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5 alternatives to renovate

renovatebot/renovate — Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io (22,878 stars, AGPL-3.0, integration, infra, dev-tools).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from renovatebot/renovate itself (licence class: network-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1go-playground/webhooks7.6MIT1,030
2composer/composer6.9MIT29,559
3git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager6.3MIT9,406
4vercel-labs/agent-browser5.3Apache-2.044,391
5antfu-collective/taze8.1MIT4,292

The alternatives in detail

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