Software health reportschema 0.31.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-11 07:32 UTC

Nullus157 / bs58-rs

Another Rust Base58 codec implementation

RustApache-2.0★ 103 stars⑂ 34 forkssince Oct 2016View on GitHub ↗

KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

Nullus157/bs58-rs holds a health index of 44 out of 100, placing it in the Weak band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (60/100) and lowest on Vitality (13/100). It was last updated 808 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Weak

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 46 is calibrated to 44 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Nullus157Organization

10 followers8 public repossince Dec 2020

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	Tags
crates.io	bs58	0.5.1	13,024,154	13	874 days ago	base58
crates.io	bs58-cli	0.1.2	110	3	1175 days ago	—

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

13Critical · 21% of overall

Development activity

1Critical

How it's scored

0/36	Push recency — last push 808 days ago
0/36	Commit cadence — 0/52 weeks with commits
0/18	Commit volume — 0 commits in the last year
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

commits_last_year	0
human_commit_share	0.72
days_since_last_push	808
active_weeks_last_year	0

Release discipline

32At Risk

How it's scored

16.2/27	Ships releases — 15 version tags (no GitHub releases)
0/36	Release recency — latest release 874 days ago
12.6/27	Release cadence — a release every ~230.8 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	15
latest_release_tag	0.5.1
releases_from_tags	yes
days_since_latest_release	874
mean_days_between_releases	230.8

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?

60Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

45Weak

How it's scored

32.6/60	Stars — 103 stars
12.7/25	Forks — 34 forks
0/15	Watchers — 2 watchers

Inputs used

forks	34
stars	103
watchers	2
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	0
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

100Exceptional

How it's scored

80/80	Monthly downloads — 13,024,264 downloads/month across crates
0/20	Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem

Inputs used

packages	bs58, bs58-cli
dependents	—
ecosystems	crates
total_downloads	107,950,199
monthly_downloads	13,024,264
unverified_packages_excluded	—

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

Sustainability & Governance

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

57Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

36Weak

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
3.8/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 83% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 11 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 13 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	11
top_contributor_share	0.833

Issue & PR responsiveness

58Moderate

How it's scored

30.8/42	Issue resolution — 73% of issues closed
18/30	PR acceptance — 57/95 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
1.5/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 2/11 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1

Inputs used

merged_prs	57
open_issues	8
closed_issues	22
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0.733
closed_unmerged_prs	38
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

70Good

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
7.5/25	Owner reach — 10 followers of Nullus157
18.3/25	Track record — 8 public repos, account ~5 yr old

Inputs used

followers	10
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	—
owner_login	Nullus157
public_repos	8
account_age_days	2,071

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

Package maintenance

69Good

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 2 package(s) on crates
4/35	Publish recency — latest publish 874 days ago
20/20	Version history — 13 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	bs58, bs58-cli
ecosystems	crates
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	874

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

51Moderate · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

48Weak

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 3 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
0/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

55Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://docs.rs/bs58
10/10	Repository description
0/10	Topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	—
has_wiki	no
homepage	—
docs_site	https://docs.rs/bs58
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

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

47Weak · 16% of overall

Security posture

34At Risk

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
0/2.5	CI-Tests — 0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0.8/7.5	Code-Review — Found 2/11 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 13 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
0/7.5	Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
6/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 2 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	3.4

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. 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
25/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
0/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	0
affected_packages	0
assessed_packages	78
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	none
direct_affected_packages	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the crates:bs58@0.5.1 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 78 packages. 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.

60Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

13Critical

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
13.3/40	Legible commit history — 18 of 72 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.25
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

64Moderate

How it's scored

12.6/18	One-command bootstrap — Cargo.toml, cli/Cargo.toml (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — Rust (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8	Automated maintenance — 3 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	Cargo.lock
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	Cargo.toml, cli/Cargo.toml
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.03

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Rust (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/12 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Rust
largest_source_bytes	20,857
source_files_sampled	12
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

103GitHub stars

11contributors

0commits, last 12 months

808days since last push

15releases

1bus factor

8open issues

crates.iopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 34 ⇿

0Stars

34Forks

12Releases

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 4Patch 8

Each point covers 9 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 3.4 / 10

3.4aggregate

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 · 2026-08-11 07:31 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
0	CI-Tests	0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1	Code-Review	Found 2/11 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
10	Contributors	project has 13 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0	Dependency-Update-Tool	no update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
0	Maintained	0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
8	Vulnerabilities	2 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 6

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
crates.io	sha2	`0.10`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	smallvec	`1`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	tinyvec	`1.6.0`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	anyhow	`1.0.71`	cli/Cargo.toml
crates.io	bs58	`0.5.0`	cli/Cargo.toml
crates.io	clap	`4.5.3`	cli/Cargo.toml

