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kani

kani (カニ) is a highly hackable microframework for tool-calling language models. (NLP-OSS @ EMNLP 2023)
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
51
Week
606
Month
3.0K
Stars
600
Forks
30
Issues
5
Version
1.9.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
53
Adoption
34
Community
20
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
50 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,952
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,952
Stars
600
Stars per 1k downloads
203.25
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
87
Month daily avg
98
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
50 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
16.7
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
7
Monthly downloads
2,952
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
36
 
Issue Burden
8.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
15.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 56
Windows 2
macOS 2

Python Versions

3.11
93.3% 56
3.12
3.3% 2
3.14
3.3% 2

Top Countries

1. US US
56
2. AU AU
2
3. RW RW
2
4. CA CA
1

Dependencies

1
27 optional dependencies

Used By

5

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
July 13, 2023
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.9.1
Total Releases
47
Contributors
7
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Topics
framework function-calling large-language-models llama openai gpt-4 llms microframework tool-use chatgpt
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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