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spf13/cobra vs stackexchange/blackbox

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, cobra and blackbox both show healthy maintenance signals. cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors, while blackbox last saw a commit 7 months ago with 41+ active contributors. cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed while blackbox is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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spf13/cobra

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.

  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 51+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

stackexchange/blackbox

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
  • Last commit 6mo ago
  • 41+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 28% 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

cobrablackbox
Stars43,8936,770
Last commit2mo ago7mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues36355
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage3%34%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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