karpathy/autoresearch vs runacapital/awesome-oss-alternatives
runacapital/awesome-oss-alternatives shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, awesome-oss-alternatives shows healthier maintenance signals than autoresearch. awesome-oss-alternatives rates Healthy overall while autoresearch rates Mixed. autoresearch last saw a commit 3 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while awesome-oss-alternatives last saw a commit 9 months ago with 40+ 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
runacapital/awesome-oss-alternatives →
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 8mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 58% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 8mo ago
- ✓40+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| autoresearch | awesome-oss-alternatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 79,838 | 19,088 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 9mo ago |
| License | — | MIT |
| Open issues | 186 | 114 |
| 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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