googleapis/mcp-toolbox vs turbot/steampipe
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, mcp-toolbox and steampipe both show healthy maintenance signals. mcp-toolbox was committed to 2 weeks ago with 33+ active contributors, while steampipe last saw a commit 1 month ago with 8+ active contributors. mcp-toolbox is Apache-2.0-licensed while steampipe is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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googleapis/mcp-toolbox
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; 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
turbot/steampipe
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
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
| mcp-toolbox | steampipe | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 16,262 | 7,915 |
| Last commit | 16d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 245 | 21 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | A | A |
| Cycles | 1 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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