Public record
Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-29 20:56 UTC

Sage-Bionetworks / synapsePythonClient

Programmatic interface to Synapse services for Python

PythonApache-2.0★ 84 stars⑂ 77 forkssince Aug 2012View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

Sage-Bionetworks/synapsePythonClient holds a health index of 98 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Vitality (96/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (72/100). It was last updated today. 4 contributors account for most of its recent work.

98
overall / 100
Exceptional

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.

98
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)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

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 88 is calibrated to 98 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Sage BionetworksOrganization · verified domain
142 followers343 public repossince Dec 2011

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publish
PyPIsynapseclient4.14.021,953710 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

96Exceptional · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 0 days ago
35.3/36Commit cadence — 51/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 587 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year587
human_commit_share1
days_since_last_push0
active_weeks_last_year51
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 54 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 0 days ago
19.8/27Release cadence — a release every ~57.7 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count54
latest_release_tagv4.14.0
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release0
mean_days_between_releases57.7
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?

75Good · 17% of overall
How it's scored
31.1/60Stars — 84 stars
15.7/25Forks — 77 forks
7.6/15Watchers — 24 watchers
Inputs used
forks77
stars84
watchers24
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

100Exceptional
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5Code of conduct
7.2/7.2Issue template
6.3/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges4
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateyes
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_servicesgithub.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_templateyes
How it's scored
57.9/80Monthly downloads — 21,953 downloads/month across pypi
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagessynapseclient
dependents—
ecosystemspypi
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads21,953
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?

92Excellent · 23% of overall
How it's scored
43.2/54Bus factor — 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
18.1/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 20% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 39 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 32 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor4
contributors_sampled39
top_contributor_share0.197
How it's scored
40.9/42Issue resolution — 97% of issues closed
27.1/30PR acceptance — 1,240/1,374 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
15/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
Inputs used
merged_prs1,240
open_issues2
closed_issues75
prs_merged_7d5
prs_decided_7d6
prs_merged_30d12
prs_decided_30d13
issue_closed_ratio0.974
closed_unmerged_prs134
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20Verified domain
15.5/25Owner reach — 142 followers of Sage-Bionetworks
25/25Track record — 343 public repos, account ~14 yr old
Inputs used
followers142
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedyes
owner_loginSage-Bionetworks
public_repos343
account_age_days5,408

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on pypi
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 0 days ago
20/20Version history — 71 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagessynapseclient
ecosystemspypi
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish0

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

96Exceptional · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 8 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff], [tool.black], [tool.isort]), setup.cfg ([flake8])
9.6/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configyes

Documentation

100Exceptional
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://www.synapse.org
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 3 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicssynapse, python, bdf-toolbox
has_wikiyes
homepagehttps://www.synapse.org
docs_sitehttps://www.synapse.org
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

78Good · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0.8/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
7.5/7.5Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 32 contributing companies or organizations
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5Packaging — packaging workflow detected
0.5/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1
5/5SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
6.8/7.5Vulnerabilities — 1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated17
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive1
scorecard_aggregate7.2
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories2
affected_packages1
assessed_packages121
unassessed_packages7
affected_by_severitylow 1
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 121 resolved dependencies against OSV. 7 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list. 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.

72Good · 4% of overall
How it's scored
45/45Agent instructions — CLAUDE.md, docs/CLAUDE.md, docs/reference/experimental/async/agent.md, docs/reference/experimental/sync/agent.md, synapseclient/api/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/constants/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/credentials/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/download/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/upload/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/extensions/curator/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/mixins/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/protocols/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/services/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/operations/CLAUDE.md, synapseutils/CLAUDE.md, tests/CLAUDE.md
15/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) — llms.txt served by the project website (https://help.synapse.org/llms.txt)
40/40Legible commit history — 89 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtyes
llms_txt_urlhttps://help.synapse.org/llms.txt
legible_history_share0.89
agent_instruction_filesCLAUDE.md, docs/CLAUDE.md, docs/reference/experimental/async/agent.md, docs/reference/experimental/sync/agent.md, synapseclient/api/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/constants/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/credentials/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/download/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/core/upload/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/extensions/curator/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/mixins/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/protocols/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/models/services/CLAUDE.md, synapseclient/operations/CLAUDE.md, synapseutils/CLAUDE.md, tests/CLAUDE.md
agent_instruction_max_bytes8,553
How it's scored
0/18One-command bootstrap
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff], [tool.black], [tool.isort]), setup.cfg ([flake8])
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
10/10Demonstrated agent practice — 14 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
5/8Automated maintenance — dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits
1/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilesPipfile.lock
has_dockerfileyes
typed_languageno
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0.14
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — Python without a type-check config
50.3/55Manageable file sizes — 33/387 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languagePython
largest_source_bytes400,502
source_files_sampled387
oversized_source_files33

