repository · survival report #5 · 2026-10-12 · method v4 · unranked
smithersai/smithers
In Survival Report #5 (2026-10-12, method v4): 2,114,510 of 8,702,149 lines introduced by 13,583 AI-tagged commits are still at HEAD, 24.3 %. These are counts, not grades. No rank, no colour, no verdict, and no comparison with any other repository on this page. Every number links to the audit bytes behind it and the method and its limits are public.
Baseline: this repository's untagged lines
Commits with no machine-readable AI signal, human-written, inline-completed or untagged-agent code alike: 5,988 commits, 11,783,879 lines introduced, 1,593,148 still at HEAD (13.5 % line-weighted, 0.0 % median per commit). Age is the time from a commit to HEAD. The baseline was added in method v3 and is unchanged later; definition at causari.dev/method.
Age-matched: AI-tagged lines 24.3 % against untagged lines in the matched age windows 20.4 %, a gap of +3.9 pts, over 4 age windows holding 100 % of the AI-tagged lines. The oldest line still at HEAD dates 2026-02-04; 771 commits (249 AI-tagged, 959,166 lines) are older, and nothing from before that date survives, tagged or not.
| Line age | AI-tagged | commits | Untagged | commits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–30 d | 68.3 % | 7,312 | 63.2 % | 2,445 |
| 30–90 d | 12.2 % | 3,144 | 7.3 % | 1,871 |
| 90–180 d | 0.2 % | 2,257 | 1.0 % | 465 |
| 180–365 d | 0.0 % | 870 | 0.0 % | 1,207 |
By agent, in Survival Report #5
Alphabetical. A commit is attributed to the agent its metadata names; one agent per commit. VERIFIED commits only.
| Agent | Commits | Lines introduced | Still at HEAD | Line-weighted | Capped |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude-code | 10,044 | 7,981,913 | 1,678,662 | 21.0 % | 40.8 % |
| cursor | 1 | 40 | 0 | 0.0 % | 0.0 % |
| github-copilot | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0.0 % | 0.0 % |
| openai-codex | 3,537 | 720,171 | 435,848 | 60.5 % | 67.1 % |
History across reports
One row per report this repository was measured in, oldest first; each report measured HEAD as of its own date. The line is the line-weighted ratio on a fixed 0 – 100 % axis; each point is one report.
| Report | Date | AI-tagged commits | Lines introduced | Still at HEAD | Line-weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survival Report #2 | 2026-09-23 | 7,302 | 6,805,290 | 1,016,597 | 14.9 % |
| Survival Report #4 | 2026-10-05 | 10,828 | 7,993,375 | 1,707,036 | 21.4 % |
| Survival Report #5 | 2026-10-12 | 13,583 | 8,702,149 | 2,114,510 | 24.3 % |
Reproduce
One command, any machine, no account: the same bytes the report was built from. The exact bytes behind this page are repos/smithersai__smithers.json of Survival Report #5. Open an issue with your JSON if it differs.
re audit smithersai/smithers --json # method v4, full cloneBadge
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[](https://causari.dev/r/smithersai/smithers/)Coverage
- Method v4, causari 0.4.1. Detection from commit metadata only; survival from
git blame -w -M -Cat HEAD. - Full clone: yes. Method v4 refuses shallow clones; this row comes from a complete history.
- Sample: 13,583 AI-tagged commits; the sample floor is 5. At or above the floor, so the ratio is aggregated into the report.
- PROBABLE: 2 PROBABLE commits (29,989 lines introduced, 45 still at HEAD) are listed here and never summed into the VERIFIED counts.
- Cap: 1,177 lines per commit in this repository; the capped ratio is 46.3 %.
.git-blame-ignore-revs: honoured.