# Opentrons/opentrons — health index 97/100 (Exceptional)

> Inspection of the public repository Opentrons/opentrons by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 97 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional 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/Opentrons/opentrons
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/Opentrons/opentrons
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/Opentrons/opentrons/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/o/Opentrons/opentrons.svg
- Inspected: 2026-08-20
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.34.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 96/100 | Exceptional |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 79/100 | Good |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 96/100 | Exceptional |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 86/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 64/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 76/100 | Good |

The weighted overall 85 is calibrated to 97 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Software for writing protocols and running them on the Opentrons Flex and Opentrons OT-2 |
| Classification | cli, library, network-service, web-ui |
| Homepage | https://opentrons.com |
| Primary language | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 516 |
| Forks | 208 |
| Created | 2015-07-06 |
| Last push | 2026-08-20 |
| Latest release | v9.1.2 |
| Commits (last year) | 2,677 |
| Bus factor | 9 |
| Topics | biology, robotics, science |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| pypi | opentrons | 9.1.1 | 21,667 |
| npm | @opentrons/components | 0.3.13-alpha.0 | 1,622 |
| npm | @opentrons/shared-data | 0.3.13-alpha.0 | 1,644 |

## Vitality — 96/100 (Exceptional)

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

### Development activity — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 2677 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 9 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~6.2 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 2 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 79/100 (Good)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 72/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 44 / 60 | 516 stars |
| Forks | partial | 19.3 / 25 | 208 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 8.6 / 15 | 36 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 73/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 58.6 / 80 | 24,933 downloads/month across npm, pypi |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 96/100 (Exceptional)

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) — 98/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | met | 54 / 54 | 9 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 20.8 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 8% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 95 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 17 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 95/100 (Exceptional)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | excluded | 0 / 42 | no issues or no data |
| PR acceptance | partial | 27.7 / 30 | 15554/16817 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 90/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | excluded | 0 / 20 | verified-domain status not read for this organization |
| Owner reach | partial | 17.1 / 25 | 236 followers of Opentrons |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 89 public repos, account ~12 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 3 package(s) on npm, pypi |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 2 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 455 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 86/100 (Excellent)

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

### Engineering practices — 84/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 46 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.js, .flake8, analyses-snapshot-testing/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), api/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), audit-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), auth-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), e2e-testing/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), eslint.config.mjs, g-code-testing/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), hardware/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), key-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), opentrons-ai-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), robot-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), server-utils/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), shared-data/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), system-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), update-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), usb-bridge/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]) |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 29 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://opentrons.com |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 3 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 64/100 (Moderate)

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 — 55/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 4.5 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 29 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 17 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 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 | 30 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 | 3.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |
| 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 | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 410 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the pypi:opentrons@9.1.1 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 21 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | met | 35 / 35 | no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | met | 25 / 25 | no indirect dependency carries a known advisory |
| No advisories left outstanding | excluded | 0 / 40 | no advisory carries a publication date |

### 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 |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 76/100 (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 — 85/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | .cursor/rules/ai-server-api-docs-curation.mdc, .cursor/rules/monorepo-setup.mdc |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 92 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 81/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | Makefile, abr-testing/Makefile, analyses-snapshot-testing/Makefile, api-client/Makefile, api/Makefile, app-shell-odd/Makefile, app-shell/Makefile, app/Makefile, audit-server/Makefile, auth-server/Makefile, components/Makefile, discovery-client/Makefile, docs/Makefile, e2e-testing/Makefile, g-code-testing/Makefile, hardware-testing/Makefile, hardware/Makefile, js-package-testing/Makefile, key-server/Makefile, labware-designer/Makefile, labware-library/Makefile, opentrons-ai-client/Makefile, opentrons-ai-server/Makefile, package-testing/Makefile, performance-metrics/Makefile, protocol-designer/Makefile, protocol-visualization/Makefile, react-api-client/Makefile, robot-server/Makefile, scripts/static-deploy/Makefile, server-utils/Makefile, shared-data/Makefile, step-generation/Makefile, system-server/Makefile, test-data-generation/Makefile, update-server/Makefile, usb-bridge/Makefile, usb-bridge/node-client/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.js, .flake8, analyses-snapshot-testing/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), api/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), audit-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), auth-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), e2e-testing/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), eslint.config.mjs, g-code-testing/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), hardware/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), key-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), opentrons-ai-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), robot-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), server-utils/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), shared-data/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), system-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), update-server/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]), usb-bridge/pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff]) |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | abr-testing/abr_testing/py.typed, abr-testing/mypy.ini, api-client/tsconfig.json, api/src/opentrons/py.typed, app-shell-odd/tsconfig.json, app-shell/tsconfig.json, app/tsconfig.json, audit-server/audit_server/py.typed, components/tsconfig.json, discovery-client/tsconfig.json, e2e-testing/automation/py.typed, hardware-testing/mypy.ini, hardware/opentrons_hardware/py.typed, js-package-testing/tsconfig.json, key-server/key_server/py.typed, labware-designer/tsconfig.json, labware-library/tsconfig.json, opentrons-ai-client/tsconfig.json, performance-metrics/mypy.ini, performance-metrics/src/performance_metrics/py.typed, protocol-designer/tsconfig.json, protocol-visualization/tsconfig.json, react-api-client/tsconfig.json, server-utils/server_utils/py.typed, shared-data/python/opentrons_shared_data/py.typed, shared-data/tsconfig.json, step-generation/tsconfig.json, test-data-generation/mypy.ini, tsconfig.json, usb-bridge/node-client/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | partial | 2 / 10 | 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | not met | 0 / 8 | no automated dependency updates observed |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 7 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | partial | 27 / 45 | Python with type-check config (abr-testing/abr_testing/py.typed, abr-testing/mypy.ini, api-client/tsconfig.json, api/src/opentrons/py.typed, app-shell-odd/tsconfig.json, app-shell/tsconfig.json, app/tsconfig.json, audit-server/audit_server/py.typed, components/tsconfig.json, discovery-client/tsconfig.json, e2e-testing/automation/py.typed, hardware-testing/mypy.ini, hardware/opentrons_hardware/py.typed, js-package-testing/tsconfig.json, key-server/key_server/py.typed, labware-designer/tsconfig.json, labware-library/tsconfig.json, opentrons-ai-client/tsconfig.json, performance-metrics/mypy.ini, performance-metrics/src/performance_metrics/py.typed, protocol-designer/tsconfig.json, protocol-visualization/tsconfig.json, react-api-client/tsconfig.json, server-utils/server_utils/py.typed, shared-data/python/opentrons_shared_data/py.typed, shared-data/tsconfig.json, step-generation/tsconfig.json, test-data-generation/mypy.ini, tsconfig.json, usb-bridge/node-client/tsconfig.json) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.6 / 55 | 75/9297 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 40/100 (Weak)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- First-time contributor figures cover 12 of 16 authors (cap 12)
- Could not fetch npm package '@opentrons/app' from its registry
- Could not fetch pypi package 'opentrons_hardware' from its registry
- Could not fetch pypi package 'key_server' from its registry
- Could not fetch pypi package 'ot3usb' from its registry
- Could not fetch pypi package 'abr_testing' from its registry
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 3000 of 3302 packages (counts remain complete)

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