Software health reportschema 0.31.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-18 10:50 UTC

SanderSander / composer-link

Adds ability to link / symlink local packages for development with composer

PHPCustom license★ 92 stars⑂ 9 forkssince Mar 2022View on GitHub ↗

SanderSander/composer-link holds a health index of 71 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (80/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (42/100). It was last updated today. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Good

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 63 is calibrated to 71 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Sander VisserPersonal account

21 followers68 public repossince Feb 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
Packagist	sandersander/composer-link	v0.7.3	16,241	16	48 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

73Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

61Moderate

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
6.9/36	Commit cadence — 10/52 weeks with commits
13.5/18	Commit volume — 31 commits in the last year
5/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 6 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 5

Inputs used

commits_last_year	31
human_commit_share	1
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	10

Release discipline

92Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 16 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 48 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~63.8 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	16
latest_release_tag	v0.7.3
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	48
mean_days_between_releases	63.8

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?

54Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

42Weak

How it's scored

31.8/60	Stars — 92 stars
7.5/25	Forks — 9 forks
2.7/15	Watchers — 4 watchers

Inputs used

forks	9
stars	92
watchers	4
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

64Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
16.9/22.5	License — license file present, not a recognized license
18/18	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	2
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	github.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

61Moderate

How it's scored

56.1/80	Monthly downloads — 16,241 downloads/month across packagist
4.7/20	Registry dependents — 4 packages depend on it

Inputs used

packages	sandersander/composer-link
dependents	4
ecosystems	packagist
total_downloads	483,381
monthly_downloads	16,241
unverified_packages_excluded	—

Sustainability & Governance

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

58Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

14Critical

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
0.8/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 96% of commits
4.1/13.5	Contributor breadth — 3 contributors
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	3
top_contributor_share	0.964

Issue & PR responsiveness

79Good

How it's scored

42/42	Issue resolution — 100% of issues closed
25.3/30	PR acceptance — 64/76 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 3/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1

Inputs used

merged_prs	64
open_issues	0
closed_issues	23
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	1
closed_unmerged_prs	12
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

56Moderate

How it's scored

10/30	Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20	Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
9.7/25	Owner reach — 21 followers of SanderSander
25/25	Track record — 68 public repos, account ~12 yr old

Inputs used

followers	21
owner_type	User
is_verified	—
owner_login	SanderSander
public_repos	68
account_age_days	4,576

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 packagist
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 48 days ago
20/20	Version history — 16 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	sandersander/composer-link
ecosystems	packagist
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	48

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

80Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

90Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .php-cs-fixer.php, phpstan.neon
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 13 out of 13 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	yes
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

65Good

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://packagist.org/packages/sandersander/composer-link
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 3 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	composer-plugin, composer, php
has_wiki	no
homepage	https://packagist.org/packages/sandersander/composer-link
docs_site	https://packagist.org/packages/sandersander/composer-link
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?

50Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

38Weak

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 — 13 out of 13 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
0.8/7.5	Code-Review — Found 3/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
0/2.5	Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
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
2.2/2.5	License — license file detected
3.8/7.5	Maintained — 6 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 5
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
5.2/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 3 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	3.8

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	3
affected_packages	1
assessed_packages	85
unassessed_packages	5
affected_by_severity	high 1
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 85 resolved dependencies against OSV. 5 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.

42Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

35Weak

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
35.3/40	Legible commit history — 55 of 83 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.663
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

43Weak

How it's scored

0/18	One-command bootstrap
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .php-cs-fixer.php, phpstan.neon
0/11	Static type checking
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 83
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	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	composer.lock
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	no
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

Code legibility for models

55Moderate

How it's scored

0/45	Type-checkable code — PHP without a type-check config
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/43 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	PHP
largest_source_bytes	13,439
source_files_sampled	43
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

92GitHub stars

3contributors

31commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

16releases

1bus factor

0open issues

Packagistpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 9 ⇿

0Stars

9Forks

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 5Patch 7

Each point covers 4 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 3.8 / 10

3.8aggregate

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 · 2026-08-18 10:49 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	13 out of 13 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
1	Code-Review	Found 3/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
0	Contributors	project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0	Dependency-Update-Tool	no update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
9	License	license file detected
5	Maintained	6 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 5
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
7	Vulnerabilities	3 existing vulnerabilities detected

All dependencies 90

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 90 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Packagist	clue/ndjson-react	`1.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer-plugin-api	`—`	indirect
Packagist	composer/ca-bundle	`1.5.12`	indirect
Packagist	composer/class-map-generator	`1.7.3`	indirect
Packagist	composer/composer	`2.9.8`	indirect
Packagist	composer/metadata-minifier	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/pcre	`3.3.2`	indirect
Packagist	composer/semver	`3.4.4`	indirect
Packagist	composer/spdx-licenses	`1.6.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/xdebug-handler	`3.0.5`	indirect
Packagist	ergebnis/agent-detector	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	evenement/evenement	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	fidry/cpu-core-counter	`1.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer	`3.95.2`	indirect
Packagist	justinrainbow/json-schema	`6.8.2`	indirect
Packagist	marc-mabe/php-enum	`4.7.2`	indirect
Packagist	myclabs/deep-copy	`1.13.4`	indirect
Packagist	nikic/php-parser	`5.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	pdepend/pdepend	`3-dev.0`	indirect
Packagist	phar-io/manifest	`2.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	phar-io/version	`3.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpmd/phpmd	`3-dev.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpstan/phpstan	`2.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules	`2.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	phpstan/phpstan-phpunit	`2.0.16`	indirect
Packagist	phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules	`2.0.11`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-code-coverage	`11.0.12`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-file-iterator	`5.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-invoker	`5.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-text-template	`4.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-timer	`7.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/phpunit	`11.5.55`	indirect
Packagist	psr/container	`—`	indirect
Packagist	psr/container	`2.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	psr/container	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	psr/event-dispatcher	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-factory	`—`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-message	`—`	indirect
Packagist	psr/log	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	react/cache	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/child-process	`0.6.7`	indirect
Packagist	react/dns	`1.14.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/event-loop	`1.6.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/promise	`3.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/socket	`1.17.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/stream	`1.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/cli-parser	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/code-unit	`3.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup	`4.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/comparator	`6.3.3`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/complexity	`4.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/diff	`6.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/environment	`7.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/exporter	`6.3.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/global-state	`7.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/lines-of-code	`3.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/object-enumerator	`6.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/object-reflector	`4.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/recursion-context	`6.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/type	`5.1.3`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/version	`5.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	seld/jsonlint	`1.11.0`	indirect
Packagist	seld/phar-utils	`1.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	seld/signal-handler	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	staabm/side-effects-detector	`1.0.5`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/config	`7.4.10`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/console	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/dependency-injection	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/deprecation-contracts	`3.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher	`7.4.9`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts	`3.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/filesystem	`7.4.11`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/finder	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/options-resolver	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-ctype	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer	`1.38.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-mbstring	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php73	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php80	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php81	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php84	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/process	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/service-contracts	`3.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/stopwatch	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/string	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/var-exporter	`7.4.9`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/yaml	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	test/package-3	`—`	indirect
Packagist	theseer/tokenizer	`1.3.1`	indirect

Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 85 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 5 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
composer/composer	`2.9.8`	indirect	high	3	`2.10.2`

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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