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karpathy/llm-council vs public-apis/public-apis

public-apis/public-apis shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, public-apis shows healthier maintenance signals than llm-council. public-apis rates Healthy overall while llm-council rates Mixed. llm-council last saw a commit 7 months ago with 1+ active contributor, while public-apis was committed to 3 days ago with 23+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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karpathy/llm-council

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 6mo ago

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)…

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected

  • Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
  • Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 6mo ago

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

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

public-apis/public-apis

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 75% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 23+ 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

llm-councilpublic-apis
Stars18,509444,088
Last commit7mo ago3d ago
LicenseMIT
Open issues1221,458
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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