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cockroachdb/cockroach
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d30c905 · 50,000 commits · 20,517 files
Issued 2026-10-22

BUSL-1.1 since 2019-06-04: source available, not open source; production use restricted until the change date.

104 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. 4 findings are worth checking first. 16 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What matters most
  • 05.60 BUSL-1.1 since 2019-06-04: source available, not open source; production use restricted until the change date
What the repository says about itself
  • 04.62 Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
  • 05.60 Relicensed: Apache-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 (2019-06-04) LICENSE
  • 4 submodule(s) this survey does not read: c-deps/jemalloc, c-deps/krb5, c-deps/geos .gitmodules:1
Worth checking first

Borehole's proprietary scoring is calibrated across hundreds of repositories. Each finding here reads significant, but its check has not yet held up often enough in that calibration to rate significant on its own. If one holds when someone checks it, it is significant.

  • 05.20 133 SQL statements built from strings
  • 05.26 108 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 23 high or critical in what ships
  • 05.45 4 workload settings give a container the host
  • 04.3 216 direct dependencies in a single manifest
Degraded run. History truncated at 50,000 commits, the most a hosted survey reads. Signals needing the full history are reported as inconclusive rather than clean.
What this survey read. This commit may not be the product users run: The newest release, v26.2.9, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest pre-release on it is v26.2.0-alpha.2. Read this report as describing that commit, not the release users run. Survey the release branch or tag as well.
Published under today's rules. The verification code attests to this reading as it was stored. This page differs from it as follows.
  • 2 findings from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right are no longer published.
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
2% of lines added in the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) arrived in commits declaring an AI agent as co-author
The surviving-lines measurement was not run on this repository.
8% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-10-22) arrived in AI-declared commits: 364/5,240 commits, confidence low. Also a floor.
Measured over the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) only. Older history was not read.
375/33,619 commits declaring an agent · Claude, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 4.5 and 10 more
confidence: low
  • 7% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
  • low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
  • 44% of commits show author/committer date divergence, which is the shape of replayed history that can drop trailers
303,547 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

pkg/sql/colexec/colexecprojconst/proj_const_left_ops.eg.go is 26,463 lines, 183× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 144 lines. 223 files exceed 1,440 lines, the largest being 26,463. 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. Measured against its own codebase's median, it is larger than 89% of 382 surveyed projects' largest files.

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

Evidence
line-count pkg/sql/colexec/colexecprojconst/proj_const_left_ops.eg.go:1 — 26,463 lines (183× median)
line-count pkg/sql/parser/sql.y:1 — 20,836 lines (144× median)
line-count pkg/sql/colexec/colexecjoin/mergejoiner_fullouter.eg.go:1 — 15,479 lines (107× median)
line-count pkg/sql/colexec/colexecbase/cast.eg.go:1 — 15,261 lines (105× median)
line-count pkg/sql/colexec/colexecjoin/mergejoiner_exceptall.eg.go:1 — 14,325 lines (99× 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 · strong · ratings ↑

No finding. 10 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · adequate · ratings ↑
04.3

216 direct dependencies in a single manifest

adequate worth checking first

go.mod declares 216 direct dependencies. Each one is a maintenance obligation, a supply-chain surface and a potential licence question that transfers with the asset. The count says nothing about whether any given dependency was a good choice; it says how many such choices a buyer inherits.

The check that found this reads significant, but it has not yet held up often enough in Borehole's calibration to rate a finding significant on its own. Opening go.mod and the 3 other files it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
direct-dependencies go.mod — 216 declared
direct-dependencies pkg/ui/workspaces/db-console/package.json — 56 declared
direct-dependencies pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/package.json — 42 declared
direct-dependencies pkg/ui/package.json — 10 declared
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Notes that do not affect this rating
04.17

Node.js 16 is past end of life

adequate

The code is pinned to Node.js 16 (end of life 2023-09-11). None of these receives security fixes any more; the first stopped on 2023-09-11. Moving off an unsupported runtime is rarely a one-line change, so a buyer should ask whether the upgrade is planned and what it touches.

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

Evidence
.node-version .node-version — Node.js 16, end of life 2023-09-11
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04.62

Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed

adequate

The newest release, v26.2.9, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest pre-release on it is v26.2.0-alpha.2. The shipped product may differ from what this report describes. Survey the release branch too. This was read from the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) only; older history was not read.

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

Evidence
7b4e548e3 tag v26.2.9
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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑
05.6

3 Dockerfiles run the application as root

adequate

No USER instruction switches away from root, so the process runs with full privileges inside the container. It is a one-line fix and an ordinary expectation, which is why its absence is worth asking about: it usually says more about whether anyone has reviewed the deployment than about this container specifically.

Evidence
no-USER-instruction pkg/cmd/roachprod-centralized/docker/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction pkg/cmd/roachprod/docker/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction pkg/cmd/roachtest/dlq-replay/Dockerfile — runs as root
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05.20

133 SQL statements built from strings

adequate worth checking first

133 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters, and in 5 of them a value, not a table or column name, goes into the string. Where any of those values comes from a request, it is an injection point. Each site needs a look; the fix, parameters, is small.

The check that found this reads significant, but it has not yet held up often enough in Borehole's calibration to rate a finding significant on its own. Opening pkg/cli/node.go:246 and the 1 other file it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
pkg/cli/node.go pkg/cli/node.go:246 — SQL built from a string
pkg/jobs/registry.go pkg/jobs/registry.go:1213 — SQL built from a string
pkg/jobs/registry.go pkg/jobs/registry.go:1303 — SQL built from a string
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05.26

108 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 23 high or critical in what ships

adequate worth checking first

108 of 2,967 locked dependencies match 175 published advisories in OSV, 101 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.

The check that found this reads significant, but it has not yet held up often enough in Borehole's calibration to rate a finding significant on its own. Opening go.mod and the 1 other file it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
go.mod go.mod — github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.7.2: GHSA-9jj7-4m8r-rfcm (critical), fixed in 5.9.0
go.mod go.mod — golang.org/x/crypto v0.50.0: GHSA-5cgq-3rg8-m6cv (critical), fixed in 0.52.0
pkg/ui/pnpm-lock.yaml pkg/ui/pnpm-lock.yaml — @babel/traverse 7.22.6: GHSA-67hx-6x53-jw92 (critical), fixed in 7.23.2; a development dependency
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05.45

4 workload settings give a container the host

adequate worth checking first

4 places in the deployment configuration run a container privileged or in the host's network, process or IPC namespace. A compromise of that container is a compromise of the machine, and most acquirers' security reviews block it. Node agents (network, storage, monitoring) are excluded.

The check that found this reads significant, but it has not yet held up often enough in Borehole's calibration to rate a finding significant on its own. Opening cloud/kubernetes/performance/cockroachdb-daemonset-insecure.yaml:81 and the 2 other files it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
cloud/kubernetes/performance/cockroachdb-daemonset-insecure.yaml cloud/kubernetes/performance/cockroachdb-daemonset-insecure.yaml:81 — privileged or host namespace
cloud/kubernetes/performance/cockroachdb-daemonset-secure.yaml cloud/kubernetes/performance/cockroachdb-daemonset-secure.yaml:153 — privileged or host namespace
cloud/kubernetes/performance/cockroachdb-statefulset-insecure.yaml cloud/kubernetes/performance/cockroachdb-statefulset-insecure.yaml:121 — privileged or host namespace
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05.49

The production build publishes source maps

adequate

The build configuration emits source maps for production, so the original source, with its comments and structure, is downloadable by every visitor. Upload them to an error tracker and keep them off the public server instead.

Evidence
pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/webpack.config.js pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/webpack.config.js:39 — source maps in a production build
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05.10

Licence text does not match a standard licence

adequate

LICENSE exists but its text does not match any standard licence. A bespoke or hand-edited licence is not wrong, but it cannot be cleared by recognising its name: counsel has to read it, and until they do neither side knows precisely what rights transfer with the code.

Evidence
LICENSE LICENSE:1 — 166 lines, unrecognised
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Notes that do not affect this rating
05.27

The build runs third-party code it does not pin

adequate

5 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. 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/blathers-backport.yml .github/workflows/blathers-backport.yml:44 — action pinned by tag
.github/workflows/blathers-backport.yml .github/workflows/blathers-backport.yml:264 — action pinned by tag
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05.13

6 outbound calls can wait forever

adequate

6 HTTP calls use a client with no timeout (Python `requests` without `timeout=`, or Go's default client). When a dependency slows down, each one holds a worker until the connection gives up, and enough of them take the service down with the dependency.

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

Evidence
pkg/ccl/changefeedccl/kafkaauth/sasl_proprietary_oauth.go pkg/ccl/changefeedccl/kafkaauth/sasl_proprietary_oauth.go:119 — outbound call without a timeout
pkg/cmd/bazci/bazci.go pkg/cmd/bazci/bazci.go:312 — outbound call without a timeout
pkg/cmd/dev/util.go pkg/cmd/dev/util.go:237 — outbound call without a timeout
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05.34

4 of 14 Kubernetes workloads declare no resource limits

adequate

4 workload manifests set no CPU or memory limits. One pod that leaks memory or spins can starve everything else on its node, and the scheduler cannot plan capacity for what it cannot see.

