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Issued 2026-10-22

Nothing significant. Questions worth asking about Security & Reliability Posture, Product & Engineering Maturity.

104 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. 2 findings are worth checking first. 18 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What the repository says about itself

04.62 Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
05.66 The licence is Elastic-2.0: source available, not open source LICENSE.txt:1
05.60 Relicensed: MIT → GPL-2.0 (2014-03-03) → Apache-2.0 (2015-05-27) LICENSE
states a policy on AI-generated contributions AGENTS.md:147

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.

05.45 18 workload settings give a container the host
04.3 267 direct dependencies in a single manifest

What this survey read. This commit may not be the product users run: The newest release, v9.5.5, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v0.5.0. 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.
The file and line of 5 credential-shaped matches are withheld. File and line are shown to whoever GitHub says controls this repository, signed in, and to a buyer of this report.

	Dimension	Rating
01	Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance	adequate
02	Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity	strong
03	Organization & Key-Person Risk	strong
04	Product & Engineering Maturity	adequate
05	Security & Reliability Posture	adequate
06	Observability & Operations	strong
07	Fit with the Acquirer	not assessable

strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository

Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating

1% of added lines arrived in commits declaring an AI agent as co-author

The surviving-lines measurement was not run on this repository.

16% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-10-22) arrived in AI-declared commits: 236/1,522 commits, confidence low. Also a floor.

239/18,607 commits declaring an agent · Claude, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.6 and 10 more

confidence: moderate

13% 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

5,182,720 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 · adequate · ratings ↑

01.25

3 base images float: no version, or `latest`

adequate

3 of 61 `FROM` lines in product Dockerfiles name an image without a version, or with `latest`. Each build pulls whatever the registry serves that day, so the image that ships can change without a commit, and last month's build cannot be reproduced. Pin a version, or a digest.

Evidence

metricbeat/module/nats/_meta/Dockerfile	`metricbeat/module/nats/_meta/Dockerfile:6` — base image without a version
x-pack/metricbeat/module/coredns/_meta/Dockerfile	`x-pack/metricbeat/module/coredns/_meta/Dockerfile:6` — base image without a version
x-pack/metricbeat/module/stan/_meta/Dockerfile	`x-pack/metricbeat/module/stan/_meta/Dockerfile:12` — base image without a version

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A note that does not affect this rating

01.6

filebeat/input/syslog/rfc5424_parser.go is 10,993 lines, 108× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 101 lines. 23 files exceed 1,010 lines, the largest being 10,993. 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	`filebeat/input/syslog/rfc5424_parser.go:1` — 10,993 lines (108× median)
line-count	`x-pack/filebeat/processors/decode_cef/cef/parser_recover.go:1` — 4,846 lines (47× median)
line-count	`filebeat/input/syslog/rfc3164_parser.go:1` — 3,010 lines (29× median)
line-count	`x-pack/filebeat/input/cel/input.go:1` — 1,862 lines (18× median)
line-count	`metricbeat/module/kubernetes/util/kubernetes.go:1` — 1,689 lines (16× 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

267 direct dependencies in a single manifest

adequate worth checking first

go.mod declares 267 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` — 267 declared
direct-dependencies	`metricbeat/module/kubernetes/_meta/terraform/eks/requirements.txt` — 12 declared
direct-dependencies	`dev-tools/requirements.txt` — 3 declared
direct-dependencies	`x-pack/osquerybeat/ext/osquery-extension/cmd/gentables/go.mod` — 3 declared

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Notes that do not affect this rating

04.17

Python 3.9 is past end of life

adequate

The code is pinned to Python 3.9 (end of life 2025-10-31). None of these receives security fixes any more; the first stopped on 2025-10-31. 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

.python-version .python-version — Python 3.9, end of life 2025-10-31

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04.38

16 files still carry code deprecated more than two years ago

adequate

16 files were marked deprecated over two years ago and still are, the oldest since Jul 2020. A deprecation is a promise to remove. Ask what still depends on these, and whether removing them is scheduled.

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

Evidence

filebeat/input/journald/input.go	`filebeat/input/journald/input.go` — deprecated since Jul 2020
x-pack/filebeat/input/o365audit/input.go	`x-pack/filebeat/input/o365audit/input.go` — deprecated since Jul 2020
filebeat/input/winlog/input.go	`filebeat/input/winlog/input.go` — deprecated since Jul 2020
filebeat/input/unix/input.go	`filebeat/input/unix/input.go` — deprecated since Jul 2020
x-pack/filebeat/input/cloudfoundry/input.go	`x-pack/filebeat/input/cloudfoundry/input.go` — deprecated since Jul 2020

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04.62

Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed

adequate

The newest release, v9.5.5, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v0.5.0. The shipped product may differ from what this report describes. Survey the release branch too.

