helix-editor/helix vs willcrichton/flowistry
helix-editor/helix shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, helix shows healthier maintenance signals than flowistry. helix rates Healthy overall while flowistry rates Mixed. helix was committed to 2 weeks ago with 48+ active contributors, while flowistry last saw a commit 4 months ago with 4+ active contributors. helix is MPL-2.0-licensed while flowistry is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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helix-editor/helix
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓48+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 19% of recent commits)
- ✓MPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓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
willcrichton/flowistry
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 94% of recent commits; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 5d ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| helix | flowistry | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 46,068 | 3,047 |
| Last commit | 15d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | MPL-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 1,638 | 34 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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