Nothing significant. Questions worth asking about Security & Reliability Posture, Organization & Key-Person Risk.
102 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. 2 findings are worth checking first. 20 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.
- 04.62 Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
- 05.61 36 files are named as enterprise-edition code components/ee/agent-smith/.gitignore
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.
- 4 findings from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right are no longer published.
| Dimension | Rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance | strong | |
| 02 | Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | strong | |
| 03 | Organization & Key-Person Risk | adequate | |
| 04 | Product & Engineering Maturity | adequate | |
| 05 | Security & Reliability Posture | adequate | |
| 06 | Observability & Operations | adequate | |
| 07 | Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
- 11% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
- low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
- 28% of commits show author/committer date divergence, which is the shape of replayed history that can drop trailers
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
01 · strong · ratings ↑components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts is 2,874 lines, 44× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 64 lines. 14 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 2,874. 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.
| line-count | components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts:1 — 2,874 lines (44× median) |
| line-count | components/gitpod-protocol/go/gitpod-service.go:1 — 2,355 lines (36× median) |
| line-count | components/server/src/workspace/workspace-starter.ts:1 — 2,167 lines (33× median) |
| line-count | components/supervisor/pkg/supervisor/supervisor.go:1 — 2,031 lines (31× median) |
| line-count | components/public-api/typescript-common/src/public-api-converter.ts:1 — 1,994 lines (31× 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 ↑The next contributor after the top one has not committed here for more than a year
adequateThe #2 contributor of the last three years (less than a quarter of the commits) has not committed here for more than a year, while the repository is still active. These are the people a buyer assumes would step up if the top contributor stopped. The history shows only that no commits of theirs landed here, not why.
| git shortlog -sn | the #2 contributor of the last three years (less than a quarter of the commits) has not committed here for more than a year |
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The bus factor fell from 7 to 1
adequateYear by year, newest first, the number of people who wrote half the changes was 1, 3, 3, 7. The team narrowed to one person, which is a different risk from one that always was: the code does not say why.
| bus factor by year | 1, 3, 3, 7 |
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Regular contributors fell from 11 to 3 in a year
adequate6 people who committed regularly the year before made no commits in the last year, and 0 new regular contributors arrived. Ask whether the work they did is still covered.
| regular contributors by year | 11 then 3; 6 stopped committing, 0 began |
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Product & Engineering Maturity
04 · adequate · ratings ↑19% of bug fixes add or change a test
adequateOf 83 fixes in the last 24 months, 16 touched a test. A fix without the test that would have caught the bug can quietly come back, and the suite never learns from what went wrong.
| fix commits touching tests | 16 of 83 |
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97 files still carry code deprecated more than two years ago
adequate97 files were marked deprecated over two years ago and still are, the oldest since Aug 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.
| components/gitpod-protocol/src/protocol.ts | components/gitpod-protocol/src/protocol.ts — deprecated since Aug 2020 |
| components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/entity/db-identity.ts | components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/entity/db-identity.ts — deprecated since Aug 2020 |
| components/gitpod-protocol/src/gitpod-service.ts | components/gitpod-protocol/src/gitpod-service.ts — deprecated since Nov 2020 |
| components/supervisor-api/go/control.pb.go | components/supervisor-api/go/control.pb.go — deprecated since Nov 2020 |
| components/supervisor-api/go/status.pb.go | components/supervisor-api/go/status.pb.go — deprecated since Nov 2020 |
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Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
adequateThe newest release, 2022.11.3, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is 2022.05.0. 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.
| 9ae8bfde2 | tag 2022.11.3 |
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Security & Reliability Posture
05 · adequate · ratings ↑2 Dockerfiles run the application as root
adequateNo 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.
| no-USER-instruction | components/ide-proxy/Dockerfile — runs as root |
| no-USER-instruction | components/proxy/Dockerfile — runs as root |
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115 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 7 high or critical in what ships
adequate worth checking first115 of 3,124 locked dependencies match 196 published advisories in OSV, 98 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 components/ide-metrics-api/typescript-grpc/yarn.lock and the 1 other file it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.
| components/ide-metrics-api/typescript-grpc/yarn.lock | components/ide-metrics-api/typescript-grpc/yarn.lock — handlebars 4.7.7: GHSA-2w6w-674q-4c4q (critical), fixed in 4.7.9 |
| components/ide-metrics-api/typescript-grpc/yarn.lock | components/ide-metrics-api/typescript-grpc/yarn.lock — tar 6.1.11: GHSA-23hp-3jrh-7fpw (critical), fixed in 7.5.19 |
| components/proxy/plugins/jsonselect/go.mod | components/proxy/plugins/jsonselect/go.mod — github.com/buger/jsonparser v1.1.1: GHSA-6g7g-w4f8-9c9x (high), fixed in 1.1.2 |
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The production build publishes source maps
adequateThe 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.
