The whole repo must be absolutely swarming with agents, just look at the sheer rate of issues and pull requests. There was 6 new PRs in the last 10 minutes at the time of writing. It's not much of a stretch to assume the stars are also inorganic.

Geniune online user sentiment has died out a long time ago. If you're still basing any opinion or decision on what other "people" voted or commented online, you're easy prey for the algorithmic manipulation machine.

I opened Openclaw on github and was shocked it was already starred. Somehow i did it and can't even remember why or when even though i have a very low opinion of this app.

IIRC openclaw will star the project automatically on setup

They probably used a claw to increase the ranking.

Yeah, the Claws are starring the repo, obviously.

Agents will dominate the internet and open source code in a few years.

Many other projects would have gamed the star-count if it was possible to do at scale without GitHub removing them for fraud as they often do.

By design, with llm agents and all, surely not