jax-ml/jax vs karpathy/autoresearch
jax-ml/jax shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, jax shows healthier maintenance signals than autoresearch. jax rates Healthy overall while autoresearch rates Mixed. jax was committed to today with 34+ active contributors, while autoresearch last saw a commit 3 months ago with 9+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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jax-ml/jax →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓34+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 23% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-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
karpathy/autoresearch →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected…
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓9 active contributors
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| jax | autoresearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 35,920 | 79,838 |
| Last commit | today | 3mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | — |
| Open issues | 2,471 | 186 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 8% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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