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cognesy/instructor-tell
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Minimal tool to run queries to LLM inference providers via CLI

v2.3.1(3mo ago)00MITPHPPHP ^8.3

Since Apr 22Pushed 3mo ago1 watchersCompare

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Overview
========

[](#overview)

Tell is a simple, experimental tool allowing to use LLM powered inference from the command line.

###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance82

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity0

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~4 days

Total

85

Last Release

96d ago

Major Versions

0.17.11 → 1.0-rc12025-06-11

v1.22.0 → v2.0.02026-03-13

PHP version history (2 changes)0.13.9PHP ^8.2

v1.19.0PHP ^8.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/184133?v=4)[Dariusz Debowczyk](/maintainers/ddebowczyk)[@ddebowczyk](https://github.com/ddebowczyk)

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Top Contributors

[![ddebowczyk](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/184133?v=4)](https://github.com/ddebowczyk "ddebowczyk (116 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan, Psalm

Type Coverage Yes

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