chroma-core/chroma vs sharkdp/bat
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, chroma and bat both show healthy maintenance signals. chroma was committed to 1 week ago with 9+ active contributors, while bat was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors. Both use the Apache-2.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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chroma-core/chroma
Strong maintenance signals
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% 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
sharkdp/bat
Strong maintenance signals
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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
| chroma | bat | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 29,219 | 60,380 |
| Last commit | 13d ago | 12d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 823 | 426 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 33% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | C | A |
| Cycles | 8 | 1 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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