Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-19 17:24 UTC

RCasatta / bitcoin_slices

Parse Bitcoin objects without allocations

RustMIT★ 17 stars⑂ 11 forkssince Sep 2022View on GitHub ↗

RCasatta/bitcoin_slices holds a health index of 59 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate band. It scores highest on Vitality (67/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (45/100). It was last updated 1 day ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Moderate

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 56 is calibrated to 59 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Riccardo CasattaPersonal account

268 followers213 public repossince Jan 2014

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish	Tags
crates.io	bitcoin_slices	0.12.0	6,918	22	1 day ago	bitcoin blocks parse slices transaction encoding no-std

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

67Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

64Moderate

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 1 days ago
3.5/36	Commit cadence — 5/52 weeks with commits
14.1/18	Commit volume — 36 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 13 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	36
human_commit_share	1
days_since_last_push	1
active_weeks_last_year	5

Release discipline

72Good

How it's scored

16.2/27	Ships releases — 16 version tags (no GitHub releases)
36/36	Release recency — latest release 1 days ago
12.6/27	Release cadence — a release every ~140.8 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	16
latest_release_tag	0.12.0
releases_from_tags	yes
days_since_latest_release	1
mean_days_between_releases	140.8

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?

45Weak · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

28At Risk

How it's scored

19.5/60	Stars — 17 stars
8.3/25	Forks — 11 forks
0/15	Watchers — 2 watchers

Inputs used

forks	11
stars	17
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 (MIT)
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	3
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

64Moderate

How it's scored

51.2/80	Monthly downloads — 6,918 downloads/month across crates
0/20	Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem

Inputs used

packages	bitcoin_slices
dependents	—
ecosystems	crates
total_downloads	136,038
monthly_downloads	6,918
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?

54Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

20At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
0.9/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 96% of commits
6.8/13.5	Contributor breadth — 5 contributors
3/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	5
top_contributor_share	0.961

Issue & PR responsiveness

46Weak

How it's scored

14/42	Issue resolution — 33% of issues closed
26.4/30	PR acceptance — 29/33 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — 0/1 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
6/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 3/7 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4

Inputs used

merged_prs	29
open_issues	14
closed_issues	7
prs_merged_7d	3
prs_decided_7d	4
prs_merged_30d	3
prs_decided_30d	5
issue_closed_ratio	0.333
closed_unmerged_prs	4
first_time_authors_30d	1
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	1

Ownership & stewardship

66Good

How it's scored

10/30	Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20	Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
17.5/25	Owner reach — 268 followers of RCasatta
25/25	Track record — 213 public repos, account ~12 yr old

Inputs used

followers	268
owner_type	User
is_verified	—
owner_login	RCasatta
public_repos	213
account_age_days	4,623

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

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on crates
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 1 days ago
20/20	Version history — 22 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	bitcoin_slices
ecosystems	crates
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	1

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

52Moderate · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

44Weak

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 1 workflow(s)
0/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 6 out of 6 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	no
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

65Good

How it's scored

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

Inputs used

topics	—
has_wiki	yes
homepage	—
docs_site	https://docs.rs/bitcoin_slices/
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?

59Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

49Weak

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 6 out of 6 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
3/7.5	Code-Review — Found 3/7 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4
0.8/2.5	Contributors — project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
5/5	Fuzzing — project is fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 13 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
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
3/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 6 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	4.9

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
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	9
affected_packages	5
assessed_packages	128
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	high 1, low 2, unknown 2
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 128 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.

53Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

53Moderate

How it's scored

45/45	Agent instructions — CLAUDE.md
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
8/40	Legible commit history — 15 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.15
agent_instruction_files	CLAUDE.md
agent_instruction_max_bytes	5,326

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

36Weak

How it's scored

12.6/18	One-command bootstrap — Cargo.toml, fuzz/Cargo.toml (toolchain convention, no task runner)
0/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — Rust (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Nix, lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
0/8	Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	yes
has_tests	no
lockfiles	Cargo.lock
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	Cargo.toml, fuzz/Cargo.toml
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Rust (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/33 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Rust
largest_source_bytes	17,528
source_files_sampled	33
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

17GitHub stars

5contributors

36commits, last 12 months

1days since last push

16releases

1bus factor

14open issues

crates.iopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
deps.dev does not index crates:bitcoin_slices@0.12.0; advisories assessed against the repository dependency graph instead

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 11 ⇿

0Stars

11Forks

9Releases

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 5

Each point covers 4 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 4.9 / 10

4.9aggregate

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 · 2026-09-19 17:24 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
10	CI-Tests	6 out of 6 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
4	Code-Review	Found 3/7 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4
3	Contributors	project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0	Dependency-Update-Tool	no update tool detected
10	Fuzzing	project is fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	13 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
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
4	Vulnerabilities	6 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 6

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
crates.io	bitcoin_hashes	`0.14`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	sha2	`0.11`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	bitcoin	`0.32.0`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	redb	`1.0`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	hashbrown	`0.14`	Cargo.toml
crates.io	prometheus	`0.13.4`	Cargo.toml

