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avelino/awesome-go vs mightymoud/sidekick

avelino/awesome-go shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, awesome-go shows healthier maintenance signals than sidekick. awesome-go rates Healthy overall while sidekick rates Mixed. awesome-go was committed to today with 76+ active contributors, while sidekick last saw a commit 4 months ago with 9+ active contributors. awesome-go is MIT-licensed while sidekick is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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avelino/awesome-go

Healthy

Healthy across the board

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 76+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 10% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

mightymoud/sidekick

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 3mo ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected…

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 3mo ago
  • 9 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

awesome-gosidekick
Stars176,5277,351
Last committoday4mo ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues18417
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage10%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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