Is minimist healthy, maintained, and safe?

The verdict

On the OSPulse health scale, minimist lands at 10/100 — critical risk, computed deterministically from live npm release history, maintainer data, and the OSV vulnerability database. No — minimist carries 1 unpatched critical advisory and should not be adopted without a remediation plan.

The last sign of life was 25 February 2023, more than 3 years ago (1248 days); by any practical measure the package looks abandoned. Historically it released far more frequently, so the current silence reads as a genuine collapse in velocity rather than a natural gap. 3 maintainers are listed on npm, so the project isn't hostage to any single contributor.

OSV lists 2 known advisories for minimist, including 1 critical. Open critical advisories are the strongest possible signal to pin to a patched version, replace, or fork before shipping. Each advisory is listed with its OSV/GHSA identifier below.

The safest reading is to replace, fork, or tightly pin minimist and stop taking on new exposure to it. This is a one-time snapshot of a single package — real projects depend on dozens or hundreds of packages, and any one of them can drift or be compromised between releases. Run your own package.json through the free health check, or have OSPulse monitor your whole dependency tree continuously.