sharkdp/bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.

60.8k stars · 4.4k forks · Rust

Healthy

Healthy: maintained by 11 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

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.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 5
Human commits, 90 days: 41
Human commits, 365 days: 380
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 27%
Last commit: Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 11
Last release: Dec 2, 2025 (10 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 8 hours

Responsiveness: of 24 recent issues, 46% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 7 days.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 365 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 20
Contributors: 410

Top committers

keith-hall: 42% of commits
NORMAL-EX: 6% of commits
mvanhorn: 4% of commits
akirk: 3% of commits
blinxen: 3% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Jul 4, 2018 to Jul 6, 2018: about 142 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 17, 2018 to Aug 17, 2018: about 32 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2018 to Sep 15, 2018: about 4.3k more stars than usual, peak 769 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.
Nov 5, 2018 to Nov 8, 2018: about 263 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.
Nov 19, 2018 to Nov 21, 2018: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 99 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 9, 2019 to Jan 11, 2019: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 19, 2019 to Sep 19, 2019: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 87 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 26, 2019 to Oct 26, 2019: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 3, 2020 to Aug 6, 2020: about 500 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 20, 2021 to Apr 21, 2021: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 216 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 15, 2021 to Jul 16, 2021: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 7, 2022 to Jan 14, 2022: about 355 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
Apr 13, 2022 to Apr 14, 2022: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 30, 2023 to Mar 30, 2023: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 9, 2024 to Nov 10, 2024: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Mar 19, 2025 to Mar 20, 2025: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Oct 7, 2025 to Oct 8, 2025: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 90 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.
Oct 20, 2025 to Oct 23, 2025: about 304 more stars than usual, peak 169 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 18, 2026 to Apr 19, 2026: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 2, 2026 to Aug 2, 2026: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 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: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Not known

Packages

bat (CARGO): latest 0.26.1, published Dec 2, 2025
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: sharkdp/bat, deps.dev: Cargo bat

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 17 hours ago · method 2026.10.2