Public recordExceptional
Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-19 20:14 UTC
Checkmarx / kics
Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.
Checkmarx/kics holds a health index of 98 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Vitality (93/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (58/100). It was last updated 2 days ago. 7 contributors account for most of its recent work.
98
overall / 100Software health index
Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.
98
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
Score profile
Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.
The weighted overall 86 is calibrated to 98 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).
Ownership
CheckmarxOrganization · verified domain
240 followers70 public repossince Nov 2015
This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.
Package ecosystems
| Registry | Package | Version | Downloads / mo | Versions | Last publish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/Checkmarx/kics/v2 | v2.2.0 | - | 41 | 2 days ago |
Metrics by category
Vitality
Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?
93
Development activity
93Exceptional
How it's scored
| 36/36 | Push recency — last push 2 days ago |
| 29.1/36 | Commit cadence — 42/52 weeks with commits |
| 18/18 | Commit volume — 206 commits in the last year |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
Inputs used
| commits_last_year | 206 |
| human_commit_share | 0.98 |
| days_since_last_push | 2 |
| active_weeks_last_year | 42 |
Release discipline
92Excellent
How it's scored
| 27/27 | Ships releases — 100 releases published |
| 36/36 | Release recency — latest release 2 days ago |
| 27/27 | Release cadence — a release every ~44.5 days |
| 2/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — 1 out of the last 3 releases have a total of 1 signed artifacts. |
Inputs used
| releases_count | 100 |
| latest_release_tag | v2.2.0 |
| releases_from_tags | no |
| days_since_latest_release | 2 |
| mean_days_between_releases | 44.5 |
Community & Adoption
Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?
88
Popularity & adoption
85Excellent
How it's scored
| 55.7/60 | Stars — 2,702 stars |
| 21.5/25 | Forks — 381 forks |
| 7.7/15 | Watchers — 25 watchers |
Inputs used
| forks | 381 |
| stars | 2,702 |
| watchers | 25 |
| growth_state | unverified |
| growth_factor_pct | 100 |
| growth_unverified_reason | no_history |
Community health
92Excellent
How it's scored
| 22.5/22.5 | README |
| 22.5/22.5 | License — recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| 18/18 | CONTRIBUTING guide |
| 13.5/13.5 | Code of conduct |
| 0/7.2 | Issue template |
| 6.3/6.3 | PR template |
Inputs used
| has_readme | yes |
| has_license | yes |
| readme_badges | 10 |
| has_contributing | yes |
| has_issue_template | no |
| has_code_of_conduct | yes |
| readme_badge_services | app.codacy.com, goreportcard.com, shields.io, sonarcloud.io |
| has_pull_request_template | yes |
Sustainability & Governance
Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?
91
Maintainer resilience (bus factor)
91Excellent
How it's scored
| 51.3/54 | Bus factor — 7 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| 20.1/22.5 | Commit distribution — top contributor authored 11% of commits |
| 13.5/13.5 | Contributor breadth — 97 contributors |
| 6/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6 |
Inputs used
| bus_factor | 7 |
| contributors_sampled | 97 |
| top_contributor_share | 0.108 |
Issue & PR responsiveness
81Excellent
How it's scored
| 38.8/42 | Issue resolution — 92% of issues closed |
| 25.4/30 | PR acceptance — 4,933/5,815 decided PRs merged |
| 2/13 | Newcomer PR acceptance — 2/13 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d |
| 15/15 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed |
Inputs used
| merged_prs | 4,933 |
| open_issues | 157 |
| closed_issues | 1,892 |
| prs_merged_7d | 6 |
| prs_decided_7d | 12 |
| prs_merged_30d | 17 |
| prs_decided_30d | 38 |
| issue_closed_ratio | 0.923 |
| closed_unmerged_prs | 882 |
| first_time_authors_30d | 2 |
| first_time_prs_merged_30d | 2 |
| first_time_prs_decided_30d | 13 |
Ownership & stewardship
92Excellent
How it's scored
| 30/30 | Ownership backing — organization-owned |
| 20/20 | Verified domain |
| 17.1/25 | Owner reach — 240 followers of Checkmarx |
| 25/25 | Track record — 70 public repos, account ~10 yr old |
Inputs used
| followers | 240 |
| owner_type | Organization |
| is_verified | yes |
| owner_login | Checkmarx |
| public_repos | 70 |
| account_age_days | 3,964 |
Package maintenance
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 25/25 | Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go |
| 35/35 | Publish recency — latest publish 2 days ago |
| 20/20 | Version history — 41 published versions |
| 20/20 | Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked |
Inputs used
| packages | github.com/Checkmarx/kics/v2 |
| ecosystems | go |
| any_deprecated | no |
| min_days_since_publish | 2 |
Engineering Quality
Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?
