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n8n-io/n8n
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Issued 2026-09-27

SUL-1.0 since 2022-03-17: source available, not open source; use limited to internal business purposes.

1 of 6 assessable dimensions carries significant findings, 3 are adequate and 2 are strong. 3 findings are worth checking first. 15 findings, each with its evidence: the commit, path and lines it rests on, or, when something is missing, what was looked for. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What matters most
  • 05.60 SUL-1.0 since 2022-03-17: source available, not open source; use limited to internal business purposes
What the repository says about itself
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.

  • 05.20 32 SQL statements built from strings
  • 05.45 1 workload setting give a container the host
  • 04.3 157 direct dependencies in a single manifest
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Published under today's rules. The verification code attests to this reading as it was stored. This page differs from it as follows.
  • 3 findings rated significant by a check that has not yet held up in Borehole's calibration are now worth checking first.
  • 3 findings from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right are no longer published.
  • The file and line of 5 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.
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
25% of added lines arrived in commits declaring an AI agent as co-author
The surviving-lines measurement was not run on this repository.
2,890/24,024 commits declaring an agent · Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot
confidence: low
  • 24% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
  • low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
  • no widespread author/committer date divergence
  • the declared share is neither decisive nor negligible, so the true figure is more sensitive to undeclared work
1,889,777 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 ↑
01.6

packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/src/components/N8nIconPicker/emojiData.ts is 9,905 lines, 125× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 79 lines. 193 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 9,905. 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.

Evidence
line-count packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/src/components/N8nIconPicker/emojiData.ts:1 — 9,905 lines (125× median)
line-count packages/nodes-base/nodes/UProc/Json/Tools.ts:1 — 7,968 lines (100× median)
line-count packages/cli/src/modules/instance-ai/instance-ai.service.ts:1 — 7,216 lines (91× median)
line-count packages/cli/src/modules/instance-ai/instance-ai.adapter.service.ts:1 — 5,422 lines (68× median)
line-count packages/nodes-base/nodes/Pipedrive/v1/PipedriveV1.node.ts:1 — 4,998 lines (63× median)
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · adequate · ratings ↑
02.24

5% of recent commits change more than 2,000 lines

adequate

565 of 11280 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.

Evidence
git log --numstat 565 commits over 2,000 lines
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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

157 direct dependencies in a single manifest

adequate worth checking first

packages/cli/package.json declares 157 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 packages/cli/package.json and the 3 other files it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
direct-dependencies packages/cli/package.json — 157 declared
direct-dependencies packages/@n8n/nodes-langchain/package.json — 90 declared
direct-dependencies packages/nodes-base/package.json — 88 declared
direct-dependencies packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/package.json — 36 declared
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04.62

Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed

adequate

The newest release, v1, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is n8n@2.41.0. The shipped product may differ from what this report describes. Survey the release branch too.

Evidence
17b3ae8cf tag v1
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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · significant findings · ratings ↑
05.1

8 credential-shaped strings 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.

Evidence
GitHub token GitHub token, where fakes are usual
Slack token 4 cited: Slack token, 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

2 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 docker/images/n8n-base/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction docker/images/node-pc/Dockerfile — runs as root
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05.27

The build runs third-party code it does not pin

adequate

1 third-party CI action is referenced by a tag or branch rather than a commit, so they run whatever that tag points to on the day; 7 steps pipe 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.

Evidence
.github/workflows/docker-build-push.yml .github/workflows/docker-build-push.yml:543 — action pinned by tag
.githooks/check-pnpm.sh .githooks/check-pnpm.sh:11 — download piped into a shell
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05.20

32 SQL statements built from strings

adequate worth checking first

32 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters. Where any part of the string comes from a request, it is an injection point. Each site needs a look; the fix, parameters, is small.

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 packages/@n8n/agents/src/vector-stores/postgres.ts:81 and the 1 other file it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
packages/@n8n/agents/src/vector-stores/postgres.ts packages/@n8n/agents/src/vector-stores/postgres.ts:81 — SQL built from a string
packages/@n8n/agents/src/vector-stores/postgres.ts packages/@n8n/agents/src/vector-stores/postgres.ts:144 — SQL built from a string
packages/@n8n/backend-test-utils/src/test-db.ts packages/@n8n/backend-test-utils/src/test-db.ts:90 — SQL built from a string
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05.21

2 shell commands built from strings

adequate

2 places run a command through a shell (`shell=True`, `os.system`, `exec` with a template) rather than passing arguments. Where any part comes from outside, it is command injection. Ask where each one's input comes from.

