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rtk-ai/rtk vs stalwartlabs/stalwart

rtk-ai/rtk shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, rtk shows healthier maintenance signals than stalwart. rtk rates Healthy overall while stalwart rates Mixed. rtk last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while stalwart last saw a commit 1 month ago with 1+ active contributor. 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

stalwartlabs/stalwart

Mixed

Missing license — unclear to depend on

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code

  • Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • Last commit today
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

rtkstalwart
Stars43,72912,669
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Open issues829148
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage21%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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