psf/requests vs sherlock-project/sherlock
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, requests and sherlock both show healthy maintenance signals. requests was committed to 3 days ago with 23+ active contributors, while sherlock was committed to 1 day ago with 24+ active contributors. requests is Apache-2.0-licensed while sherlock is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
Informational only. RepoPilot summarises public signals at the time of analysis. Not professional, security, or legal advice.
psf/requests →
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 55% of recent commits
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓23+ active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 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
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
| requests | sherlock | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 54,080 | 85,525 |
| Last commit | 3d ago | 1d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 228 | 299 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
Want the full analysis? psf/requests · sherlock-project/sherlock
Ask AI about psf/requests vs sherlock-project/sherlock
Open the chat with a comparison question pre-filled.