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Reads strong: 3 of 5 rated dimensions are strong, 2 are adequate and none is significant.

104 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. Security & Reliability Posture and Organization & Key-Person Risk are adequate. 1 finding is worth checking first. 5 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

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  • 05.26 24 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 12 high or critical in what ships
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strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
16% of the code standing today was written in AI-declared commits
16% of lines still in the tree 19,782 of 120,150 10% of lines ever added these differ when early hand-written code has since been replaced
24% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-10-23) arrived in AI-declared commits: 109/586 commits, confidence low. Also a floor.
109/2,368 commits declaring an agent · Claude, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.6 and 6 more
confidence: low
  • 13% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
  • low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
  • 36% of commits show author/committer date divergence, which is the shape of replayed history that can drop trailers
  • the declared share is neither decisive nor negligible, so the true figure is more sensitive to undeclared work
  • deep scan blamed 648 of 648 counted files
32,308 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

rust/hook/src/payload.rs is 1,965 lines, 17× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 115 lines. 4 files exceed 1,150 lines, the largest being 1,965. 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 rust/hook/src/payload.rs:1 — 1,965 lines (17× median)
line-count rust/config/src/config.rs:1 — 1,802 lines (15× median)
line-count ggshield/core/plugin/downloader.py:1 — 1,383 lines (12× median)
line-count rust/hook/src/lib.rs:1 — 1,333 lines (11× 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 · adequate · ratings ↑
03.5

The contributor who wrote a quarter or more of this has not committed here for more than six months

adequate

One person authored a quarter or more of 2,340 commits and has not committed here for more than six months, while the repository has kept moving. The concentration figure alone would not show this. Whoever is changing this code now is not the person who wrote most of it, which is the situation an acquirer is usually told they are avoiding. The history shows only that no commits of theirs landed here, not why.

Evidence
last-commit-by-top-author last commit more than six months ago, measured to the survey
git shortlog -sn top author a quarter or more of 2,340 commits
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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 · adequate · ratings ↑
05.6

1 Dockerfile runs 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 Dockerfile — runs as root
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05.26

24 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 12 high or critical in what ships

adequate worth checking first

24 of 445 locked dependencies match 50 published advisories in OSV, 20 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 uv.lock settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
uv.lock uv.lock — anyio 4.12.1: GHSA-82r6-8w77-94w6 (critical), fixed in 4.14.2
uv.lock uv.lock — anyio 4.14.1: GHSA-82r6-8w77-94w6 (critical), fixed in 4.14.2
uv.lock uv.lock — cryptography 46.0.7: GHSA-537c-gmf6-5ccf (high), fixed in 48.0.1
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A note that does not affect this rating
05.27

The build runs third-party code it does not pin

adequate

5 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/scan_packages.yml .github/workflows/scan_packages.yml:44 — download piped into a shell
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Observability & Operations

06 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: only 5 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.

Check it on the running system

3 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 (doc/dev/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
  1. measured 94 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. measured 559 commits landed in the last year, against 241 the year before (+132%). 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. 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
  2. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  3. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  4. 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 5 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 Python codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run Python in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in ggshield/, rust/, changelog.d/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. The repository carries deployment configuration (Dockerfile). 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 — 99 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 99 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 — 67

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 1,912 · top5 share 0.055
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 23 · per kloc 0.2 · lines read 116,580
04.dependency_sprawl direct dependency counts are unremarkable
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.39 · early delete per insert 0.492
04.eol_runtime every pinned runtime is still supportedeol as of 2026-09-24
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 282 · share 0.582 · with tests 164
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.0 · code files 234 · compat files 0
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 593
06.structured_logging not a running service; structured logging is not expected of a librarybasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
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 6.3 · window last 24 months · authors 94
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 94 · active 12mo 31
03.knowledge_silos every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 94 · directories 4
03.drive_by_contributors an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 94 · one off share 0.245
03.critical_path_ownership more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 43
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 5 · joined 17 · regular last year 20
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 441 · window last 24 months · with tracked 6
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 9
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 212 · source 430 · test ratio 0.493
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 111
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 2,368 · low content share 0.003
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 9 · with tests 3
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 289
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 9
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.003 · reverts 2 · recent commits 800
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 2 · commits since 0 · days since lockfile changed 0
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 9 · product files 234
02.long_lived_branches the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.019 · merges 421 · long lived 8
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.021 · commits 678 · over 2000 lines 14
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 5,569 · share of insertions 0.0222
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 19.04 · repeat share 0.046
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 277 · write once share 0.238
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0035 · product files 234 · distinct blocks 28,745
01.swallowed_errors errors are rarely thrown awayloc 117,171 · files 22 · per kloc 0.33
01.build_reproducibility every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 3
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 593
05.security_guardrails at least one standard guard rail is configured
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.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.deprecations_lingering few deprecations have outlived two yearsolder than two years 0 · files with deprecations 3
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 98 · added in two years 53 · 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.licence_changes the root licence has not changed in the history readlicence versions 1 · unreleased changes 0
05.paid_edition no directory carries a separate paid-edition licencedirectories 0
04.releases_stopped releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 3.0 · days since last tag 8 · commits last 90 days 379
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 1 · on branch 110 · tags in window 111
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 32

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

SignalWhy
04.test_growthtests are kept inside the files they test, which a count by file name cannot see
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
04.dependency_redundancyno JavaScript manifest to read
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
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.dependency_pinningno manifest whose pinning can be read without a lockfile
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.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
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
05.project_advisoriesrecord incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; OSV PyPI ggshield (an empty record for a package published here) did not
05.advisory_recordrecord incomplete: no advisory against the project in the last 24 months; OSV PyPI ggshield (an empty record for a package published here) did not answer
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
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AtStepDetail
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