90
Engineering practices
90Excellent
How it's scored
| 24/24 | CI workflows — 37 workflow(s) |
| 24/24 | Tests present |
| 16/16 | Linter config — .golangci.yml |
| 0/9.6 | Pre-commit hooks |
| 6.4/6.4 | .editorconfig |
| 20/20 | OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
Inputs used
| has_ci | yes |
| has_tests | yes |
| has_editorconfig | yes |
| has_linter_config | yes |
| has_precommit_config | no |
Documentation
90Excellent
How it's scored
| 30/30 | README |
| 25/25 | Documentation directory |
| 15/15 | Documentation / homepage site — https://kics.io |
| 10/10 | Repository description |
| 10/10 | Topics — 12 topics |
| 0/10 | Wiki |
Inputs used
| topics | iac, infrastructure-as-code, security, appsec, cloudnative, hacktoberfest, devsecops, golang, security-tools, vulnerability-detection, vulnerability-scanners, open-policy-agent |
| has_wiki | no |
| homepage | https://kics.io |
| docs_site | https://kics.io |
| has_readme | yes |
| has_docs_dir | yes |
| has_description | yes |
Security
Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?
68
Security posture
68Good
How it's scored
| 6/7.5 | Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code |
| 4.5/7.5 | Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| 2.5/2.5 | CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| 0/2.5 | CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 7.5/7.5 | Code-Review — all changesets reviewed |
| 1.5/2.5 | Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6 |
| 10/10 | Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 7.5/7.5 | Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected |
| 0/5 | Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed |
| 2.5/2.5 | License — license file detected |
| 7.5/7.5 | Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| 0/5 | Packaging — no data |
| 0.5/5 | Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |
| 4.5/5 | SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 9 |
| 5/5 | Security-Policy — security policy file detected |
| 1.5/7.5 | Signed-Releases — 1 out of the last 3 releases have a total of 1 signed artifacts. |
| 7.5/7.5 | Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| 0/7.5 | Vulnerabilities — 11 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Inputs used
| source | openssf_scorecard |
| checks_evaluated | 17 |
| scorecard_version | v5.5.0 |
| checks_inconclusive | 1 |
| scorecard_aggregate | 6.8 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.
AI Readiness
How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.
