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juliusbrussee/caveman vs keybase/client

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, caveman and client both show healthy maintenance signals. caveman was committed to 1 week ago with 8+ active contributors, while client last saw a commit 4 months ago with 5+ active contributors. caveman is MIT-licensed while client is BSD-3-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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juliusbrussee/caveman

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 74% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 8 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

keybase/client

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
  • Last commit today
  • 5 active contributors
  • BSD-3-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

cavemanclient
Stars103,0849,205
Last commit10d ago4mo ago
LicenseMITBSD-3-Clause
Open issues954,248
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%6%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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