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Issued 2026-10-22

BUSL-1.1 since 2023-08-10: source available, not open source; production use restricted until the change date.

105 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. None found a significant problem; 3 raised something worth a question. 10 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What matters most
  • 05.60 BUSL-1.1 since 2023-08-10: source available, not open source; production use restricted until the change date
What the repository says about itself
  • 04.62 Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
  • 05.66 The licence is BUSL-1.1: source available, not open source LICENSE:1
  • 05.60 Relicensed: MPL-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 (2023-08-10) LICENSE
What this survey read. This commit may not be the product users run: The newest release, v1.16.2, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v1.16.0. Read this report as describing that commit, not the release users run. Survey the release branch or tag as well.
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  • 1 finding from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right is no longer published.
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
0% of the code standing today was written in AI-declared commits
0% of lines still in the tree 174 of 95,092 0% of lines ever added these differ when early hand-written code has since been replaced
1% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-10-22) arrived in AI-declared commits: 3/92 commits, confidence low. Also a floor.
3/15,154 commits declaring an agent · Claude Fable 5, Copilot
confidence: moderate
  • 4% 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
  • deep scan blamed 997 of 997 counted files
5,497,559 lines excluded as lockfiles, vendored or generated.
This is a lower bound. It counts what the repository declares. Undeclared AI authorship is invisible here, and a single rebase removes the trailers this rests on. Absence of a declaration is absence of disclosure, not absence of AI authorship.

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

01 · adequate · ratings ↑
01.25

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

adequate

2 of 4 `FROM` lines in product Dockerfiles name an image without a version, or with `latest`. Each build pulls whatever the registry serves that day, so the image that ships can change without a commit, and last month's build cannot be reproduced. Pin a version, or a digest.

Evidence
Dockerfile Dockerfile:22 — base image without a version
Dockerfile Dockerfile:34 — base image without a version
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A note that does not affect this rating
01.6

command/hcl2_upgrade.go is 1,488 lines, 27× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 55 lines. 4 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 1,488. 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 command/hcl2_upgrade.go:1 — 1,488 lines (27× median)
line-count packer/core.go:1 — 1,066 lines (19× median)
line-count hcl2template/types.packer_config.go:1 — 1,052 lines (19× median)
line-count packer/plugin-getter/plugins.go:1 — 1,025 lines (18× 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 ↑
03.12

The next contributor after the top one has not committed here for more than a year

adequate

The #2 contributor of the last three years (less than a quarter of the commits) has not committed here for more than two years, 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.

Evidence
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 two years
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03.27

Regular contributors fell from 12 to 5 in a year

adequate

8 people who committed regularly the year before made no commits in the last year, and 3 new regular contributors arrived. Ask whether the work they did is still covered.

Evidence
regular contributors by year 12 then 5; 8 stopped committing, 3 began
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Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · strong · ratings ↑
Notes that do not affect this rating
04.5

Effort is shifting from building to rewriting

adequate

Deleted lines per line added rose from 0.44 to 1.31 between the first and second halves of this history. Rework is normal and often healthy, but a rising ratio means an increasing share of the team's time is spent replacing code that already exists rather than building what does not. Whether that is deliberate repayment or churn is a question for the team.

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

Evidence
deletions-per-insertion first half 0.44, second half 1.31 (split 2020-01-06)
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04.62

Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed

adequate

The newest release, v1.16.2, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v1.16.0. 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
b35bf7d95 tag v1.16.2
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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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Notes that do not affect this rating
05.66

The licence is BUSL-1.1: source available, not open source

adequate

LICENSE grants BUSL-1.1: source available, not open source; production use restricted until the change date. The reading comes from the licence's own title and clauses. Whether the terms fit the buyer's intended use, and whether any paid licence transfers with the code, is a question for counsel and the licensor.

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

Evidence
LICENSE LICENSE:1 — 92 lines, BUSL-1.1
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05.60

Relicensed: MPL-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 (2023-08-10)

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
6a0bbd405 LICENSE — MPL-2.0 from 2013-06-24
19055df3e LICENSE — BUSL-1.1 from 2023-08-10
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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 2026-08-17. 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 1.16.0. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version.

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
CVE-2026-19589 2026-08-17: CVE-2026-19589 (high): Packer up to 1.15.4 is vulnerable to an issue in the third-party plugin installer that may allow unintended file system modification and could lead to code exec
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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.

