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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-28 03:56 UTC

Compass / compass

Compass is no longer actively maintained. Compass is a Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain.

CSS · Ruby · HTMLCustom license★ 6,657 stars⑂ 1,162 forkssince Aug 2008View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

Compass/compass holds a health index of 22 out of 100, placing it in the At Risk band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (82/100) and lowest on Vitality (17/100). It was last updated 1221 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

22
overall / 100
At Risk

Software 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.

22
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)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

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 41 is calibrated to 36 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

CompassOrganization
11 followers8 public repossince Oct 2010

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publish
RubyGemscompasspoints to another repo — not scored1.0.3-964362 days ago
RubyGemscompass-corepoints to another repo — not scored1.0.3-174362 days ago
RubyGemscompass-import-oncepoints to another repo — not scored1.0.5-64406 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

17Critical · 21% of overall

Development activity

1Critical
How it's scored
0/36Push recency — last push 1,221 days ago
0/36Commit cadence — 0/52 weeks with commits
0/18Commit volume — 0 commits in the last year
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
commits_last_year0
human_commit_share1
days_since_last_push1,221
active_weeks_last_year0

Release discipline

40Weak
How it's scored
16.2/27Ships releases — 27 version tags (no GitHub releases)
0/36Release recency — latest release 4,242 days ago
19.8/27Release cadence — a release every ~103.9 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count27
latest_release_tag1.0.3
releases_from_tagsyes
days_since_latest_release4,242
mean_days_between_releases103.9
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

82Excellent · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

98Exceptional
How it's scored
60/60Stars — 6,657 stars
25/25Forks — 1,162 forks
13/15Watchers — 216 watchers
Inputs used
forks1,162
stars6,657
watchers216
growth_stateorganic
growth_factor_pct100

Community health

64Moderate
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
16.9/22.5License — license file present, not a recognized license
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges—
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateno

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

48Weak · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

40Weak
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
7.3/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 68% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 100 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 52 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled100
top_contributor_share0.675

Issue & PR responsiveness

50Moderate
How it's scored
31.4/42Issue resolution — 75% of issues closed
10.4/30PR acceptance — 171/494 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
1.5/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 4/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
Inputs used
merged_prs171
open_issues411
closed_issues1,222
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d0
issue_closed_ratio0.748
closed_unmerged_prs323
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

57Moderate
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20Verified domain
7.8/25Owner reach — 11 followers of Compass
18.9/25Track record — 8 public repos, account ~15 yr old
Inputs used
followers11
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedno
owner_loginCompass
public_repos8
account_age_days5,784

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

40Weak · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

24At Risk
How it's scored
0/24CI workflows
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
0/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_cino
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

65Good
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — http://compass-style.org
10/10Repository description
0/10Topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topics—
has_wikiyes
homepagehttp://compass-style.org
docs_sitehttp://compass-style.org
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

19Critical · 16% of overall

Security posture

19Critical
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0/2.5CI-Tests — 0 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0.8/7.5Code-Review — Found 4/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 52 contributing companies or organizations
0/10Dangerous-Workflow — no data
0/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.2/2.5License — license file detected
0/7.5Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — no data
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — no data
0/7.5Vulnerabilities — 101 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated13
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive5
scorecard_aggregate1.9
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. 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.

40Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

8Critical
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
7.5/40Legible commit history — 14 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.14
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

36Weak
How it's scored
0/18One-command bootstrap
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
0/8Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — no data
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilesGemfile.lock
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — CSS without a type-check config
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/204 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageCSS
largest_source_bytes57,254
source_files_sampled204
oversized_source_files0

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional
How it's scored
0/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40Runnable examples — examples
Inputs used
example_dirsexamples
has_mcp_signalno
api_schema_files—
interfaces_expected_of—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

6,657GitHub stars
100contributors
0commits, last 12 months
1,221days since last push
27releases
1bus factor
411open issues
RubyGemspackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • Star history carried forward from 2026-07-11: GitHub restricted the stargazers API to repository admins, so it can no longer be collected. The repository has 6657 stars today.
  • rubygems package 'compass' points at a different repository (http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass); excluded from ecosystem scoring
  • rubygems package 'compass-core' points at a different repository (http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/); excluded from ecosystem scoring
  • rubygems package 'compass-import-once' points at a different repository (https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/tree/master/import-once); excluded from ecosystem scoring
  • OSV advisory lookup failed: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable

More detail

Star and fork history 6,663 ★ / 1,162 ⇿
6,663Stars
1,162Forks
14Releases

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.

Only the most recent history is shown — this repository exceeds the collection window, so the earliest history is not captured.

Star history is shown as collected on 2026-07-11. GitHub restricted the stargazers API to repository administrators in July 2026, so this series can no longer be extended; the current star total above remains live.

