For maintainers of open source
Tend to your repo without it taking your week.
kimu reads your issues, surfaces the ones that matter, and quietly tracks the health of your community — so you can spend more time writing code and less time keeping up.
- Open source
- MIT licensed
- Self-host or use kimu.dev
What it does
Three small jobs, done patiently.
kimu doesn't try to replace you. It reads what you'd read, sorts what you'd sort, and tells you when something is drifting — so you spend less time on the parts of maintenance that don't need a person.
Sorting that learns
Every new issue is sorted by category, urgency, and likely fix path. The first pass is automatic. The last call is yours.
Community vitals, watched quietly
First-response time, contributor diversity, conversation tone — tracked over time and surfaced when patterns shift.
Just enough to act on
One page that shows what's worth your attention this week. No metrics for metrics' sake.
How it works
Three steps, fifteen minutes, and you're done.
Setup is short on purpose. Connect a repo, let kimu read for a few days, then check the digest on Friday morning.
- 01
Connect a repo
Sign in with GitHub. Pick the projects you want kimu to watch. It installs as a GitHub App with the smallest permission set that does the job.
- 02
Let it read
kimu walks the issue tracker, classifies what's new, and starts learning the shape of your project. It posts nothing, changes nothing, and waits.
- 03
Decide what gets your time
A short weekly digest tells you what's worth touching. Most you'll skip. The ones that matter, you'll know — and you'll know why.
From a maintainer
It's the first tool I've tried that doesn't try to do my job. It just makes the boring half quieter, and I noticed I started looking at my issues again.
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Pricing
Free for open source. Always.
kimu is MIT-licensed. The hosted version at kimu.dev is free for public repositories. Self-host if you'd rather. No credit card. No upsell.
- Unlimited public repositories
- Triage, health metrics, weekly digest
- Self-hosted Docker image, no telemetry
- Private repositories: ask me, we'll work it out