58
Agent context & guidance
40Weak
How it's scored
| 0/45 | Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| 0/15 | Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) |
| 40/40 | Legible commit history — 97 of 98 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |
Inputs used
| has_llms_txt | no |
| llms_txt_url | — |
| legible_history_share | 0.99 |
| agent_instruction_files | — |
| agent_instruction_max_bytes | — |
Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)
64Moderate
How it's scored
| 18/18 | One-command bootstrap — Makefile |
| 22/22 | Automated tests |
| 11/11 | Lint / format config — .golangci.yml |
| 0/11 | Static type checking |
| 10/10 | Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile |
| 2/10 | Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| 0/8 | Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed |
| 1/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |
Inputs used
| has_nix | no |
| has_tests | yes |
| lockfiles | go.sum, package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml |
| has_dockerfile | yes |
| typed_language | no |
| bootstrap_files | Makefile |
| has_devcontainer | no |
| has_linter_config | yes |
| typecheck_configs | — |
| agent_commit_share | 0.01 |
| toolchain_manifests | .github/scripts/report/go.mod, go.mod |
| dependency_bot_commit_share | 0 |
Code legibility for models
55Moderate
How it's scored
| 0/45 | Type-checkable code — Open Policy Agent without a type-check config |
| 54.9/55 | Manageable file sizes — 1/409 source files over 60KB |
Inputs used
| primary_language | Open Policy Agent |
| largest_source_bytes | 191,205 |
| source_files_sampled | 409 |
| oversized_source_files | 1 |
Machine-readable interfaces
80Excellent
How it's scored
| 40/40 | API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — assets/queries/common/passwords_and_secrets/test/negative60.proto, assets/queries/common/passwords_and_secrets/test/positive56.proto, assets/queries/grpc/enum_name_not_camel_case/test/negative.proto, assets/queries/grpc/enum_name_not_camel_case/test/positive.proto, e2e/fixtures/samples/compare-openapi-payload-json-yaml/openAPIJson/openAPI.json, e2e/fixtures/samples/compare-openapi-payload-json-yaml/openAPIYaml/openAPI.yaml, e2e/fixtures/samples/strict-source-resolution/scan/openapi.json, e2e/fixtures/samples/strict-source-resolution/scan/openapi.yaml, e2e/fixtures/samples/swagger/swagger.json, e2e/fixtures/samples/swagger/swagger.yml, e2e/fixtures/samples/unresolved_openapi/openapi.yaml, test/fixtures/analyzer_test/openAPI.json, test/fixtures/analyzer_test/openAPI_test/openAPI.json, test/fixtures/analyzer_test/openAPI_test/openAPI.yaml, test/fixtures/minified_files_similarity_id/swagger.json, test/fixtures/resolve_references/swagger.yaml, test/fixtures/unresolved_openapi/openapi.yaml, test/fixtures/unresolved_openapi_json/openapi.json |
| 0/20 | MCP server |
| 40/40 | Runnable examples — examples, sample, samples |
Inputs used
| example_dirs | examples, sample, samples |
| has_mcp_signal | no |
| api_schema_files | assets/queries/common/passwords_and_secrets/test/negative60.proto, assets/queries/common/passwords_and_secrets/test/positive56.proto, assets/queries/grpc/enum_name_not_camel_case/test/negative.proto, assets/queries/grpc/enum_name_not_camel_case/test/positive.proto, e2e/fixtures/samples/compare-openapi-payload-json-yaml/openAPIJson/openAPI.json, e2e/fixtures/samples/compare-openapi-payload-json-yaml/openAPIYaml/openAPI.yaml, e2e/fixtures/samples/strict-source-resolution/scan/openapi.json, e2e/fixtures/samples/strict-source-resolution/scan/openapi.yaml, e2e/fixtures/samples/swagger/swagger.json, e2e/fixtures/samples/swagger/swagger.yml, e2e/fixtures/samples/unresolved_openapi/openapi.yaml, test/fixtures/analyzer_test/openAPI.json, test/fixtures/analyzer_test/openAPI_test/openAPI.json, test/fixtures/analyzer_test/openAPI_test/openAPI.yaml, test/fixtures/minified_files_similarity_id/swagger.json, test/fixtures/resolve_references/swagger.yaml, test/fixtures/unresolved_openapi/openapi.yaml, test/fixtures/unresolved_openapi_json/openapi.json |
| interfaces_expected_of | network-service |
Key facts
2,702GitHub stars
97contributors
206commits, last 12 months
2days since last push
100releases
7bus factor
157open issues
Gopackage ecosystems
Data collection warnings
- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository
More detail
Star and fork history 0 ★ / 381 ⇿
0Stars
381Forks
99Releases
When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.
