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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-09 04:18 UTC

adamhathcock / sharpcompress

SharpCompress is a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats.

C# · C++MIT★ 2,580 stars⑂ 520 forkssince Apr 2013View on GitHub ↗

adamhathcock/sharpcompress holds a health index of 89 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (93/100) and lowest on Sustainability & Governance (62/100). It was last updated 12 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

89
overall / 100
Excellent

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.

89
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 75 is calibrated to 89 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Adam HathcockPersonal account
200 followers117 public repossince Dec 2010

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

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
NuGetSharpCompress0.50.4-10934 days agorarunrarzipunzipbzip2gziptar7ziplzipxz

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

93Exceptional · 21% of overall
How it's scored
28.8/36Push recency — last push 12 days ago
31.2/36Commit cadence — 45/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 1,531 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 11 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year1,531
human_commit_share0.87
days_since_last_push12
active_weeks_last_year45

Release discipline

100Exceptional
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 72 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 38 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~9.7 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count72
latest_release_tag0.50.3
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release38
mean_days_between_releases9.7
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?

78Good · 17% of overall
How it's scored
55.3/60Stars — 2,580 stars
22.6/25Forks — 520 forks
10.7/15Watchers — 85 watchers
Inputs used
forks520
stars2,580
watchers85
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (MIT)
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges2
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_servicesgithub.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_templateno
How it's scored
80/80Total downloads — 375,508,181 downloads all-time across nuget
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesSharpCompress
dependents—
ecosystemsnuget
total_downloads375,508,181
monthly_downloads—
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?

62Moderate · 23% of overall
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
5.7/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 74% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 98 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 17 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled98
top_contributor_share0.745
How it's scored
25/42Issue resolution — 60% of issues closed
23.1/30PR acceptance — 554/718 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
1.5/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 1/7 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
Inputs used
merged_prs554
open_issues269
closed_issues396
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d0
issue_closed_ratio0.595
closed_unmerged_prs164
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
10/30Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
16.6/25Owner reach — 200 followers of adamhathcock
25/25Track record — 117 public repos, account ~15 yr old
Inputs used
followers200
owner_typeUser
is_verified—
owner_loginadamhathcock
public_repos117
account_age_days5,744
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on nuget
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 34 days ago
20/20Version history — 109 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesSharpCompress
ecosystemsnuget
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish34

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

78Good · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 2 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 7 out of 7 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigyes
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

85Excellent
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 13 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsc-sharp, dotnet-core, unrar, zip, bzip2, tar, gzip, compression, lzip, lzma, sharpcompress, xz, 7zip
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

64Moderate · 16% of overall
How it's scored
6/7.5Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code
2.2/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5CI-Tests — 7 out of 7 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
0.8/7.5Code-Review — Found 1/7 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 17 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 11 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
3/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 6
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
7.5/7.5Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
6.8/7.5Vulnerabilities — 1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated16
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive2
scorecard_aggregate6.4
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

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.

74Good · 4% of overall
How it's scored
45/45Agent instructions — .github/copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
19/40Legible commit history — 31 of 87 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.356
agent_instruction_files.github/copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md
agent_instruction_max_bytes16,147
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — reference/unrar/makefile
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
11/11Static type checking — C# (statically typed)
10/10Reproducible environment — lockfile
6/10Demonstrated agent practice — 3 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
5/8Automated maintenance — dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilespackages.lock.json
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageyes
bootstrap_filesreference/unrar/makefile
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0.03
toolchain_manifestsbuild/build.csproj, src/SharpCompress/SharpCompress.csproj, tests/SharpCompress.AotSmoke/SharpCompress.AotSmoke.csproj, tests/SharpCompress.Performance/SharpCompress.Performance.csproj, tests/SharpCompress.Test/SharpCompress.Test.csproj
dependency_bot_commit_share0
How it's scored
45/45Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed)
54.5/55Manageable file sizes — 11/1,182 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageC#
largest_source_bytes408,740
source_files_sampled1,182
oversized_source_files11

Key facts

2,580GitHub stars
98contributors
1,531commits, last 12 months
12days since last push
72releases
1bus factor
269open issues
NuGetpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • No resolved dependencies carried a version and a supported ecosystem

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 520 ⇿
0Stars
520Forks
72Releases

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.

010020030040050060050772013-062020-012026-09
Major 0Minor 21Patch 37

Each point covers 13 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.4 / 10
6.4aggregate

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 · 2026-09-09 04:18 UTC

8Binary-Artifactsbinaries present in source code
3Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10CI-Tests7 out of 7 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1Code-ReviewFound 1/7 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
10Contributorsproject has 17 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 11 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
0Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
6SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 6
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
10Token-PermissionsGitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
9Vulnerabilities1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 5
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
NuGetBullseye—build/build.csproj
NuGetGlob—build/build.csproj
NuGetSimpleExec—build/build.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces—src/SharpCompress/SharpCompress.csproj
NuGetSystem.Text.Encoding.CodePages—src/SharpCompress/SharpCompress.csproj
All dependencies 11

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 5 direct and 6 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
NuGetBullseye—direct
NuGetGlob—direct
NuGetMicrosoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces—direct
NuGetSimpleExec—direct
NuGetSystem.Text.Encoding.CodePages—direct
NuGetAwesomeAssertions—indirect
NuGetBenchmarkDotNet—indirect
NuGetJetBrains.Profiler.SelfApi—indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk—indirect
NuGetxunit.runner.visualstudio—indirect
NuGetxunit.v3—indirect
Dependency advisories not assessed

Advisory matching could not run for this report: No resolved dependencies carried a version and a supported ecosystem

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