Reads strong: 4 of 6 rated dimensions are strong, 2 are adequate and none is significant.
104 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. Security & Reliability Posture and Observability & Operations are adequate. 8 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.
- 2 findings from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right are no longer published.
- The file and line of 3 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 | strong | |
| 02 | Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | strong | |
| 03 | Organization & Key-Person Risk | strong | |
| 04 | Product & Engineering Maturity | strong | |
| 05 | Security & Reliability Posture | adequate | |
| 06 | Observability & Operations | adequate | |
| 07 | Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
- 29% 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
- the declared share is neither decisive nor negligible, so the true figure is more sensitive to undeclared work
- deep scan blamed 478 of 478 counted files
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
01 · strong · ratings ↑No finding. 11 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.
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 · adequate · ratings ↑3 credential-shaped strings in the tree sit in tests, examples, documentation or local development settings
adequateStrings 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.
| JWT | 3 cited: JWT, 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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The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate14 third-party CI actions are referenced by a tag or branch rather than a commit, so they run whatever that tag points to on the day. Tags have been moved to malicious commits in real supply-chain attacks, and a piped script is whatever the server returns that minute. Pinning to a commit is the fix, and it is small.
A note that does not affect this rating: notes like it are common in well-run projects.
| .github/workflows/after-release.yml | .github/workflows/after-release.yml:42 — action pinned by tag |
| .github/workflows/auto-labeler.yml | .github/workflows/auto-labeler.yml:17 — action pinned by tag |
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2 outbound calls can wait forever
adequate2 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.
| client/client.go | client/client.go:832 — outbound call without a timeout |
| client/client.go | client/client.go:956 — outbound call without a timeout |
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Relicensed: GPL-3.0 → MIT (2020-01-06) → Apache-2.0 (2020-01-13) → MIT (2020-01-16)
adequateThe root licence changed 3 time(s). Code taken under earlier terms stays under them; check which terms any fork or customer relied on.
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| ee41c1c6c | LICENSE — GPL-3.0 from 2020-01-06 |
| 1c01736fe | LICENSE — MIT from 2020-01-06 |
| 3572e48e5 | LICENSE — Apache-2.0 from 2020-01-13 |
| 1061d5ee1 | LICENSE — MIT from 2020-01-16 |
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12 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 5 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-08-12. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. None of them affects the surveyed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 2 records name fiber with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2024-6355, CVE-2025-1081).
A note that does not affect this rating: it describes the project's advisory record, and no advisory in it is known to affect the surveyed commit.
| GHSA-c5qf-v26h-rp5r | 2026-08-12: GHSA-c5qf-v26h-rp5r (moderate), fixed in >= v2.52.15: idempotency middleware: default MemoryLock leaks one mutex per unique key (memory-exhaustion DoS) |
| GHSA-g5vh-55hw-rxm8 | 2026-07-02: GHSA-g5vh-55hw-rxm8 (moderate), fixed in 3.3.0: GoFiber Vulnerable to Username Enumeration via Timing Oracle in BasicAuth Default Authorizer |
| GHSA-gcfq-8gqf-4876 | 2026-07-02: GHSA-gcfq-8gqf-4876 (moderate), fixed in 2.52.14: GoFiber Vulnerable to X-Real-IP Spoofing via Header.Add() in BalancerForward |
| GO-2026-5912 | 2026-07-02: GO-2026-5912 (moderate), fixed in 3.4.0: GoFiber never set HSTS header in helmet middleware due to incorrect protocol check in github.com/gofiber/fiber |
| GHSA-35hp-hqmv-8qg8 | 2026-04-25: GHSA-35hp-hqmv-8qg8 (moderate), fixed in 3.2.0: Fiber's cache middleware default key generator ignores query string, causing response mix-up across distinct query parameters |
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Observability & Operations
06 · adequate · ratings ↑No telemetry or error reporting is wired in anywhere
adequateNone of 461 readable files references an instrumentation, metrics or error-reporting library. If this system is in production, nobody learns that it broke from the system itself — they learn it from a customer. That is a reliability finding before it is an observability one.
| telemetry-scan | searched 461 tracked text files for 16 known instrumentation libraries; manifests for metrics, tracing and error-reporting families; locked dependencies for the packages that emit; 0 matched |
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No structured logging library is in use
adequateNothing references a structured logging library. Logs that are written to be read by a person are not searchable by a machine, which means incident response here is proportional to how well someone remembers the codebase rather than to what the tooling can find.
| logging-scan | searched 461 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 0 matched |
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No error reporter is wired in
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.
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| error reporting | no error reporter initialised |
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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
8 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.
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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 200 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 484 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 1,445 commits landed in the last year, against 366 the year before (+295%). What drove it: new people, a deadline, or code produced faster than before?
- 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 No alert rule is defined in the repository. Where are alerts defined, who receives them, and when did one last fire?
- Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered?
- Are the service-level objectives actually met?
- 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 Go codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run Go in production, or would this be the first?
- The bulk of this system sits in middleware/, internal/, client/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace?
- 61% of lines added in the last 12 months (19% of added lines) came through AI-declared commits. Does your organisation have a policy on inheriting and maintaining that code, and does your engineering team's tooling match how it was produced?
- 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?
- 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 — 96 signals that ran and did not fire
Appendix: rejection log — 96 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 — 70
| Signal | What it found |
|---|---|
| 04.hotspot_concentration | change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 1,541 · top5 share 0.123 |
| 04.debt_markers | debt markers are sparsemarkers 22 · per kloc 0.11 · lines read 203,267 |
| 04.dependency_sprawl | direct dependency counts are unremarkable |
| 04.test_growth | test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 1.924 · early test per code 0.466 |
| 04.churn_trend | rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.545 · early delete per insert 0.947 |
| 04.fixes_with_tests | fixes usually come with a testfixes 683 · share 0.757 · with tests 517 |
| 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 184 · compat files 0 |
| 06.healthcheck_presence | a health or readiness check is defined |
| 06.print_logging | raw prints are few, or outnumbered by logger callsprints 0 · logger calls 46 |
| 06.correlation_ids | a request can be followed through the logstracing False · request id sites 8 |
| 06.usage_reporting_default | the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 0 · settings off 0 |
| 06.environment_branching | environment differences live in configurationsites 0 |
| 06.release_markers | releases are markedtags last year 14 · release commits 0 · changelog commits 2 |
| 06.migrate_on_start | migrations do not run at container start |
| 03.contributor_concentration | no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 6.7 · window last 24 months · authors 484 |
| 03.active_contributors | more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 484 · active 12mo 76 |
| 03.knowledge_silos | every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 484 · directories 7 |
| 03.drive_by_contributors | an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 484 · one off share 0.624 |
| 03.contributor_attrition | no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matterauthors 484 · top share less than a quarter · top contributor last committed between three and six months ago |
| 03.critical_path_ownership | more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 118 |
| 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 1 · joined 26 · regular last year 31 |
| 02.merge_discipline | a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 792 · window last 24 months · with tracked 29 |
| 02.ci_presence | CI configuration is present in the working treecount 22 |
| 02.test_presence | tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 141 · source 322 · test ratio 0.438 |
| 02.release_cadence | tags are presenttags 147 |
| 02.conventional_commits | commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 5,601 · low content share 0.042 |
| 02.branch_protection_hints | process scaffolding is present in the repository |
| 02.ci_runs_tests | CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 22 · with tests 1 |
| 02.skipped_tests | few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 159 |
| 02.ci_test_gating | no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 22 |
| 02.revert_share | change is rarely undoneshare 0.006 · reverts 10 · recent commits 1,811 |
| 02.dependency_update_cadence | dependencies move with the codelockfiles 1 · commits since 7 · days since lockfile changed 3 |
| 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 22 · product files 184 |
| 02.long_lived_branches | the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.011 · merges 523 · long lived 6 |
| 02.commit_size | changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.007 · commits 1,681 · over 2000 lines 12 |
| 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 1 · share of insertions 0.0 |
| 01.message_uniformity | commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 22.76 · repeat share 0.224 |
| 01.revision_depth | most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 196 · write once share 0.087 |
| 01.oversized_modules | no module is an outlier against this codebase's own normlargest 12,059 · threshold 1,850 · median lines 185 |
| 01.duplicated_blocks | little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0042 · product files 181 · distinct blocks 26,990 |
| 01.swallowed_errors | errors are rarely thrown awayloc 203,724 · 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.license_present | a licence file is presentfound True |
| 05.secrets_management_pattern | no environment file is committed outside tests and examplesenv files 0 |
| 05.sql_from_strings | no SQL is assembled from strings in product codefiles 0 · sites 0 · value interpolated 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.known_vulnerabilities | no locked dependency has a published advisoryadvisories 0 · dependencies 20 · high or critical 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 4 · files with deprecations 18 |
| 04.dependency_churn | few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 60 · added in two years 8 · removed within 60 days 0 |
| 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 12.5 · days since last tag 47 · commits last 90 days 990 |
| 04.release_branch | the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 16 · on branch 131 · tags in window 147 |
| 03.single_maintainer | no file says one person maintains itstatements 0 |
Could not conclude, or did not apply — 26
Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.
| Signal | Why |
|---|---|
| 04.eol_runtime | no pinned runtime version to check |
| 04.schema_churn | no schema migrations to read |
| 04.dependency_redundancy | no JavaScript manifest to read |
| 06.telemetry_depth | none at all is 06.1 |
| 06.alert_rules | no alert rules in the repository; they may live in a console |
| 06.deployed_image_floats | no deployment descriptor names an image |
| 06.probes_identical | no Kubernetes probes |
| 06.single_replica | no Kubernetes deployments |
| 06.feature_flags | no feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere |
| 01.build_reproducibility | no product Dockerfile to read |
| 01.notebook_outputs | not a data or machine-learning repository |
| 05.dependency_pinning | no manifest whose pinning can be read without a lockfile |
| 05.container_runs_as_root | no Dockerfile to read |
| 05.migration_reversibility | too few migrations to judge |
| 05.resource_limits | no Kubernetes workload manifests |
| 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_copyleft_inherited | no 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_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_advisories | record incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; NVD: 2 records name fiber with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2024-6355, CVE-2025-1081) |
| 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.
A survey is a reading by a particular version of the assessor. Older readings are kept rather than replaced, because a verification mark attests to the survey it was issued for — overwriting one would make every code already in circulation read as tampered.
| Read | Assessor | Findings | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-03 · shown | borehole 0.7.11 | 10 | strong |
5 other readings (show)
| 2026-10-04 | borehole 0.7.13 | 10 | strong |
| 2026-10-03 | borehole 0.7.12 | 10 | strong |
| 2026-10-02 | borehole 0.7.10 | 10 | strong |
| 2026-10-01 | borehole 0.7.9 | 10 | adequate |
| 2026-09-30 | borehole 0.7.8 | 10 | adequate |
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 | authenticated: False |
| 5.9s | cloned the repository to a temporary directory | depth: full |
| 9.7s | read the git history | commits: 7203tracked files: 482 |
| 72.3s | ran the deterministic checks | blame pass: Trueread working tree: False |
| 72.3s | recorded where this scan ran | attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run |
| 99.5s | kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks | |
| 99.5s | deleting the working copy |
Total 99.5s ·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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