Comment by Aurornis

GitHub stars would be gamed immediately. You can already buy GitHub stars by the hundreds from spam services.

A better solution would be to require a written proposal which gets reviewed by someone who assesses against some criteria such as project age and other factors. Don’t make it too hard, but make it enough to stop the scheming individuals who think they’re going to start their own GitHub repo, set Claude Code loose in it once a week, and call it civil service.