halo-dev/halo vs kodezi/chronos
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, halo and chronos both show mixed maintenance signals. halo was committed to 1 week ago with 5+ active contributors, while chronos last saw a commit 10 months ago with 1+ active contributor. halo is GPL-3.0-licensed while chronos is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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halo-dev/halo
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; 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
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓GPL-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 OpenSSF Scorecard
kodezi/chronos
Slowing — last commit 10mo ago
single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible); test evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 10mo ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 10mo ago
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 10mo ago
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: onboard a second core maintainer
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| halo | chronos | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 39,649 | 4,940 |
| Last commit | 12d ago | 10mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 116 | 1 |
| Has tests | ✓ | Unknown |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 31% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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