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juliusbrussee/caveman vs shopify/toxiproxy

juliusbrussee/caveman shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, caveman shows healthier maintenance signals than toxiproxy. caveman rates Healthy overall while toxiproxy rates Mixed. caveman was committed to 1 week ago with 8+ active contributors, while toxiproxy last saw a commit 4 months ago with 10+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. 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

shopify/toxiproxy

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

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

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 10 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

cavemantoxiproxy
Stars103,08412,018
Last commit12d ago4mo ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues95100
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%49%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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