lizardbyte/sunshine vs tiiny-ai/powerinfer
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, sunshine and powerinfer both show healthy maintenance signals. sunshine was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors, while powerinfer last saw a commit 4 months ago with 29+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while powerinfer is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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lizardbyte/sunshine
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
tiiny-ai/powerinfer
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓29+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% 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
| sunshine | powerinfer | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 40,814 | 9,769 |
| Last commit | 11d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 143 | 129 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 28% | 47% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | A | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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