hashicorp/vault vs kelseyhightower/confd
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, vault and confd both show mixed maintenance signals. vault was committed to 2 weeks ago with 2+ active contributors, while confd last saw a commit 2 years ago with 26+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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hashicorp/vault
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 "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓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
kelseyhightower/confd
Stale — last commit 2y ago
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 59% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠2 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| vault | confd | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 36,183 | 8,430 |
| Last commit | 19d ago | 2y ago |
| License | Unknown | MIT |
| Open issues | 1,431 | 178 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 51% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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