vadimdemedes/ink

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

76

Human commits, 90 days

85

Human commits, 365 days

237

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 3, 2026 (11 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 3, 2026 (11 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

8

Last release

Oct 3, 2026 (11 days ago)

Median PR merge time

20 hours

Responsiveness: of 5 recent issues, 80% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 7 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

237 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

5

Contributors

172

Top committers

• sindresorhus: 57% of commits
• costajohnt: 16% of commits
• clicktodev: 5% of commits
• wu-json: 2% of commits
• Blackn-L: 2% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Dec 27, 2017 to Dec 29, 2017: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 21, 2018 to Jan 22, 2018: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 15, 2018 to Mar 27, 2018: about 618 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.
• Apr 2, 2018 to Apr 9, 2018: about 227 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 9, 2018 to May 11, 2018: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 27, 2019 to Feb 15, 2019: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 668 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 6, 2019 to Mar 15, 2019: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 261 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 30, 2020 to Aug 7, 2020: about 399 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 18, 2020 to Oct 20, 2020: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 24, 2020 to Oct 27, 2020: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 22, 2021 to Nov 23, 2021: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Mar 9, 2023 to Mar 13, 2023: about 138 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 25, 2023 to Apr 30, 2023: about 184 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 8, 2023 to May 19, 2023: about 2.3k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Sep 26, 2023 to Sep 28, 2023: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Nov 1, 2024 to Nov 8, 2024: about 503 more stars than usual, peak 248 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Apr 16, 2025 to Apr 21, 2025: about 391 more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 22, 2025 to Jul 5, 2025: about 594 more stars than usual, peak 172 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 7, 2025 to Aug 9, 2025: about 167 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 13, 2025 to Oct 15, 2025: about 174 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.
• Mar 31, 2026 to Apr 11, 2026: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 605 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
• 3 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.

• Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• ink (NPM): latest 8.0.0, published Oct 3, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.3 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: vadimdemedes/ink, deps.dev: npm ink