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triliumnext/trilium
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72167f4 · 42,189 commits · 6,111 files
Issued 2026-10-23

Nothing significant. Questions worth asking about Security & Reliability Posture, Observability & Operations.

105 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. None found a significant problem; 3 raised something worth a question. 16 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What the repository says about itself
Published under today's rules. The verification code attests to this reading as it was stored. This page differs from it as follows.
  • 1 finding from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right is no longer published.
  • The file and line of 1 credential-shaped match is 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
13% of added lines arrived in commits declaring an AI agent as co-author
The surviving-lines measurement was not run on this repository.
33% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-10-23) arrived in AI-declared commits: 4,889/16,803 commits, confidence low. Also a floor.
4,896/35,445 commits declaring an agent · Claude, Claude Fable 5, Claude Fable 5.1 and 14 more
confidence: low
  • 22% 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
941,580 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

packages/pdfjs-viewer/viewer/viewer.mjs is 26,437 lines, 192× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 137 lines. 11 files exceed 1,370 lines, the largest being 26,437. 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 90% 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 packages/pdfjs-viewer/viewer/viewer.mjs:1 — 26,437 lines (192× median)
line-count packages/commons/src/lib/script_api.ts:1 — 3,110 lines (22× median)
line-count apps/client/src/widgets/react/hooks.tsx:1 — 2,627 lines (19× median)
line-count apps/client/src/widgets/note_tree.ts:1 — 1,968 lines (14× median)
line-count apps/client/src/widgets/sidebar/AttributeList.tsx:1 — 1,872 lines (13× 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 (packages/pdfjs-viewer/playwright.config.ts). 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
packages/pdfjs-viewer/playwright.config.ts packages/pdfjs-viewer/playwright.config.ts:15 — test retry
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Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · adequate · ratings ↑
03.1

Bus factor 1: recent work is concentrated in one contributor

adequate

In the last 24 months, one contributor authored more than half of 24,272 non-merge commits among 363 authors; across all history, more than half of 32,585. In a project with 363 recent contributors and 9 years of history, that is a question about one person's role rather than a fragile team — but it is the question to ask.

Evidence
git shortlog -sn last 24 months: top author more than half of 24,272 commits; bus factor 1; 363 authors
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Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
04.5

Effort is shifting from building to rewriting

adequate

Deleted lines per line added rose from 0.48 to 0.88 between the first and second halves of this history. Rework is normal and often healthy, but a rising ratio means an increasing share of the team's time is spent replacing code that already exists rather than building what does not. Whether that is deliberate repayment or churn is a question for the team.

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

Evidence
deletions-per-insertion first half 0.48, second half 0.88 (split 2022-02-06)
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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑
05.1

1 credential-shaped string committed to the tree

adequate

Matches for private key block appear in tracked files outside test and fixture paths. They stay in the history even after they leave the tree, so what matters is whether each was rotated. The code cannot tell whether any of them is live, and that decides whether this matters: none sits in production configuration, and none is in a format its provider keeps for live keys. Is any of these live? Show that each was rotated after it was committed, and when.

Evidence
private key block private key block pattern matched
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

1 Dockerfile runs 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 apps/server/Dockerfile — runs as root
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05.51

The app allows plain HTTP to any server

adequate

The app's manifest allows unencrypted HTTP app-wide (NSAllowsArbitraryLoads, or cleartext traffic permitted), rather than for named domains. Anything sent over plain HTTP can be read on the network, and enterprise security reviews ask about it. Some apps need it by nature (a podcast or feed reader fetches whatever URL a feed gives), so ask which case this is.

Evidence
apps/mobile/android/app/src/main/res/xml/network_security_config.xml apps/mobile/android/app/src/main/res/xml/network_security_config.xml:6 — cleartext allowed app-wide
apps/mobile/ios/App/App/Info.plist apps/mobile/ios/App/App/Info.plist:29 — cleartext allowed app-wide
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Notes that do not affect this rating
05.25

4 environment files are committed

adequate

apps/client/.env, apps/client/.env.production, apps/standalone/.env and more are 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.

