bbbf3fe · 2,926 commits · 7,616 files
Issued 2026-11-03
Nothing significant. Questions worth asking about Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity, Security & Reliability Posture.
105 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. None found a significant problem; 3 raised something worth a question. 8 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer. Last commit 3 November 2026.
- 1 finding from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right is no longer published.
- The file and line of 10 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 | adequate | |
| 03 | Organization & Key-Person Risk | strong | |
| 04 | Product & Engineering Maturity | adequate | |
| 05 | Security & Reliability Posture | adequate | |
| 06 | Observability & Operations | not assessable | |
| 07 | Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
- 97% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
- no widespread author/committer date divergence
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
01 · strong · ratings ↑packages/desktop/src/main/index.ts is 7,228 lines, 61× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 118 lines. 52 files exceed 1,180 lines, the largest being 7,228. 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 | packages/desktop/src/main/index.ts:1 — 7,228 lines (61× median) |
| line-count | packages/server/src/server-factory.ts:1 — 6,286 lines (53× median) |
| line-count | packages/server/src/api-extension.ts:1 — 6,000 lines (50× median) |
| line-count | packages/server/src/file-watcher.ts:1 — 5,247 lines (44× median) |
| line-count | packages/app/src/components/acp/ThreadView.tsx:1 — 4,917 lines (41× median) |
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
02 · adequate · ratings ↑3 committed .only switches other tests off
adequate3 test files commit a focused `.only`, which runs that test and silently skips the rest of its suite. 237 skip markers across 58 of 4236 test files. Each is a failure somebody chose to stop seeing; the question is whether anyone is tracking them.
| packages/desktop/tests/smoke/_helpers/parse-timeouts.test.ts | packages/desktop/tests/smoke/_helpers/parse-timeouts.test.ts:1074 — committed .only: other tests do not run |
| scripts/check-known-reds.uncached.test.mjs | scripts/check-known-reds.uncached.test.mjs:272 — committed .only: other tests do not run |
| packages/app/tests/integration/composition-sweep-index.test.ts | packages/app/tests/integration/composition-sweep-index.test.ts:4 — skipped test |
| packages/app/tests/integration/e2e-stop-rules.test.ts | packages/app/tests/integration/e2e-stop-rules.test.ts:665 — skipped test |
| packages/app/tests/integration/stale-external-write-rollback.test.ts | packages/app/tests/integration/stale-external-write-rollback.test.ts:302 — skipped test |
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14% of recent commits change more than 2,000 lines
adequate273 of 1960 commits in the last 24 months changed over 2,000 lines of code, not counting reformatting, renames, vendored or generated code. A change that size is rarely reviewed line by line. Ask how they were reviewed, and what made them that large.
| git log --numstat | 273 commits over 2,000 lines |
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Tests are retried until they pass
adequateThe suite is configured to retry failing tests (packages/desktop/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.
| packages/desktop/playwright.config.ts | packages/desktop/playwright.config.ts:29 — 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 ↑108 direct dependencies in a single manifest
adequatepackages/app/package.json declares 108 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.
| direct-dependencies | packages/app/package.json — 108 declared |
| direct-dependencies | packages/core/package.json — 61 declared |
| direct-dependencies | packages/server/package.json — 43 declared |
| direct-dependencies | packages/cli/package.json — 20 declared |
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Security & Reliability Posture
05 · adequate · ratings ↑33 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.
| GitHub token | 5 cited: GitHub token, where fakes are usual |
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14 credential-shaped strings added in the history 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.
A note that does not affect this rating: notes like it are common in well-run projects.
| history | JWT, where fakes are usual |
| history | 3 cited: GitHub token, where fakes are usual |
| history | Slack token, where fakes are usual |
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12 places insert HTML from a variable without sanitising it
adequate12 places set HTML from a value that is neither a literal nor passed through a sanitiser. Where the value can come from a user, that is stored cross-site scripting, and it is the first thing a buyer's security review looks for in a frontend.
A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.
| packages/app/src/components/EditorActivityPool.tsx | packages/app/src/components/EditorActivityPool.tsx:725 — HTML from a variable |
| packages/app/src/editor/components/Math.tsx | packages/app/src/editor/components/Math.tsx:25 — HTML from a variable |
| packages/app/src/editor/components/Mirror.tsx | packages/app/src/editor/components/Mirror.tsx:111 — HTML from a variable |
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Observability & Operations
06 · not assessable · ratings ↑Not rated: only 5 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it. What a person adds here.
Fit with the Acquirer
07 · not assessable · ratings ↑Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository. What a person adds here.
Check it on the running system
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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 2,852 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 14 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- 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- 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 coverageNot rated: only 5 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.
- 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 TypeScript codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run TypeScript in production, or would this be the first?
- The bulk of this system sits in packages/, lint-plugins/, patches/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace?