Key facts

84GitHub stars
39contributors
587commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
54releases
4bus factor
2open issues
PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • deps.dev does not index pypi:synapseclient@4.14.0; advisories assessed against the repository dependency graph instead

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 77 ⇿
0Stars
77Forks
53Releases

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.

01325385063757532012-092019-082026-08
Major 3Minor 24Patch 22

Each point covers 13 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 7.2 / 10
7.2aggregate

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 · 2026-09-29 20:55 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
1Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10CI-Tests30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
10Code-Reviewall changesets reviewed
10Contributorsproject has 32 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10Packagingpackaging workflow detected
1Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1
10SASTSAST tool is run on all commits
10Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
9Vulnerabilities1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 19
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
PyPIrequests>=2.34.0,<3.0setup.cfg
PyPIurllib3>=2.6.3setup.cfg
PyPIdeprecated>=1.2.4,<2.0setup.cfg
PyPIopentelemetry-api>=1.21.0setup.cfg
PyPIopentelemetry-sdk>=1.21.0setup.cfg
PyPIopentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http>=1.21.0setup.cfg
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx>=0.48b0setup.cfg
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-requests>=0.48b0setup.cfg
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-threading>=0.48b0setup.cfg
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib>=0.48b0setup.cfg
PyPInest-asyncio~=1.6.0setup.cfg
PyPIasyncio-atexit~=1.0.1setup.cfg
PyPIhttpx>=0.27.0setup.cfg
PyPIhttpcore>=1.0.9setup.cfg
PyPItqdm>=4.66.2,<5.0setup.cfg
PyPIasync-lru~=2.0.4setup.cfg
PyPIpsutil>=5.9.8setup.cfg
PyPIsetuptools>=80.10.1setup.cfg
PyPIcryptography>=50.0.0setup.cfg
All dependencies 128