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

Evidence
apps/client/.env apps/client/.env — committed environment file
apps/client/.env.production apps/client/.env.production — committed environment file
apps/standalone/.env apps/standalone/.env — committed environment file
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05.20

1 SQL statement built from strings

adequate

1 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters. 1 of them put a value into the string; in the rest, what the code shows going in is a table or column name, a constant, or something the line does not show. Ask whether any value reaches these strings, rather than a parameter.

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Evidence
packages/trilium-core/src/services/entity_changes.ts packages/trilium-core/src/services/entity_changes.ts:167 — 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.

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

Evidence
.claude/skills/ckeditor5-plugin-development/ck_css.mjs .claude/skills/ckeditor5-plugin-development/ck_css.mjs:44 — command run through a shell
.claude/skills/ckeditor5-plugin-development/ck_css.mjs .claude/skills/ckeditor5-plugin-development/ck_css.mjs:70 — command run through a shell
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05.26

5 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 3 high or critical

adequate

5 of 2,382 locked dependencies match 5 published advisories in OSV, 3 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. None of the high or critical ones is in what the product ships: they are development dependencies.

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

Evidence
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — http-cache-semantics 4.2.0: GHSA-ch52-4w7c-c8xp (high); a development dependency
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — image-size 0.7.5: GHSA-w3rx-r6r6-pgpr (high), fixed in 2.0.3; a development dependency
pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-lock.yaml — node-forge 1.4.0: GHSA-86w9-cpqp-85rv (high); a development dependency
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05.48

71 places insert HTML from a variable without sanitising it

adequate

71 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.

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

Evidence
apps/client/src/print.tsx apps/client/src/print.tsx:120 — HTML from a variable
apps/client/src/services/code_note_preview.ts apps/client/src/services/code_note_preview.ts:68 — HTML from a variable
apps/client/src/services/content_renderer.ts apps/client/src/services/content_renderer.ts:1006 — HTML from a variable
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05.65

27 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 17 high or critical

adequate

The newest was published on 2026-09-13. 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 18 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 0.106.0. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 1 record names Trilium with nothing tying it to this repository (CVE-2026-91021).

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
GHSA-xv62-84hw-fc56 2026-09-13: GHSA-xv62-84hw-fc56 (high), fixed in 0.105.0: Safe Import Bypass: Stored XSS via type=file + image/svg+xml Notes Served Unsanitized by /open
GHSA-jj83-rfrw-r7gq 2026-09-13: GHSA-jj83-rfrw-r7gq (moderate), fixed in 0.105.0: LLM subsystem bypasses the project's safeFetch SSRF guard — authenticated blind SSRF via config.baseURL
GHSA-7c7g-7c3p-v53w 2026-09-13: GHSA-7c7g-7c3p-v53w (high), fixed in 0.105.0: Stored XSS in share renderer (`renderWebView`) via iframe `src` attribute breakout
GHSA-qf5g-qf5g-q6x9 2026-09-13: GHSA-qf5g-qf5g-q6x9 (high), fixed in 0.105.0: Server-Side Request Forgery via note image auto-download (scheme-only "SSRF protection")
GHSA-6rxv-6w3q-7mv9 2026-08-20: GHSA-6rxv-6w3q-7mv9 (high), fixed in 0.104.0: TriliumNext/Trilium: unauthenticated share-search bypasses `shareCredentials` / `shareHiddenFromTree`, disclosing protected shared-note titles, paths and conten
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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 4,813 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 0 matched
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Notes that do not affect this rating
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.

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

Evidence
error reporting no error reporter initialised
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06.18

2 of 3 deployed images carry no version, or `latest`

adequate

2 images in the deployment configuration are named without a version or as `latest`. A redeploy can change the software without a commit, a rollback has nothing to roll back to, and nobody can say from the repository what is running.

