chenfei-wu/taskmatrix vs sherlock-project/sherlock
sherlock-project/sherlock shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sherlock shows healthier maintenance signals than taskmatrix. sherlock rates Healthy overall while taskmatrix rates Mixed. taskmatrix last saw a commit 2 years ago with 15+ active contributors, while sherlock was committed to 1 day ago with 24+ active contributors. taskmatrix is Other-licensed while sherlock is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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chenfei-wu/taskmatrix →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
non-standard license (Other); last commit was 2y ago…
no CI workflows detected; no description (proxy for README missing)…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: wire up GitHub Actions or equivalent
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
sherlock-project/sherlock →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| taskmatrix | sherlock | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 34,134 | 85,525 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 1d ago |
| License | Other | MIT |
| Open issues | 256 | 299 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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