google-gemini/gemini-cli vs microsoft/vscode
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, gemini-cli and vscode both show healthy maintenance signals. gemini-cli was committed to today with 17+ active contributors, while vscode was committed to 1 week ago with 29+ active contributors. gemini-cli is Apache-2.0-licensed while vscode is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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google-gemini/gemini-cli
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 21% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
microsoft/vscode
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
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; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓29+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 26% 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 OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| gemini-cli | vscode | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 107,022 | 190,815 |
| Last commit | today | 13d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 845 | 20,482 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 76% | 64% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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