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prefecthq/prefect
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Issued 2026-10-03

Reads strong: 4 of 6 rated dimensions are strong, 2 are adequate and none is significant.

103 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. Security & Reliability Posture and Observability & Operations are adequate. 1 finding is worth checking first. 11 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

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.

  • 05.26 15 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 6 high or critical in what ships
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  • 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.
  • The file and line of 4 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
20% of added lines arrived in commits declaring an AI agent as co-author
The surviving-lines measurement was not run on this repository.
80% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-09-26) arrived in AI-declared commits: 1,592/2,545 commits, confidence moderate. Also a floor.
1,660/18,420 commits declaring an agent · Claude, Claude Code, Claude Fable 5 and 20 more
confidence: low
  • 26% 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
500,742 lines excluded as lockfiles, vendored or generated.
This is a lower bound. It counts what the repository declares. Undeclared AI authorship is invisible here, and a single rebase removes the trailers this rests on. Absence of a declaration is absence of disclosure, not absence of AI authorship.

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

01 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
01.6

ui-v2/src/api/prefect.ts is 19,339 lines, 207× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 93 lines. 65 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 19,339. 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. Measured against its own codebase's median, it is larger than 91% of 382 surveyed projects' largest files.

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

Evidence
line-count ui-v2/src/api/prefect.ts:1 — 19,339 lines (207× median)
line-count src/integrations/prefect-databricks/prefect_databricks/models/jobs.py:1 — 4,428 lines (47× median)
line-count src/prefect/flows.py:1 — 3,699 lines (39× median)
line-count src/integrations/prefect-github/prefect_github/repository.py:1 — 3,446 lines (37× median)
line-count src/prefect/server/schemas/filters.py:1 — 2,566 lines (27× median)
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · strong · ratings ↑
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02.16

Tests are retried until they pass

adequate

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

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

Evidence
.github/workflows/integration-package-tests.yaml .github/workflows/integration-package-tests.yaml:127 — 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 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
04.38

11 files still carry code deprecated more than two years ago

adequate

11 files were marked deprecated over two years ago and still are, the oldest since Jun 2022. A deprecation is a promise to remove. Ask what still depends on these, and whether removing them is scheduled.

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

Evidence
src/prefect/task_runners.py src/prefect/task_runners.py — deprecated since Jun 2022
src/prefect/docker/__init__.py src/prefect/docker/__init__.py — deprecated since Jun 2022
src/prefect/logging/configuration.py src/prefect/logging/configuration.py — deprecated since Nov 2022
src/prefect/utilities/annotations.py src/prefect/utilities/annotations.py — deprecated since Jan 2023
src/prefect/_internal/compatibility/deprecated.py src/prefect/_internal/compatibility/deprecated.py — deprecated since Feb 2023
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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑
05.1

4 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. 2 other matchs set aside: expired tokens, licence tokens a vendor verifies with a public key, or placeholder text where a key would go. None grants access to anything.

Evidence
private key block 4 cited: private key block, where fakes are usual
File and line are shown to whoever GitHub says controls this repository, signed in, and to a buyer of this report.
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05.6

5 Dockerfiles run the application as root

adequate

No USER instruction switches away from root, so the process runs with full privileges inside the container. It is a one-line fix and an ordinary expectation, which is why its absence is worth asking about: it usually says more about whether anyone has reviewed the deployment than about this container specifically.

Evidence
no-USER-instruction Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction client/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction src/integrations/prefect-aws/Dockerfile — runs as root
no-USER-instruction src/integrations/prefect-azure/Dockerfile — runs as root
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05.26

15 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 6 high or critical in what ships

adequate worth checking first

15 of 1,087 locked dependencies match 59 published advisories in OSV, 21 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.

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 uv.lock and the 1 other file it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
uv.lock uv.lock — pyjwt 2.13.0: GHSA-ffc3-869f-jxw9 (critical), fixed in 2.14.0; an optional extra
uv.lock uv.lock — urllib3 2.7.0: GHSA-8988-9cw3-xx77 (high), fixed in 2.8.0
ui-v2/package-lock.json ui-v2/package-lock.json — lodash-es 4.17.23: GHSA-r5fr-rjxr-66jc (high), fixed in 4.18.0
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Notes that do not affect this rating
05.25

1 environment file is committed

adequate

ui-v2/.env is tracked in git. Environment files are where credentials usually live, and committing one usually means nobody decided how secrets reach the running application. Whatever is in it is in the history for good. Check 05.1 says whether it holds anything credential-shaped.

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Evidence
ui-v2/.env ui-v2/.env — committed environment file
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05.27

The build runs third-party code it does not pin

adequate

16 third-party CI actions are referenced by a tag or branch rather than a commit, so they run whatever that tag points to on the day. Tags have been moved to malicious commits in real supply-chain attacks, and a piped script is whatever the server returns that minute. Pinning to a commit is the fix, and it is small.

