3b1b/videos vs karpathy/autoresearch
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, videos and autoresearch both show mixed maintenance signals. videos last saw a commit 1 month ago with 3+ active contributors, while autoresearch last saw a commit 2 months ago with 9+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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3b1b/videos →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
non-standard license (Other); no tests detected…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard
karpathy/autoresearch →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected…
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓9 active contributors
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| videos | autoresearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,683 | 79,838 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | Other | — |
| Open issues | 43 | 186 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | — | — |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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