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

Evidence

b80bf8464

tag v9.5.5

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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑

05.1

26 credential-shaped strings in the tree sit in tests, examples, documentation or local development settings

adequate

Strings shaped like credentials appear only where fakes are usual: test fixtures, examples, documentation, placeholders and local stacks. They are almost always fakes. Ask someone to confirm that none of them works anywhere, because a real key in a development file is still a real key.

Evidence

AWS access key	5 cited: AWS access key, where fakes are usual
	File and line are shown to whoever GitHub says controls this repository, signed in, and to a buyer of this report.

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05.6

45 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	`auditbeat/Dockerfile` — runs as root
no-USER-instruction	`dev-tools/packaging/templates/ironbank/packetbeat/Dockerfile` — runs as root
no-USER-instruction	`heartbeat/Dockerfile` — runs as root
no-USER-instruction	`metricbeat/Dockerfile` — runs as root

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05.45

18 workload settings give a container the host

adequate worth checking first

18 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 deploy/kubernetes/auditbeat-kubernetes.yaml:207 and the 1 other file it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence

deploy/kubernetes/auditbeat-kubernetes.yaml	`deploy/kubernetes/auditbeat-kubernetes.yaml:207` — privileged or host namespace
deploy/kubernetes/auditbeat-kubernetes.yaml	`deploy/kubernetes/auditbeat-kubernetes.yaml:208` — privileged or host namespace
deploy/kubernetes/auditbeat/auditbeat-daemonset.yaml	`deploy/kubernetes/auditbeat/auditbeat-daemonset.yaml:20` — privileged or host namespace

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05.65

5 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 1 high or critical

adequate

The newest was published on 2026-03-19. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. GHSA-27qj-9gvp-8rh9 (moderate), GHSA-w2gr-585j-r428 (moderate) are fixed in the surveyed commit; which release carries them cannot be told from this history, which does not place the release users run. Answer lives in: the version you run. The record is incomplete: NVD: 3 records name beats with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2006-2537, CVE-2024-27867, CVE-2025-41739).

Evidence

GHSA-27qj-9gvp-8rh9	2026-03-19: GHSA-27qj-9gvp-8rh9 (moderate), fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20260126223743-dec1b31111ec: Packetbeat does not properly validate an array index in multiple protocol parser components
GHSA-5vrw-qjxw-89r5	2026-03-19: GHSA-5vrw-qjxw-89r5 (moderate), fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20260112100137-de072c4e371e: Metricbeat Allocates Memory with Excessive Size Value Leading to Denial of Service
GHSA-w2gr-585j-r428	2026-01-13: GHSA-w2gr-585j-r428 (moderate), fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251217054608-6e42552a23ce: Metricbeat affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities
GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38	2025-12-19: GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38 (moderate), fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf: Filebeat Beats has Buffer Overflow via Malformed Syslog Message or Malicious Tokenizer Pattern in Dissect Configuration
GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv	2025-12-19: GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv (high), fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e: Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments

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Notes that do not affect this rating

05.27

The build runs third-party code it does not pin

adequate

42 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/backport-active.yml	`.github/workflows/backport-active.yml:26` — action pinned by tag
.github/workflows/buildkite-test-flaky.yml	`.github/workflows/buildkite-test-flaky.yml:16` — action pinned by tag
.buildkite/scripts/install_macos_tools.sh	`.buildkite/scripts/install_macos_tools.sh:86` — download piped into a shell

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05.13

5 outbound calls can wait forever

adequate

5 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

libbeat/dashboards/importer.go	`libbeat/dashboards/importer.go:282` — outbound call without a timeout
metricbeat/module/uwsgi/status/status.go	`metricbeat/module/uwsgi/status/status.go:77` — outbound call without a timeout
x-pack/filebeat/input/cel/config.go	`x-pack/filebeat/input/cel/config.go:169` — outbound call without a timeout

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05.20

4 SQL statements built from strings

adequate

4 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters. In each, what the code shows going in is a table or column name, a constant, or something the line does not show, not a request's value. Ask whether any value reaches these strings, rather than a parameter.

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

Evidence

x-pack/metricbeat/module/mssql/transaction_log/transaction_log.go	`x-pack/metricbeat/module/mssql/transaction_log/transaction_log.go:127` — SQL built from a string
x-pack/metricbeat/module/mssql/transaction_log/transaction_log.go	`x-pack/metricbeat/module/mssql/transaction_log/transaction_log.go:153` — SQL built from a string
x-pack/osquerybeat/ext/osquery-extension/pkg/hooks/views.go	`x-pack/osquerybeat/ext/osquery-extension/pkg/hooks/views.go:39` — SQL built from a string

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05.26

1 locked dependency has published vulnerabilities, 4 high or critical

adequate

1 of 572 locked dependencies match 9 published advisories in OSV, 4 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

go.mod go.mod — github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 v2.2.4: GHSA-33vj-92qq-66hc (high), fixed in 2.2.5

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05.66

The licence is Elastic-2.0: source available, not open source

adequate

LICENSE.txt grants Elastic-2.0: source available, not open source; offering it as a managed service is not allowed. The reading comes from the licence's own title and clauses. Whether the terms fit the buyer's intended use, and whether any paid licence transfers with the code, is a question for counsel and the licensor.

