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cadence vs social-media-research-skills
cadence has 9,446 GitHub stars, 915 forks, 205 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. social-media-research-skills has 2,550 stars, 28 forks, 3 open issues and last shipped 25 days ago. cadence leads on adoption by 270% (9,446 vs 2,550 stars). cadence is written in Go under Apache-2.0; social-media-research-skills is written in Python under MIT. cadence has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, social-media-research-skills 1%. cadence was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (workflow-automation), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| cadence | social-media-research-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 9.4K | ★ 2.5K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-08-26 |
| Forks | ⑂ 915 | ⑂ 28 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick cadence if
- You weight community size — 9.4K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick social-media-research-skills if
- You want the social-media-research-skills feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and social-media-research-skills fits your workflow better
About cadence
Cadence is an open source orchestration engine for running asynchronous, long running business logic in a fault tolerant way. Written in Go under the Apache 2.0 license, it lives in the distributed systems and workflow automation space, and the project has been open source since 2017. This repository holds the core engine plus supporting tools: the CLI, schema management, a benchmark suite, and a canary. Client libraries for Go and Java are official, while Python and Ruby SDKs come from the community, and iWF can be layered on top as a DSL framework.
read the full cadence overview →
About social-media-research-skills
Social Media Research Skills is a set of Agent Skills that turns an AI coding agent into a social media research assistant, aimed at marketers, growth teams, and analysts who want structured research artifacts out of public posts, videos, comments, and ad libraries.
read the full social-media-research-skills overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is cadence or social-media-research-skills more popular?
cadence has 9,446 GitHub stars and social-media-research-skills has 2,550. cadence has the larger community by that measure.
Are cadence and social-media-research-skills free?
Both are open source. cadence is licensed under Apache-2.0 and social-media-research-skills under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between cadence and social-media-research-skills?
cadence is written in Go and social-media-research-skills in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, cadence or social-media-research-skills?
Choose cadence if you want the larger community (9,446 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose social-media-research-skills if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.