| components/ide-metrics-api/typescript-grpcweb/webpack.config.js | components/ide-metrics-api/typescript-grpcweb/webpack.config.js:12 — source maps in a production build |
| components/local-app-api/typescript-grpcweb/webpack.config.js | components/local-app-api/typescript-grpcweb/webpack.config.js:12 — source maps in a production build |
| components/supervisor/frontend/webpack.config.js | components/supervisor/frontend/webpack.config.js:45 — source maps in a production build |
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Manifest says proprietary, licence file says AGPL-3.0
adequate worth checking firstpackage.json declares proprietary. LICENSE.md contains the text of AGPL-3.0. Package managers and downstream users read the first; auditors and acquirers read the second. One of them is wrong, and until it is settled the terms this code is offered under are genuinely ambiguous.
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 package.json:5 and the 1 other file it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.
| package.json | package.json:5 — declares UNLICENSED |
| LICENSE.md | LICENSE.md — text of AGPL-3.0 |
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36 files are named as enterprise-edition code
adequateFiles named `.ee.` are, by the common open-core convention, the paid edition's code, usually under a licence that is not open source even where the rest is. What the buyer may do with each part differs.
| components/ee/agent-smith/.gitignore | components/ee/agent-smith/.gitignore — enterprise-edition file |
| components/ee/agent-smith/BUILD.yaml | components/ee/agent-smith/BUILD.yaml — enterprise-edition file |
| components/ee/agent-smith/README.md | components/ee/agent-smith/README.md — enterprise-edition file |
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The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate3 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; 1 step pipes 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.
| .github/workflows/branch-build.yml | .github/workflows/branch-build.yml:71 — action pinned by tag |
| .github/workflows/build.yml | .github/workflows/build.yml:476 — action pinned by tag |
| scripts/trivy/trivy-scan-images.sh | scripts/trivy/trivy-scan-images.sh:52 — download piped into a shell |
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8 outbound calls can wait forever
adequate8 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.
| components/content-service/pkg/layer/provider.go | components/content-service/pkg/layer/provider.go:45 — outbound call without a timeout |
| components/gitpod-cli/pkg/utils/logError.go | components/gitpod-cli/pkg/utils/logError.go:67 — outbound call without a timeout |
| components/ide/jetbrains/cli/cmd/open.go | components/ide/jetbrains/cli/cmd/open.go:34 — outbound call without a timeout |
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3 SQL statements built from strings
adequate3 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.
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| components/gitpod-db/src/periodic-deleter.ts | components/gitpod-db/src/periodic-deleter.ts:60 — SQL built from a string |
| components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/user-db-impl.ts | components/gitpod-db/src/typeorm/user-db-impl.ts:196 — SQL built from a string |
| components/service-waiter/cmd/database.go | components/service-waiter/cmd/database.go:134 — SQL built from a string |
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2 of 5 Kubernetes workloads declare no resource limits
adequate2 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.
| components/ws-manager-mk2/config/default/manager_config_patch.yaml | components/ws-manager-mk2/config/default/manager_config_patch.yaml — workload with no limits |
| components/ws-manager-mk2/config/default/manager_webhook_patch.yaml | components/ws-manager-mk2/config/default/manager_webhook_patch.yaml — workload with no limits |
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2 vendored components with no licence
adequateThird-party code is committed into this repository without any statement of the terms it arrived under. Unknown terms are harder to deal with than inconvenient ones: an awkward licence can be complied with, an absent one cannot. Each of these needs its origin established before the code changes hands.
A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.
| components/ide-metrics-api/third_party/google | components/ide-metrics-api/third_party/google — 4 tracked files, no licence file |
| components/supervisor-api/third_party/google | components/supervisor-api/third_party/google — 4 tracked files, no licence file |
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Observability & Operations
06 · adequate · ratings ↑Sends usage data to telemetry.authzed.com by default
adequateinstall/installer/pkg/components/spicedb/deployment.go sends to telemetry.authzed.com, and components/local-app/cmd/config-set.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.
| install/installer/pkg/components/spicedb/deployment.go | install/installer/pkg/components/spicedb/deployment.go:96 — reports to telemetry.authzed.com |
| components/local-app/cmd/config-set.go | components/local-app/cmd/config-set.go:29 — the reporting setting is on by default |
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An error reporter is installed but never initialised
adequateNothing 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.
| error reporting | no error reporter initialised |
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1 of 5 deployments run a single replica
adequate1 deployments set `replicas: 1`, and nothing (an autoscaler, a disruption budget) adds more. Every deploy and every node drain is downtime, and the availability the buyer inherits has a ceiling.
