spf13/cobra

Maintenance

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

0

Human commits, 365 days

13

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Jul 11, 2026 (3 months ago)

Last human commit

Jul 11, 2026 (3 months ago)

Authors, 90 days

0

Last release

Dec 4, 2025 (10 months ago)

Median PR merge time

20 hours

Responsiveness: of 10 recent issues, 10% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 33 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

13 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

6

Authors for 80% of commits

10

Contributors

309

Top committers

• marckhouzam: 15% of commits
• ArturAronov: 8% of commits
• dims: 8% of commits
• htoyoda18: 8% of commits
• JeffFaer: 8% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 13, 2013 to Nov 14, 2013: about 41 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 17, 2016 to Jan 20, 2016: about 105 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 23, 2016 to Sep 23, 2016: about 29 more stars than usual, peak 33 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jul 9, 2019 to Jul 12, 2019: about 180 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 2, 2021 to Dec 2, 2021: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 27, 2022 to Sep 29, 2022: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 18, 2025 to Feb 21, 2025: about 218 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 27, 2025 to Aug 30, 2025: about 130 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.

• 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

• github.com/spf13/cobra (GO): latest v1.10.2, published Dec 3, 2025
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: spf13/cobra, deps.dev: Go github.com/spf13/cobra