ajeetdsouza/zoxide
A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
40.1k stars · 924 forks · Rust
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 73% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 4
- Human commits, 90 days
- 9
- Human commits, 365 days
- 55
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 28%
- Last commit
- Oct 3, 2026 (11 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 3, 2026 (11 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 4
- Last release
- Jul 4, 2026 (3 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 3 hours
Responsiveness: of 14 recent issues, 79% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 47 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 55 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 5
- Contributors
- 106
Top committers
- ajeetdsouza: 73% of commits
- brandondong: 2% of commits
- chawyehsu: 2% of commits
- cspotcode: 2% of commits
- cyphercodes: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- May 29, 2020 to May 30, 2020: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 16, 2021 to Feb 18, 2021: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 30 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 15, 2021 to May 18, 2021: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 29, 2021 to Jul 30, 2021: about 33 more stars than usual, peak 29 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 23, 2021 to Sep 24, 2021: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Dec 23, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021: about 297 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 25, 2023 to Jan 26, 2023: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 17, 2024 to Jan 18, 2024: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 14, 2024 to Mar 15, 2024: about 3.2k more stars than usual, peak 409 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
- Apr 21, 2024 to Apr 21, 2024: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 26, 2024 to Jan 2, 2025: about 276 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 2, 2025 to Aug 7, 2025: about 234 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 23, 2025 to Sep 25, 2025: about 313 more stars than usual, peak 259 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
- 4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.9 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- zoxide (CARGO): latest 0.10.0, published Jul 4, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.9 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/ajeetdsouza/zoxide)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 14 hours ago · method 2026.10.2