# BabylonJS/Babylon.js — health index 83/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository BabylonJS/Babylon.js by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 83 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/BabylonJS/Babylon.js
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/report
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- Inspected: 2026-07-19
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.15.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 97/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 82/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 80/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 52/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 73/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework. |
| Homepage | http://www.babylonjs.com |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 25,833 |
| Forks | 3,670 |
| Created | 2013-06-27 |
| Last push | 2026-07-17 |
| Latest release | 9.17.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,924 |
| Bus factor | 3 |
| Topics | webgl, webgl2, 3d, game-development, webvr, babylon, webaudio, typescript, webxr, webgpu, game-engine, game-engine-3d |

## Vitality — 96/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 1 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1924 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 15 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 3 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~5.4 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 97/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 25,833 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 3,670 forks |
| Watchers | met | 15 / 15 | 522 watchers |

### Community health — 93/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | met | 7.2 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 82/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 75/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 36 / 54 | 3 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 15.5 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 31% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 7 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 95/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 46.5 / 46.8 | 100% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 36.1 / 38.2 | 14503/15368 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 12 / 15 | Found 24/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 8 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 76/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 21.5 / 25 | 973 followers of BabylonJS |
| Track record | partial | 24.4 / 25 | 49 public repos, account ~13 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Good)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 1 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 24 out of 24 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | http://www.babylonjs.com |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 12 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 52/100 (Moderate)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 52/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | not met | 0 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 6 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 24 out of 24 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 6 / 7.5 | Found 24/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 8 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 7 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 15 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Excellent)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 73/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/instructions/backcompat.instructions.md, .github/instructions/comments.instructions.md, .github/instructions/devhost-testing.instructions.md, .github/instructions/editor-interaction.instructions.md, .github/instructions/entities.instructions.md, .github/instructions/fix-bug.md, .github/instructions/fluent.instructions.md, .github/instructions/gltf-extensions.instructions.md, .github/instructions/index.md, .github/instructions/inspector.instructions.md, .github/instructions/local-servers.md, .github/instructions/manual-testing.md, .github/instructions/mcp-server-coverage.instructions.md, .github/instructions/performance.instructions.md, .github/instructions/playground-workflow.md, .github/instructions/pr-labels.md, .github/instructions/prohibited-apis.instructions.md, .github/instructions/react.instructions.md, .github/instructions/side-effect-imports.instructions.md, .github/instructions/tests.instructions.md, .github/instructions/tree-shaking.instructions.md, .github/instructions/visual-tests-reference.md, .github/instructions/visual-tests.instructions.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 66/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, Automated maintenance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | packages/dev/addons/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/buildTools/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/core/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/gui/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/inspector-v2/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/inspector/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/loaders/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/lottiePlayer/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/materials/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/postProcesses/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/proceduralTextures/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/serializers/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/sharedUiComponents/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/smartFilterBlocks/tsconfig.json, packages/dev/smartFilters/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/accessibility/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/addons/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/core/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/gui-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/gui/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/inspector-v2/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/inspector/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/ktx2decoder/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/loaders/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/materials/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/node-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/node-geometry-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/node-particle-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/node-render-graph-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/post-processes/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/procedural-textures/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/serializers/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/shared-ui-components/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/test-tools/tsconfig.json, packages/public/@babylonjs/viewer/tsconfig.json, packages/public/create-babylonjs/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-accessibility/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-addons/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-gui-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-gui/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-inspector-v2/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-inspector/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-ktx2decoder/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-loaders/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-materials/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-node-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-node-geometry-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-node-particle-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-node-render-graph-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-post-process/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-procedural-textures/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-serializers/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs-testproject/tsconfig.json, packages/public/umd/babylonjs/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/accessibility/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/babylonServer/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/devHost/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/eslintBabylonPlugin/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/flow-graph-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/flowGraphEditor/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/gui-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/guiEditor/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/ktx2Decoder/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/mcp-server-core/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/nge-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/nme-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/nodeEditor/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/nodeGeometryEditor/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/nodeParticleEditor/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/nodeRenderGraphEditor/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/npe-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/nrge-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/playground/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/reflector/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/sandbox/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/smart-filters-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/smartFiltersDebugger/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/smartFiltersEditor/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/smartFiltersEditorControl/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/snippetLoader/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/testTools/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/tests/es6Vis/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/tests/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/testsMemoryLeaks/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/viewer-configurator/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/viewer/tsconfig.json, packages/tools/vsm/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |

### Code legibility for models — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54 / 55 | 99/5430 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

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