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Issued 2026-11-03

FSL-1.1-ALv2 since 2026-09-08: source available, not open source; a competing commercial product or service is not allowed; each version becomes Apache-2.0 two years after its release. People was not rated.

100 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. None found a significant problem; 1 raised something worth a question. 5 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer. Last commit 19 October 2026.

What matters most
  • 05.60 FSL-1.1-ALv2 since 2026-09-08: source available, not open source; a competing commercial product or service is not allowed; each version becomes Apache-2.0 two years after its release
What the repository says about itself
  • 05.66 The licence is FSL-1.1-ALv2: source available, not open source LICENSE:1
  • 05.60 Relicensed: MIT → FSL-1.1-ALv2 (2026-09-08) LICENSE
Published under today's rules. The verification code attests to this reading as it was stored. This page differs from it as follows.
  • 4 findings from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right are no longer published.
  • 2 findings about one contributor are withheld: one author wrote nearly all of this repository's commits; a buyer of this report reads them.
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
0% of the code standing today was written in AI-declared commits
0% of lines still in the tree 0 of 248,628 0% of lines ever added these differ when early hand-written code has since been replaced
0/64 commits declaring an agent
confidence: low
  • 3% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
  • low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
  • no widespread author/committer date divergence
  • only 64 non-merge commits to measure across
  • deep scan blamed 796 of 796 counted files
1,967 lines excluded as lockfiles, vendored or generated.
This is a lower bound. It counts what the repository declares. Undeclared AI authorship is invisible here, and a single rebase removes the trailers this rests on. Absence of a declaration is absence of disclosure, not absence of AI authorship.

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

01 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
01.6

crates/fat_cli/src/emulate_cmd.rs is 8,825 lines, 45× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 195 lines. 10 files exceed 1,950 lines, the largest being 8,825. Size is not a defect on its own — some problems genuinely live in one place — but these are where merge conflicts, review fatigue and single-owner knowledge concentrate, and they are the first thing that slows an inheriting engineer down.

A note that does not affect this rating: measured against its own codebase's median, it is below the 85th percentile of 382 surveyed projects' largest files, where this check begins to count.

Evidence
line-count crates/fat_cli/src/emulate_cmd.rs:1 — 8,825 lines (45× median)
line-count crates/fat_cli/src/main.rs:1 — 6,995 lines (35× median)
line-count crates/fat_query/src/android/extractor.rs:1 — 3,829 lines (19× median)
line-count crates/fat_cli/src/helptext.rs:1 — 3,337 lines (17× median)
line-count crates/fat_cli/src/crypto_cmd.rs:1 — 2,796 lines (14× median)
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · strong · ratings ↑

No finding. 16 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.

Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: one author wrote nearly all of this repository's commits, so a finding about one contributor would be about someone its history all but names; the public report does not carry those, and does not rate this dimension without them. What a person adds here.

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: only 8 of 19 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it. What a person adds here.

Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑
05.60

Relicensed: MIT → FSL-1.1-ALv2 (2026-09-08)

adequate

The root licence changed 1 time(s). The latest terms restrict what users, hosts or a buyer may do in ways the earlier ones did not. Code taken under the old terms stays under them, so both matter in diligence.

Evidence
18c3a322e LICENSE — MIT from 2016-10-24
544ff7d4e LICENSE — FSL-1.1-ALv2 from 2026-09-08
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Notes that do not affect this rating
05.27

The build runs third-party code it does not pin

adequate

2 third-party CI actions are referenced by a tag or branch rather than a commit, so they run whatever that tag points to on the day; 2 steps pipe a download straight into a shell. Tags have been moved to malicious commits in real supply-chain attacks, and a piped script is whatever the server returns that minute. Pinning to a commit is the fix, and it is small.

A note that does not affect this rating: notes like it are common in well-run projects.

Evidence
.github/workflows/release.yml .github/workflows/release.yml:140 — action pinned by tag
.github/workflows/release.yml .github/workflows/release.yml:148 — action pinned by tag
.github/workflows/release.yml .github/workflows/release.yml:71 — download piped into a shell
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05.26

6 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 2 high or critical

adequate

6 of 212 locked dependencies match 22 published advisories in OSV, 2 of them rated high or critical. A lockfile says which version is installed, not whether the flawed code is reachable from this product, so each needs a look. Most are fixed by an upgrade, and the advisory names the version. This lockfile pins development tools alongside what ships and does not say which is which, so some of these may never reach a user.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
Cargo.lock Cargo.lock — zip 2.4.2: GHSA-m665-v7pm-7grj (critical), fixed in 9.0.5
Cargo.lock Cargo.lock — number_prefix 0.4.0: RUSTSEC-2025-0119 (unrated)
Cargo.lock Cargo.lock — unsafe-libyaml 0.2.11: RUSTSEC-2024-0449 (unrated)
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05.66

The licence is FSL-1.1-ALv2: source available, not open source

adequate

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Evidence
LICENSE LICENSE:1 — 105 lines, FSL-1.1-ALv2
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Observability & Operations

06 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it. What a person adds here.

