googleapis/mcp-toolbox vs yaoapp/yao
googleapis/mcp-toolbox shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, mcp-toolbox shows healthier maintenance signals than yao. mcp-toolbox rates Healthy overall while yao rates Mixed. mcp-toolbox was committed to 3 weeks ago with 33+ active contributors, while yao was committed to 1 week ago with 2+ active contributors. 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
yaoapp/yao
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 99% of recent commits; license evidence incomplete…
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓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
| mcp-toolbox | yao | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 16,262 | 7,900 |
| Last commit | 21d ago | 11d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 245 | 7 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 68% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | C |
| Cycles | 1 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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