a82c0d0 · 8,300 commits · 2,371 files
Issued 2026-09-26
Nothing significant. Questions worth asking about Security & Reliability Posture, Observability & Operations.
89 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. None found a significant problem; 4 raised something worth a question. 10 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.
- Words about people are today's: bands rather than exact shares, dates or day counts, and what the history measured rather than why.
- 3 findings from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right are no longer published.
| Dimension | Rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance | adequate | |
| 02 | Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | strong | |
| 03 | Organization & Key-Person Risk | not assessable | |
| 04 | Product & Engineering Maturity | adequate | |
| 05 | Security & Reliability Posture | adequate | |
| 06 | Observability & Operations | adequate | |
| 07 | Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
- 8% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
- low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
- 43% of commits show author/committer date divergence, which is the shape of replayed history that can drop trailers
- the declared share is neither decisive nor negligible, so the true figure is more sensitive to undeclared work
- deep scan blamed 1,248 of 1,248 counted files
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
01 · adequate · ratings ↑pkg/i18n/english.go is 2,365 lines, 34× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 69 lines. 8 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 2,365. 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.
| line-count | pkg/i18n/english.go:1 — 2,365 lines (34× median) |
| line-count | pkg/gocui/view.go:1 — 2,352 lines (34× median) |
| line-count | pkg/gocui/gui.go:1 — 2,158 lines (31× median) |
| line-count | pkg/gui/controllers/local_commits_controller.go:1 — 2,025 lines (29× median) |
| line-count | pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/refresh_helper.go:1 — 1,948 lines (28× median) |
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
02 · strong · ratings ↑No finding. 15 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.
Organization & Key-Person Risk
03 · not assessable · ratings ↑Not rated: this repository belongs to a person rather than an organisation, so a finding about one contributor would be about someone the address names; the public report does not carry those, and does not rate this dimension without them. The findings below are what it could still read.
Regular contributors fell from 12 to 6 in a year
adequate8 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.
| regular contributors by year | 12 then 6; 8 stopped committing, 3 began |
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Product & Engineering Maturity
04 · adequate · ratings ↑Go 1.25 is past end of life
adequateThe code is pinned to Go 1.25 (end of life 2026-08-11). None of these receives security fixes any more; the first stopped on 2026-08-11. Moving off an unsupported runtime is rarely a one-line change, so a buyer should ask whether the upgrade is planned and what it touches.
| Dockerfile | Dockerfile — Go 1.25, end of life 2026-08-11 |
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12 files still carry code deprecated more than two years ago
adequate12 files were marked deprecated over two years ago and still are, the oldest since Aug 2018. A deprecation is a promise to remove. Ask what still depends on these, and whether removing them is scheduled.
| vendor/golang.org/x/text/transform/transform.go | vendor/golang.org/x/text/transform/transform.go — deprecated since Aug 2018 |
| vendor/golang.org/x/sys/windows/security_windows.go | vendor/golang.org/x/sys/windows/security_windows.go — deprecated since Nov 2019 |
| vendor/golang.org/x/sys/windows/syscall_windows.go | vendor/golang.org/x/sys/windows/syscall_windows.go — deprecated since Nov 2019 |
| vendor/golang.org/x/sys/unix/zsysnum_darwin_amd64.go | vendor/golang.org/x/sys/unix/zsysnum_darwin_amd64.go — deprecated since Apr 2021 |
| vendor/golang.org/x/sys/unix/zsysnum_darwin_arm64.go | vendor/golang.org/x/sys/unix/zsysnum_darwin_arm64.go — deprecated since Apr 2021 |
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Security & Reliability Posture
05 · adequate · ratings ↑1 Dockerfile runs the application as root
adequateNo USER instruction switches away from root, so the process runs with full privileges inside the container. It is a one-line fix and an ordinary expectation, which is why its absence is worth asking about: it usually says more about whether anyone has reviewed the deployment than about this container specifically.
| no-USER-instruction | Dockerfile — runs as root |
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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.
