boast

boast gathers impact and reach metrics for a piece of research software (and/or its associated paper) from across code hosts, package registries, and citation/attention databases, so you can make statements backed by evidence about a tool’s impact — the kind you make in a grant proposal.

Point it at a Project — identified by any of a code repository, distribution packages, and/or a paper — and it gathers reach Metrics across four Categories (Code, Downloads, Citations, Attention) from a curated set of pluggable Providers, records them in a durable, timestamped Snapshot with full provenance, and renders Reports for grant writing (terminal, Markdown, and an automatically written prose sentence).

Reproducibility and honesty are first principles: dated, attributable Snapshots you can commit and re-render, metrics that are never silently coerced to zero, and totals that never mix incompatible time windows.

boast about samtools/samtools

• Getting started — install boast and run your first Report.
• Concepts — the vocabulary this site and the CLI both use.
• Guides — worked examples for common setups.
• Providers reference and CLI reference — what boast can fetch, and every flag it has.
• Design decisions — the trade-offs behind how boast works.