karpathy/autoresearch vs sjmoran/low-light-video-enhancement
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, autoresearch and low-light-video-enhancement both show mixed maintenance signals. autoresearch last saw a commit 2 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while low-light-video-enhancement last saw a commit 4 years ago with 2+ 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
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
sjmoran/low-light-video-enhancement →
Stale — last commit 5y ago
non-standard license (Other); last commit was 5y ago…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 5y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 5y ago
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms; 1 commit in the last 365 days
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| autoresearch | low-light-video-enhancement | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 79,838 | 34 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 4y ago |
| License | — | Other |
| Open issues | 186 | 0 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | — | — |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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