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npm package · declared by 98 of 2,343 sampled repositories · graph computed 2026-08-24

Counted from the runtime dependencies public repositories declare — not the resolved tree. A transitive dependency is a consequence; a declared one is a choice. Development dependencies are excluded because they repeat across every project in a language regardless of what is being built.

Declared with

ranked by association, not by count

Tools declared alongside this one, ranked by association strength
Declared with	Repositories	vs chance
chalk	33 of 2,343	0.66
ora	21 of 2,343	0.66
inquirer	15 of 2,343	0.59
@clack/prompts	13 of 2,343	0.53
fs-extra	14 of 2,343	0.52
open	8 of 2,343	0.52
fast-glob	9 of 2,343	0.51
picocolors	9 of 2,343	0.51
glob	9 of 2,343	0.44
chokidar	9 of 2,343	0.39
yaml	12 of 2,343	0.37
js-yaml	11 of 2,343	0.36
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk	21 of 2,343	0.36
ws	14 of 2,343	0.34
semver	8 of 2,343	0.33
undici	8 of 2,343	0.31
express	12 of 2,343	0.29
zod	28 of 2,343	0.29
dotenv	14 of 2,343	0.27
axios	8 of 2,343	0.16

Every pair above is counted from the same evidence: repo manifest.

Used instead

candidates · shares a neighbourhood and refuses to co-occur

No alternative measured. A pair qualifies only if it shares a neighbourhood and then fails to appear together against an expectation that it would — and almost everything that shares a neighbourhood does appear together. That is the test working, not a gap in the data: similarity alone would list this tool’s closest neighbours as alternatives, and most of them are things it is used with.