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

Evidence
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yaml .github/workflows/benchmarks.yaml:41 — action pinned by tag
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yaml .github/workflows/benchmarks.yaml:110 — action pinned by tag
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05.65

8 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 4 high or critical

adequate

The newest was published on 2026-08-11. 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 3.8.7. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 2 records name prefect with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2026-3515, CVE-2026-5366).

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-2026-72538 2026-08-11: CVE-2026-72538 (high): An argument injection vulnerability in PrefectHQ Prefect through 3.8.2 allows authenticated users to achieve remote code execution via the git_clone pull step b
GHSA-c635-393c-hcx2 2026-06-02: GHSA-c635-393c-hcx2 (high), fixed in 3.6.22.dev7: Prefect has an Authentication Middleware Bypass when URL paths are appended with 'health' or 'ready'
GHSA-cw25-2p92-7f75 2026-05-26: GHSA-cw25-2p92-7f75 (high): Prefect has an Argument Injection issue
GHSA-6rcx-55r6-jx65 2026-05-04: GHSA-6rcx-55r6-jx65 (low), fixed in 3.6.25.dev7: Prefect Git Argument Injection in GitRepository Pull Steps
GHSA-6rr6-v7cj-mxpg 2026-05-04: GHSA-6rr6-v7cj-mxpg (moderate), fixed in 3.6.22: Prefect Auth Bypass via endswith() Health Check Exemption
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Observability & Operations

06 · adequate · ratings ↑
06.2

No structured logging library is in use

adequate

Nothing references a structured logging library. Logs that are written to be read by a person are not searchable by a machine, which means incident response here is proportional to how well someone remembers the codebase rather than to what the tooling can find.

Evidence
logging-scan searched 4,005 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 0 matched
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06.9

No error reporter is wired in

adequate

Nothing in the service initialises an error reporter (Sentry, Rollbar, Bugsnag, Honeybadger or an APM agent). An exception in production reaches a person only if someone is reading the logs, which usually means a customer reports it first.

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Evidence
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. 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 No architecture or design document is in the tree, across 2,473 product files. Where does the design live, and who holds it? Answer lives in: The team01.38
  2. measured The repository pulls code in through git submodules (.gitmodules). A buyer receives pointers, not that code. Can every submodule be fetched without the team's credentials, and who owns each one? Answer lives in: The team and the submodule owners01.35
  3. Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product? Answer lives in: Your architects, with the product roadmap01.39
  4. Were the home-grown components reasonable choices when they were made, and are they now? Answer lives in: The team's reasoning at the time01.40

Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · high coverage
  1. Is review real or a rubber stamp? Comment depth and time to approve need the pull request history. Answer lives in: The code host's pull request data02.32
  2. Is delivery planned and measured, or heroic? Answer lives in: The issue tracker: backlog, sprint history, estimate accuracy02.38
  3. How are incidents run, reviewed and learned from? Answer lives in: Tickets, chat and postmortems02.37

Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · partial coverage
  1. measured 462 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 851 commits landed in the last year, against 1,665 the year before (-49%). 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 No threat model is in the tree of what looks like a running service. Does one exist elsewhere, and who owns it? Answer lives in: The security owner05.43
  2. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  3. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  4. What is the SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR status, and where is the evidence? Answer lives in: Audit reports; policy files in the tree are not evidence05.44

Observability & Operations

06 · partial coverage
  1. measured 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 Alert rules are defined in the repository. 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 (ui/src/maps/.eslintrc.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 Python codebase, with TypeScript alongside (49% of source files). Does your engineering organisation already run Python in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in src/, ui/, ui-v2/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. 80% of lines added in the last 12 months (20% of added lines) came through AI-declared commits. Does your organisation have a policy on inheriting and maintaining that code, and does your engineering team's tooling match how it was produced? 07.9
  4. The repository carries deployment configuration (Dockerfile and 6 more). Does that match your deployment and on-call model, or does it need rehosting first? 07.2
  5. 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?
  6. Which of these systems duplicate yours, and which get retired? Answer lives in: Your architecture07.11
  7. What will integration cost, and in what order? Answer lives in: The engagement07.12
  8. Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom? Answer lives in: Your org design07.13
  9. Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign? Answer lives in: Deal terms07.14
  10. Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors? Answer lives in: Customer contracts07.15

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Rejection log — 92 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 92 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 — 76