Evidence
packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/commands/dev/utils.ts packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/commands/dev/utils.ts:353 — command run through a shell
packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/commands/dev/utils.ts packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/commands/dev/utils.ts:464 — command run through a shell
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05.26

45 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 38 high or critical

adequate

45 of 3,880 locked dependencies match 128 published advisories in OSV, 38 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.

Evidence
packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/uv.lock packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/uv.lock — aiohttp 3.12.15: GHSA-6mq8-rvhq-8wgg (high), fixed in 3.13.3
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — @babel/plugin-transform-modules-systemjs 7.29.0: GHSA-fv7c-fp4j-7gwp (high), fixed in 7.29.4
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — @faker-js/faker 8.4.1: GHSA-qxc2-j82w-r537 (high), fixed in 10.5.0
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05.45

1 workload setting give a container the host

adequate worth checking first

1 places in the deployment configuration run a container privileged or in the host's network, process or IPC namespace. A compromise of that container is a compromise of the machine, and most acquirers' security reviews block it. Node agents (network, storage, monitoring) are excluded.

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 docker/get-n8n-compose.yml:57 settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
docker/get-n8n-compose.yml docker/get-n8n-compose.yml:57 — privileged or host namespace
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05.48

4 places insert HTML from a variable without sanitising it

adequate

4 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.

Evidence
packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/src/components/N8nCodeBlock/CodeBlock.vue packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/src/components/N8nCodeBlock/CodeBlock.vue:129 — HTML from a variable
packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/src/components/N8nMarkdown/Markdown.vue packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/src/components/N8nMarkdown/Markdown.vue:289 — HTML from a variable
packages/frontend/editor-ui/src/features/ai/instanceAi/components/InstanceAiMarkdown.vue packages/frontend/editor-ui/src/features/ai/instanceAi/components/InstanceAiMarkdown.vue:260 — HTML from a variable
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05.9

3 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.

Evidence
packages/nodes-base/nodes/QuickBooks/__schema__/v1.0.0/vendor/getAll.json packages/nodes-base/nodes/QuickBooks/__schema__/v1.0.0/vendor/getAll.json — 1 tracked files, no licence file
packages/nodes-base/nodes/QuickBooks/descriptions/Vendor/VendorAdditionalFieldsOptions.ts packages/nodes-base/nodes/QuickBooks/descriptions/Vendor/VendorAdditionalFieldsOptions.ts — 1 tracked files, no licence file
packages/nodes-base/nodes/QuickBooks/descriptions/Vendor/VendorDescription.ts packages/nodes-base/nodes/QuickBooks/descriptions/Vendor/VendorDescription.ts — 1 tracked files, no licence file
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05.60

Relicensed: Apache-2.0 → SUL-1.0 (2022-03-17)

significant findings

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.

Evidence
9cb9804ee LICENSE — Apache-2.0 from 2019-06-23
521cf51e7 LICENSE.md — SUL-1.0 from 2022-03-17
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05.61

143 files are named as enterprise-edition code

adequate

Files named `.ee.` are, by the common open-core convention, the paid edition's code, usually under a licence that is not open source even where the rest is. What the buyer may do with each part differs.

Evidence
packages/@n8n/blob-storage/src/azure-blob/azure-blob.service.ee.ts packages/@n8n/blob-storage/src/azure-blob/azure-blob.service.ee.ts — enterprise-edition file
packages/@n8n/blob-storage/src/azure-byte-store.ee.ts packages/@n8n/blob-storage/src/azure-byte-store.ee.ts — enterprise-edition file
packages/@n8n/blob-storage/src/object-store/object-store.service.ee.ts packages/@n8n/blob-storage/src/object-store/object-store.service.ee.ts — enterprise-edition file
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Observability & Operations

06 · strong · ratings ↑

No finding. 15 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.

