Task MasterDead
PRD-to-task decomposition with dependency ordering, driven from the CLI or MCP.
Is it still shipping?
No. Task Master has not had a commit in 5 months. StillShipping scores it dead at 21/100.
freshness 21/100
Every night it was read41 nightly readings, August 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026. Bar height is freshness out of 100; the ink is the verdict that night.
65, maintained25, dead
August 1, 2026September 13, 2026
How the verdict was reached
read September 13, 2026 from the GitHub API for eyaltoledano/claude-task-master| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | 100 | 100 | Every row starts at 100, and the effects below move it. |
| Last commit | 5 months ago, April 28, 2026 | -45 | No push in 137 days. That is longer than a quarter. |
| Commits, 90 days | 0 | none | No commits at all in the last 12 weeks. The recency band above already carries the silence. |
| Last release | task-master-ai@0.43.1, 6 months ago | -12 | Last release 165 days ago against a 2-day cadence. Over three times its own gap. |
| Release cadence | 2 days, median | not scored | |
| Issue response | too few issues to sample | none | Not enough recent issues to measure a response time. |
| Unanswered issues | 100% of 8 sampled | -8 | 100% of the recent issues sampled have no maintainer reply at all. |
| Committers, 90 days | 0 | -8 | Nobody has committed in the last 90 days. |
| Bus factor | 0 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | none declared | -6 | No license file. Legally unsafe to depend on regardless of activity. |
| Freshness | 21/100 | 21 | 25 and below is dead. |
Nights the verdict changed
1 in the readings above| August 23, 2026 | slowing to dead | 21 | freshness 29 the night before, 21 that night |