All dependencies 117

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 8 direct and 109 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
crates.io	anyhow	`—`	direct
crates.io	anyhow	`1.0.81`	direct
crates.io	bs58	`—`	direct
crates.io	clap	`—`	direct
crates.io	clap	`4.5.3`	direct
crates.io	sha2	`0.10.8`	direct
crates.io	smallvec	`1.13.1`	direct
crates.io	tinyvec	`1.6.0`	direct
crates.io	aho-corasick	`1.1.2`	indirect
crates.io	anes	`0.1.6`	indirect
crates.io	anstream	`0.6.13`	indirect
crates.io	anstyle	`1.0.6`	indirect
crates.io	anstyle-parse	`0.2.3`	indirect
crates.io	anstyle-query	`1.0.2`	indirect
crates.io	anstyle-wincon	`3.0.2`	indirect
crates.io	assert_matches	`1.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	autocfg	`1.1.0`	indirect
crates.io	base58	`0.1.0`	indirect
crates.io	bitflags	`2.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	block-buffer	`0.10.4`	indirect
crates.io	bumpalo	`3.15.4`	indirect
crates.io	cast	`0.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	cfg-if	`1.0.0`	indirect
crates.io	ciborium	`0.2.2`	indirect
crates.io	ciborium-io	`0.2.2`	indirect
crates.io	ciborium-ll	`0.2.2`	indirect
crates.io	clap_builder	`4.5.2`	indirect
crates.io	clap_derive	`4.5.3`	indirect
crates.io	clap_lex	`0.7.0`	indirect
crates.io	colorchoice	`1.0.0`	indirect
crates.io	cpufeatures	`0.2.12`	indirect
crates.io	criterion	`0.5.1`	indirect
crates.io	criterion-plot	`0.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-deque	`0.8.5`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-epoch	`0.9.18`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-utils	`0.8.19`	indirect
crates.io	crunchy	`0.2.2`	indirect
crates.io	crypto-common	`0.1.6`	indirect
crates.io	digest	`0.10.7`	indirect
crates.io	either	`1.10.0`	indirect
crates.io	errno	`0.3.8`	indirect
crates.io	generic-array	`0.14.7`	indirect
crates.io	half	`2.4.0`	indirect
crates.io	heck	`0.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	hermit-abi	`0.3.9`	indirect
crates.io	is-terminal	`0.4.12`	indirect
crates.io	itertools	`0.10.5`	indirect
crates.io	itoa	`1.0.10`	indirect
crates.io	js-sys	`0.3.69`	indirect
crates.io	libc	`0.2.153`	indirect
crates.io	linux-raw-sys	`0.4.13`	indirect
crates.io	log	`0.4.21`	indirect
crates.io	memchr	`2.7.1`	indirect
crates.io	num	`0.4.1`	indirect
crates.io	num-bigint	`0.4.4`	indirect
crates.io	num-complex	`0.4.5`	indirect
crates.io	num-integer	`0.1.46`	indirect
crates.io	num-iter	`0.1.44`	indirect
crates.io	num-rational	`0.4.1`	indirect
crates.io	num-traits	`0.2.18`	indirect
crates.io	once_cell	`1.19.0`	indirect
crates.io	oorandom	`11.1.3`	indirect
crates.io	plotters	`0.3.5`	indirect
crates.io	plotters-backend	`0.3.5`	indirect
crates.io	plotters-svg	`0.3.5`	indirect
crates.io	proc-macro2	`1.0.79`	indirect
crates.io	quote	`1.0.35`	indirect
crates.io	rayon	`1.9.0`	indirect
crates.io	rayon-core	`1.12.1`	indirect
crates.io	regex	`1.10.3`	indirect
crates.io	regex-automata	`0.4.6`	indirect
crates.io	regex-syntax	`0.8.2`	indirect
crates.io	rust-base58	`0.0.4`	indirect
crates.io	rustix	`0.38.31`	indirect
crates.io	ryu	`1.0.17`	indirect
crates.io	same-file	`1.0.6`	indirect
crates.io	serde	`1.0.197`	indirect
crates.io	serde_derive	`1.0.197`	indirect
crates.io	serde_json	`1.0.114`	indirect
crates.io	strsim	`0.11.0`	indirect
crates.io	syn	`2.0.53`	indirect
crates.io	terminal_size	`0.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	tinytemplate	`1.2.1`	indirect
crates.io	tinyvec_macros	`0.1.1`	indirect
crates.io	typenum	`1.17.0`	indirect
crates.io	unicode-ident	`1.0.12`	indirect
crates.io	utf8parse	`0.2.1`	indirect
crates.io	version_check	`0.9.4`	indirect
crates.io	walkdir	`2.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen	`0.2.92`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-backend	`0.2.92`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-macro	`0.2.92`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-macro-support	`0.2.92`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-shared	`0.2.92`	indirect
crates.io	web-sys	`0.3.69`	indirect
crates.io	winapi	`0.3.9`	indirect
crates.io	winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu	`0.4.0`	indirect
crates.io	winapi-util	`0.1.6`	indirect
crates.io	winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu	`0.4.0`	indirect
crates.io	windows-sys	`0.48.0`	indirect
crates.io	windows-sys	`0.52.0`	indirect
crates.io	windows-targets	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows-targets	`0.52.4`	indirect
crates.io	windows_aarch64_gnullvm	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows_aarch64_gnullvm	`0.52.4`	indirect
crates.io	windows_aarch64_msvc	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows_aarch64_msvc	`0.52.4`	indirect
crates.io	windows_i686_gnu	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows_i686_gnu	`0.52.4`	indirect
crates.io	windows_i686_msvc	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows_i686_msvc	`0.52.4`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_gnu	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_gnu	`0.52.4`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_gnullvm	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_gnullvm	`0.52.4`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_msvc	`0.48.5`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_msvc	`0.52.4`	indirect

Dependency advisories 0

Installing crates:bs58@0.5.1 pulls in 78 packages, direct and transitive: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

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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