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muesli/beehive vs spf13/cobra

spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than beehive. cobra rates Healthy overall while beehive rates Mixed. beehive last saw a commit 3 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors. beehive is AGPL-3.0-licensed while cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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muesli/beehive

Mixed

Stale — last commit 3y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 3y ago

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.

  • Stale — last commit 3y ago
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • 17 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
  • AGPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

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

spf13/cobra

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.

  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 51+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

beehivecobra
Stars6,47443,893
Last commit3y ago2mo ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Open issues119363
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage2%3%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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