Fit with the Acquirer

07 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository. What a person adds here.

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The survey reads what the repository can show. The code cannot settle these questions, and on them this report states nothing. Each says where its answer lives: your own engineer, the company, or an assessor you choose can settle it. Questions marked measured open with something this repository shows.

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

01 · full coverage
  1. measured The tree carries design documentation (docs/architecture.md). Does it match what the team believes today? Ask them to walk through it against the code. Answer lives in: The team01.38
  2. Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product? Answer lives in: Your architects, with the product roadmap01.39
  3. Were the home-grown components reasonable choices when they were made, and are they now? Answer lives in: The team's reasoning at the time01.40

Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · high coverage
  1. Is review real or a rubber stamp? Comment depth and time to approve need the pull request history. Answer lives in: The code host's pull request data02.32
  2. Is delivery planned and measured, or heroic? Answer lives in: The issue tracker: backlog, sprint history, estimate accuracy02.38
  3. How are incidents run, reviewed and learned from? Answer lives in: Tickets, chat and postmortems02.37

Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · partial coverage

Not rated: one author wrote nearly all of this repository's commits, so a finding about one contributor would be about someone its history all but names; the public report does not carry those, and does not rate this dimension without them.

  1. Which of the people who wrote this are part of the transaction, and for how long after it? Answer lives in: The deal terms03.29
  2. Who mentors whom, and would that survive a departure? Answer lives in: The team; review history only suggests candidates03.28
  3. Can the team grow, and who stands behind the top three contributors? Answer lives in: Recruiting data and the org chart03.30
  4. Is the seniority mix sound, and will pay survive your salary bands? Answer lives in: HR data03.31
  5. Is the pace sustainable? Commit times cannot say: git keeps no reliable local time. Answer lives in: Interviews and on-call history03.14
  6. Does the team want to stay after close? Answer lives in: Interviews03.32
  7. How are decisions made and disagreements resolved? Answer lives in: Time with the team03.33

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · minimal coverage

Not rated: only 8 of 19 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.

  1. Can this team deliver the stated roadmap on the stated timeline? Answer lives in: The data room and the team's record of estimates04.32
  2. Does leadership know about the debt, and is time budgeted to repay it? Answer lives in: Budget and roadmap decisions04.31
  3. Is the engineering shape consistent with the commercial story? Answer lives in: Revenue, customer and churn data04.33

Security & Reliability Posture

05 · partial coverage
  1. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  2. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  3. What is the SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR status, and where is the evidence? Answer lives in: Audit reports; policy files in the tree are not evidence05.44

Observability & Operations

06 · partial coverage

Not rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.

  1. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  2. Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
  3. Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off? Answer lives in: Pager exports and interviews06.31
  4. What does it cost to run, and how much headroom is there? Answer lives in: Cloud billing and capacity plans06.32

Fit with the Acquirer

07 · none coverage

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.

  1. This is primarily a Rust codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run Rust in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in crates/, profiles/, kernel/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. Nothing in the repository says how this is deployed. Is it shipped as a library, a binary or a service, and if it runs somewhere, who owns that environment? 07.2
  4. What is your tolerance for the findings above remaining unaddressed for the first two quarters after close, given everything else that will compete for this team's time?
  5. Which of these systems duplicate yours, and which get retired? Answer lives in: Your architecture07.11
  6. What will integration cost, and in what order? Answer lives in: The engagement07.12
  7. Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom? Answer lives in: Your org design07.13
  8. Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign? Answer lives in: Deal terms07.14
  9. Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors? Answer lives in: Customer contracts07.15

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Rejection log — 95 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 95 signals that ran and did not fire

Published on purpose. A signal that looked and decided not to fire has told you something, and this is the calibration data behind every threshold above.