A note that does not affect this rating: it names the project's licence, a fact for the first screen rather than a weakness.

Evidence

LICENSE.txt LICENSE.txt:1 — 13 lines, Elastic-2.0

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05.60

Relicensed: MIT → GPL-2.0 (2014-03-03) → Apache-2.0 (2015-05-27)

adequate

The root licence changed 2 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

5b740f90b	`LICENSE` — MIT from 2014-02-05
c00164e2d	`LICENSE` — GPL-2.0 from 2014-03-03
49e86dadb	`LICENSE` — Apache-2.0 from 2015-05-27

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Observability & Operations

06 · strong · ratings ↑

Notes that do not affect this rating

06.9

No error reporter is wired in

adequate

Nothing in the service initialises an error reporter (Sentry, Rollbar, Bugsnag, Honeybadger or an APM agent). An exception in production reaches a person only if someone is reading the logs, which usually means a customer reports it first.

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

Evidence

error reporting

no error reporter initialised

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06.18

7 of 17 deployed images carry no version, or `latest`

adequate

7 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

dev-tools/kubernetes/filebeat/manifest.debug.yaml	`dev-tools/kubernetes/filebeat/manifest.debug.yaml:189` — image without a version
dev-tools/kubernetes/filebeat/manifest.run.yaml	`dev-tools/kubernetes/filebeat/manifest.run.yaml:189` — image without a version
dev-tools/kubernetes/heartbeat/manifest.debug.yaml	`dev-tools/kubernetes/heartbeat/manifest.debug.yaml:180` — 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

measured No architecture or design document is in the tree, across 8,436 product files. Where does the design live, and who holds it? Answer lives in: The team01.38
Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product? Answer lives in: Your architects, with the product roadmap01.39
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

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
Is delivery planned and measured, or heroic? Answer lives in: The issue tracker: backlog, sprint history, estimate accuracy02.38
How are incidents run, reviewed and learned from? Answer lives in: Tickets, chat and postmortems02.37

Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · partial coverage

measured 899 people have committed here. Which of them are you acquiring, and which are you replacing? Answer lives in: The deal terms03.29
Who mentors whom, and would that survive a departure? Answer lives in: The team; review history only suggests candidates03.28
Can the team grow, and who stands behind the top three contributors? Answer lives in: Recruiting data and the org chart03.30
Is the seniority mix sound, and will pay survive your salary bands? Answer lives in: HR data03.31
Is the pace sustainable? Commit times cannot say: git keeps no reliable local time. Answer lives in: Interviews and on-call history03.14
Does the team want to stay after close? Answer lives in: Interviews03.32
How are decisions made and disagreements resolved? Answer lives in: Time with the team03.33

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · minimal coverage

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
Does leadership know about the debt, and is time budgeted to repay it? Answer lives in: Budget and roadmap decisions04.31
Is the engineering shape consistent with the commercial story? Answer lives in: Revenue, customer and churn data04.33

Security & Reliability Posture

05 · partial coverage

measured 05.5 found credential-shaped strings in this repository. Was each one revoked at the provider? Deleting it from the code revokes nothing; only the provider's audit log shows that it was. Answer lives in: The provider's console and audit log05.38
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
What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
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

measured Backup or restore tooling is in the tree (changelog/fragments/1789168980-restore-monitor-state-for-heartbeat-otel-receivers.yaml). Has a restore ever been rehearsed, and how long did it take? Answer lives in: The operations team06.19
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
Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off? Answer lives in: Pager exports and interviews06.31
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.

This is primarily a Go codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run Go in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
The bulk of this system sits in libbeat/, x-pack/, metricbeat/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
The repository carries deployment configuration (auditbeat/Dockerfile and 148 more). Does that match your deployment and on-call model, or does it need rehosting first? 07.2
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?
Which of these systems duplicate yours, and which get retired? Answer lives in: Your architecture07.11
What will integration cost, and in what order? Answer lives in: The engagement07.12
Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom? Answer lives in: Your org design07.13
Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign? Answer lives in: Deal terms07.14
Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors? Answer lives in: Customer contracts07.15

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Rejection log — 86 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 86 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 — 71

