sharkdp/bat vs spacejam/sled
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, bat and sled both show healthy maintenance signals. bat was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors, while sled last saw a commit 5 months ago with 3+ active contributors. Both use the Apache-2.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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sharkdp/bat
Strong maintenance signals
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 1 cyclic import chain detected
- ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 28% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Token-Permissions" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
spacejam/sled
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 5mo ago
- ✓3 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| bat | sled | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 60,380 | 9,084 |
| Last commit | 12d ago | 5mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 426 | 172 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 81% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | A | A |
| Cycles | 1 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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