Looked, and found nothing — 44

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 806 · top5 share 0.073
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 0 · per kloc 0.0 · lines read 248,434
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.003 · code files 367 · compat files 1
06.telemetry_presence this repository does not deploy a running service, so instrumentation is not expected of itbasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere · files read 775
06.healthcheck_presence not a running service, so a health endpoint is not expectedbasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.usage_reporting_default the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 0 · settings off 0
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 6 · window all history · with tracked 2
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 2
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 320 · source 584 · test ratio 0.548
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 7
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 291
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 2
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 1 · commits since 6 · days since lockfile changed 23
02.flaky_test_markers tests are not retried until they passtest retries 0 · suite retries 0
01.burst_import no commit run met both the rate and the net-addition thresholdgap seconds 180 · min add ratio 3.0 · min net added 2,000
01.initial_dump first commit is not a disproportionate share of the codebaseinsertions 23 · share of insertions 0.0001
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 22.37 · repeat share 0.094
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0064 · product files 367 · distinct blocks 126,764
01.unfinished_migration no language migration is stalled halfway
01.weights_in_git no model weights are committedfiles 0
05.committed_secrets no credential-shaped strings outside test and fixture pathsnote the working tree only; the history is 05.5 · patterns 8 · files read 775
05.security_guardrails at least one standard guard rail is configured
05.license_present a licence file is presentfound True
05.secrets_in_history no credential-shaped string was ever added outside test and fixture pathspatterns 8 · truncated False · added lines 234,361
05.secrets_management_pattern no environment file is committed outside tests and examplesenv files 0
05.privileged_workloads no workload runs privileged or in the host's namespacessites 0 · behind a setting or built here 0
05.credentials_in_deploy_config deployment configuration references secrets, never holds themfiles 0 · sites 0
05.signing_material no signing keystore or profile is committedfiles 0
05.license_manifest_conflict manifest and licence file agree on FSL-1.1-ALv2license FSL-1.1-ALv2
05.license_vendored_unlicensed no vendored third-party code is committedcomponents 0
05.committed_native_libraries no widely used compiled library is committed to the productlibraries 0
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 63 · added in two years 63 · removed within 60 days 0
04.ci_platforms_dropped no platform was dropped from CI in the last two years
04.repository_status the README's first screen states no end, move or freezestatements 0
02.development_elsewhere nothing says development happens elsewhereno pr statements 0 · mirror statements 0 · replayed commit share 0.0
05.paid_edition no directory carries a separate paid-edition licencedirectories 0
04.releases_stopped releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 0 · days since last tag 38 · commits last 90 days 18
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 0 · on branch 3 · tags in window 3
03.single_maintainer withheld: this check's result would describe one person
05.project_advisories no published advisory affects the surveyed versionaffecting 0 · exploited 0 · advisories 0
05.advisory_record no advisory against the project in the last 24 monthscritical 0 · affecting 0 · could not tell 0
05.project_exploited no affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited listexploited 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 51

Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.

SignalWhy
04.dependency_sprawlno recognised dependency manifest found
04.test_growthhistory too short to compare code and test growth
04.churn_trendhistory too short to read a churn trend
04.eol_runtimeno pinned runtime version to check
04.fixes_with_teststoo few fixes in 24 months to judge
04.fix_share_trendfewer than six busy quarters to compare
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
04.dependency_redundancyno JavaScript manifest to read
06.structured_loggingnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
06.telemetry_depthnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.print_loggingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.correlation_idsnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.error_reportingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.alert_rulesnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.deployed_image_floatsnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.probes_identicalno Kubernetes probes
06.single_replicano Kubernetes deployments
06.environment_branchingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.release_markersnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
03.drive_by_contributorswithheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.contributor_attritionwithheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.critical_path_ownershipwithheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.second_contributor_attritionwithheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.bus_factor_trendwithheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.joiners_and_leaverswithheld: this check's result would describe one person
02.conventional_commitstoo few commits to judge whether the log is written for a reader
02.revert_sharetoo few recent commits to judge how often change is undone
02.long_lived_branchestoo few merges to judge (squash and rebase leave none)
02.commit_sizetoo few recent commits
01.swallowed_errorsnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
01.build_reproducibilityno product Dockerfile to read
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.dependency_pinningno manifest whose pinning can be read without a lockfile
05.container_runs_as_rootno Dockerfile to read
05.outbound_timeoutsnot a running service
05.migration_reversibilitytoo few migrations to judge
05.sql_from_stringsnot a running service; a library that builds SQL is doing its job
05.shell_from_stringsnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.unsafe_deserializationnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.tls_verification_offnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
05.public_env_secretnot a frontend
05.unsafe_htmlnot a frontend
05.source_maps_shippednot a frontend
05.cleartext_trafficnot a mobile app
05.dataset_provenancenot a data or machine-learning repository
05.license_copyleft_inheritedno third-party code is committed to this repository, so the licences it depends on are resolved at build time and are not readable here
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
04.api_versions_coexistingnot a running service
04.deprecations_lingeringfew deprecations have outlived two years
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