The repository-evaluation lens: judge whether a repo is worth your time in a few minutes — by SCANNING its dashboards, not reading its code — scoring three axes: ALIVE, HEALTHY, and WELL-BUILT. The one shift: an agent can check fifty repos in seconds but over-trusts the two signals easiest to fake — star count and a polished README — exactly what an abandoned or AI-generated, star-farmed repo wears best; so touchstone INVERTS the weighting, discounting the gameable signals and weighting the un-fakeable ones (commit substance, issue-response quality, bus factor, real "Used by", tests and CI). Use when sizing up a repo or a batch before depending on, contributing to, or learning from it; or to vet a shortlist from forage. Triggers on "is this repo any good", "should I use/trust this library", "evaluate this project", "is this maintained", "is this AI-generated slop", "compare these repos", "vet this dependency", "rate this GitHub project". Hands deep-dive survivors to the engineering suite.
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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI
Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.
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The repository-evaluation lens: judge whether a repo is worth your time in a few minutes — by SCANNING its dashboards, not reading its code — scoring three axes: ALIVE, HEALTHY, and WELL-BUILT. The one shift: an agent can check fifty repos in seconds but over-trusts the two signals easiest to fake — star count and a polished README — exactly what an abandoned or AI-generated, star-farmed repo wears best; so touchstone INVERTS the weighting, discounting the gameable signals and weighting the un-fakeable ones (commit substance, issue-response quality, bus factor, real "Used by", tests and CI). Use when sizing up a repo or a batch before depending on, contributing to, or learning from it; or to vet a shortlist from forage. Triggers on "is this repo any good", "should I use/trust this library", "evaluate this project", "is this maintained", "is this AI-generated slop", "compare these repos", "vet this dependency", "rate this GitHub project". Hands deep-dive survivors to the engineering suite.
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The repository-evaluation lens: judge whether a repo is worth your time in a few minutes — by SCANNING its dashboards, not reading its code — scoring three axes: ALIVE, HEALTHY, and WELL-BUILT. The one shift: an agent can check fifty repos in seconds but over-trusts the two signals easiest to fake — star count and a polished README — exactly what an abandoned or AI-generated, star-farmed repo wears best; so touchstone INVERTS the weighting, discounting the gameable signals and weighting the un-fakeable ones (commit substance, issue-response quality, bus factor, real "Used by", tests and CI). Use when sizing up a repo or a batch before depending on, contributing to, or learning from it; or to vet a shortlist from `forage`. Triggers on "is this repo any good", "should I use/trust this library", "evaluate this project", "is this maintained", "is this AI-generated slop", "compare these repos", "vet this dependency", "rate this GitHub project". Hands deep-dive survivors to the engineering suite.
About this listing
Category
General
Reported license
Apache-2.0
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI