tj/commander.js
node.js command-line interfaces made easy
28.4k stars · 1.8k forks · JavaScript
At risk
At risk: one person wrote most commits, and no one has committed by hand in 90 days.
Why
- One person wrote 84% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 25
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 44%
- Last commit
- May 29, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Last human commit
- May 29, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- May 29, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 14 hours
Responsiveness: of 7 recent issues, 86% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 7 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 25 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 173
Top committers
- shadowspawn: 84% of commits
- abetomo: 8% of commits
- taronsung: 4% of commits
- Zearin: 4% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jul 10, 2013 to Jul 11, 2013: about 25 more stars than usual, peak 20 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 2, 2014 to Jun 3, 2014: about 261 more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 625 stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
- 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.
- The star history looks organic.
- 625 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- commander (NPM): latest 15.0.0, published May 29, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 7.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/tj/commander.js)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: At risk
- Oct 14, 2026: At risk
Computed 9 hours ago · method 2026.10.2