herotransitions/hero vs sparrowcode/permissionskit
herotransitions/hero shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, hero shows healthier maintenance signals than permissionskit. hero rates Healthy overall while permissionskit rates Mixed. hero last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors, while permissionskit last saw a commit 1 year ago with 21+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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herotransitions/hero →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
sparrowcode/permissionskit →
Stale — last commit 1y ago
last commit was 1y ago; no tests detected…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 71% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓21+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hero | permissionskit | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,452 | 5,816 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 42 | 4 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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