| pkg/updates/updates.go | pkg/updates/updates.go:268 — outbound call without a timeout |
| pkg/updates/updates.go | pkg/updates/updates.go:321 — outbound call without a timeout |
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1 vendored component with no licence
adequateThird-party code is committed into this repository without any statement of the terms it arrived under. Unknown terms are harder to deal with than inconvenient ones: an awkward licence can be complied with, an absent one cannot. Each of these needs its origin established before the code changes hands.
| vendor/modules.txt | vendor/modules.txt — 1 tracked files, no licence file |
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Observability & Operations
06 · adequate · ratings ↑No telemetry or error reporting is wired in anywhere
adequateNone of 1,294 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 1,294 tracked text files for 16 known instrumentation libraries; 0 matched |
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One request cannot be followed through the logs
adequateNothing in the service carries a request or correlation id, and there is no tracing. When a customer reports a failure, the log lines that belong to their request cannot be picked out from everyone else's.
| request ids | no request id, correlation id or tracing found |
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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.
| 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.
A paid survey of a public repository is also reviewed: a language model reads each finding against the code and withdraws only findings it judges the code contradicts, each listed with its reason. The review is a language model's reading of the findings against the code, and it can be wrong. It never adds a finding, never raises a band, and never removes a finding from a proven check or an advisory that affects the surveyed version.
What a person adds
The survey reads what the repository can show. The code cannot settle these questions, and on them this report states nothing. Each says where its answer lives: your own engineer, the company, or an assessor you choose can settle it. Questions marked measured open with something this repository shows.
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
01 · full coverage- measured No architecture or design document is in the tree, across 1,560 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 coverageNot rated: this repository belongs to a person rather than an organisation, so a finding about one contributor would be about someone the address names; the public report does not carry those, and does not rate this dimension without them.
- 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- 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 vendor/, pkg/, docs-master/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace?
- The repository carries deployment configuration (Dockerfile and 3 more). Does that match your deployment and on-call model, or does it need rehosting first?
- What is your tolerance for the findings above remaining unaddressed for the first two quarters after close, given everything else that will compete for this team's time?
- Which of these systems duplicate yours, and which get retired?
- What will integration cost, and in what order?
- Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom?
- Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign?
- Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors?
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Rejection log — 79 signals that ran and did not fire
Appendix: rejection log — 79 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 — 60
| Signal | What it found |
|---|---|
| 04.hotspot_concentration | change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 18,328 · top5 share 0.045 |
| 04.debt_markers | debt markers are sparsemarkers 81 · per kloc 0.45 · lines read 179,406 |
| 04.dependency_sprawl | direct dependency counts are unremarkable |
| 04.test_growth | test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 0.609 · early test per code 0.321 |
| 04.churn_trend | rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.552 · early delete per insert 0.679 |
| 04.fixes_with_tests | fixes usually come with a testfixes 187 · share 0.38 · with tests 71 |
| 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 1,237 · compat files 0 |
| 06.structured_logging | a structured logging library is referencedmatches 22 |
| 06.print_logging | raw prints are few, or outnumbered by logger callsprints 15 · logger calls 23 |
| 06.environment_branching | environment differences live in configurationsites 0 |
| 06.release_markers | releases are markedtags last year 17 · release commits 0 · changelog commits 17 |
| 06.migrate_on_start | migrations do not run at container start |
| 03.active_contributors | more than one contributor active in the trailing year |
| 03.knowledge_silos | every substantial directory has been touched by more than one person |
| 03.drive_by_contributors | an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 400 · one off share 0.595 |
| 03.critical_path_ownership | more than one person changes the critical paths |
| 03.second_contributor_attrition | the second and third contributors are still active |
| 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 688 · window last 24 months · with tracked 152 |
| 02.ci_presence | CI configuration is present in the working treecount 14 |
| 02.test_presence | tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 693 · source 1,970 · test ratio 0.352 |
