Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-03 07:27 UTC

CycloneDX / sbom-utility

Utility that provides an API platform for validating, querying and managing BOM data

GoApache-2.0★ 163 stars⑂ 21 forkssince Jan 2023View on GitHub ↗

KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

#sbom #bom #cyclonedx #sbom-tool #spdx #spdx-sbom #vex #spdx-license #bill-of-materials #hacktoberfest #mbom #obom #owasp #package-url #purl #saasbom #software-bill-of-materials #vdr #sbom-quality

CycloneDX/sbom-utility holds a health index of 81 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (78/100) and lowest on Vitality (63/100). It was last updated 29 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Excellent

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.

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 69 is calibrated to 81 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

CycloneDX BOM StandardOrganization · verified domain

910 followers66 public repossince May 2017

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/CycloneDX/sbom-utility	v1.0.1	-	21	66 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

63Moderate · 21% of overall

Development activity

50Moderate

How it's scored

28.8/36	Push recency — last push 29 days ago
4.8/36	Commit cadence — 7/52 weeks with commits
10.3/18	Commit volume — 13 commits in the last year
6/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 8 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 6

Inputs used

commits_last_year	13
human_commit_share	0.99
days_since_last_push	29
active_weeks_last_year	7

Release discipline

83Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 19 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 62 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~87.1 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	19
latest_release_tag	v1.0.1
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	62
mean_days_between_releases	87.1

Community & Adoption

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

66Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

50Moderate

How it's scored

35.8/60	Stars — 163 stars
10.8/25	Forks — 21 forks
3.9/15	Watchers — 6 watchers

Inputs used

forks	21
stars	163
watchers	6
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

85Excellent

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
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	6
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	github.com, goreportcard.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

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

70Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

33At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
0.8/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 96% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 11 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 4 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	11
top_contributor_share	0.965

Issue & PR responsiveness

63Moderate

How it's scored

23/42	Issue resolution — 55% of issues closed
28.5/30	PR acceptance — 92/97 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
3/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 7/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2

Inputs used

merged_prs	92
open_issues	28
closed_issues	34
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0.548
closed_unmerged_prs	5
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

96Exceptional

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20	Verified domain
21.3/25	Owner reach — 910 followers of CycloneDX
25/25	Track record — 66 public repos, account ~9 yr old

Inputs used

followers	910
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	yes
owner_login	CycloneDX
public_repos	66
account_age_days	3,384

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 66 days ago
20/20	Version history — 21 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/CycloneDX/sbom-utility
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	66

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

78Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

74Good

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 3 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .golangci.yaml
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
10/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 14 out of 28 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 5

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

85Excellent

How it's scored

30/30	README
25/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 19 topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	sbom, bom, cyclonedx, sbom-tool, spdx, spdx-sbom, vex, spdx-license, bill-of-materials, hacktoberfest, mbom, obom, owasp, package-url, purl, saasbom, software-bill-of-materials, vdr, sbom-quality
has_wiki	yes
homepage	—
docs_site	—
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?

64Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

55Moderate

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
1.2/2.5	CI-Tests — 14 out of 28 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 5
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1.5/7.5	Code-Review — Found 7/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 4 contributing companies or organizations
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
4.5/7.5	Maintained — 8 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 6
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
2/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 4
4.5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
7.5/7.5	Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 803 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	16
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	2
scorecard_aggregate	5.5

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

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional

How it's scored

35/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	19
affected_packages	5
assessed_packages	53
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	moderate 1, unknown 4
direct_affected_packages	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 53 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

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.

