# WordPress/gutenberg — health index 99/100 (Exceptional)

> Inspection of the public repository WordPress/gutenberg by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 99 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/WordPress/gutenberg
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/WordPress/gutenberg
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/WordPress/gutenberg/report
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- Inspected: 2026-08-27
- 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% | 95/100 | Exceptional |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 89/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 73/100 | Good |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 86/100 | Excellent |

The weighted overall 89 is calibrated to 99 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository. |
| Classification | plugin, library |
| Homepage | https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ |
| Primary language | JavaScript |
| Stars | 11,750 |
| Forks | 4,893 |
| Created | 2017-02-03 |
| Last push | 2026-08-27 |
| Latest release | v23.9.0-rc.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 5,424 |
| Bus factor | 12 |
| Topics | wordpress, gutenberg, wordpress-plugin |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | @wordpress/a11y | 4.54.0 | 1,038,360 |
| npm | @wordpress/blob | 4.54.0 | 546,687 |
| npm | @wordpress/boot | 0.21.0 | 13,792 |
| npm | @wordpress/autop | 4.54.0 | 555,782 |
| npm | @wordpress/blocks | 15.27.0 | 755,735 |
| npm | @wordpress/admin-ui | 2.9.0 | 121,414 |
| npm | @wordpress/abilities | 0.20.0 | 26,145 |
| npm | @wordpress/api-fetch | 7.54.0 | 743,552 |

## 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 | 5424 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 15 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 1 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~4 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 0 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 95/100 (Exceptional)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 99/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 11,750 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 4,893 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 14 / 15 | 333 watchers |

### Community health — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| 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) — 100/100 (Exceptional)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | met | 80 / 80 | 3,801,467 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 89/100 (Excellent)

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 | 12 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 20.6 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 8% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 99 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 18 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 35.7 / 42 | 85% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 24.1 / 30 | 36732/45748 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | partial | 6.5 / 13 | 1/2 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 10.5 / 15 | Found 21/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 80/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | met | 25 / 25 | 4,851 followers of WordPress |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 208 public repos, account ~16 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 8 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 1 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 347 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 90/100 (Excellent)

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

### Engineering practices — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 24 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 30 out of 30 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://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 3 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 73/100 (Good)

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 — 66/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3.8 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 30 out of 30 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 | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | Found 21/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 18 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 | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 15 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 | partial | 0.5 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 1 |
| Security-Policy | partial | 4.5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 45 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 npm:@wordpress/a11y@4.54.0 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 14 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 — 86/100 (Excellent)

