PluginStatsAssay by The Meridian Lab installs statistics
By Matt Mayberry · GitHub Marketplace
Detect AI-generated issues, pull requests, and comments. Automatic scoring. Free for open source
Assay by The Meridian Lab has 1 recorded installs on GitHub Marketplace.
It ranks #1279 of 1,393 tracked GitHub Marketplace listings by installs.
PluginStats has 1 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 16, 2026.
About Assay by The Meridian Lab
Stop AI agents from polluting your GitHub projects
Automated agents now submit issues, open pull requests, and post comments at scale across GitHub. Assay detects them automatically — before they waste your maintainers' time or corrupt your project history.
Install in one click. No configuration. No code changes.
How it works
When a new issue, PR, or comment arrives on a repository where Assay is installed, Assay scores it against 13 behavioral signals across three tiers:
• Tier 1 — Zero false positive: Patterns that cannot appear in genuine human writing. One match = high confidence flag. • Tier 2 — Behavioral: Machine-consistent timing, superhuman response speed, ghost author patterns. Two or more required before Assay speaks. • Tier 3 — Linguistic: LLM vocabulary, sentence uniformity, AI opener structure. Score boosters only — never sufficient alone.
Real contributors pass silently. Assay only posts a comment when it has something to say.
What you get
When a suspicious submission is detected, Assay posts a comment with:
• A 0–100 probability score • The specific signals that fired • An ai-generated or possibly-ai-generated label
Submissions scoring below 40 pass with no comment. The threshold is conservative by design.
Designed to protect real contributors
The tiered architecture ensures false positives are rare. Medium-confidence signals (LLM vocabulary, sentence uniformity) cannot flag a submission on their own — they only boost a score already elevated by higher-confidence signals. A human contributor who writes carefully and professionally will pass silently.
Permissions
Assay requests the minimum permissions required:
• Issues (read/write): To read issue content and post findings • Pull requests (read/write): To read PR descriptions and post findings • Metadata (read-only): Required by GitHub for all Apps
Assay does not request access to repository code, secrets, or any other data.
Description from the GitHub Marketplace listing.
- AI Assisted
- Security
Where Assay by The Meridian Lab sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
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Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts (installations of each GitHub App across accounts and organizations) are read from public GitHub Marketplace listing pages. GitHub does not publish ratings. Category positions reflect GitHub's own popularity sort.
Listing: https://github.com/marketplace/assay-by-the-meridian-lab. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 16, 2026. See the methodology.