stdlib-only Python, no API key, nine documented failure modes.

claude-bible

Governance as versioned files: risk tiers, a declined-decisions journal, and a human gate enforced in code rather than in prose.

agent-leash

LEASH-8, an eight-domain control model for agents holding delegated authority, with a scorecard for grading a deployment you already run.

sqlite-graph-memory

Agent memory as graph retrieval over SQLite, with vector search and cross-encoder reranking. Six forks, which is the honest signal here.

verbatim-citation-gate

A gate that refuses a claim when the source it quotes does not contain the quote.

All five are MIT, checked against the licence each repository reports. The failure-mode documents are part of the repositories, not an appendix to them.

Research output

358 deep-research reports, each one a question we actually needed answered, fanned out across several frontier models and then reconciled. The index is generated by machine and regenerates itself: index.json in tonydzi/deep-research reported 358 records on 2026-10-22, which is the number printed here, read at build time rather than typed.

Nine preprints carry live Zenodo DOIs, deposited between 2026-09-07 and 2026-10-06 under CC BY 4.0, seven of them with the repository the paper describes. Fifty-plus publications overall, 137 citations, h-index 7 (Google Scholar, July 2026). One paper is marked retracted on our own publication list, because the publisher withdrew the whole volume it appeared in; it stays listed.

How to check this page

Each figure above has one machine-readable source. None of them is a screenshot, and none of them is a number typed once and left to rot.

ClaimSource you can query yourself
75 mergedgh api -X GET search/issues -f q='is:pr author:tonydzi -user:tonydzi is:merged'
183 opened, 32 open, 76 closed unmergedsame query with is:open, or is:closed is:unmerged, or no state filter
75 issues, 886 threadsq='is:issue author:tonydzi -user:tonydzi' and q='commenter:tonydzi -user:tonydzi'
44 code / 18 docs / 13 index entriesthe changed-file list of each merge: repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{n}/files, judged by the rule stated above
63 repositories, 129 starsGET /users/tonydzi/repos, forks excluded
358 research reportsraw.githubusercontent.com/tonydzi/deep-research/main/index.json, field count
9 preprints with DOIeach DOI resolves; the list is on the academic profile
137 citations, h-index 7Google Scholar, July 2026

If any number here fails to reproduce, open an issue against the repository it came from. That is a faster correction loop than asking us.

Hand-written HTML, one file, no analytics, no cookies. Counts measured 2026-10-22; the research-report figure was read from the project's own index at build time. Made in Palo Alto.