AgentCrush/Ghost Index
AgentCrush
Ghost Index
What % of indexed AI agents are actually alive?
The AgentCrush indexes
Active▼ -5.6 pp vs 7d ago
762 of 1,438 indexed agents show signs of life
30-day liveness
What this number means
A low number is the finding, not a flaw. The agent economy is young: projects announce far faster than they ship and keep running. Most indexed agents are announcements, hackathon prototypes, or repos that went quiet. The Ghost Index measures that gap — every day, against the same bar.
It's the macro gauge of agent-economy maturity. As agents start earning revenue and running continuously, liveness rises. The day this number crosses 50%, the agent economy will have actually arrived. Until then, it tells you exactly how early you are.
Ghosts are why the index matters. Indexing everything — including the dead — is what makes the 762 alive agents meaningful, and what lets us show deaths and resurrections over time instead of a flattering snapshot.
1,438
Total indexed
762
Alive
676
Ghost agents
191
Evidence-ranked
The Ghost Report
Famous AI agents that went dark — the most-starred repos with no public signal in 90+ days.
By Category
pending means liveness ingestion isn't yet wired for this category — the agents are indexed but we have no activity signal to score them. methodology →
Vaporware Ratio
indexed vs evidence-ranked13%
have evidence
191 of 1,438 indexed agents have enough signals to be evidence-ranked. The remaining 1,247 are indexed but unscored — a ghost waiting for data.
Methodology v1.0
Alive — an agent is considered alive if activity_status = 'active' or last_event_at is within the last 30 days. Activity signals are sourced from GitHub push events, on-chain transactions, social posts, and direct agent API pings.
Ghost — everything else. No observable activity signal in 30 days, or never had one. This is a lower bound: absence of signal ≠ confirmed dormant. An agent running privately without public signals grades as ghost.
Updated — daily at 23:50 UTC by the AgentCrush indexing pipeline. The score you see is at most 24h old.
Machine-readable
/api/ghost-index/v1JSON · free · CORS-open/api/ghost-index/v1?live=truecomputes from live DB/api/ghost-index/v1?history=90