karpathy/autoresearch vs nari-labs/dia
nari-labs/dia shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, dia shows healthier maintenance signals than autoresearch. dia rates Healthy overall while autoresearch rates Mixed. autoresearch last saw a commit 3 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while dia last saw a commit 7 months ago with 21+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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karpathy/autoresearch →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected…
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓9 active contributors
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
nari-labs/dia →
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 6mo ago
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓21+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| autoresearch | dia | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 79,838 | 19,290 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 7mo ago |
| License | — | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 186 | 93 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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