A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.
| components/ws-manager-mk2/config/manager/manager.yaml | components/ws-manager-mk2/config/manager/manager.yaml — replicas: 1 |
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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
12 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.
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 3,500 product files. Where does the design live, and who holds it?
- Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product?
- Were the home-grown components reasonable choices when they were made, and are they now?
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.
- Is delivery planned and measured, or heroic?
- How are incidents run, reviewed and learned from?
Organization & Key-Person Risk
03 · partial coverage- measured 140 people have committed here. Which of them are you acquiring, and which are you replacing?
- Who mentors whom, and would that survive a departure?
- Can the team grow, and who stands behind the top three contributors?
- Is the seniority mix sound, and will pay survive your salary bands?
- Is the pace sustainable? Commit times cannot say: git keeps no reliable local time.
- Does the team want to stay after close?
- How are decisions made and disagreements resolved?
Product & Engineering Maturity
04 · minimal coverage- measured 117 commits landed in the last year, against 360 the year before (-68%). Is that maintenance mode, a pivot, or fewer people working on it? The count looks the same for all three.
- Can this team deliver the stated roadmap on the stated timeline?
- Does leadership know about the debt, and is time budgeted to repay it?
- Is the engineering shape consistent with the commercial story?
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.
- measured No threat model is in the tree of what looks like a running service. Does one exist elsewhere, and who owns it?
- What has actually broken, how often, and how badly?
- What did external testing find, and was it fixed?
- What is the SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR status, and where is the evidence?
Observability & Operations
06 · partial coverage- measured Nothing in the tree backs up or restores data. How is data backed up, and has a restore ever been rehearsed?
- measured Alert rules are defined in the repository. Who receives them, and when did one last fire?
- measured Service-level objectives are defined in the tree (operations/observability/mixins/cross-teams/dashboards/SLOs/workspace-startup-time.libsonnet). Are they met? The repository holds the target, not the measurement.
- Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered?
- Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off?
- What does it cost to run, and how much headroom is there?
Fit with the Acquirer
07 · none coverageNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
- This is primarily a TypeScript codebase, with Go alongside (42% of source files). Does your engineering organisation already run TypeScript in production, or would this be the first?
- The bulk of this system sits in components/, install/, operations/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace?
- The repository carries deployment configuration (components/blobserve/leeway.Dockerfile and 45 more). Does that match your deployment and on-call model, or does it need rehosting first?
- 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?
- What will integration cost, and in what order?
- Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom?
- Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign?
- Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors?
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Rejection log — 82 signals that ran and did not fire
Appendix: rejection log — 82 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 — 74
| Signal | What it found |
|---|---|
| 04.hotspot_concentration | change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 9,770 · top5 share 0.024 |
| 04.debt_markers | debt markers are sparsemarkers 503 · per kloc 0.55 · lines read 917,077 |
| 04.dependency_sprawl | direct dependency counts are unremarkable |
| 04.churn_trend | rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.118 · early delete per insert 0.577 |
| 04.eol_runtime | every pinned runtime is still supportedeol as of 2026-09-24 |
| 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 2,517 · compat files 0 |
| 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 102 |
| 06.structured_logging | a structured logging library is referencedmatches 190 |
| 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 23 |
| 06.alert_rules | alert rules are defined as codealert files 35 |
| 06.deployed_image_floats | every deployed image names a versionimages 1 · floating 0 |
| 06.probes_identical | readiness and liveness are distinct, or not both setidentical 0 · workloads with both 2 |
| 06.environment_branching | environment differences live in configurationsites 0 |
| 06.release_markers | releases are markedtags last year 101 · release commits 0 · changelog commits 0 |
| 06.migrate_on_start | migrations do not run at container start |
| 06.feature_flags | a feature-flag service is configured and usedsdk files 46 · evaluation sites 2 |
| 03.contributor_concentration | no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 6.2 · window last 24 months · authors 140 |
| 03.active_contributors | more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 140 · active 12mo 7 |
| 03.knowledge_silos | every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 140 · directories 6 |
| 03.drive_by_contributors | an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 140 · one off share 0.421 |
