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4987f76 · 4,031 commits · 1,007 files
Issued 2026-10-04

Nothing significant. Questions worth asking about Security & Reliability Posture, Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance.

106 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. None found a significant problem; 4 raised something worth a question. 3 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What the repository says about itself
  • 93 submodule(s) this survey does not read: assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/Elixir, assets/syntaxes/01_Packages, assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/TOML .gitmodules:1
What this survey read. This commit may not be the product users run: the product's code is in submodules this survey did not read (assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/Elixir/, assets/syntaxes/01_Packages/, assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/TOML/), beside 48 source files of its own. No dimension is rated strong: most of the product was not read. Survey the submodules' repositories as well.
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
0% of the code standing today was written in AI-declared commits
0% of lines still in the tree 133 of 120,933 0% of lines ever added these differ when early hand-written code has since been replaced
2% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-09-22) arrived in AI-declared commits: 8/345 commits, confidence moderate. Also a floor.
12/3,505 commits declaring an agent · Claude, GitHub Copilot
confidence: low
  • 18% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
  • low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
  • 29% of commits show author/committer date divergence, which is the shape of replayed history that can drop trailers
  • deep scan blamed 905 of 999 counted files
14,141 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 ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
01.6

src/vscreen.rs is 1,170 lines, 14× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 81 lines. 2 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 1,170. Size is not a defect on its own — some problems genuinely live in one place — but these are where merge conflicts, review fatigue and single-owner knowledge concentrate, and they are the first thing that slows an inheriting engineer down.

A note that does not affect this rating: measured against its own codebase's median, it is below the 85th percentile of 382 surveyed projects' largest files, where this check begins to count.

Evidence
line-count src/vscreen.rs:1 — 1,170 lines (14× median)
line-count src/printer.rs:1 — 1,026 lines (12× median)
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · adequate · ratings ↑

No finding. 16 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. What a person adds here.

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · adequate · ratings ↑

No finding. 19 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.

Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑
Notes that do not affect this rating
05.3

16 dependencies float, and no lockfile is committed

adequate

Dependency versions are declared as ranges and no lockfile is committed, so a build today does not necessarily produce what a build last month produced. That matters twice over in a transaction: the thing being bought cannot be reproduced exactly, and a compromised upstream release arrives without anyone choosing to take it.

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

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05.26

4 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities

adequate

4 of 317 locked dependencies match 4 published advisories in OSV. 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.

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

Evidence
Cargo.lock Cargo.lock — bincode 1.3.3: RUSTSEC-2025-0141 (unrated)
Cargo.lock Cargo.lock — faster-hex 0.10.0: RUSTSEC-2026-0306 (unrated), fixed in 0.10.1
Cargo.lock Cargo.lock — proc-macro-error2 2.0.1: RUSTSEC-2026-0173 (unrated)
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Observability & Operations

06 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it. What a person adds here.

Fit with the Acquirer

07 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository. What a person adds here.

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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 298 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

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.

  1. Which of the people who wrote this are part of the transaction, and for how long after it? 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. 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
  2. Does leadership know about the debt, and is time budgeted to repay it? Answer lives in: Budget and roadmap decisions04.31
  3. 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. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  2. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  3. What is the SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR status, and where is the evidence? Answer lives in: Audit reports; policy files in the tree are not evidence05.44

Observability & Operations

06 · partial coverage

Not rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.

  1. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  2. Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
  3. Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off? Answer lives in: Pager exports and interviews06.31
  4. What does it cost to run, and how much headroom is there? Answer lives in: Cloud billing and capacity plans06.32

Fit with the Acquirer

07 · none coverage

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.

