kyisaiah47/rulestack-format-stats

RuleStack: how much each config format is actually used, day by day

One row per format per day: how many repositories carry it, how many config files were read, how long those files are at the median and the 90th percentile, and what share of them carry runnable commands or code.

Rows in this cut	336
One row is	one format on one day
Cut	2026-10-01
Refreshed	Monthly, on the first of the month
Measured by	RuleStack
Method	https://toolproof.thecompound.tech/methodology
Licence	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher	Compound Labs
Also on	Hugging Face · Kaggle · Zenodo

How it is measured

Config files are read out of public repositories and measured. The format shares are computed from the files found, never from a survey of what people say they use.

What a citer needs to know

• share_pct is a share of the files read on that day, so it moves with the crawl as well as with the ecosystem.
• A day missing from the series is a day the crawl did not run.

Files

File	Format	Size
rulestack-format-stats-2026-10-01.csv	CSV	0.02 MB
rulestack-format-stats-2026-10-01.json	JSON	0.08 MB

Every cut is also a GitHub release with the same files attached, so a citation can pin the exact edition it quoted.

Schema

Column	Type	Empty in sample
day	string	0.0%
format	string	0.0%
repo_count	number	0.0%
config_count	number	0.0%
median_words	number	0.0%
p90_words	number	0.0%
median_stars	number	0.0%
total_stars	number	0.0%
share_pct	number	0.0%
with_commands_pct	number	0.0%
with_code_pct	number	0.0%
median_quality	number	0.0%

Cite it

Compound Labs (2026). RuleStack: how much each config format is actually used, day by day. RuleStack, https://rulestack.thecompound.tech. Cut of 2026-10-01. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/rulestack-format-stats

@dataset{compound_rulestack_format_stats_2026,
  title     = {RuleStack: how much each config format is actually used, day by day},
  author    = {{Compound Labs}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Compound Labs},
  url       = {https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/rulestack-format-stats},
  note      = {Cut of 2026-10-01. Measured by RuleStack, https://rulestack.thecompound.tech},
  license   = {CC-BY-4.0}
}

The whole collection has a DOI, 10.5281/zenodo.22844096, at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22844096. It resolves to the newest Zenodo version. To pin the exact deposit this cut belongs to, cite 10.5281/zenodo.22844097 instead.

Attribution is the licence condition, and it is the only one. Quote a figure with the publisher, the product that measured it and the cut date, and there is nothing else to ask.