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

Evidence
apps/server/docker/nginx-proxy-manager/docker-compose.yml apps/server/docker/nginx-proxy-manager/docker-compose.yml:3 — image without a version
docker-compose.yml docker-compose.yml:7 — image without a version
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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

9 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 (.claude/skills/ckeditor5-plugin-development/references/architecture.md and 2 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 One contributor authored more than half of the commits in this history. Is that person 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. measured 15,020 commits landed in the last year, against 9,232 the year before (+63%). 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. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  4. Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
  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 apps/, packages/, patches/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. 33% of lines added in the last 12 months (13% 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 (apps/server/Dockerfile and 5 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 — 89 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 89 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 — 75

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 33,279 · top5 share 0.035
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 141 · per kloc 0.13 · lines read 1,088,257
04.dependency_sprawl direct dependency counts are unremarkable
04.test_growth test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 0.438 · early test per code 0.315
04.eol_runtime every pinned runtime is still supportedeol as of 2026-09-24
04.fixes_with_tests fixes usually come with a testfixes 6,272 · share 0.299 · with tests 1,877
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.002 · code files 2,100 · compat files 4
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 1
06.healthcheck_presence a health or readiness check is defined
06.correlation_ids a request can be followed through the logstracing False · request id sites 23
06.usage_reporting_default the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 0 · settings off 1
06.environment_branching environment differences live in configurationsites 0
06.release_markers releases are markedtags last year 19 · release commits 0 · changelog commits 22
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 490 · active 12mo 259
03.knowledge_silos every substantial directory has been touched by more than one personauthors 490 · directories 4
03.drive_by_contributors an open contributor base, where one-commit contributors are normalauthors 490 · one off share 0.357
03.contributor_attrition the dominant contributor is still activeauthors 490 · top share more than half · top contributor last committed within the last three months
03.critical_path_ownership more than one person changes the critical pathsauthors 363
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 43 · joined 104 · regular last year 132
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 5,861 · window last 24 months · with tracked 71
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 23
02.test_presence tests are present in a normal proportion to sourcetests 1,524 · source 3,622 · test ratio 0.421
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 367
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 35,445 · low content share 0.012
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_runs_tests CI invokes a test runnerconfigs 23 · with tests 3
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 5 · test files 1,571
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 23
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.004 · reverts 90 · recent commits 24,272
02.dependency_update_cadence dependencies move with the codelockfiles 1 · commits since 94 · days since lockfile changed 0
02.lint_in_build a linter or formatter runs in the buildwired 3 · ci configs 23 · product files 2,100
02.long_lived_branches the typical branch reaches the trunk quicklyshare 0.014 · merges 3,407 · long lived 47
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.008 · commits 22,649 · over 2000 lines 182
01.burst_import the largest burst was a branch merged by a merge commit, developed on its own branch and landed in one piece (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 a7bb921..d2008e7 · bursts explained 1 · largest net added 2,571
01.initial_dump first commit is not a disproportionate share of the codebaseinsertions 661 · share of insertions 0.0001
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 18.25 · repeat share 0.144
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 3,274 · write once share 0.263
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0048 · product files 2,100 · distinct blocks 287,370
01.swallowed_errors errors are rarely thrown awayloc 1,092,422 · files 8 · per kloc 0.02
01.build_reproducibility every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 1
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.supply_chain_pinning third-party build steps are pinned, or fewaction refs 165 · pipe to shell 0 · unpinned third party 0
05.migration_reversibility migrations can be rolled backshare 0.0 · migrations 8 · irreversible 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 · 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.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 the project is itself AGPL-3.0, so copyleft components carry no obligation it has not already acceptedown license AGPL-3.0 · copyleft components 3
05.license_manifest_conflict manifest and licence file agree on AGPL-3.0license AGPL-3.0
05.license_vendored_unlicensed no vendored third-party code is committedcomponents 0
05.license_grant_unclear the licence is recognisable as AGPL-3.0class network-copyleft · license AGPL-3.0
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.deprecations_lingering few deprecations have outlived two yearsolder than two years 0 · files with deprecations 24
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 347 · added in two years 291 · removed within 60 days 30
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 21.0 · days since last tag 11 · commits last 90 days 7,974
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 3 · on branch 356 · tags in window 359
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 14

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

SignalWhy
04.schema_churncolumns, once added, stay
06.telemetry_depthnone at all is 06.1
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.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 language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
05.dataset_provenancenot a data or machine-learning repository
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
05.project_advisoriesrecord incomplete: no advisory found in the sources that answered; NVD: 1 record names Trilium with nothing tying it to this repository (CVE-2026-91021)
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
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