Major 2Minor 8Patch 87
Each point covers 6 days.
OpenSSF Scorecard 6.8 / 10
6.8aggregate
Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).
| 8 | Binary-Artifacts | binaries present in source code |
| 6 | Branch-Protection | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| 10 | CI-Tests | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| 0 | CII-Best-Practices | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 10 | Code-Review | all changesets reviewed |
| 6 | Contributors | project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6 |
| 10 | Dangerous-Workflow | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 10 | Dependency-Update-Tool | update tool detected |
| 0 | Fuzzing | project is not fuzzed |
| 10 | License | license file detected |
| 10 | Maintained | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| n/a | Packaging | packaging workflow not detected |
| 1 | Pinned-Dependencies | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |
| 9 | SAST | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 9 |
| 10 | Security-Policy | security policy file detected |
| 2 | Signed-Releases | 1 out of the last 3 releases have a total of 1 signed artifacts. |
| 10 | Token-Permissions | GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| 0 | Vulnerabilities | 11 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Direct dependencies 48
| Registry | Package | Version constraint | Manifest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | code.cloudfoundry.org/bytefmt | v0.35.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/BurntSushi/toml | v1.6.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/agnivade/levenshtein | v1.2.1 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/alexmullins/zip | v0.0.0-20180717182244-4affb64b04d0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4 | v4.13.1 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 | v1.42.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/bigkevmcd/go-configparser | v0.0.0-20230427073640-c6b631f70126 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/cheggaaa/pb/v3 | v3.1.7 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/emicklei/proto | v1.14.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/getsentry/sentry-go | v0.31.2-0.20250102155933-f2d4348b0508 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/gocarina/gocsv | v0.0.0-20240520201108-78e41c74b4b1 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/golang/mock | v1.6.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/google/pprof | v0.0.0-20260402051712-545e8a4df936 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/google/uuid | v1.6.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/gookit/color | v1.5.4 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/go-getter | v1.8.6 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/hcl | v1.0.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2 | v2.23.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/hashicorp/terraform-json | v0.24.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/johnfercher/maroto | v1.0.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/mackerelio/go-osstat | v0.2.5 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/moby/buildkit | v0.31.1 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/open-policy-agent/opa | v1.12.3 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/pkg/errors | v0.9.1 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/relex/aini | v1.6.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/rs/zerolog | v1.34.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/sosedoff/ansible-vault-go | v0.2.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/spf13/cobra | v1.10.2 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/spf13/pflag | v1.0.10 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/spf13/viper | v1.21.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/stretchr/testify | v1.11.1 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/tdewolff/minify/v2 | v2.23.1 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/tidwall/gjson | v1.18.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonschema | v1.2.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/yargevad/filepathx | v1.0.0 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/zclconf/go-cty | v1.16.2 | go.mod |
| Go | golang.org/x/exp | v0.0.0-20260603202125-055de637280b | go.mod |
| Go | golang.org/x/net | v0.58.0 | go.mod |
| Go | golang.org/x/text | v0.41.0 | go.mod |
| Go | golang.org/x/tools/godoc | v0.1.0-deprecated | go.mod |
| Go | gopkg.in/yaml.v3 | v3.0.1 | go.mod |
| Go | helm.sh/helm/v3 | v3.21.2 | go.mod |
| Go | mvdan.cc/sh/v3 | v3.11.0 | go.mod |
| Go | sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime | v0.14.6 | go.mod |
| Go | github.com/sabhiram/go-gitignore | v0.0.0-20210923224102-525f6e181f06 | go.mod |
| Go | k8s.io/api | v0.36.2 | go.mod |
| Go | k8s.io/apimachinery | v0.36.2 | go.mod |
| Go | k8s.io/client-go | v0.36.2 | go.mod |
All dependencies not collected
The resolved dependency set could not be collected for this report: GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository
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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.
Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.
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