sharkdp/bat vs willcrichton/flowistry
sharkdp/bat shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, bat shows healthier maintenance signals than flowistry. bat rates Healthy overall while flowistry rates Mixed. bat was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors, while flowistry last saw a commit 4 months ago with 4+ active contributors. bat is Apache-2.0-licensed while flowistry is MIT-licensed. 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
willcrichton/flowistry
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 94% of recent commits; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 5d ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| bat | flowistry | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 60,380 | 3,047 |
| Last commit | 12d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 426 | 34 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 1 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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