Question 1

Is Magic or Use better?

Accepted Answer

Use scores 83.0 and Magic scores 82.0 on the tashan score, which measures upkeep and freshness gated by real adoption. Neither number is a security audit and neither can be bought. The gap is narrow, so compare the evidence rather than the headline.

Question 2

Are Magic and Use safe to install?

Accepted Answer

Magic: no known advisories. Use: no known advisories. Every capability tashan measures is checked against the OSV advisory database at the version you would install today, for install-time scripts and for build provenance. The audit reads public evidence and never executes anything.

Question 3

How were these two compared?

Accepted Answer

Both were measured on the same day by the same scorer, from public signal only — npm download volume and publish cadence, repository activity, maintainer count and registry status. Nobody can pay to change a score, a rank or a listing.

	Magic	Use	what it means
tashan score	82	83	upkeep + freshness, gated by adoption
Adoption evidence	60k/wk	25k/wk	the raw public signal the score came from
Last release	active	active	npm publish or repo push
Upkeep	86	100	cadence, maintainers, status
Expertise grade	not graded	solid	an LLM read of its own documentation against a fixed rubric
Security audit	no known advisories	no known advisories	a summary — the full audit, free, is on each dossier
Licence	ISC	MIT
Maintainers	more than one	more than one	bus-factor risk

Magic vs Use

Install either