  1. This is primarily a Rust codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run Rust in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in assets/, src/, build/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. 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? 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 — 103 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 103 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 — 62

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 1,234 · top5 share 0.206
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 30 · per kloc 0.4 · lines read 75,357
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.41 · early delete per insert 0.599
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 109 · share 0.266 · with tests 29
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
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 608
06.healthcheck_presence not a running service, so a health endpoint is not expectedbasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.usage_reporting_default the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 0 · settings off 0
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.contributor_concentration withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.active_contributors withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.knowledge_silos withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.drive_by_contributors withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.contributor_attrition withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.critical_path_ownership withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.second_contributor_attrition withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.bus_factor_trend withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.joiners_and_leavers withheld: this check's result would describe one person
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 336 · window last 24 months · with tracked 23
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 2
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 233 · source 267 · test ratio 0.873
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 43
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 3,505 · low content share 0.021
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 2 · with tests 1
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 3 · test files 680
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 2
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.004 · reverts 2 · recent commits 485
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 3 · commits since 3 · days since lockfile changed 21
02.flaky_test_markers tests are not retried until they passtest retries 0 · suite retries 0
02.long_lived_branches the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.14 · merges 258 · long lived 36
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.0 · commits 446 · over 2000 lines 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 855 · share of insertions 0.0052
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 17.22 · repeat share 0.107
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 259 · write once share 0.448
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0 · product files 41 · distinct blocks 8,403
01.unfinished_migration no language migration is stalled halfway
01.weights_in_git no model weights are committedfiles 0
05.committed_secrets no credential-shaped strings outside test and fixture pathsnote the working tree only; the history is 05.5 · patterns 8 · files read 608
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 8 · truncated False · added lines 145,551
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 20 · pipe to shell 0 · unpinned third party 2
05.privileged_workloads no workload runs privileged or in the host's namespacessites 0 · behind a setting or built here 0
05.credentials_in_deploy_config deployment configuration references secrets, never holds themfiles 0 · sites 0
05.signing_material no signing keystore or profile is committedfiles 0
05.license_manifest_conflict manifest and licence file agree on Apache-2.0 and MITlicense MIT OR Apache-2.0
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.deprecations_lingering few deprecations have outlived two yearsolder than two years 1 · files with deprecations 2
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 95 · added in two years 7 · removed within 60 days 0
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 0 · 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 95.5 · days since last tag 293 · commits last 90 days 97
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 0 · on branch 43 · tags in window 43
03.single_maintainer withheld: this check's result would describe one person

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 41

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

SignalWhy
04.dependency_sprawlno dependency manifest of the product's own was found
04.test_growthtests are kept inside the files they test, which a count by file name cannot see
04.eol_runtimeno pinned runtime version to check
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
04.compat_layerstoo little code
04.dependency_redundancyno JavaScript manifest to read
06.structured_loggingnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
06.telemetry_depthnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.print_loggingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.correlation_idsnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.error_reportingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.alert_rulesnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.deployed_image_floatsnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.probes_identicalno Kubernetes probes
06.single_replicano Kubernetes deployments
06.environment_branchingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.release_markersnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
02.lint_in_buildtoo small, or no CI to wire a linter into (02.2)
01.swallowed_errorsnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
01.build_reproducibilityno product Dockerfile to read
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.container_runs_as_rootno Dockerfile outside development, test and example paths
05.outbound_timeoutsnot a running service
05.migration_reversibilitytoo few migrations to judge
05.sql_from_stringsnot a running service; a library that builds SQL is doing its job
05.shell_from_stringsnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.unsafe_deserializationnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.tls_verification_offnot assessed for Rust, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
05.public_env_secretnot a frontend
05.unsafe_htmlnot a frontend
05.source_maps_shippednot a frontend
05.cleartext_trafficnot a mobile app
05.dataset_provenancenot a data or machine-learning repository
05.license_copyleft_inheritedno third-party code is committed to this repository, so the licences it depends on are resolved at build time and are not readable here
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
04.api_versions_coexistingnot a running service
05.project_advisoriesrecord incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; NVD: 13 records name bat with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2001-0398, CVE-2001-0675, CVE-2001-0676, …)
05.advisory_recordrecord incomplete: no advisory against the project in the last 24 months; NVD: 13 records name bat with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2001-0398, CVE-2001-0675, CVE-2001-0676, …)
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
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AtStepDetail
0.0s re-read from the facts kept at the last survey; nothing was cloned facts version: 1d7c04ef8dca7905
15.0s ran the deterministic checks blame pass: Trueread working tree: False
15.0s withheld findings about one contributor: the owner is a person withheld: 0owner kind: person
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