75Good · 4% of overall

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 — 81 of 99 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.818
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

82Excellent

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .golangci.yaml
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 1 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.01

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/115 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	28,798
source_files_sampled	115
oversized_source_files	0

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional

How it's scored

0/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20	MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40	Runnable examples — examples

Inputs used

example_dirs	examples
has_mcp_signal	no
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

163GitHub stars

11contributors

13commits, last 12 months

29days since last push

19releases

1bus factor

28open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 21 ⇿

0Stars

21Forks

17Releases

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 0Minor 10Patch 5

Each point covers 4 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.5 / 10

5.5aggregate

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 · 2026-09-03 07:26 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
n/a	Branch-Protection	internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
5	CI-Tests	14 out of 28 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 5
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
2	Code-Review	Found 7/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
10	Contributors	project has 4 contributing companies or organizations
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
6	Maintained	8 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 6
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
4	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 4
9	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
10	Token-Permissions	GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0	Vulnerabilities	803 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 11

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	fyne.io/fyne/v2	`v2.7.4`	go.mod
Go	github.com/fatih/color	`v1.15.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/hokaccha/go-prettyjson	`v0.0.0-20211117102719-0474bc63780f`	go.mod
Go	github.com/iancoleman/orderedmap	`v0.3.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/jwangsadinata/go-multimap	`v0.0.0-20190620162914-c29f3d7f33b6`	go.mod
Go	github.com/mrutkows/go-jsondiff	`v0.2.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.7.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonschema	`v1.2.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20231006140011-7918f672742d`	go.mod

All dependencies 53

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 11 direct and 42 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	fyne.io/fyne/v2	`v2.7.4`	direct
Go	github.com/fatih/color	`v1.15.0`	direct
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	direct
Go	github.com/hokaccha/go-prettyjson	`v0.0.0-20211117102719-0474bc63780f`	direct
Go	github.com/iancoleman/orderedmap	`v0.3.0`	direct
Go	github.com/jwangsadinata/go-multimap	`v0.0.0-20190620162914-c29f3d7f33b6`	direct
Go	github.com/mrutkows/go-jsondiff	`v0.2.0`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.7.0`	direct
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	direct
Go	github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonschema	`v1.2.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20231006140011-7918f672742d`	direct
Go	fyne.io/systray	`v1.12.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/burntsushi/toml	`v1.5.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/davecgh/go-spew	`v1.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/fredbi/uri	`v1.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify	`v1.9.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/fyne-io/gl-js	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/fyne-io/glfw-js	`v0.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/fyne-io/image	`v0.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/fyne-io/oksvg	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-gl/gl	`v0.0.0-20231021071112-07e5d0ea2e71`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.3/glfw	`v0.0.0-20240506104042-037f3cc74f2a`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-text/render	`v0.2.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-text/typesetting	`v0.3.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/godbus/dbus/v5	`v5.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/go-cmp	`v0.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/hack-pad/go-indexeddb	`v0.3.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/hack-pad/safejs	`v0.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/jeandeaual/go-locale	`v0.0.0-20250612000132-0ef82f21eade`	indirect
Go	github.com/jsummers/gobmp	`v0.0.0-20230614200233-a9de23ed2e25`	indirect
Go	github.com/kr/text	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-colorable	`v0.1.13`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`v0.0.20`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth	`v0.0.17`	indirect
Go	github.com/nfnt/resize	`v0.0.0-20180221191011-83c6a9932646`	indirect
Go	github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n/v2	`v2.5.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/rivo/uniseg	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/rymdport/portal	`v0.4.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/sergi/go-diff	`v1.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.5`	indirect
Go	github.com/srwiley/oksvg	`v0.0.0-20221011165216-be6e8873101c`	indirect
Go	github.com/srwiley/rasterx	`v0.0.0-20220730225603-2ab79fcdd4ef`	indirect
Go	github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonpointer	`v0.0.0-20190905194746-02993c407bfb`	indirect
Go	github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonreference	`v0.0.0-20180127040603-bd5ef7bd5415`	indirect
Go	github.com/yuin/goldmark	`v1.7.8`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/image	`v0.41.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.40.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.33.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.37.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/check.v1	`v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	indirect

Dependency advisories 5

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 53 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 5 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
golang.org/x/net	`v0.40.0`	indirect	moderate	11	`1.27.0-rc.3`
github.com/yuin/goldmark	`v1.7.8`	indirect	unknown	1	`1.7.17`
golang.org/x/image	`v0.41.0`	indirect	unknown	5	`0.45.0`
golang.org/x/sys	`v0.33.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`0.44.0`
golang.org/x/text	`v0.37.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`0.39.0`

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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