# Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk — health index 63/100 (Moderate)

> Inspection of the public repository Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 63 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate 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/Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk/report
- Badge: https://inspect.software/badge/v1/Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk.svg
- Inspected: 2026-10-20
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.34.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 63/100 | Moderate |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 59/100 | Moderate |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 65/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 63/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 41/100 | Weak |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 65/100 | Good |

The weighted overall 59 is calibrated to 63 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The KuCoin Universal SDK is the official SDK from KuCoin |
| Classification | library |
| Primary language | Python |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 56 |
| Forks | 48 |
| Created | 2024-12-07 |
| Last push | 2026-09-15 |
| Latest release | v1.3.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 47 |
| Bus factor | 1 |
| Topics | golang, python, sdk, websocket, cryptocurrency, kucoin, kucoin-api, kucoin-sdk, spot, spot-trading, margin, margin-trading, futures, futures-trading, spot-market, futures-market, algo-trading, nodejs, php |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | com.kucoin:kucoin-universal-sdk | 0.1.2-alpha | — |
| go | github.com/Kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk/sdk/golang | v1.3.2 | — |
| pypi | kucoin-universal-sdk | 1.3.2 | 1,820 |
| npm | kucoin-universal-sdk | 1.3.2 | 6,936 |
| packagist | kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk | 0.1.4-alpha | 33 |

## Vitality — 63/100 (Moderate)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 21% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 50/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | partial | 18 / 36 | last push 35 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 6.9 / 36 | 10/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | partial | 15.1 / 18 | 47 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 26 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 82/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 18 releases published |
| Release recency | partial | 27 / 36 | latest release 144 days ago |
| Release cadence | partial | 19.8 / 27 | a release every ~55.3 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 35 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 59/100 (Moderate)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 17% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 46/100 (Weak)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 28.2 / 60 | 56 stars |
| Forks | partial | 13.9 / 25 | 48 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 3.9 / 15 | 6 watchers |

### Community health — 70/100 (Good)

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

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 66/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 52.6 / 80 | 8,756 downloads/month across go, maven, npm, pypi |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 65/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 23% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 21/100 (At Risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 5 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 78% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | partial | 6.8 / 13.5 | 5 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | not met | 0 / 10 | project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0 |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 64/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 28 / 42 | 67% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 28 / 30 | 57/61 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | not met | 0 / 15 | Found 0/5 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 91/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 18.5 / 25 | 379 followers of Kucoin |
| Track record | partial | 22.8 / 25 | 29 public repos, account ~12 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 4 package(s) on go, maven, npm, pypi |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 35 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 13 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 63/100 (Moderate)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 19% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 72/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 3 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | partial | 8 / 20 | 2 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 4 |

### Documentation — 50/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 19 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 41/100 (Weak)

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 — 39/100 (Weak)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3.8 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | partial | 1 / 2.5 | 2 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 4 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Found 0/5 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
| Contributors | not met | 0 / 2.5 | project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0 |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | not met | 0 / 7.5 | no 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 | 26 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 0.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |
| 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 | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 96 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 51/100 (Moderate)

Matched the maven:com.kucoin:kucoin-universal-sdk@0.1.2-alpha runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 13 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | partial | 12.3 / 35 | 1 affected: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind 2.17.1 (high 8.1) |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | partial | 10 / 25 | 1 affected: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core 2.17.1 (high 7.5) |
| No advisories left outstanding | partial | 28.8 / 40 | 2 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 234 days ago |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dependency reported as a malicious package | met | 100 / 100 | no dependency is reported as a malicious package |

## AI Readiness — 65/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight: agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but its absence must never gate the top of the scale (calibration saturates at raw 91, so 100/100 remains reachable with AI Readiness at zero).

### Agent context & guidance — 35/100 (Weak)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | not met | 0 / 45 | no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | partial | 35.2 / 40 | 66 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 68/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | partial | 12.6 / 18 | generator/plugin/pom.xml, sdk/golang/go.mod, sdk/java/example/pom.xml (toolchain convention, no task runner) |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | sdk/node/example/tsconfig.json, sdk/node/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | not met | 0 / 10 | no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| Automated maintenance | not met | 0 / 8 | no automated dependency updates observed |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |

### Code legibility for models — 82/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | partial | 27 / 45 | Python with type-check config (sdk/node/example/tsconfig.json, sdk/node/tsconfig.json) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.8 / 55 | 14/4524 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | excluded | 0 / 40 | not applicable to this kind of software |
| MCP server | excluded | 0 / 20 | not applicable to this kind of software |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- packagist package 'kucoin/kucoin-universal-sdk' points at a different repository (https://github.com/Kucoin/kucoin-universal-php-sdk); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- Could not fetch maven package 'org.openapitools:sdk-openapi-generator' from its registry

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