Is Shortcut or GitLab better?

GitLab scores 79.0 and Shortcut scores 74.0 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.

Are Shortcut and GitLab safe to install?

Shortcut: no known advisories. GitLab: 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.

How were these two compared?

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.

The Index · Productivity

Shortcut vs GitLab

GitLab scores 5 points higher — a narrow lead. Read the evidence rows below before treating it as decisive. Both are measured the same way, on the same day, from public evidence only — so this is a comparison of two measurements rather than two marketing pages. How we measure ›

	Shortcut	GitLab	what it means
tashan score	74	79	upkeep + freshness, gated by adoption
Adoption evidence	13k/wk	118k/wk	the raw public signal the score came from
Last release	active	active	npm publish or repo push
Upkeep	81	72	cadence, maintainers, status
Expertise grade	thin	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	—	—
Maintainers	more than one	one primary	bus-factor risk

Install either

Shortcut

claude mcp add shortcut-mcp -- npx -y @shortcut/mcp

GitLab

claude mcp add zereight-mcp-gitlab -- npx -y @zereight/mcp-gitlab

Neither score is a security verdict — "well maintained" and "nothing known is wrong" are different claims, which is why the audit is a separate row and never folded into the number. The full audit for each — the advisory ids, the version that fixes them and anything that runs at install time — is free on its own page: Shortcut · GitLab.

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