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package-health
Check a package's health before you depend on it — npm and PyPI registry APIs via keyless curl: downloads, release recency, maintenance signals, and the dependency-decision read. Use when asked is this npm package maintained, check this PyPI library before we adopt it, compare these two packages, or is this dependency abandoned. Produces the health read with the signals interpreted (not just listed), the numbers with their commands, and the adopt/avoid/vendor recommendation framing.
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# Package Health Skill
Adding a dependency is hiring code you'll never interview — and the registries publish the résumé keylessly: last release date, download trajectory, version cadence, maintainer count. This skill pulls the signals for npm and PyPI over plain curl and does the part the raw numbers don't: interpretation. A package with no release in three years is *abandoned or finished* — and which one it is depends on what the package does. The output is a read, not a dashboard.
## What This Skill Produces
- **The health read** — maintained / stable-and-done / drifting / abandoned — with the reasoning
- **The signals table** — latest version + date, download scale, release cadence, deprecation flags
- **The comparison** — for adoption decisions between candidates, same signals side by side
- **The commands** — every number's curl, rerunnable
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