Self-host the Star History chart

[luokerenx4]

Summary

• replace the failing third-party Star History embed with a repository-owned static SVG and a live current-stars badge
• add a reproducible generator that reads authenticated GitHub stargazer timestamps, immediately discards identities, aggregates by UTC day, and renders the OpenAlice-styled chart
• add focused tests for aggregation, pagination/privacy behavior, and accessible SVG output

Why

The public Star History endpoint returns HTTP 503 because its shared GitHub API tokens are exhausted. GitHub's new restrictions on stargazer-list access also make third-party live history embeds structurally unreliable. A checked-in snapshot preserves the growth slope without making README rendering depend on that service.

User impact

The README keeps a visible historical growth curve. The chart remains available when third-party services are rate-limited, while the Shields badge supplies the live total between snapshot refreshes.

Verification

• pnpm star-history:generate (6,283 active stargazers, 160 daily aggregate points)
• pnpm exec vitest run scripts/generate-star-history.spec.ts
• npx tsc --noEmit
• pnpm test (353 passed, 1 skipped; 3,367 tests passed, 9 skipped)
• xmllint --noout docs/images/star-history.svg
• git diff --check
• rendered the SVG at 1200×560 with rsvg-convert and visually inspected the result
• scanned the generated SVG for usernames, raw stargazer fields, and credential material

Boundary touch

• none (documentation asset and generator only)

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
openalice-demo	Building	Preview, Comment	Jul 28, 2026 6:57am