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of the 461 trending AI repos I sandbox-tested don't actually run.
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Every card below was executed by the lab this week — the surprising sleepers that just work, and the hyped ones that failed their own setup. From 778 repos tested so far.
Tenacity is a general-purpose retrying library for Python.
Sandbox found The library installed successfully (install_exit: 0), all tests passed (pytest_exit: 0), and the demonstration script executed successfully (demo_exit: 0).
github.com/jd/tenacity ↗A high-performance navigation stack for multi-robot systems that combines Conflict-Based Search (CBS) for global path planning with Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance.
Sandbox found The project has a successful installation (install_exit: 0), passing tests (pytest_exit: 0), and a successful demonstration (demo_exit: 0) showing it can compute paths and run simulations.
github.com/aaholmes/multiagent-pathplanning ↗Reasoning Gym is a Python library providing procedural dataset generators and algorithmically verifiable reasoning environments for training models via Reinforcement Lear.
Sandbox found The sandbox successfully installed dependencies (install_exit: 0), passed tests (pytest_exit: 0), and the demonstration script executed successfully (demo_exit: 0).
github.com/open-thought/reasoning-gym ↗A RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and Agent application framework built on LangChain and various LLMs (ChatGLM, Qwen, Llama).
Sandbox found The sandbox failed to install dependencies (install_exit: 1) and the demo failed to import the module (demo_exit: 1).
github.com/chatchat-space/Langchain-Chatchat ↗ShadowBroker is a decentralized OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) platform that aggregates real-time telemetry from over 60 sources, including aircraft, maritime vessels, .
Sandbox found The project failed to install (install_exit: 1) and the demo failed to run (demo_exit: 1), indicating it is in an early/incomplete state.
github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker ↗Nowness will tell you whether that trending repo actually works — with the evidence.