| 03.contributor_attrition | no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matterauthors 140 · top share less than a quarter · top contributor last committed within the last three months |
| 03.critical_path_ownership | more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 18 |
| 02.merge_discipline | a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 0 · window last 24 months · with tracked 0 |
| 02.ci_presence | CI configuration is present in the working treecount 25 |
| 02.test_presence | tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 397 · source 2,801 · test ratio 0.142 |
| 02.release_cadence | tags are presenttags 1,982 |
| 02.conventional_commits | commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 12,533 · low content share 0.006 |
| 02.branch_protection_hints | process scaffolding is present in the repository |
| 02.ci_runs_tests | CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 25 · with tests 4 |
| 02.skipped_tests | few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 499 |
| 02.ci_test_gating | no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 25 |
| 02.revert_share | change is rarely undoneshare 0.006 · reverts 3 · recent commits 479 |
| 02.dependency_update_cadence | dependencies move with the codelockfiles 86 · commits since 2 · 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 15 · ci configs 25 · product files 2,517 |
| 02.commit_size | changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.023 · commits 437 · over 2000 lines 10 |
| 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 244,095 · share of insertions 0.0742 |
| 01.message_uniformity | commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 17.88 · repeat share 0.047 |
| 01.revision_depth | most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 3,252 · write once share 0.215 |
| 01.duplicated_blocks | little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0122 · product files 2,179 · distinct blocks 175,453 |
| 01.swallowed_errors | errors are rarely thrown awayloc 920,976 · files 12 · per kloc 0.01 |
| 01.build_reproducibility | every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 5 |
| 01.unfinished_migration | Java to Kotlin: the new language's share has not risen steadily, so the two are deliberate layers, not a migrationmigration Java to Kotlin · new share now 0.021 · new share at start 0.004 |
| 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 3,982 |
| 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.migration_reversibility | migrations can be rolled backshare 0.0 · migrations 199 · irreversible 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.public_env_secret | only publishable values carry a public prefixnames 0 · sites 0 · not secrets 0 |
| 05.unsafe_html | raw HTML is rare, literal or sanitisedsites 2 |
| 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 20 |
| 05.license_grant_unclear | the licence is recognisable as AGPL-3.0class network-copyleft · license AGPL-3.0 |
| 05.committed_native_libraries | no widely used compiled library is committed to the productlibraries 0 |
| 04.flags_accumulating | flags are retired about as fast as they are addedlive 12 · retired 27 · flags seen 39 |
| 04.api_versions_coexisting | one API version is served, or none |
| 04.dependency_churn | few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 390 · added in two years 73 · 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 |
| 04.releases_stopped | releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 0.5 · days since last tag 1 · commits last 90 days 24 |
| 03.single_maintainer | no file says one person maintains itstatements 0 |
Could not conclude, or did not apply — 8
Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.
| Signal | Why |
|---|---|
| 04.schema_churn | columns, once added, stay |
| 06.print_logging | a frontend: console output is the browser's, not the server's |
| 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.cleartext_traffic | not a mobile app |
| 05.dataset_provenance | not a data or machine-learning repository |
| 05.advisory_record | 1 advisory in the last 24 months, none high or critical, none affecting the surveyed version; the newest on 2025-08-29 |
| 05.project_exploited | no affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list |
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The code commits to the 106 checks this run performed, the bands they produced, and the commit they were read at. It does not cover checks written since.
Where this scan ran
This scan ran on ordinary cloud infrastructure (cloud-run), not in a hardware-isolated confidential VM. Nothing about it is attested by Google.
What an attested survey proves, and what it does not.
What this scan did with the repository — 7 steps
Written by the steps themselves as they ran, not described afterwards. A hand-written account of a data flow drifts the first time somebody changes the flow and not the account.
| At | Step | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0s | read repository metadata from the GitHub API | size mb: 106.2authenticated: False |
| 23.8s | cloned the repository to a temporary directory | depth: full |
| 48.7s | read the git history | commits: 12534tracked files: 4471 |
| 356.3s | ran the deterministic checks | blame pass: Falseread working tree: False |
| 356.4s | recorded where this scan ran | attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run |
| 543.4s | kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks | |
| 543.4s | deleting the working copy |
Total 543.4s ·source content sent off this machine: none · calls to a language model: 0 · the clone was deleted when the survey ended
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