karpathy/nanogpt vs sherlock-project/sherlock
sherlock-project/sherlock shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sherlock shows healthier maintenance signals than nanogpt. sherlock rates Healthy overall while nanogpt rates Mixed. nanogpt last saw a commit 7 months ago with 26+ active contributors, while sherlock was committed to 1 day ago with 24+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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karpathy/nanogpt →
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected
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
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 66% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
sherlock-project/sherlock →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
- ✓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
| nanogpt | sherlock | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 57,744 | 85,525 |
| Last commit | 7mo ago | 1d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 347 | 299 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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