chriskiehl/gooey vs karpathy/autoresearch
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, gooey and autoresearch both show mixed maintenance signals. gooey last saw a commit 2 months ago with 24+ 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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chriskiehl/gooey →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 61% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 7w ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report); wire up GitHub Actions or equivalent
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
| gooey | autoresearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 21,890 | 79,838 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 180 | 186 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | — | — |
| Test coverage | 72% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | B | — |
| Cycles | 3 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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