- 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 — 97 signals that ran and did not fire
Appendix: rejection log — 97 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 — 61
| Signal | What it found |
|---|---|
| 04.hotspot_concentration | change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 9,770 · top5 share 0.012 |
| 04.debt_markers | debt markers are sparsemarkers 34 · per kloc 0.02 · lines read 1,711,303 |
| 04.eol_runtime | every pinned runtime is still supportedeol as of 2026-09-24 |
| 04.fixes_with_tests | fixes usually come with a testfixes 882 · share 0.895 · with tests 789 |
| 04.compat_layers | little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.001 · code files 2,670 · compat files 2 |
| 04.dependency_redundancy | one library per job, mostly |
| 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 7,410 |
| 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 1 · settings off 2 |
| 06.migrate_on_start | migrations do not run at container start |
| 03.contributor_concentration | no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 0.4 · window last 24 months · authors 14 |
| 03.knowledge_silos | every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 14 · directories 5 |
| 03.drive_by_contributors | a healthy share of contributors committed more than onceshare 0.0 · authors 14 · one commit authors 0 |
| 03.critical_path_ownership | more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 14 |
| 02.merge_discipline | a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 483 · window last 24 months · with tracked 16 |
| 02.ci_presence | CI configuration is present in the working treecount 17 |
| 02.test_presence | tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 4,189 · source 6,838 · test ratio 0.613 |
| 02.conventional_commits | commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 2,443 · low content share 0.001 |
| 02.branch_protection_hints | process scaffolding is present in the repository |
| 02.ci_runs_tests | CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 17 · with tests 6 |
| 02.ci_test_gating | no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 17 |
| 02.revert_share | change is rarely undoneshare 0.001 · reverts 2 · recent commits 2,124 |
| 02.dependency_update_cadence | dependencies move with the codelockfiles 2 · commits since 14 · days since lockfile changed 3 |
| 02.lint_in_build | a linter or formatter runs in the buildwired 6 · ci configs 17 · product files 2,670 |
| 02.long_lived_branches | the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.0 · merges 481 · long lived 0 |
| 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 0 · share of insertions 0.0 |
| 01.message_uniformity | commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 16.5 · repeat share 0.001 |
| 01.revision_depth | most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 2,802 · write once share 0.17 |
| 01.duplicated_blocks | little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0036 · product files 2,653 · distinct blocks 403,458 |
| 01.swallowed_errors | errors are rarely thrown awayloc 1,718,706 · files 193 · per kloc 0.22 |
| 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.supply_chain_pinning | third-party build steps are pinned, or fewaction refs 126 · pipe to shell 0 · unpinned third party 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.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.source_maps_shipped | production builds do not publish source mapssites 0 |
| 05.signing_material | no signing keystore or profile is committedfiles 0 |
| 05.license_manifest_conflict | manifest and licence file agree on GPL-3.0license GPL-3.0 |
| 05.license_vendored_unlicensed | no vendored third-party code is committedcomponents 0 |
| 05.license_grant_unclear | the licence is recognisable as GPL-3.0class strong-copyleft · license GPL-3.0 |
| 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 8 |
| 04.dependency_churn | few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 295 · added in two years 295 · removed within 60 days 14 |
| 04.ci_platforms_dropped | no platform was dropped from CI in the last two years |
| 04.repository_status | the README's first screen states no end, move or freezestatements 0 |
| 02.development_elsewhere | nothing says development happens elsewhereno pr statements 0 · mirror statements 0 · replayed commit share 0.0 |
| 05.licence_changes | the root licence has not changed in the history readlicence versions 1 · unreleased changes 0 |
| 05.paid_edition | no directory carries a separate paid-edition licencedirectories 0 |
| 04.releases_stopped | releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 0.0 · days since last tag 0 · commits last 90 days 1,438 |
| 04.release_branch | the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 74 · on branch 1,366 · tags in window 1,440 |
| 03.single_maintainer | no file says one person maintains itstatements 0 |
Could not conclude, or did not apply — 36
Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.
| Signal | Why |
|---|---|
| 04.test_growth | history too short to compare code and test growth |
| 04.churn_trend | history too short to read a churn trend |
| 04.fix_share_trend | fewer than six busy quarters to compare |
| 04.schema_churn | no schema migrations to read |
| 06.telemetry_depth | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.print_logging | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.correlation_ids | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.error_reporting | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.alert_rules | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.deployed_image_floats | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.probes_identical | no Kubernetes probes |
| 06.single_replica | no Kubernetes deployments |
| 06.environment_branching | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.release_markers | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.feature_flags | no feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere |
| 03.active_contributors | history too short to distinguish active from historical contributors |
| 03.contributor_attrition | too little history to tell activity from absence |
| 03.second_contributor_attrition | too little history |
| 03.bus_factor_trend | fewer than three active years to compare |
| 03.joiners_and_leavers | too few regular contributors to see a trend |
| 02.release_cadence | repository history is too short to judge release cadence |
| 01.build_reproducibility | no product Dockerfile to read |
| 01.notebook_outputs | not a data or machine-learning repository |
| 05.container_runs_as_root | no Dockerfile to read |
| 05.outbound_timeouts | not a running service |
| 05.migration_reversibility | too few migrations to judge |
| 05.sql_from_strings | not a running service; a library that builds SQL is doing its job |
| 05.resource_limits | no Kubernetes workload manifests |
| 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 |
| 04.flags_accumulating | few or no feature flags in the history |
| 04.api_versions_coexisting | not a running service |
| 05.project_advisories | record incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; OSV npm @inkeep/open-knowledge (an empty record for a package published here) did not |
| 05.advisory_record | record incomplete: no advisory against the project in the last 24 months; OSV npm @inkeep/open-knowledge (an empty record for a package published here) did not answer |
| 05.project_exploited | no affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list |
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| At | Step | Detail |
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| 0.0s | read repository metadata from the GitHub API | size mb: 220.7authenticated: False |
| 21.6s | cloned the repository to a temporary directory | depth: full |
| 50.3s | read the git history | commits: 2926tracked files: 7616 |
| 364.6s | ran the deterministic checks | blame pass: Falseread working tree: False |
| 364.7s | recorded where this scan ran | attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run |
| 650.9s | kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks | |
| 650.9s | deleting the working copy |
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