| 02.release_cadence | tags are presenttags 248 |
| 02.conventional_commits | commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 6,639 · low content share 0.048 |
| 02.branch_protection_hints | process scaffolding is present in the repository |
| 02.ci_runs_tests | CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 14 · with tests 1 |
| 02.skipped_tests | few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 731 |
| 02.ci_test_gating | no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 14 |
| 02.revert_share | change is rarely undoneshare 0.003 · reverts 5 · recent commits 1,743 |
| 02.dependency_update_cadence | dependencies move with the codelockfiles 1 · commits since 58 · days since lockfile changed 13 |
| 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 2 · ci configs 14 · product files 1,237 |
| 02.long_lived_branches | the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.037 · merges 682 · long lived 25 |
| 02.commit_size | changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.002 · commits 1,548 · over 2000 lines 3 |
| 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 31 · share of insertions 0.0 |
| 01.message_uniformity | commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 19.72 · repeat share 0.122 |
| 01.duplicated_blocks | little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0024 · product files 394 · distinct blocks 53,041 |
| 01.swallowed_errors | errors are rarely thrown awayloc 180,696 · files 0 · per kloc 0.0 |
| 01.build_reproducibility | every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 2 |
| 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 7 · files read 1,294 |
| 05.security_guardrails | at least one standard guard rail is configured |
| 05.license_present | a licence file is presentfound True |
| 05.secrets_in_history | no credential-shaped string was ever added outside test and fixture pathspatterns 7 · truncated False · added lines 1,371,322 |
| 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 27 · pipe to shell 0 · unpinned third party 0 |
| 05.sql_from_strings | no SQL is assembled from strings in product codefiles 0 · sites 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 62 · high or critical 0 |
| 05.privileged_workloads | no workload runs privileged or in the host's namespacessites 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_copyleft_inherited | every licence found in vendored code is permissive or weak-copyleftvendored paths 1,121 |
| 05.license_grant_unclear | the licence is recognisable as MITclass permissive · license MIT |
| 04.dependency_churn | few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 191 · added in two years 19 · removed within 60 days 1 |
| 04.ci_platforms_dropped | no platform was dropped from CI in the last two years |
Could not conclude, or did not apply — 19
Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.
| Signal | Why |
|---|---|
| 04.schema_churn | no schema migrations to read |
| 04.dependency_redundancy | no JavaScript manifest to read |
| 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.notebook_outputs | not a data or machine-learning repository |
| 05.dependency_pinning | no manifest whose pinning can be read without a lockfile |
| 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_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 |
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| Read | Assessor | Findings | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-26 · shown | borehole 0.6.2 | 13 | adequate |
15 other readings (show)
| 2026-10-04 | borehole 0.7.13 | 12 | strong |
| 2026-10-03 | borehole 0.7.12 | 12 | strong |
| 2026-10-03 | borehole 0.7.11 | 12 | strong |
| 2026-10-02 | borehole 0.7.10 | 12 | strong |
| 2026-10-01 | borehole 0.7.9 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-30 | borehole 0.7.8 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-29 | borehole 0.7.6 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-28 | borehole 0.7.5 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-28 | borehole 0.7.4 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-27 | borehole 0.7.3 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-27 | borehole 0.7.2 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-27 | borehole 0.7.1 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-26 | borehole 0.7.0 | 12 | adequate |
| 2026-09-26 | borehole 0.6.3 | 13 | adequate |
| 2026-09-25 | borehole 0.6.1 | 15 | 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 — 8 steps
Written by the steps themselves as they ran, not described afterwards. A hand-written account of a data flow drifts the first time somebody changes the flow and not the account.
| At | Step | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0s | read repository metadata from the GitHub API | size mb: 154.2authenticated: False |
| 10.9s | cloned the repository to a temporary directory | depth: full |
| 16.4s | read the git history | commits: 8300tracked files: 2371 |
| 140.6s | ran the deterministic checks | blame pass: Trueread working tree: False |
| 140.6s | withheld findings about one contributor: the owner is a person | withheld: 2owner kind: person |
| 140.6s | recorded where this scan ran | attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run |
| 166.9s | kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks | |
| 166.9s | deleting the working copy |
Total 166.9s ·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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