google/zx
A tool for writing better scripts
45.8k stars · 1.3k forks · JavaScript
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 1 person in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 1
- Human commits, 365 days
- 53
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 5%
- Last commit
- Aug 14, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 14, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Oct 19, 2025 (12 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 2 hours
Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 53 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 4
- Contributors
- 73
Top committers
- antongolub: 57% of commits
- antonmedv: 15% of commits
- google-admin: 6% of commits
- apoorvdarshan: 4% of commits
- Ayoub-Mabrouk: 4% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Aug 16, 2021 to Sep 3, 2021: about 3k more stars than usual, peak 575 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 4, 2022 to Jan 20, 2022: about 2.1k more stars than usual, peak 278 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 14, 2022 to Jun 24, 2022: about 614 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 28, 2023 to Mar 7, 2023: about 208 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 9, 2024 to Feb 12, 2024: about 415 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Apr 8, 2024 to Apr 15, 2024: about 720 more stars than usual, peak 391 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.
- May 22, 2024 to May 22, 2024: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 26, 2024 to Jul 28, 2024: about 114 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
- 1 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
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- zx (NPM): latest 8.8.5, published Oct 19, 2025
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 7.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: google/zx, deps.dev: npm zx
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[](https://reporadar.ai/google/zx)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Computed 15 hours ago · method 2026.10.2