Evaluate & compare
Score repos against your own rubric, grade their docs, put any N side-by-side, and export a decision matrix.
The verdict is RepoLens' opinion. Evaluations are yours — a structured way to score, compare, and defend a choice when "it felt right" won't cut it.
Score against your rubric
Press e on a focused card (or click the ▣ badge) to open the evaluation panel: 1–5 stars per criterion. The card then carries a ▣ badge with the weighted average across the criteria you've scored.
The default rubric is three equally-weighted criteria:
| Criterion | What you're scoring |
|---|---|
| Documentation | Is it actually explained, or just published? |
| Type safety | How much does the type system catch for you? |
| Maintenance | Active, responsive, and unlikely to rot? |
It's your rubric, though — ▣ Edit rubric criteria in the command palette lets you rename, reweight, or replace them (up to six). Once repos are scored you can Sort: Eval score or filter to ▣ Show: Evaluated repos only.
Grade the docs, A–F
Docs Quality gives a repo's documentation a letter grade across six weighted dimensions:
| Dimension | Weight |
|---|---|
| README completeness | 25% |
| Quickstart / getting started | 20% |
| Code examples | 20% |
| API reference | 15% |
| Changelog | 10% |
| Contributing guide | 10% |
The weighted total maps to A (90+) through F (under 40), with a plain yes / partially / no on whether the docs are good enough to onboard against.
Compare repos side-by-side
Two ways in:
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Quick 2-up — hit ⇄ on two cards to drop them into a head-to-head.
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N-way matrix — turn on Select, tick 2–10 repos, and press ⊞ Compare. Each repo becomes a column; the rows line up everything that matters:
Fit · Fit delta · Health · Stars · Language · Decision · Eval score · (each rubric criterion) · Capabilities · Note
Want a tiebreaker? ✦ Ask AI runs a head-to-head and returns a winner, the reason, and the trade-offs. Export the whole table to CSV or Markdown straight from the modal.
Export a decision matrix
When the call has to leave RepoLens — into a doc, a spreadsheet, Notion, or a PR — the command palette exports your full visible library as a structured matrix:
- ⊞ Export Decision Matrix (CSV) / (Markdown) — every column: fit, health, stars, language, decision + date, eval score, each rubric criterion, the eval note, and your personal note.
- Lighter options sit beside it: Export visible repos, Export Library (grouped by fit), and Export Digest (JSON / CSV) for a minimal machine-readable dump.
Everything you've decided, scored, and noted comes along — so the artifact you hand off carries the reasoning, not just the ranking.