flike/kingshard vs spf13/cobra
spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than kingshard. cobra rates Healthy overall while kingshard rates Mixed. kingshard last saw a commit 2 months ago with 27+ active contributors, while cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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flike/kingshard →
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 license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 5w ago
- ✓27+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 45% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
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
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
| kingshard | cobra | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 6,411 | 43,893 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | — | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 163 | 363 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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