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gravitational/teleport
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1283425 · 27,925 commits · 15,153 files
Issued 2026-10-22

AGPL-3.0 since 2023-12-01: open source; offering it over a network counts as distributing it, so a hosted product's changes must be published.

104 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. 2 findings are worth checking first. 17 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What matters most
  • 05.60 AGPL-3.0 since 2023-12-01: open source; offering it over a network counts as distributing it, so a hosted product's changes must be published
What the repository says about itself
  • 04.62 Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
  • 05.60 Relicensed: Apache-2.0 → AGPL-3.0 (2023-12-01) LICENSE
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.

  • 05.26 43 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 13 high or critical in what ships
  • 04.3 280 direct dependencies in a single manifest
What this survey read. This commit may not be the product users run: The newest release, v18.11.1, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v2.6.0. 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 1 credential-shaped match is withheld. File and line are shown to whoever GitHub says controls this repository, signed in, and to a buyer of this report.
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
0% of added lines arrived in commits declaring an AI agent as co-author
The surviving-lines measurement was not run on this repository.
0% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-10-22) arrived in AI-declared commits: 6/3,572 commits, confidence moderate. Also a floor.
6/26,529 commits declaring an agent · Claude Sonnet 4.5, Copilot
confidence: moderate
  • 15% 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
7,592,584 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

lib/auth/auth_with_roles.go is 9,386 lines, 89× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 105 lines. 121 files exceed 1,050 lines, the largest being 9,386. 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 lib/auth/auth_with_roles.go:1 — 9,386 lines (89× median)
line-count lib/auth/auth.go:1 — 9,259 lines (88× median)
line-count integrations/terraform/tfschema/scopes/joining/v1/token_terraform.go:1 — 8,283 lines (78× median)
line-count lib/service/service.go:1 — 8,011 lines (76× median)
line-count lib/auth/grpcserver.go:1 — 7,000 lines (66× median)
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
02.16

Tests are retried until they pass

adequate

The suite is configured to retry failing tests (e2e/playwright.config.ts). A retry turns a flaky test green without saying why it failed, so a green build means the tests passed eventually. Ask how many retries a typical run needs, and which tests need them.

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

Evidence
e2e/playwright.config.ts e2e/playwright.config.ts:37 — test retry
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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

280 direct dependencies in a single manifest

adequate worth checking first

go.mod declares 280 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 — 280 declared
direct-dependencies package.json — 37 declared
direct-dependencies api/go.mod — 28 declared
direct-dependencies web/packages/teleport/package.json — 23 declared
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A note that does not affect this rating
04.62

Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed

adequate

The newest release, v18.11.1, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v2.6.0. 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
27eb07217 tag v18.11.1
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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑
05.1

1 credential-shaped string 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. 2 other matchs set aside: expired tokens, licence tokens a vendor verifies with a public key, or placeholder text where a key would go. None grants access to anything.

Evidence
private key block private key block, 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

5 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 build.assets/charts/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction integrations/access/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction integrations/event-handler/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction integrations/kube-agent-updater/Dockerfile — runs as root
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05.26

43 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 13 high or critical in what ships

adequate worth checking first

43 of 2,715 locked dependencies match 117 published advisories in OSV, 48 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 pnpm-lock.yaml settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — @storybook/addon-vitest 10.5.7: GHSA-f2ph-cmg5-wxc8 (critical), fixed in 10.6.2; a development dependency
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — storybook 10.5.7: GHSA-f2ph-cmg5-wxc8 (critical), fixed in 10.6.2; a development dependency
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — tinypool 2.1.0: GHSA-5gmw-xhrv-c9v3 (critical), fixed in 2.1.1; a development dependency
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Notes that do not affect this rating
05.27

The build runs third-party code it does not pin

adequate

2 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.

Evidence
.github/workflows/assign.yaml .github/workflows/assign.yaml:39 — action pinned by tag
.github/workflows/post-release.yaml .github/workflows/post-release.yaml:50 — action pinned by tag
build.assets/Dockerfile build.assets/Dockerfile:206 — download piped into a shell
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05.13

2 outbound calls can wait forever

adequate

2 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
lib/accessgraph/apiclient/client.gen.go lib/accessgraph/apiclient/client.gen.go:709 — outbound call without a timeout
lib/srv/app/cloud.go lib/srv/app/cloud.go:283 — outbound call without a timeout
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05.20

6 SQL statements built from strings

adequate

6 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters. 2 of them put a value into the string; in the rest, what the code shows going in is a table or column name, a constant, or something the line does not show. 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
lib/events/auditqueue/sqlite.go lib/events/auditqueue/sqlite.go:756 — SQL built from a string
lib/events/auditqueue/sqlite.go lib/events/auditqueue/sqlite.go:763 — SQL built from a string
lib/backend/pgbk/common/utils.go lib/backend/pgbk/common/utils.go:321 — SQL built from a string
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05.34

3 of 3 Kubernetes workloads declare no resource limits

adequate

3 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.

Evidence
assets/loadtest/helm/node-agent/templates/deployment.yaml assets/loadtest/helm/node-agent/templates/deployment.yaml — workload with no limits
assets/loadtest/helm/resources/templates/tbot.yaml assets/loadtest/helm/resources/templates/tbot.yaml — workload with no limits
assets/loadtest/helm/trusted-cluster/templates/deployment.yaml assets/loadtest/helm/trusted-cluster/templates/deployment.yaml — workload with no limits
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05.9

5 vendored components with no licence

adequate

Third-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.

Evidence
docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/ansible.mdx docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/ansible.mdx — 1 tracked files, no licence file
docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/gui-clients.mdx docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/gui-clients.mdx — 1 tracked files, no licence file
docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/jetbrains-sftp.mdx docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/jetbrains-sftp.mdx — 1 tracked files, no licence file
docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/putty-winscp.mdx docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/putty-winscp.mdx — 1 tracked files, no licence file
docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/vscode.mdx docs/pages/connect-your-client/third-party/vscode.mdx — 1 tracked files, no licence file
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05.60

Relicensed: Apache-2.0 → AGPL-3.0 (2023-12-01)

adequate

The root licence changed 1 time(s). The latest terms restrict what users, hosts or a buyer may do in ways the earlier ones did not. Code taken under the old terms stays under them, so both matter in diligence.

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
03161e511 LICENSE — Apache-2.0 from 2015-10-31
b178b8b73 LICENSE — AGPL-3.0 from 2023-12-01
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05.65

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

adequate

The newest was published on 2025-06-16. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. Whether 1 of them are fixed in the code you ship could not be told from this history: its version is only known to be at least 2.6.0. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 4 records name teleport with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2018-19301, CVE-2018-19555, CVE-2022-38599, …).

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.

Evidence
GHSA-8cqv-pj7f-pwpc 2025-06-16: GHSA-8cqv-pj7f-pwpc (critical), fixed in 12.4.35: Teleport allows remote authentication bypass
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Observability & Operations

06 · adequate · ratings ↑
06.35

Sends usage data to usage.teleport.dev by default

adequate

web/packages/teleterm/csp.ts sends to usage.teleport.dev, and lib/autoupdate/agent/setup.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.

Evidence
web/packages/teleterm/csp.ts web/packages/teleterm/csp.ts:23 — reports to usage.teleport.dev
lib/autoupdate/agent/setup.go lib/autoupdate/agent/setup.go:728 — the reporting setting is on by default
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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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06.33

1 of 3 deployments run a single replica

adequate

1 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.

Evidence
assets/loadtest/helm/resources/templates/tbot.yaml assets/loadtest/helm/resources/templates/tbot.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

11 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 (integrations/terraform/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. measured The repository pulls code in through git submodules (.gitmodules). A buyer receives pointers, not that code. Can every submodule be fetched without the team's credentials, and who owns each one? Answer lives in: The team and the submodule owners01.35
  3. Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product? Answer lives in: Your architects, with the product roadmap01.39
  4. 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 361 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. 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
  2. Does leadership know about the debt, and is time budgeted to repay it? Answer lives in: Budget and roadmap decisions04.31
  3. 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 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
  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
  1. measured Backup or restore tooling is in the tree (assets/loadtest/control-plane/teleport/gen-firestore-teleport.sh). Has a restore ever been rehearsed, and how long did it take? Answer lives in: The operations team06.19
  2. measured No alert rule is defined in the repository. Where are alerts defined, who receives them, and when did one last fire? Answer lives in: The alerting tool and the on-call rota06.10
  3. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  4. Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
  5. Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off? Answer lives in: Pager exports and interviews06.31
  6. 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 Go codebase, with TypeScript alongside (37% of source files). Does your engineering organisation already run Go in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in web/, api/, lib/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. The repository carries deployment configuration (assets/loadtest/helm/.gitignore and 252 more). 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 — 87 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 87 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 46,117 · top5 share 0.022
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 1,669 · per kloc 0.73 · lines read 2,300,223
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.426 · early delete per insert 0.427
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 1,099 · share 0.502 · with tests 552
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.008 · code files 6,419 · compat files 53
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 246
06.structured_logging a structured logging library is referencedmatches 819
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 185
06.environment_branching environment differences live in configurationsites 3
06.release_markers releases are markedtags last year 1,563 · release commits 2 · changelog commits 45
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.contributor_concentration no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 11.5 · window last 24 months · authors 361
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 361 · active 12mo 105
03.knowledge_silos every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 361 · directories 17
03.drive_by_contributors an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 361 · one off share 0.382
03.contributor_attrition no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matterauthors 361 · 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 127
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 2 · joined 34 · regular last year 93
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 0 · window last 24 months · with tracked 350
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 51
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 2,857 · source 8,630 · test ratio 0.331
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 7,117
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 26,529 · low content share 0.011
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 51 · with tests 15
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 3,493
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 51
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.002 · reverts 13 · recent commits 8,105
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 24 · commits since 0 · days since lockfile changed 0
02.lint_in_build a linter or formatter runs in the buildwired 12 · ci configs 51 · product files 6,419
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.017 · commits 7,483 · over 2000 lines 125
01.burst_import the largest burst was merged pull requests, each developed and reviewed on its own branch (100% of it), which explains the rate: translations arrive from a vendor in bulk, dependencies and generated code are committed whole, a merged pull request is dated when it merged, not when it was written, a branch merged by a merge commit was reviewed as one piece, and an export or mirror tool dates history when it replays itlargest commits e6951df..76b1f4e · bursts explained 1 · largest net added 4,324
01.initial_dump first commit is not a disproportionate share of the codebaseinsertions 26 · share of insertions 0.0
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 19.16 · repeat share 0.025
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 7,391 · write once share 0.228
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0084 · product files 5,780 · distinct blocks 734,495
01.swallowed_errors errors are rarely thrown awayloc 2,308,336 · files 1 · per kloc 0.0
01.build_reproducibility every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 20
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 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.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.source_maps_shipped production builds do not publish source mapssites 0
05.signing_material no signing keystore or profile is committedfiles 0
05.cleartext_traffic plain HTTP is not allowed app-widesites 0
05.license_copyleft_inherited every licence found in vendored code is permissive or weak-copyleftvendored paths 6
05.license_manifest_conflict manifest and licence file agree on AGPL-3.0license AGPL-3.0
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 1
04.api_versions_coexisting the newer API version is recent; the old one may be on its way outmonths together 10
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 0.0 · days since last tag 36 · commits last 90 days 381
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 20

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.eol_runtimeno pinned runtime version to check
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
06.print_logginga frontend: console output is the browser's, not the server's
06.alert_rulesno alert rules in the repository; they may live in a console
06.deployed_image_floatsno deployment descriptor names an image
06.probes_identicalno Kubernetes probes
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
02.long_lived_branchestoo few merges to judge (squash and rebase leave none)
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.migration_reversibilitytoo few migrations to judge
05.public_env_secretnot assessed for Go, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.unsafe_htmlnot assessed for Go, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.dataset_provenancenot a data or machine-learning repository
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
04.deprecations_lingeringthe history scanned covers 18 months, less than the 24 this question needs
04.dependency_churnthe history scanned covers 18 months, less than the 24 this question needs
04.ci_platforms_droppedthe history scanned covers 18 months, less than the 24 this question needs
05.project_advisoriesrecord incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; NVD: 4 records name teleport with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2018-19301, CVE-2018-19555, CVE-2022-38599, …); 4 are fixed in the surveyed commit, and the release users run is not placed by this history
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
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327.2s read the git history commits: 27925tracked files: 15153
953.0s ran the deterministic checks blame pass: Falseread working tree: False
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