johncoates/aerial vs manaflow-ai/cmux
johncoates/aerial shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, aerial shows healthier maintenance signals than cmux. aerial rates Healthy overall while cmux rates Mixed. aerial last saw a commit 10 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while cmux last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. aerial is MIT-licensed while cmux is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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johncoates/aerial →
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 9mo ago
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
manaflow-ai/cmux →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other)
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.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 58% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| aerial | cmux | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 20,972 | 16,605 |
| Last commit | 10mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | Other |
| Open issues | 28 | 1,669 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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