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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 No architecture or design document is in the tree, across 325 product files. Where does the design live, and who holds it? 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 1,430 people have committed here. Which of them are you acquiring, and which are you replacing? Answer lives in: The deal terms03.29
  2. measured fix/ (less than a quarter of the files) has not changed in 18 months while the rest of the repository moved. Is that code finished, or abandoned, and who still knows how it works? Answer lives in: The team03.22
  3. Who mentors whom, and would that survive a departure? Answer lives in: The team; review history only suggests candidates03.28
  4. Can the team grow, and who stands behind the top three contributors? Answer lives in: Recruiting data and the org chart03.30
  5. Is the seniority mix sound, and will pay survive your salary bands? Answer lives in: HR data03.31
  6. Is the pace sustainable? Commit times cannot say: git keeps no reliable local time. Answer lives in: Interviews and on-call history03.14
  7. Does the team want to stay after close? Answer lives in: Interviews03.32
  8. How are decisions made and disagreements resolved? Answer lives in: Time with the team03.33

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · minimal coverage
  1. measured 72 commits landed in the last year, against 194 the year before (-63%). Is that maintenance mode, a pivot, or fewer people working on it? The count looks the same for all three. 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 Go codebase. 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 acctest/, assets/, builder/. 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 — 95 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 95 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 — 63

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 26,273 · top5 share 0.012
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 88 · per kloc 0.93 · lines read 94,437
04.dependency_sprawl direct dependency counts are unremarkable
04.test_growth test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 0.568 · early test per code 0.351
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 37 · share 0.297 · with tests 11
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.017 · code files 301 · compat files 5
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 914
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 13.6 · window last 24 months · authors 1,430
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 1,430 · active 12mo 17
03.knowledge_silos every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 1,430 · directories 17
03.drive_by_contributors an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 1,430 · one off share 0.534
03.contributor_attrition no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matterauthors 1,430 · top share less than a quarter · top contributor last committed more than three years ago
03.critical_path_ownership more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 35
03.bus_factor_trend the team has not narrowed to one person
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 69 · window last 24 months · with tracked 2
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 14
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 425 · source 725 · test ratio 0.586
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 148
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 15,154 · low content share 0.041
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 13 · with tests 2
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 610
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 14
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.004 · reverts 1 · recent commits 266
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 2 · commits since 1 · 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 1 · ci configs 14 · product files 301
02.long_lived_branches the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.083 · merges 60 · long lived 5
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.024 · commits 207 · over 2000 lines 5
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 10 · share of insertions 0.0
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 30.72 · repeat share 0.126
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 323 · write once share 0.037
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0143 · product files 301 · distinct blocks 24,004
01.swallowed_errors errors are rarely thrown awayloc 95,277 · 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.committed_secrets no credential-shaped strings outside test and fixture pathsnote the working tree only; the history is 05.5 · patterns 8 · files read 914
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.supply_chain_pinning third-party build steps are pinned, or fewaction refs 62 · pipe to shell 0 · unpinned third party 1
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 425 · 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.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 363
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 396 · added in two years 253 · removed within 60 days 1
04.ci_platforms_dropped no platform was dropped from CI in the last two years
04.repository_status the README's first screen states no end, move or freezestatements 0
02.development_elsewhere nothing says development happens elsewhereno pr statements 0 · mirror statements 0 · replayed commit share 0.0
05.paid_edition no directory carries a separate paid-edition licencedirectories 0
04.releases_stopped releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 35.5 · days since last tag 0 · commits last 90 days 21
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.eol_runtimeno pinned runtime version to check
04.fix_share_trendfewer than six busy quarters to compare
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 Go github.com/hashicorp/packer (an empty record for a package published here) did not
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
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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.

AtStepDetail
0.0s read repository metadata from the GitHub API size mb: 117.5authenticated: False
18.2s cloned the repository to a temporary directory depth: full
40.0s read the git history commits: 19031tracked files: 1016
281.4s ran the deterministic checks blame pass: Trueread working tree: False
281.4s recorded where this scan ran attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run
367.1s kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks
367.1s deleting the working copy

Total 367.1s ·source content sent off this machine: none · calls to a language model: 0 · the clone was deleted when the survey ended

An automated reading of a repository's code and its history up to one commit, with public advisory records. It may be wrong, it is not legal, financial, investment or security advice, and it does not replace diligence by a qualified person. It is provided for information: nobody may rely on it (Borehole's terms, section 3).

BOREHOLE 0.7.15 DETERMINISTIC LAYER · NO MODEL CALLSREAD ON BOREHOLE'S SERVER · CLONE DELETED TAKEDOWNCONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPOSITORY? YOUR RIGHTS