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 19 direct and 109 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
PyPIasync-lru2.0.5direct
PyPIasyncio-atexit1.0.1direct
PyPIcryptography50.0.0direct
PyPIdeprecated1.3.1direct
PyPIhttpcore1.0.9direct
PyPIhttpx0.28.1direct
PyPInest-asyncio1.6.0direct
PyPIopentelemetry-api1.44.0direct
PyPIopentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http1.44.0direct
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx0.65b0direct
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-requests0.65b0direct
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-threading0.65b0direct
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib0.65b0direct
PyPIopentelemetry-sdk1.44.0direct
PyPIpsutil7.2.2direct
PyPIrequests2.34.2direct
PyPIsetuptools84.0.0direct
PyPItqdm4.70.0direct
PyPIurllib32.7.0direct
PyPIanyio4.14.2indirect
PyPIattrs26.1.0indirect
PyPIbabel2.18.0indirect
PyPIbackrefs8.0indirect
PyPIbcrypt5.0.0indirect
PyPIblack26.5.1indirect
PyPIboto31.43.69indirect
PyPIbotocore1.43.69indirect
PyPIcertifi2026.7.22indirect
PyPIcffi2.1.1indirect
PyPIcfgv3.5.0indirect
PyPIcharset-normalizer3.4.9indirect
PyPIclick8.4.2indirect
PyPIcolorama0.4.6indirect
PyPIcoverage7.15.4indirect
PyPIdataclasses-json0.6.7indirect
PyPIdill0.4.1indirect
PyPIdistlib0.4.3indirect
PyPIexecnet2.1.2indirect
PyPIfilelock3.32.2indirect
PyPIflake83.9.2indirect
PyPIfunc-timeout4.3.5indirect
PyPIghp-import2.1.0indirect
PyPIgoogleapis-common-protos1.75.1indirect
PyPIgriffelib2.1.0indirect
PyPIh110.16.0indirect
PyPIidentify2.6.19indirect
PyPIidna3.18indirect
PyPIinflection0.5.1indirect
PyPIiniconfig2.3.0indirect
PyPIjinja23.1.6indirect
PyPIjmespath1.1.0indirect
PyPIjsonschema4.26.0indirect
PyPIjsonschema-specifications2025.9.1indirect
PyPImarkdown3.10.3indirect
PyPImarkdown-include—indirect
PyPImarkdown-include0.8.1indirect
PyPImarkupsafe3.0.3indirect
PyPImarshmallow3.26.2indirect
PyPImccabe0.6.1indirect
PyPImergedeep1.3.4indirect
PyPImkdocs—indirect
PyPImkdocs1.6.1indirect
PyPImkdocs-autorefs1.4.4indirect
PyPImkdocs-get-deps0.2.2indirect
PyPImkdocs-material—indirect
PyPImkdocs-material9.7.7indirect
PyPImkdocs-material-extensions1.3.1indirect
PyPImkdocs-open-in-new-tab—indirect
PyPImkdocs-open-in-new-tab1.0.8indirect
PyPImkdocstrings—indirect
PyPImkdocstrings1.0.6indirect
PyPImkdocstrings-python—indirect
PyPImkdocstrings-python2.0.5indirect
PyPImypy-extensions1.1.0indirect
PyPInetworkx3.6.1indirect
PyPInodeenv1.10.0indirect
PyPInumpy2.5.2indirect
PyPIopentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common1.44.0indirect
PyPIopentelemetry-instrumentation0.65b0indirect
PyPIopentelemetry-proto1.44.0indirect
PyPIopentelemetry-semantic-conventions0.65b0indirect
PyPIopentelemetry-util-http0.65b0indirect
PyPIpackaging26.3indirect
PyPIpaginate0.5.7indirect
PyPIpandarallel1.6.5indirect
PyPIpandas2.3.3indirect
PyPIparamiko3.5.1indirect
PyPIpathspec1.1.1indirect
PyPIplatformdirs4.11.2indirect
PyPIpluggy1.6.0indirect
PyPIpre-commit4.6.2indirect
PyPIprotobuf7.35.1indirect
PyPIpycodestyle2.7.0indirect
PyPIpycparser3.0indirect
PyPIpyflakes2.3.1indirect
PyPIpygments2.20.0indirect
PyPIpymdown-extensions11.0.1indirect
PyPIpynacl1.6.2indirect
PyPIpyparsing3.3.2indirect
PyPIpysftp0.2.9indirect
PyPIpytest9.0.3indirect
PyPIpytest-asyncio1.4.0indirect
PyPIpytest-cov4.1.0indirect
PyPIpytest-html4.1.1indirect
PyPIpytest-metadata3.1.1indirect
PyPIpytest-mock3.15.1indirect
PyPIpytest-rerunfailures12.0indirect
PyPIpytest-socket0.6.0indirect
PyPIpytest-xdist3.8.0indirect
PyPIpython-dateutil2.9.0.post0indirect
PyPIpython-discovery1.5.1indirect
PyPIpytokens0.4.1indirect
PyPIpytz2026.3.post1indirect
PyPIpyyaml6.0.3indirect
PyPIpyyaml-env-tag1.1indirect
PyPIrdflib7.6.0indirect
PyPIreferencing0.37.0indirect
PyPIrpds-py2026.6.3indirect
PyPIs3transfer0.19.2indirect
PyPIsix1.17.0indirect
PyPItermynal—indirect
PyPItermynal0.14.0indirect
PyPItyping-extensions4.16.0indirect
PyPItyping-inspect0.9.0indirect
PyPItzdata2026.3indirect
PyPIvirtualenv21.7.4indirect
PyPIwatchdog6.0.0indirect
PyPIwrapt2.3.0indirect
Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 121 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 7 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
paramiko3.5.1indirectlow2—

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.

Raw JSON report machine-readable

Feedback

Spotted something off in this report, or have thoughts to share? Wrong measurements, missed tooling, ideas, questions — anything is welcome. Every message is read and gets a response.

The message is kept through sign-in.

Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.

Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

How one result sits in the wider record: aggregate statistics — PyPI.