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

Evidence
cloud/kubernetes/example-app-secure.yaml cloud/kubernetes/example-app-secure.yaml — workload with no limits
cloud/kubernetes/example-app.yaml cloud/kubernetes/example-app.yaml — workload with no limits
cloud/kubernetes/multiregion/cockroachdb-statefulset-secure.yaml cloud/kubernetes/multiregion/cockroachdb-statefulset-secure.yaml — workload with no limits
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05.60

Relicensed: Apache-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 (2019-06-04)

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.

A note that does not affect this rating: a licence change is a fact for the first screen, and only a narrowing of rights within two years of the surveyed commit costs "strong".

Evidence
854898781 LICENSE — Apache-2.0 from 2014-02-06
8acfe8ffd LICENSE — BUSL-1.1 from 2019-06-04
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Observability & Operations

06 · adequate · ratings ↑
06.35

Sends usage data to stats.stackexchange.com by default

adequate

pkg/sql/opt/memo/statistics_builder.go sends to stats.stackexchange.com, and pkg/server/status.go leaves reporting on as shipped. Every installation reports to the vendor unless its operator turns this off. For a buyer running it inside their own product, that is an outbound data flow to a third party: ask what is sent, how often, and whether the buyer's customers were told.

Evidence
pkg/sql/opt/memo/statistics_builder.go pkg/sql/opt/memo/statistics_builder.go:4935 — reports to stats.stackexchange.com
pkg/server/status.go pkg/server/status.go:4777 — the reporting setting is on by default
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A note that does not affect this rating
06.18

1 of 5 deployed images carry no version, or `latest`

adequate

1 images in the deployment configuration are named without a version or as `latest`. A redeploy can change the software without a commit, a rollback has nothing to roll back to, and nobody can say from the repository what is running.

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

Evidence
cloud/kubernetes/v1.20/cockroachdb-statefulset.yaml cloud/kubernetes/v1.20/cockroachdb-statefulset.yaml:100 — image without a version
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Fit with the Acquirer

07 · not assessable · ratings ↑

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

Check it on the running system

10 checks against the running system follow from the findings above: what a buyer's engineer will try, how to run it first, and what to have ready. A paid survey of this repository includes them. See the tiers.

A paid survey of a public repository is also reviewed: a language model reads each finding against the code and withdraws only findings it judges the code contradicts, each listed with its reason. The review is a language model's reading of the findings against the code, and it can be wrong. It never adds a finding, never raises a band, and never removes a finding from a proven check or an advisory that affects the surveyed version.

What a person adds

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/RFCS/20191014_savepoints/distsender.puml and 23 more). Does it match what the team believes today? Ask them to walk through it against the code. Answer lives in: The team01.38
  2. measured The repository pulls code in through git submodules (.gitmodules). A buyer receives pointers, not that code. Can every submodule be fetched without the team's credentials, and who owns each one? Answer lives in: The team and the submodule owners01.35
  3. Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product? Answer lives in: Your architects, with the product roadmap01.39
  4. 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
  1. measured 420 people have committed here. Which of them are you acquiring, and which are you replacing? 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
  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. measured No threat model is in the tree of what looks like a running service. Does one exist elsewhere, and who owns it? Answer lives in: The security owner05.43
  2. measured Infrastructure code (pkg/roachprod/vm/aws/terraform/aws-region/ami.tf and 5 more) last changed 24 months before the newest commit, while 13,759 commits landed. Is the infrastructure now changed by hand? Compare the live account with the code. Answer lives in: The cloud console05.36
  3. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  4. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  5. 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
  1. measured Backup or restore tooling is in the tree (build/teamcity/cockroach/nightlies/sqllogic_backup_restore.sh). Has a restore ever been rehearsed, and how long did it take? Answer lives in: The operations team06.19
  2. measured Alert rules are defined in the repository. Who receives them, and when did one last fire? Answer lives in: The alerting tool and the on-call rota06.10
  3. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  4. Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
  5. Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off? Answer lives in: Pager exports and interviews06.31
  6. 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 Go codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run Go in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in pkg/, licenses/, build/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. The repository carries deployment configuration (build/bazelbuilder/Dockerfile and 17 more). Does that match your deployment and on-call model, or does it need rehosting first? 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 — 88 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 88 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 — 65

