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go-kratos/kratos vs googleapis/mcp-toolbox

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, kratos and mcp-toolbox both show healthy maintenance signals. kratos was committed to 4 weeks ago with 35+ active contributors, while mcp-toolbox was committed to 3 weeks ago with 33+ active contributors. kratos is MIT-licensed while mcp-toolbox is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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go-kratos/kratos

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (2/10)
  • Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 35+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 29% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

googleapis/mcp-toolbox

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

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 1 cyclic import chain detected…

  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 33+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

kratosmcp-toolbox
Stars25,92816,262
Last commit29d ago21d ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues115245
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage63%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles1
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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