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rtk-ai/rtk vs squidowl/halloy

rtk-ai/rtk shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, rtk shows healthier maintenance signals than halloy. rtk rates Healthy overall while halloy rates Mixed. rtk last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while halloy last saw a commit 1 month ago with 7+ active contributors. rtk is Apache-2.0-licensed while halloy is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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rtk-ai/rtk

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

squidowl/halloy

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 58% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit today
  • 7 active contributors
  • GPL-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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

rtkhalloy
Stars43,7294,109
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Open issues829204
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage21%3%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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