remarkjs/remark vs vercel/pkg
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, remark and pkg both show healthy maintenance signals. remark last saw a commit 4 months ago with 29+ active contributors, while pkg last saw a commit 2 years ago with 26+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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remarkjs/remark →
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 65% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3mo ago
- ✓29+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
vercel/pkg →
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| remark | pkg | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 8,866 | 24,379 |
| Last commit | 4mo ago | 2y ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 8 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 11% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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