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kamiyaa/joshuto vs rtk-ai/rtk

rtk-ai/rtk shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, rtk shows healthier maintenance signals than joshuto. rtk rates Healthy overall while joshuto rates Mixed. joshuto last saw a commit 2 months ago with 20+ active contributors, while rtk last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors. joshuto is LGPL-3.0-licensed while rtk is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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kamiyaa/joshuto

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
  • LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 3w ago
  • 20 active contributors
  • LGPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

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

rtk-ai/rtk

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

joshutortk
Stars3,69843,729
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseLGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Open issues105829
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%21%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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