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chmln/sd vs sharkdp/bat

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, sd and bat both show healthy maintenance signals. sd last saw a commit 6 months ago with 18+ active contributors, while bat was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors. sd is MIT-licensed while bat is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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chmln/sd

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Last commit 2mo ago
  • 18 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

sharkdp/bat

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 1 cyclic import chain detected

  • 1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 18 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 28% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Token-Permissions" 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sdbat
Stars7,10460,380
Last commit6mo ago12d ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues67426
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage82%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low
Architecture gradeA
Cycles1
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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