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 12,802 · top5 share 0.032
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 158 · per kloc 0.17 · lines read 942,497
04.dependency_sprawl direct dependency counts are unremarkable
04.test_growth test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 0.775 · early test per code 0.71
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.394 · early delete per insert 0.56
04.eol_runtime every pinned runtime is still supportedeol as of 2026-09-24
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 541 · share 0.588 · with tests 318
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.005 · code files 2,134 · compat files 11
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 53
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 10
06.usage_reporting_default the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 1 · settings off 1
06.alert_rules alert rules are defined as codealert files 2
06.deployed_image_floats every deployed image names a versionimages 3 · floating 0
06.environment_branching environment differences live in configurationsites 1
06.release_markers releases are markedtags last year 427 · release commits 2 · changelog commits 4
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.contributor_concentration no single contributor dominates the last 24 monthsyears 5.2 · window last 24 months · authors 462
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 462 · active 12mo 134
03.drive_by_contributors an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 462 · one off share 0.602
03.contributor_attrition no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matterauthors 462 · 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 230
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 19 · joined 19 · regular last year 33
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 0 · window last 24 months · with tracked 12
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 44
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 1,485 · source 3,616 · test ratio 0.411
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 1,297
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 18,420 · low content share 0.026
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 44 · with tests 10
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 47 · test files 1,539
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 44
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.002 · reverts 4 · recent commits 2,515
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 4 · commits since 25 · days since lockfile changed 5
02.lint_in_build a linter or formatter runs in the buildwired 25 · ci configs 44 · product files 2,134
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.024 · commits 2,338 · over 2000 lines 55
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 130 · share of insertions 0.0
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 21.5 · repeat share 0.075
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 2,209 · write once share 0.325
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0274 · product files 2,130 · distinct blocks 265,719
01.swallowed_errors errors are rarely thrown awayloc 946,356 · files 93 · per kloc 0.18
01.build_reproducibility every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 12
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.outbound_timeouts outbound calls set timeouts, or are fewcalls without timeout 0
05.sql_from_strings no SQL is assembled from strings in product codefiles 0 · sites 0 · value interpolated 0
05.shell_from_strings product code does not build shell commands from stringssites 1
05.unsafe_deserialization no code-executing deserialiser in product codesites 0
05.privileged_workloads no workload runs privileged or in the host's namespacessites 0 · behind a setting or built here 0
05.credentials_in_deploy_config deployment configuration references secrets, never holds themfiles 0 · sites 0
05.public_env_secret only publishable values carry a public prefixnames 0 · sites 0 · not secrets 0
05.unsafe_html raw HTML is rare, literal or sanitisedsites 2
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_vendored_unlicensed no vendored third-party code is committedcomponents 0
05.license_grant_unclear the licence is recognisable as Apache-2.0class permissive · license Apache-2.0
05.committed_native_libraries no widely used compiled library is committed to the productlibraries 0
04.api_versions_coexisting one API version is served, or none
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 333 · added in two years 178 · removed within 60 days 6
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 -5 · commits last 90 days 406
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 64 · on branch 275 · tags in window 339
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 16

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

SignalWhy
04.schema_churncolumns, once added, stay
06.print_logginga frontend: console output is the browser's, not the server's
06.probes_identicalno Kubernetes probes
06.single_replicano Kubernetes deployments
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
02.long_lived_branchestoo few merges to judge (squash and rebase leave none)
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.migration_reversibilitytoo few migrations to judge
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
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
05.project_advisoriesrecord incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; OSV PyPI prefect-client (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-aws (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-azure (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-bitbucket (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-dask (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-databricks (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-dbt (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-docker (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-email (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-gcp (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-github (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-gitlab (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-kubernetes (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-ray (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-redis (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-shell (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-slack (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-snowflake (an empty record for a package published here), OSV PyPI prefect-sqlalchemy (an empty record for a package published here) did not; NVD: 2 records name prefect with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2026-3515, CVE-2026-5366)
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
BOREHOLE READING NOT A CERTIFICATION 98R6-54DZ-CTC9 2026-10-03 · 4F52BC6 BOREHOLE.DEV/VERIFY

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2026-10-03 · shown borehole 0.7.11 14 strong
9 other readings (show)
2026-10-04 borehole 0.7.13 14 strong
2026-10-03 borehole 0.7.12 14 strong
2026-10-02 borehole 0.7.10 14 strong
2026-10-01 borehole 0.7.9 14 adequate
2026-09-30 borehole 0.7.8 14 adequate
2026-09-29 borehole 0.7.6 14 adequate
2026-09-28 borehole 0.7.5 14 adequate
2026-09-28 borehole 0.7.4 13 adequate
2026-09-27 borehole 0.7.3 13 adequate

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What this scan did with the repository — 7 steps

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AtStepDetail
0.0s read repository metadata from the GitHub API authenticated: False
31.8s cloned the repository to a temporary directory depth: full
55.7s read the git history commits: 22112tracked files: 5411
330.5s ran the deterministic checks blame pass: Falseread working tree: False
330.5s recorded where this scan ran attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run
527.3s kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks
527.3s deleting the working copy

Total 527.3s ·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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