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few files, in the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026)files 28,838 · top5 share 0.015 · history read the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026)
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 4,824 · per kloc 2.04 · lines read 2,363,581
04.test_growth test effort kept pace with code written, in the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026)history read the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) · late test per code 0.797 · early test per code 0.655
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new work, in the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026)history read the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) · late delete per insert 0.524 · early delete per insert 0.548
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 1,298 · share 0.675 · with tests 876
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.001 · code files 6,810 · compat files 6
04.dependency_redundancy one library per job, mostly
06.telemetry_presence a telemetry or error-reporting library is referencednote presence only; whether anyone watches it is not visible here · matches 112
06.structured_logging a structured logging library is referencedmatches 31
06.healthcheck_presence a health or readiness check is defined
06.telemetry_depth the service is visible in more than one way
06.correlation_ids a request can be followed through the logstracing True · request id sites 62
06.error_reporting an error reporter is initialisedinitialised 1 · config files 0
06.alert_rules alert rules are defined as codealert files 3
06.single_replica an autoscaler or disruption budget is definedworkloads 12
06.environment_branching environment differences live in configurationsites 0
06.release_markers releases are markedtags last year 126 · release commits 29 · changelog commits 10
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.contributor_concentration no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthswindow last 24 months · authors 420 · top share less than a quarter
03.critical_path_ownership more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 208
03.second_contributor_attrition the second and third contributors are still active
03.bus_factor_trend the team has not narrowed to one person
03.joiners_and_leavers the team is not shrinkingleft 34 · joined 21 · regular last year 90
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 7,469 · window last 24 months · with tracked 5,734
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 27
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 4,148 · source 10,351 · test ratio 0.401
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry content, in the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026)sampled 33,619 · history read the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) · low content share 0.0
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 27 · with tests 4
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 10,186
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 27
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.005 · reverts 62 · recent commits 13,724
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 4 · commits since 48 · days since lockfile changed 113
02.flaky_test_markers tests are not retried until they passtest retries 0 · suite retries 0
02.lint_in_build a linter or formatter runs in the buildwired 4 · ci configs 27 · product files 6,810
02.long_lived_branches the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.047 · merges 7,457 · long lived 349
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.012 · commits 12,318 · over 2000 lines 152
01.burst_import no commit run met both the rate and the net-addition threshold, in the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026)gap seconds 180 · history read the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) · min add ratio 3.0
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and length, in the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026)history read the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) · length stdev 17.7 · repeat share 0.019
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0097 · product files 6,228 · distinct blocks 1,257,587
01.swallowed_errors errors are rarely thrown awayloc 2,370,315 · files 3 · per kloc 0.0
01.build_reproducibility every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 8
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 6,761
05.security_guardrails at least one standard guard rail is configured
05.dependency_pinning a lockfile is committed, so builds are reproduciblelockfile True
05.license_present a licence file is presentfound True
05.secrets_management_pattern no environment file is committed outside tests and examplesenv files 0
05.shell_from_strings product code does not build shell commands from stringssites 1
05.unsafe_deserialization no code-executing deserialiser in product codesites 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_copyleft_inherited every licence found in vendored code is permissive or weak-copyleftvendored paths 48
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.deprecations_lingering few deprecations have outlived two yearsolder than two years 2 · files with deprecations 17
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 349 · added in two years 174 · removed within 60 days 4
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 0.0 · days since last tag 1 · commits last 90 days 26
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 23

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

SignalWhy
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
06.print_logginga frontend: console output is the browser's, not the server's
06.probes_identicalreadiness and liveness are distinct, or not both set
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
03.active_contributorsnot assessed: this check needs the whole history, and only the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) were read
03.knowledge_silosnot assessed: this check needs the whole history, and only the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) were read
03.drive_by_contributorsnot assessed: this check needs the whole history, and only the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) were read
03.contributor_attritionnot assessed: this check needs the whole history, and only the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) were read
02.release_cadencenot assessed: this check needs the whole history, and only the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) were read
01.initial_dumpnot assessed: this check needs the whole history, and only the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) were read
01.revision_depthnot assessed: this check needs the whole history, and only the most recent 50,000 commits (1 Apr 2022 to 23 Sep 2026) were read
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.migration_reversibilitytoo few migrations to judge
05.public_env_secretnot assessed for Go, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.unsafe_htmlnot assessed for Go, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.cleartext_trafficnot a mobile app
05.dataset_provenancenot a data or machine-learning repository
05.license_manifest_conflictno packaging manifest states a licence
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
04.api_versions_coexistingone API version is served, or none
05.project_advisoriesrecord incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; OSV Go github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach (an empty record for a package published here), OSV npm @cockroachlabs/cluster-ui (an empty record for a package published here), OSV npm @cockroachlabs/crdb-protobuf-client (an empty record for a package published here) did not; NVD: 1 record names cockroach with nothing tying it to this repository (CVE-2025-9276)
05.advisory_recordrecord incomplete: no advisory against the project in the last 24 months; OSV Go github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach (an empty record for a package published here), OSV npm @cockroachlabs/cluster-ui (an empty record for a package published here), OSV npm @cockroachlabs/crdb-protobuf-client (an empty record for a package published here) did not answer; NVD: 1 record names cockroach with nothing tying it to this repository (CVE-2025-9276)
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
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