All dependencies 128

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 6 direct and 122 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
crates.io	bitcoin	`0.32.5`	direct
crates.io	bitcoin_hashes	`0.14.0`	direct
crates.io	hashbrown	`0.14.5`	direct
crates.io	prometheus	`0.13.4`	direct
crates.io	redb	`1.5.1`	direct
crates.io	sha2	`0.11.0`	direct
crates.io	ahash	`0.8.11`	indirect
crates.io	aho-corasick	`1.1.3`	indirect
crates.io	allocator-api2	`0.2.21`	indirect
crates.io	arbitrary	`1.1.6`	indirect
crates.io	arrayvec	`0.7.6`	indirect
crates.io	atty	`0.2.14`	indirect
crates.io	autocfg	`1.4.0`	indirect
crates.io	base58ck	`0.1.0`	indirect
crates.io	bech32	`0.11.0`	indirect
crates.io	bitcoin-internals	`0.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	bitcoin-io	`0.1.3`	indirect
crates.io	bitcoin-test-data	`0.2.0`	indirect
crates.io	bitcoin-units	`0.1.2`	indirect
crates.io	bitflags	`1.3.2`	indirect
crates.io	bitflags	`2.8.0`	indirect
crates.io	block-buffer	`0.12.1`	indirect
crates.io	bumpalo	`3.16.0`	indirect
crates.io	cast	`0.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	cc	`1.0.73`	indirect
crates.io	cc	`1.2.10`	indirect
crates.io	cfg-if	`1.0.0`	indirect
crates.io	clap	`2.34.0`	indirect
crates.io	const-oid	`0.10.2`	indirect
crates.io	cpufeatures	`0.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	criterion	`0.3.6`	indirect
crates.io	criterion-plot	`0.4.5`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-deque	`0.8.6`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-epoch	`0.9.18`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-utils	`0.8.21`	indirect
crates.io	crypto-common	`0.2.2`	indirect
crates.io	csv	`1.3.1`	indirect
crates.io	csv-core	`0.1.11`	indirect
crates.io	digest	`0.11.3`	indirect
crates.io	either	`1.13.0`	indirect
crates.io	errno	`0.3.10`	indirect
crates.io	fastrand	`2.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	fnv	`1.0.7`	indirect
crates.io	getrandom	`0.2.15`	indirect
crates.io	half	`1.8.3`	indirect
crates.io	hermit-abi	`0.1.19`	indirect
crates.io	hex-conservative	`0.2.1`	indirect
crates.io	hex_lit	`0.1.1`	indirect
crates.io	hybrid-array	`0.4.14`	indirect
crates.io	itertools	`0.10.5`	indirect
crates.io	itoa	`1.0.14`	indirect
crates.io	jobserver	`0.1.24`	indirect
crates.io	js-sys	`0.3.77`	indirect
crates.io	lazy_static	`1.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	libc	`0.2.132`	indirect
crates.io	libc	`0.2.169`	indirect
crates.io	libfuzzer-sys	`0.4.4`	indirect
crates.io	linux-raw-sys	`0.4.15`	indirect
crates.io	lock_api	`0.4.12`	indirect
crates.io	log	`0.4.25`	indirect
crates.io	memchr	`2.7.4`	indirect
crates.io	num-traits	`0.2.19`	indirect
crates.io	once_cell	`1.14.0`	indirect
crates.io	once_cell	`1.20.2`	indirect
crates.io	oorandom	`11.1.4`	indirect
crates.io	parking_lot	`0.12.3`	indirect
crates.io	parking_lot_core	`0.9.10`	indirect
crates.io	plotters	`0.3.7`	indirect
crates.io	plotters-backend	`0.3.7`	indirect
crates.io	plotters-svg	`0.3.7`	indirect
crates.io	proc-macro2	`1.0.93`	indirect
crates.io	protobuf	`2.28.0`	indirect
crates.io	quote	`1.0.38`	indirect
crates.io	rand	`0.8.5`	indirect
crates.io	rand_core	`0.6.4`	indirect
crates.io	rayon	`1.10.0`	indirect
crates.io	rayon-core	`1.12.1`	indirect
crates.io	redox_syscall	`0.5.8`	indirect
crates.io	regex	`1.11.1`	indirect
crates.io	regex-automata	`0.4.9`	indirect
crates.io	regex-syntax	`0.8.5`	indirect
crates.io	rustix	`0.38.43`	indirect
crates.io	rustversion	`1.0.19`	indirect
crates.io	ryu	`1.0.18`	indirect
crates.io	same-file	`1.0.6`	indirect
crates.io	scopeguard	`1.2.0`	indirect
crates.io	secp256k1	`0.29.1`	indirect
crates.io	secp256k1-sys	`0.10.1`	indirect
crates.io	serde	`1.0.217`	indirect
crates.io	serde_cbor	`0.11.2`	indirect
crates.io	serde_derive	`1.0.217`	indirect
crates.io	serde_json	`1.0.136`	indirect
crates.io	shlex	`1.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	smallvec	`1.13.2`	indirect
crates.io	syn	`2.0.96`	indirect
crates.io	tempfile	`3.15.0`	indirect
crates.io	textwrap	`0.11.0`	indirect
crates.io	thiserror	`1.0.69`	indirect
crates.io	thiserror-impl	`1.0.69`	indirect
crates.io	tinytemplate	`1.2.1`	indirect
crates.io	typenum	`1.20.1`	indirect
crates.io	unicode-ident	`1.0.14`	indirect
crates.io	unicode-width	`0.1.14`	indirect
crates.io	version_check	`0.9.5`	indirect
crates.io	walkdir	`2.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	wasi	`0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen	`0.2.100`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-backend	`0.2.100`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-macro	`0.2.100`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-macro-support	`0.2.100`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-shared	`0.2.100`	indirect
crates.io	web-sys	`0.3.77`	indirect
crates.io	winapi	`0.3.9`	indirect
crates.io	winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu	`0.4.0`	indirect
crates.io	winapi-util	`0.1.9`	indirect
crates.io	winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu	`0.4.0`	indirect
crates.io	windows-sys	`0.59.0`	indirect
crates.io	windows-targets	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_aarch64_gnullvm	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_aarch64_msvc	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_i686_gnu	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_i686_gnullvm	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_i686_msvc	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_gnu	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_gnullvm	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	windows_x86_64_msvc	`0.52.6`	indirect
crates.io	zerocopy	`0.7.35`	indirect
crates.io	zerocopy-derive	`0.7.35`	indirect

Dependency advisories 5

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 128 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
protobuf	`2.28.0`	indirect	high	2	`3.7.2`
atty	`0.2.14`	indirect	low	3	—
rand	`0.8.5`	indirect	low	2	`0.10.1`
crossbeam-epoch	`0.9.18`	indirect	unknown	1	`0.9.20`
serde_cbor	`0.11.2`	indirect	unknown	1	—

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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