Anti-detect tools that have gone quiet

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What a quarter of silence actually tells you

SEMI is the first edition's ACTIVE bucket after it was split in two, and the split exists because a single band covering everything from a slow quarter to a year of silence was hiding the most decision-relevant interval in the whole catalogue. An entry here has not stopped. It has paused, and the register's position is that a pause is a fact worth printing rather than absorbing into a green tick.

Three different situations produce this identical field value: a maintainer between jobs, a project that has reached a stable shape and genuinely needs no changes, and an abandonment that has not yet crossed a threshold. This register cannot tell them apart, and it does not pretend to. What it can do is make sure you know the gap is there before you build on it.

What to do with an entry in this state

Open the commit history rather than the star count. Look at whether the last several commits were substantive or housekeeping, whether open issues are being answered, and whether the project has a declared successor recorded here. A quiet project with an active successor is marked NRND by the rubric rather than left in this band, so anything still sitting in SEMI has no successor anybody has declared.

Then look at what the project is for. A cursor-movement library going quiet for four months matters less than a Chromium fork doing the same, because one tracks human behaviour and the other tracks a browser that ships every four weeks.