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

6 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 (packages/@n8n/engine/docs/adr/ADR-20260828-obtain-trigger-output-before-creating-the-execution.md and 5 more). Does it match what the team believes today? Ask them to walk through it against the code. 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 777 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. measured 8,620 commits landed in the last year, against 3,613 the year before (+139%). What drove it: new people, a deadline, or code produced faster than before? 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 05.1 and 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. 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
  3. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  4. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  5. 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 Nothing in the tree backs up or restores data. How is data backed up, and has a restore ever been rehearsed? 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. measured Service-level objectives are defined in the tree (packages/@n8n/eslint-plugin-community-nodes/tsconfig.eslint.json). Are they met? The repository holds the target, not the measurement. Answer lives in: Production metrics06.12
  4. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  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 TypeScript codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run TypeScript in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in packages/, docker/, patches/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. The repository carries deployment configuration (docker/images/engine/Dockerfile and 5 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 — 85 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 85 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 — 66

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 50,205 · top5 share 0.023
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 420 · per kloc 0.16 · lines read 2,586,449
04.test_growth test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 1.148 · early test per code 0.047
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.368 · early delete per insert 0.362
04.eol_runtime every pinned runtime is still supportedeol as of 2026-09-24
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 5,320 · share 0.714 · with tests 3,799
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.001 · code files 12,852 · compat files 19
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 151
06.structured_logging a structured logging library is referencedmatches 3
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 163
06.error_reporting an error reporter is initialisedinitialised 2 · config files 0
06.environment_branching environment differences live in configurationsites 6
06.release_markers releases are markedtags last year 423 · release commits 0 · changelog commits 20
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.contributor_concentration no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 7.3 · window last 24 months · authors 777
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 777 · active 12mo 352
03.knowledge_silos every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 777 · directories 3
03.drive_by_contributors an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 777 · one off share 0.616
03.contributor_attrition no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matterauthors 777 · top share less than a quarter · top contributor last committed more than two years ago
03.critical_path_ownership more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 442
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 15 · joined 79 · regular last year 119
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 88 · window last 24 months · with tracked 0
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 112
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 9,912 · source 22,764 · test ratio 0.435
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 2,177
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 24,024 · low content share 0.003
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 112 · with tests 17
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 3 · test files 12,060
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 112
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.001 · reverts 9 · recent commits 12,245
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 4 · commits since 43 · days since lockfile changed 1
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 103 · ci configs 112 · product files 12,852
02.long_lived_branches the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.0 · merges 83 · long lived 0
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 4db0046..d7f70b6 · bursts explained 2 · largest net added 2,381
01.initial_dump first commit is not a disproportionate share of the codebaseinsertions 42,436 · share of insertions 0.0043
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 22.2 · repeat share 0.11
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 15,361 · write once share 0.331
01.swallowed_errors errors are rarely thrown awayloc 2,603,095 · files 95 · per kloc 0.06
01.build_reproducibility every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 14
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.migration_reversibility migrations can be rolled backshare 0.0 · migrations 13 · irreversible 0
05.unsafe_deserialization no code-executing deserialiser in product codesites 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_copyleft_inherited every licence found in vendored code is permissive or weak-copyleftvendored paths 3
05.license_grant_unclear the licence is recognisable as SUL-1.0class proprietary · license SUL-1.0
04.repository_status the README's first screen states no end, move or freezestatements 0
02.development_elsewhere nothing says development happens elsewhereno pr statements 0 · mirror statements 0 · replayed commit share 0.0
04.releases_stopped releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 0.0 · days since last tag 1 · commits last 90 days 3,581
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0
05.project_exploited no affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited listexploited 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 19

Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.

SignalWhy
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.single_replicano Kubernetes deployments
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.outbound_timeoutsnot assessed for TypeScript, the main language here: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
05.cleartext_trafficnot a mobile app
05.dataset_provenancenot a data or machine-learning repository
05.license_manifest_conflictno packaging manifest states a licence
04.flags_accumulatingthe history scanned covers 5 months, less than the 12 this question needs
04.api_versions_coexistingthe history scanned covers 5 months, less than the 18 this question needs
04.deprecations_lingeringthe history scanned covers 5 months, less than the 24 this question needs
04.dependency_churnthe history scanned covers 5 months, less than the 24 this question needs
04.ci_platforms_droppedthe history scanned covers 5 months, less than the 24 this question needs
05.project_advisoriesno advisory found in the sources that answered; NVD did not
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