Question 1

Is Amicus or Mdk better?

Accepted Answer

Mdk scores 75.0 and Amicus scores 70.0 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 Amicus and Mdk safe to install?

Accepted Answer

Amicus: no known advisories, runs an install script. Mdk: no known advisories, runs an install script. 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.

	Amicus	Mdk	what it means
tashan score	70	75	upkeep + freshness, gated by adoption
Adoption evidence	2k/wk	13k/wk	the raw public signal the score came from
Last release	active	active	npm publish or repo push
Upkeep	73	79	cadence, maintainers, status
Expertise grade	solid	not graded	an LLM read of its own documentation against a fixed rubric
Security audit	no known advisories, runs an install script	no known advisories, runs an install script	a summary — the full audit, free, is on each dossier
Licence	MIT	—
Maintainers	one primary	more than one	bus-factor risk

Amicus vs Mdk

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