01,2502,5003,7505,0006,2507,5006,6631,162312011-082019-012026-07
Major 1Minor 1Patch 12

Each point covers 14 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 1.9 / 10
1.9aggregate

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).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-08-28 03:55 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
0Branch-Protectionbranch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0CI-Tests0 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1Code-ReviewFound 4/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
10Contributorsproject has 52 contributing companies or organizations
n/aDangerous-Workflowno workflows found
0Dependency-Update-Toolno update tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
9Licenselicense file detected
0Maintained0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
n/aPinned-Dependenciesno dependencies found
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
n/aToken-PermissionsNo tokens found
0Vulnerabilities101 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 55
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
RubyGemssass~> 3.3.13cli/Gemfile
RubyGemscompass-core—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemscompass-import-once—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemssass-globbing~> 1.1.1cli/Gemfile
RubyGemscucumber~> 1.2.1cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsrspec~> 2.0.0cli/Gemfile
RubyGemscompass-validator3.0.1cli/Gemfile
RubyGemscss_parser~> 1.0.1cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsrubyzip0.9.9cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsmocha0.11.4cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsminitest2.12.1cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsdiff-lcs~> 1.1.2cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsrake—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsjson~> 1.7.7cli/Gemfile
RubyGemstrue~> 0.2.3cli/Gemfile
RubyGemstest-unit~> 3.0.9cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsrb-fsevent—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsruby_gntp—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsruby-prof—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsrcov—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsguard—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsguard-test—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsguard-cucumber—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemscolorize—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemspry—cli/Gemfile
RubyGemsnanoc~> 3.4.2compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsi18n—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsadsf—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsrb-inotify—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsthin—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsforeman—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsrdiscount—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsthor—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsrack—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsfssm—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsmime-types—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsnokogiri—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemscoderay—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemshaml—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsrake—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsactivesupport~> 3.0.10compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemssass~> 3.3.0compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemscompass—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemssusy—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemscss-slideshow0.2.0compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsjson—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemscss_parser1.0.1compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsrb-fsevent—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemsbuilder—compass-style.org/Gemfile
RubyGemspry—core/Gemfile
RubyGemsdiff-lcs~> 1.1.2core/Gemfile
RubyGemstrue~> 0.2.3core/Gemfile
RubyGemstimecop~> 0.5.9.2core/Gemfile
RubyGemstest-unit~> 3.0.9core/Gemfile
RubyGemstest-unit~> 3.0.9import-once/Gemfile
All dependencies 62

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 48 direct and 14 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
RubyGemsactivesupport3.0.20direct
RubyGemsadsf1.2.0direct
RubyGemsbuilder3.2.2direct
RubyGemscoderay1.1.0direct
RubyGemscolorize—direct
RubyGemscompass-validator3.0.1direct
RubyGemscss-slideshow0.2.0direct
RubyGemscss_parser—direct
RubyGemscss_parser1.0.1direct
RubyGemscucumber—direct
RubyGemsdiff-lcs—direct
RubyGemsforeman0.74.0direct
RubyGemsfssm0.2.10direct
RubyGemsguard—direct
RubyGemsguard-cucumber—direct
RubyGemsguard-test—direct
RubyGemshaml4.0.5direct
RubyGemsi18n0.6.11direct
RubyGemsjson—direct
RubyGemsjson1.8.1direct
RubyGemsmime-types2.3direct
RubyGemsminitest2.12.1direct
RubyGemsmocha0.11.4direct
RubyGemsnanoc3.4.3direct
RubyGemsnokogiri1.6.3.1direct
RubyGemspry—direct
RubyGemsrack1.5.2direct
RubyGemsrake—direct
RubyGemsrake10.3.2direct
RubyGemsrb-fsevent—direct
RubyGemsrb-fsevent0.9.4direct
RubyGemsrb-inotify—direct
RubyGemsrb-inotify0.9.5direct
RubyGemsrcov—direct
RubyGemsrdiscount2.1.7.1direct
RubyGemsrspec—direct
RubyGemsruby-prof—direct
RubyGemsruby_gntp—direct
RubyGemsrubyzip0.9.9direct
RubyGemssass—direct
RubyGemssass3.3.14direct
RubyGemssass-globbing—direct
RubyGemssusy2.1.3direct
RubyGemstest-unit—direct
RubyGemsthin1.6.2direct
RubyGemsthor0.19.1direct
RubyGemstimecop—direct
RubyGemstrue—direct
RubyGemsbundler—indirect
RubyGemschunky_png—indirect
RubyGemschunky_png1.3.1indirect
RubyGemscolored1.2indirect
RubyGemscri2.6.1indirect
RubyGemsdaemons1.1.9indirect
RubyGemsdotenv0.11.1indirect
RubyGemsdotenv-deployment0.0.2indirect
RubyGemseventmachine1.0.3indirect
RubyGemsffi1.9.3indirect
RubyGemsmini_portile0.6.0indirect
RubyGemsmulti_json—indirect
RubyGemsmulti_json1.10.1indirect
RubyGemstilt2.0.1indirect
Dependency advisories not assessed

Advisory matching could not run for this report: OSV advisory lookup failed: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable

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