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Issued 2026-11-03

Reads strong: 5 of 5 rated dimensions are strong and none is significant.

106 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. 3 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer. Last commit 29 October 2026.

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What the repository says about itself
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
5% of the code standing today was written in AI-declared commits
5% of lines still in the tree 24,560 of 524,311 2% of lines ever added these differ when early hand-written code has since been replaced
17% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-11-03) arrived in AI-declared commits: 74/731 commits, confidence low. Also a floor.
109/14,193 commits declaring an agent · Claude, Claude A, Claude Fable 5 and 5 more
confidence: moderate
  • 2% 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
  • deep scan blamed 1,998 of 1,998 counted files
79 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 ↑
Notes that do not affect this rating
01.6

bin/maintenancesolution/MaintenanceSolution.sql is 10,497 lines, 82× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 128 lines. 10 files exceed 1,280 lines, the largest being 10,497. 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 bin/maintenancesolution/MaintenanceSolution.sql:1 — 10,497 lines (82× median)
line-count bin/maintenancesolution/MaintenanceSolutionAzureSQLDatabase.sql:1 — 5,454 lines (42× median)
line-count bin/maintenancesolution/DatabaseBackup.sql:1 — 4,717 lines (36× median)
line-count bin/maintenancesolution/IndexOptimize.sql:1 — 3,069 lines (23× median)
line-count public/Invoke-DbaDbLogShipping.ps1:1 — 2,100 lines (16× median)
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01.7

6% of code blocks appear verbatim in more than one file

adequate

10,109 distinct 8-line blocks appear in two or more files. Copy-paste is the cheapest thing a generator does and among the more expensive things to inherit: a fix has to be applied everywhere the block landed, and nothing in the repository records where that is. Tests, fixtures and documentation examples are excluded — those repeat by design — so this is duplication in code that ships. Blocks are matched after normalising whitespace and only across different files.

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

Evidence
duplicated-block identical 8-line block in 137 files: private/functions/New-DbaLogShippingPrimaryDatabase.ps1, private/functions/New-DbaLogShippingPrimarySecondary.ps1, private/functions/New-DbaLogShippingSecondaryDatabase.ps1
duplicated-block identical 8-line block in 102 files: private/functions/Convert-DbaMaskingValue.ps1, private/functions/Invoke-DbaDbCorruption.ps1, public/Add-DbaPfDataCollectorCounter.ps1
duplicated-block identical 8-line block in 97 files: private/functions/New-DbaLogShippingPrimarySecondary.ps1, public/Add-DbaAgDatabase.ps1, public/Add-DbaAgListener.ps1
duplicated-block identical 8-line block in 76 files: private/functions/Convert-DbaMaskingValue.ps1, private/functions/Invoke-DbaDbCorruption.ps1, public/Add-DbaPfDataCollectorCounter.ps1
duplicated-block identical 8-line block in 60 files: public/Disable-DbaTraceFlag.ps1, public/Enable-DbaTraceFlag.ps1, public/Find-DbaDatabase.ps1
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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 · strong · ratings ↑

No finding. 19 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.

Security & Reliability Posture

05 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
05.60

Relicensed: GPL-3.0 → MIT (2018-02-28)

adequate

The root licence changed 1 time(s). Code taken under earlier terms stays under them; check which terms any fork or customer relied on.

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
a122b8630 LICENSE.txt — GPL-3.0 from 2015-10-29
073786c09 LICENSE — MIT from 2018-02-28
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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.

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 No architecture or design document is in the tree, across 1,107 product files. Where does the design live, and who holds it? 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
  1. measured One contributor authored a quarter or more of the commits in this history. Is that person 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
  1. measured 725 commits landed in the last year, against 223 the year before (+225%). What drove it: new people, a deadline, or code produced faster than before? Answer lives in: The team04.11
  2. 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
  3. Does leadership know about the debt, and is time budgeted to repay it? Answer lives in: Budget and roadmap decisions04.31
  4. 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. The bulk of this system sits in public/, bin/, private/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  2. 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
  3. 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?
  4. Which of these systems duplicate yours, and which get retired? Answer lives in: Your architecture07.11
  5. What will integration cost, and in what order? Answer lives in: The engagement07.12
  6. Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom? Answer lives in: Your org design07.13
  7. Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign? Answer lives in: Deal terms07.14
  8. Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors? Answer lives in: Customer contracts07.15

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Rejection log — 103 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 103 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 — 61

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 6,214 · top5 share 0.064
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 61 · per kloc 0.16 · lines read 375,742
04.test_growth test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 0.71 · early test per code 0.127
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.47 · early delete per insert 0.715
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 166 · share 0.53 · with tests 88
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
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 1,914
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
03.contributor_concentration no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 11.7 · window last 24 months · authors 340
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 340 · active 12mo 25
03.knowledge_silos every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 340 · directories 5
03.drive_by_contributors an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 340 · one off share 0.424
03.contributor_attrition the dominant contributor is still activeauthors 340 · top share a quarter or more · top contributor last committed within the last three months
03.critical_path_ownership more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 35
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 3 · joined 3 · regular last year 8
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 41 · window last 24 months · with tracked 19
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 19
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 777 · source 1,796 · test ratio 0.433
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 261
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 14,193 · low content share 0.12
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 19 · with tests 2
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 793
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 19
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.003 · reverts 3 · recent commits 948
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 1 · ci configs 19 · product files 1,019
02.long_lived_branches the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.0 · merges 29 · long lived 0
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.041 · commits 900 · over 2000 lines 37
01.burst_import the largest burst was data and assets (90% of it), which explains the rate: translations arrive from a vendor in bulk, dependencies and generated code are committed whole, a merged pull request is dated when it merged, not when it was written, a branch merged by a merge commit was reviewed as one piece, and an export or mirror tool dates history when it replays itlargest commits 66fc0c1..fd22967 · bursts explained 1 · largest net added 3,952
01.initial_dump first commit is not a disproportionate share of the codebaseinsertions 2 · share of insertions 0.0
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 27.3 · repeat share 0.152
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 933 · write once share 0.08
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 1,914
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 1,242,212
05.secrets_management_pattern no environment file is committed outside tests and examplesenv files 0
05.supply_chain_pinning third-party build steps are pinned, or fewaction refs 36 · pipe to shell 0 · unpinned third party 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_vendored_unlicensed no vendored third-party code is committedcomponents 0
05.license_grant_unclear the licence is recognisable as MITclass permissive · license MIT
05.committed_native_libraries no widely used compiled library is committed to the productlibraries 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 20.5 · days since last tag 19 · commits last 90 days 238
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 0 · on branch 259 · tags in window 259
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0
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 — 42

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

SignalWhy
04.dependency_sprawlno recognised dependency manifest found
04.eol_runtimeno pinned runtime version to check
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
04.compat_layersa library, whose compatibility code is usually deliberate
04.dependency_redundancyno JavaScript manifest to read
06.structured_loggingnot assessed for PowerShell, 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
02.dependency_update_cadenceno lockfile to date
01.swallowed_errorsnot assessed for PowerShell, 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 outside development, test and example paths
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 PowerShell, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.unsafe_deserializationnot assessed for PowerShell, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.tls_verification_offnot assessed for PowerShell, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
05.known_vulnerabilitiesno lockfile this survey can read, or a collector older than 0.4.0
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
05.license_manifest_conflictno packaging manifest states a licence
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
04.api_versions_coexistingnot a running service
04.deprecations_lingeringa library, which keeps deprecated interfaces for its users
04.dependency_churnfew dependencies were added and dropped within 60 days
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