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Sponsorships

tscircuit automatically sponsors regular contributors based on the impact of their work. This activity is tracked in the open-source contribution-tracker, which powers contributions.tscircuit.com and resets every Wednesday.

How the contribution tracker works​

  • Every PR across the tscircuit GitHub org is scanned and summarized via an LLM so we can consistently understand the scope of each change.
  • The LLM classifies each diff/PR into attributes such as 🐳 Major, 🐙 Minor, and 🐌 Tiny impact levels and assigns a star rating that feeds the weekly score shown on the sponsorship leaderboard.
  • The resulting data is organized into the sections you see on the tracker—such as Contributor Overview, PRs by Repository, and PRs by Contributor—so you can quickly understand where impactful work is happening across the ecosystem.
  • Historical exports, including weekly contribution overviews and AI-generated monthly changelogs, are kept directly in the contribution-tracker repo if you want to dig deeper into past activity.

The best way to increase sponsorship eligibility is to consistently contribute high-impact improvements. A great approach is to actively use tscircuit, report confusing or buggy behavior, and submit fixes for the issues you uncover. Contributors who repeatedly do this tend to build deep product context and deliver meaningful improvements over time.

How sponsorship amounts are calculated​

Sponsorship payouts are based on the last four weeks of star ratings captured by the tracker. The algorithm takes the median, minimum, and maximum weekly star counts to decide on a base amount—ranging from $15 for occasional stars up to $500 for consistently high-impact weeks—with a $5 safety net for anyone whose historical high score stays above 3. You can read the current logic directly in getSponsorshipAmount.ts for the exact thresholds.

Maintainers receive an additional fixed monthly sponsorship on top of the weekly calculation so their support stays stable. Those maintainer bonuses are defined alongside the algorithm in the tracker codebase.

To be eligible for Github Sponsorship, you must be in a supported country and have Github Sponsors enabled on your Github profile.