4987f76 · 4,031 commits · 1,007 files
Issued 2026-09-26
Reads strong: 3 of 5 rated dimensions are strong, 2 are adequate and none is significant.
93 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. Security & Reliability Posture and Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance are adequate. 3 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.
- 1 finding from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right is 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 | strong | |
| 05 | Security & Reliability Posture | adequate | |
| 06 | Observability & Operations | strong | |
| 07 | Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
- 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
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
01 · adequate · ratings ↑src/vscreen.rs is 1,170 lines, 12× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 92 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.
| line-count | src/vscreen.rs:1 — 1,170 lines (12× median) |
| line-count | src/printer.rs:1 — 1,026 lines (11× 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. What a person adds here.
Product & Engineering Maturity
04 · strong · ratings ↑No finding. 16 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.
Security & Reliability Posture
05 · adequate · ratings ↑20 dependencies float, and no lockfile is committed
adequateDependency 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.
| unpinned | tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Requirements.txt/requirements.txt — [38;2;117;113;94m#[0m[38;2;117;113;94m Options |
| unpinned | tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Requirements.txt/requirements.txt — [38;2;166;226;46m--allow-external[0m |
| unpinned | tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Requirements.txt/requirements.txt — [38;2;166;226;46m--allow-unverified[0m |
| unpinned | tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Requirements.txt/requirements.txt — [38;2;117;113;94m#[0m[38;2;117;113;94m Freeze p |
| unpinned | tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Requirements.txt/requirements.txt — [3;38;2;253;151;31mBabel[0m[38;2;249;38;114m>= |
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4 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities
adequate4 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.
| 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 · 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
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What a person adds
The survey reads what the repository can show. The code cannot settle these questions, and on them this report states nothing. Each says where its answer lives: your own engineer, the company, or an assessor you choose can settle it. Questions marked measured open with something this repository shows.
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
01 · full coverage- measured No architecture or design document is in the tree, across 298 product files. Where does the design live, and who holds it?
- 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?
- 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- 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- 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 Rust codebase. Does your engineering organisation already run Rust in production, or would this be the first?
- The bulk of this system sits in assets/, src/, build/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace?
- Nothing in the repository says how this is deployed. Is it shipped as a library, a binary or a service, and if it runs somewhere, who owns that environment?
- What is your tolerance for the findings above remaining unaddressed for the first two quarters after close, given everything else that will compete for this team's time?
- Which of these systems duplicate yours, and which get retired?
- What will integration cost, and in what order?
- Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom?
- Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign?
- Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors?
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Rejection log — 90 signals that ran and did not fire
Appendix: rejection log — 90 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 — 58
| Signal | What it found |
|---|---|
| 04.hotspot_concentration | change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 1,319 · top5 share 0.227 |
| 04.debt_markers | debt markers are sparsemarkers 20 · per kloc 0.31 · lines read 63,508 |
| 04.dependency_sprawl | direct dependency counts are unremarkable |
| 04.churn_trend | rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.344 · early delete per insert 0.355 |
| 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 477 |
| 06.structured_logging | not a running service; structured logging is not expected of a librarybasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.healthcheck_presence | not a running service, so a health endpoint is not expectedbasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.migrate_on_start | migrations do not run at container start |
| 03.contributor_concentration | no single contributor dominates the last 24 months |
| 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 485 · one off share 0.507 |
| 03.contributor_attrition | no contributor dominates enough for their absence to matter |
| 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 |
| 03.joiners_and_leavers | the team is not shrinkingleft 18 · joined 23 · regular last year 26 |
| 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 43 · source 95 · test ratio 0.453 |
| 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 17.24 · repeat share 0.106 |
| 01.duplicated_blocks | little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0 · product files 40 · distinct blocks 8,385 |
| 01.swallowed_errors | errors are rarely thrown awayloc 63,962 · files 0 · per kloc 0.0 |
| 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 477 |
| 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 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.shell_from_strings | product code does not build shell commands from stringssites 0 |
| 05.unsafe_deserialization | no code-executing deserialiser in product codesites 0 |
| 05.tls_verification_off | no TLS verification is switched off in product codefiles 0 · sites 0 · pinned instead 0 |
| 05.privileged_workloads | no workload runs privileged or in the host's namespacessites 0 |
| 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 MITlicense MIT |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Could not conclude, or did not apply — 32
Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.
| Signal | Why |
|---|---|
| 04.test_growth | Rust keeps unit tests inside the files they test, which a count by file name cannot see |
| 04.eol_runtime | no pinned runtime version to check |
| 04.schema_churn | no schema migrations to read |
| 04.compat_layers | too little code |
| 04.dependency_redundancy | no JavaScript manifest to read |
| 06.telemetry_depth | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.print_logging | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.correlation_ids | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.error_reporting | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.alert_rules | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.deployed_image_floats | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.probes_identical | no Kubernetes probes |
| 06.single_replica | no Kubernetes deployments |
| 06.environment_branching | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.release_markers | not expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere |
| 06.feature_flags | no feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere |
| 02.lint_in_build | too small, or no CI to wire a linter into (02.2) |
| 01.build_reproducibility | no product Dockerfile to read |
| 01.notebook_outputs | not a data or machine-learning repository |
| 05.container_runs_as_root | no Dockerfile outside development, test and example paths |
| 05.outbound_timeouts | not a running service |
| 05.migration_reversibility | too few migrations to judge |
| 05.sql_from_strings | not a running service; a library that builds SQL is doing its job |
| 05.resource_limits | no Kubernetes workload manifests |
| 05.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_copyleft_inherited | no third-party code is committed to this repository, so the licences it depends on are resolved at build time and are not readable here |
| 04.flags_accumulating | few or no feature flags in the history |
| 04.api_versions_coexisting | not a running service |
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| Read | Assessor | Findings | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-26 · shown | borehole 0.6.2 | 4 | strong |
15 other readings (show)
| 2026-10-04 | borehole 0.7.13 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-10-03 | borehole 0.7.12 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-10-03 | borehole 0.7.11 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-10-02 | borehole 0.7.10 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-10-01 | borehole 0.7.9 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-30 | borehole 0.7.8 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-29 | borehole 0.7.6 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-28 | borehole 0.7.5 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-28 | borehole 0.7.4 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-27 | borehole 0.7.3 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-27 | borehole 0.7.2 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-27 | borehole 0.7.1 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-26 | borehole 0.7.0 | 3 | adequate |
| 2026-09-26 | borehole 0.6.3 | 4 | strong |
| 2026-09-25 | borehole 0.6.1 | 4 | strong |
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: 34.4authenticated: False |
| 3.0s | cloned the repository to a temporary directory | depth: full |
| 4.2s | read the git history | commits: 4031tracked files: 1007 |
| 32.7s | ran the deterministic checks | blame pass: Trueread working tree: False |
| 32.7s | withheld findings about one contributor: the owner is a person | withheld: 0owner kind: person |
| 32.7s | recorded where this scan ran | attested: Falseenvironment: cloud-run |
| 39.0s | kept the facts, never the source, for re-reading under new checks | |
| 39.0s | deleting the working copy |
Total 39.0s ·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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