jtroo/kanata vs ultraworkers/claw-code
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, kanata and claw-code both show healthy maintenance signals. kanata last saw a commit 1 month ago with 20+ active contributors, while claw-code was committed to 1 day ago with 10+ active contributors. kanata is LGPL-3.0-licensed while claw-code is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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jtroo/kanata →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓20 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 45% of recent commits)
- ✓LGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
ultraworkers/claw-code →
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 71% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓MIT 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| kanata | claw-code | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,270 | 194,369 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1d ago |
| License | LGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 116 | 20 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 48% | 17% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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