Signal	What it found
04.hotspot_concentration	change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 52,253 · top5 share 0.016
04.debt_markers	debt markers are sparsemarkers 370 · per kloc 0.16 · lines read 2,354,362
04.test_growth	test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 0.547 · early test per code 0.405
04.churn_trend	rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.419 · early delete per insert 0.22
04.fixes_with_tests	fixes usually come with a testfixes 472 · share 0.614 · with tests 290
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 3,171 · compat files 4
06.telemetry_presence	a telemetry or error-reporting library is referencednote presence only; whether anyone watches it is not visible here · matches 321
06.structured_logging	a structured logging library is referencedmatches 91
06.healthcheck_presence	a health or readiness check is defined
06.telemetry_depth	the service is visible in more than one way
06.print_logging	raw prints are few, or outnumbered by logger callsprints 124 · logger calls 2,923
06.correlation_ids	a request can be followed through the logstracing True · request id sites 25
06.usage_reporting_default	the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 0 · settings off 0
06.alert_rules	alert rules are defined as codealert files 1
06.probes_identical	readiness and liveness are distinct, or not both setidentical 0 · workloads with both 1
06.single_replica	an autoscaler or disruption budget is definedworkloads 5
06.environment_branching	environment differences live in configurationsites 0
06.release_markers	releases are markedtags last year 54 · release commits 0 · changelog commits 8
06.migrate_on_start	migrations do not run at container start
03.contributor_concentration	no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 12.7 · window last 24 months · authors 899
03.active_contributors	more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 899 · active 12mo 123
03.knowledge_silos	every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 899 · directories 12
03.drive_by_contributors	an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 899 · one off share 0.572
03.contributor_attrition	no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matterauthors 899 · top share less than a quarter · top contributor last committed more than three years ago
03.critical_path_ownership	more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 183
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 16 · joined 22 · regular last year 57
02.merge_discipline	a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 8 · window last 24 months · with tracked 76
02.ci_presence	CI configuration is present in the working treecount 224
02.test_presence	tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 2,271 · source 5,408 · test ratio 0.42
02.release_cadence	tags are presenttags 394
02.conventional_commits	commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 18,607 · low content share 0.004
02.branch_protection_hints	process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests	CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 126 · with tests 35
02.skipped_tests	few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 12 · test files 5,516
02.ci_test_gating	no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 224
02.revert_share	change is rarely undoneshare 0.005 · reverts 11 · recent commits 2,386
02.dependency_update_cadence	dependencies move with the codelockfiles 3 · commits since 2 · days since lockfile changed 0
02.flaky_test_markers	tests are not retried until they passtest retries 1 · suite retries 0
02.lint_in_build	a linter or formatter runs in the buildwired 49 · ci configs 224 · product files 3,171
02.commit_size	changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.036 · commits 2,179 · over 2000 lines 78
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 46 · share of insertions 0.0
01.message_uniformity	commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 22.29 · repeat share 0.02
01.revision_depth	most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 8,139 · write once share 0.407
01.duplicated_blocks	little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0159 · product files 3,138 · distinct blocks 267,876
01.swallowed_errors	errors are rarely thrown awayloc 2,365,122 · files 0 · per kloc 0.0
01.unfinished_migration	no language migration is stalled halfway
01.weights_in_git	no model weights are committedfiles 0
05.security_guardrails	at least one standard guard rail is configured
05.dependency_pinning	dependencies are substantially pinnedunpinned 4
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 0
05.unsafe_deserialization	no code-executing deserialiser in product codesites 0
05.tls_verification_off	no TLS verification is switched off in product codefiles 0 · sites 0 · pinned instead 0
05.resource_limits	a LimitRange or ResourceQuota sets limits for every podworkloads 16
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 1
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 1
04.dependency_churn	few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 399 · added in two years 170 · removed within 60 days 2
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 2.5 · days since last tag 21 · commits last 90 days 468
03.single_maintainer	no file says one person maintains itstatements 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 15

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

Signal	Why
04.schema_churn	no schema migrations to read
04.dependency_redundancy	no JavaScript manifest to read
06.feature_flags	no feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
02.long_lived_branches	too few merges to judge (squash and rebase leave none)
01.notebook_outputs	not a data or machine-learning repository
05.migration_reversibility	too few migrations to judge
05.public_env_secret	not a frontend
05.unsafe_html	not a frontend
05.source_maps_shipped	not a frontend
05.cleartext_traffic	not a mobile app
05.dataset_provenance	not a data or machine-learning repository
05.license_manifest_conflict	no packaging manifest states a licence
04.flags_accumulating	few or no feature flags in the history
04.api_versions_coexisting	one API version is served, or none
05.project_exploited	no affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list

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0.0s	read repository metadata from the GitHub API	size mb: 523.9authenticated: False
95.9s	cloned the repository to a temporary directory	depth: full
164.2s	read the git history	commits: 21228tracked files: 16444
664.5s	ran the deterministic checks	blame pass: Falseread working tree: False
664.6s	recorded where this scan ran	attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run
1043.7s	kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks
1043.7s	deleting the working copy

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