redhat-et/ripwire
The ripgrep of AI context: a zero-dependency C++23 CLI + MCP server for coding agents. Find what you want without reading the repo, then check you built what you meant — blast radius, tests-to-run, quality deltas. Signatures at 74.7% fewer bytes than bodies; every guess labelled, every loss published. Paddle out with a map.
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Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 93% 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.
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 2.2k
- Human commits, 90 days
- 5.1k
- Human commits, 365 days
- 5.1k
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 1%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (8 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (8 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 6
- Last release
- Oct 11, 2026 (3 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 8 hours
Responsiveness: of 9 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 48 hours.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
- Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 495 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 28
Top committers
- barefootski: 93% of commits
- joyful-ii-V-I: 2% of commits
- tonibergholm-codento: 2% of commits
- tag-und-nacht: 1% of commits
- LaimaWu: 1% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteNot enough data, confidence medium
Bursts
- Sep 6, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 767 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a new release.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Not enough star history yet to judge the star count.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: redhat-et/ripwire
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[](https://reporadar.ai/redhat-et/ripwire)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 15, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution