Kong/kong
The API and AI Gateway
- Stars
- 44.4k
- Forks
- 5.2k
- Language
- Lua
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- updated Oct 2026
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Maintenance
Pushed within three months of the last stats read (as of Nov 6, 2026).
Licence
Apache-2.0
Tech stack
Primary language: Lua. GitHub reports only the dominant language, so this is not the whole stack.
Install
No install command has been verified for this repo. Follow the README rather than a guess.
Quality score
Computed by the discovery import when this entry was added.
- Recent activity×0.30
- 1.00
How recently the default branch was pushed to.
- Adoption×0.20
- 0.99
Stars on a log scale, so adoption counts without dominating.
- Description and topics×0.15
- 1.00
Whether the repo describes itself: description, topics, homepage.
- README present×0.15
- 1.00
Whether the repository has a README at all.
- Licence clarity×0.10
- 1.00
Whether GitHub can resolve the licence to a recognised SPDX id.
- Issue health×0.10
- 1.00
Open issues relative to adoption, as a rough maintenance signal.
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