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arthur-ficial/apfel vs caldis/mos

arthur-ficial/apfel shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, apfel shows healthier maintenance signals than mos. apfel rates Healthy overall while mos rates Mixed. apfel last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors, while mos last saw a commit 1 month ago with 1+ active contributor. apfel is MIT-licensed while mos is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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arthur-ficial/apfel

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
  • Last commit 4d ago
  • 4 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

caldis/mos

Mixed

Solo project — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

apfelmos
Stars5,28720,047
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseMITOther
Open issues3360
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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