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 — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | .github/copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, packages/components/AGENTS.md, packages/components/CLAUDE.md, packages/theme/AGENTS.md, packages/theme/CLAUDE.md, packages/theme/tokens/AGENTS.md, packages/theme/tokens/CLAUDE.md, packages/ui/AGENTS.md, packages/ui/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | met | 15 / 15 | llms.txt served by the project website (https://wordpress.org/llms.txt) |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 92 of 99 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 76/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | packages/a11y/tsconfig.json, packages/abilities/tsconfig.json, packages/admin-ui/tsconfig.json, packages/annotations/tsconfig.json, packages/api-fetch/tsconfig.json, packages/asset-loader/tsconfig.json, packages/autop/tsconfig.json, packages/blob/tsconfig.json, packages/block-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/block-library/tsconfig.json, packages/block-serialization-default-parser/tsconfig.json, packages/blocks/tsconfig.json, packages/boot/tsconfig.json, packages/components/tsconfig.json, packages/compose/tsconfig.json, packages/connectors/tsconfig.json, packages/core-abilities/tsconfig.json, packages/core-data/tsconfig.json, packages/data-controls/tsconfig.json, packages/data/tsconfig.json, packages/dataviews/tsconfig.json, packages/date/tsconfig.json, packages/deprecated/tsconfig.json, packages/design-system-mcp/tsconfig.json, packages/docgen/tsconfig.json, packages/dom-ready/tsconfig.json, packages/dom/tsconfig.json, packages/e2e-test-utils-playwright/tsconfig.json, packages/edit-site/tsconfig.json, packages/editor/tsconfig.json, packages/element/tsconfig.json, packages/escape-html/tsconfig.json, packages/eslint-plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/fields/tsconfig.json, packages/global-styles-engine/tsconfig.json, packages/global-styles-ui/tsconfig.json, packages/grid/tsconfig.json, packages/hooks/tsconfig.json, packages/html-entities/tsconfig.json, packages/i18n/tsconfig.json, packages/icons/tsconfig.json, packages/image-cropper/tsconfig.json, packages/interactivity-router/tsconfig.json, packages/interactivity/tsconfig.json, packages/is-shallow-equal/tsconfig.json, packages/jest-console/tsconfig.json, packages/kebab-case/tsconfig.json, packages/keyboard-shortcuts/tsconfig.json, packages/keycodes/tsconfig.json, packages/latex-to-mathml/tsconfig.json, packages/lazy-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/lazy-import/tsconfig.json, packages/list-reusable-blocks/tsconfig.json, packages/media-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/media-fields/tsconfig.json, packages/media-utils/tsconfig.json, packages/notices/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/tsconfig.json, packages/preferences/tsconfig.json, packages/prettier-config/tsconfig.json, packages/primitives/tsconfig.json, packages/priority-queue/tsconfig.json, packages/private-apis/tsconfig.json, packages/project-management-automation/tsconfig.json, packages/react-i18n/tsconfig.json, packages/redux-routine/tsconfig.json, packages/report-flaky-tests/tsconfig.json, packages/rich-text/tsconfig.json, packages/route/tsconfig.json, packages/router/tsconfig.json, packages/server-side-render/tsconfig.json, packages/shortcode/tsconfig.json, packages/style-engine/tsconfig.json, packages/style-runtime/tsconfig.json, packages/sync/tsconfig.json, packages/theme/tsconfig.json, packages/token-list/tsconfig.json, packages/ui/tsconfig.json, packages/undo-manager/tsconfig.json, packages/upload-media/tsconfig.json, packages/url/tsconfig.json, packages/video-conversion/tsconfig.json, packages/viewport/tsconfig.json, packages/views/tsconfig.json, packages/vips/tsconfig.json, packages/warning/tsconfig.json, packages/widget-dashboard/tsconfig.json, packages/widget-primitives/tsconfig.json, packages/wordcount/tsconfig.json, packages/worker-threads/tsconfig.json, packages/wp-build/tsconfig.json, routes/connectors-home/tsconfig.json, routes/dashboard/tsconfig.json, routes/experiments-home/tsconfig.json, routes/font-list/tsconfig.json, routes/fonts-home/tsconfig.json, routes/guidelines/tsconfig.json, routes/home/tsconfig.json, routes/identity/tsconfig.json, routes/lock-unlock/tsconfig.json, routes/media-editor/tsconfig.json, routes/navigation-edit/tsconfig.json, routes/navigation-list/tsconfig.json, routes/navigation/tsconfig.json, routes/pattern-list/tsconfig.json, routes/pattern/tsconfig.json, routes/post-edit/tsconfig.json, routes/post-list/tsconfig.json, routes/post-new/tsconfig.json, routes/post/tsconfig.json, routes/site-health/tsconfig.json, routes/styles/tsconfig.json, routes/template-list/tsconfig.json, routes/template-part-list/tsconfig.json, routes/template-part/tsconfig.json, routes/template/tsconfig.json, storybook/tsconfig.json, test/e2e/tsconfig.json, test/performance/tsconfig.json, test/storybook-playwright/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json, widgets/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | met | 10 / 10 | 6 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | partial | 5 / 8 | dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| 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 | JavaScript with type-check config (packages/a11y/tsconfig.json, packages/abilities/tsconfig.json, packages/admin-ui/tsconfig.json, packages/annotations/tsconfig.json, packages/api-fetch/tsconfig.json, packages/asset-loader/tsconfig.json, packages/autop/tsconfig.json, packages/blob/tsconfig.json, packages/block-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/block-library/tsconfig.json, packages/block-serialization-default-parser/tsconfig.json, packages/blocks/tsconfig.json, packages/boot/tsconfig.json, packages/components/tsconfig.json, packages/compose/tsconfig.json, packages/connectors/tsconfig.json, packages/core-abilities/tsconfig.json, packages/core-data/tsconfig.json, packages/data-controls/tsconfig.json, packages/data/tsconfig.json, packages/dataviews/tsconfig.json, packages/date/tsconfig.json, packages/deprecated/tsconfig.json, packages/design-system-mcp/tsconfig.json, packages/docgen/tsconfig.json, packages/dom-ready/tsconfig.json, packages/dom/tsconfig.json, packages/e2e-test-utils-playwright/tsconfig.json, packages/edit-site/tsconfig.json, packages/editor/tsconfig.json, packages/element/tsconfig.json, packages/escape-html/tsconfig.json, packages/eslint-plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/fields/tsconfig.json, packages/global-styles-engine/tsconfig.json, packages/global-styles-ui/tsconfig.json, packages/grid/tsconfig.json, packages/hooks/tsconfig.json, packages/html-entities/tsconfig.json, packages/i18n/tsconfig.json, packages/icons/tsconfig.json, packages/image-cropper/tsconfig.json, packages/interactivity-router/tsconfig.json, packages/interactivity/tsconfig.json, packages/is-shallow-equal/tsconfig.json, packages/jest-console/tsconfig.json, packages/kebab-case/tsconfig.json, packages/keyboard-shortcuts/tsconfig.json, packages/keycodes/tsconfig.json, packages/latex-to-mathml/tsconfig.json, packages/lazy-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/lazy-import/tsconfig.json, packages/list-reusable-blocks/tsconfig.json, packages/media-editor/tsconfig.json, packages/media-fields/tsconfig.json, packages/media-utils/tsconfig.json, packages/notices/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/tsconfig.json, packages/preferences/tsconfig.json, packages/prettier-config/tsconfig.json, packages/primitives/tsconfig.json, packages/priority-queue/tsconfig.json, packages/private-apis/tsconfig.json, packages/project-management-automation/tsconfig.json, packages/react-i18n/tsconfig.json, packages/redux-routine/tsconfig.json, packages/report-flaky-tests/tsconfig.json, packages/rich-text/tsconfig.json, packages/route/tsconfig.json, packages/router/tsconfig.json, packages/server-side-render/tsconfig.json, packages/shortcode/tsconfig.json, packages/style-engine/tsconfig.json, packages/style-runtime/tsconfig.json, packages/sync/tsconfig.json, packages/theme/tsconfig.json, packages/token-list/tsconfig.json, packages/ui/tsconfig.json, packages/undo-manager/tsconfig.json, packages/upload-media/tsconfig.json, packages/url/tsconfig.json, packages/video-conversion/tsconfig.json, packages/viewport/tsconfig.json, packages/views/tsconfig.json, packages/vips/tsconfig.json, packages/warning/tsconfig.json, packages/widget-dashboard/tsconfig.json, packages/widget-primitives/tsconfig.json, packages/wordcount/tsconfig.json, packages/worker-threads/tsconfig.json, packages/wp-build/tsconfig.json, routes/connectors-home/tsconfig.json, routes/dashboard/tsconfig.json, routes/experiments-home/tsconfig.json, routes/font-list/tsconfig.json, routes/fonts-home/tsconfig.json, routes/guidelines/tsconfig.json, routes/home/tsconfig.json, routes/identity/tsconfig.json, routes/lock-unlock/tsconfig.json, routes/media-editor/tsconfig.json, routes/navigation-edit/tsconfig.json, routes/navigation-list/tsconfig.json, routes/navigation/tsconfig.json, routes/pattern-list/tsconfig.json, routes/pattern/tsconfig.json, routes/post-edit/tsconfig.json, routes/post-list/tsconfig.json, routes/post-new/tsconfig.json, routes/post/tsconfig.json, routes/site-health/tsconfig.json, routes/styles/tsconfig.json, routes/template-list/tsconfig.json, routes/template-part-list/tsconfig.json, routes/template-part/tsconfig.json, routes/template/tsconfig.json, storybook/tsconfig.json, test/e2e/tsconfig.json, test/performance/tsconfig.json, test/storybook-playwright/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json, widgets/tsconfig.json) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.8 / 55 | 27/7509 source files over 60KB |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- First-time contributor figures cover 12 of 30 authors (cap 12)
- Could not fetch packagist package 'wordpress/gutenberg' from its registry
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 3000 of 3285 packages (counts remain complete)

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