esimov/caire vs spf13/cobra
spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than caire. cobra rates Healthy overall while caire rates Mixed. caire last saw a commit 1 year ago with 4+ active contributors, while cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors. caire is MIT-licensed while cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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esimov/caire →
Stale — last commit 1y ago
last commit was 1y ago; top contributor handles 96% of recent commits
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 96% of recent commits
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
spf13/cobra →
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 2w ago
- ✓51+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| caire | cobra | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,473 | 43,893 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 3 | 363 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 8% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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