OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier

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Open infrastructure for collective frontier intelligence: fully open models trained on community compute

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In the last 30 days, OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier merged 23 of 27 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Indexed issues
21
Avg merge
2h 4m
Merged PRs (30d)
23
Dominant language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Nov 12, 2026
Latest indexed
Nov 12, 2026
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  • Eval plan for the 1B baseline with lm-evaluation-harness tasks
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    agent-authored area/evals good first issue help wanted layer/8-outputs type/feature

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#26 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Runbook for a libp2p bootstrap relay on a cheap VPS
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored area/docs good first issue help wanted layer/7-hosting type/docs

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 77/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#25 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Contributors page built from `CREDITS.md` and the ledger
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored area/web good first issue help wanted layer/6-console type/feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#24 ·

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  • Tokenise a FineWeb-Edu shard set and publish its manifest
    Open
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    agent-authored area/data good first issue help wanted layer/5-storage type/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#22 ·

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  • Run the first 100 steps of Run 0 on one GPU and report results
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    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored area/ml good first issue help wanted layer/4-training type/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#21 ·

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  • Minimal rust-libp2p peer that joins a bootstrap peer over QUIC and lists peers
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    agent-authored area/rust good first issue help wanted layer/3-network type/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#17 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • RFC 0002: node as an `ofl` extension or a separate Rust binary
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    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored good first issue help wanted layer/2-node type/rfc

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 48/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#16 ·

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  • Generate and persist a device keypair and sign a hardware report
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored area/rust good first issue help wanted layer/2-node type/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#15 ·

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  • Run `make smoke` on Apple Silicon or ROCm and record results in `docs/hardware-matrix.md`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored area/docs good first issue help wanted layer/1-hardware type/docs

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#14 ·

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  • Measure bandwidth, not just latency, in `ofl doctor`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored area/python good first issue help wanted layer/1-hardware type/feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 77/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#13 ·

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  • Rung 5. 30B-70B then GPT-3 class
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    agent-authored type/tracking

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#11 ·

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  • Rung 4. 10B (Run 1)
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    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored type/tracking

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#10 ·

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  • Rung 3. 1B across the swarm
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    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored type/tracking

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#9 ·

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  • Rung 2. First community run
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    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored type/tracking

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#8 ·

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  • Rung 1. Hello swarm
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    agent-authored type/tracking

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#7 ·

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  • Rung 0. Run 0
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    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored type/tracking

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#6 ·

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  • Add hash and licence fields for every entry in `manifests/datasets.toml`, checked by `ofl check`
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    agent-authored area/data area/python good first issue help wanted layer/5-storage type/feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

    OpenFrontierLabs/openfrontier#23 · 1 comment ·

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