microsoft/winget-cli

WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

26.5k stars · 1.8k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 16 people, 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

Complete

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 27
Human commits, 90 days: 59
Human commits, 365 days: 197
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 9%
Last commit: Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 16
Last release: Sep 21, 2026 (23 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 44 hours

Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 44% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 197 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 5
Contributors: 128

Top committers

JohnMcPMS: 40% of commits
Trenly: 21% of commits
florelis: 13% of commits
denelon: 6% of commits
AmelBawa-msft: 3% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

May 19, 2020 to Jun 22, 2020: about 6.1k more stars than usual, peak 1.6k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 28, 2020 to Oct 1, 2020: about 286 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 27, 2021 to Jun 10, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 266 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 15, 2021 to Sep 15, 2021: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 82 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 15, 2022: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 6, 2022 to Nov 8, 2022: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 40 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.
Feb 1, 2023 to Feb 7, 2023: about 500 more stars than usual, peak 243 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 1, 2023 to Mar 1, 2023: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

2 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.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/winget-cli

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 8 hours ago · method 2026.10.2