# alchemy-run/alchemy — health index 64/100 (Moderate)

> Inspection of the public repository alchemy-run/alchemy by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 64 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate 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/alchemy-run/alchemy
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/alchemy-run/alchemy
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- Inspected: 2026-07-21
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.23.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 59/100 | Moderate |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 60/100 | Moderate |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 60/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 45/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 70/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Infrastructure as Effects |
| Homepage | https://alchemy.run |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| Stars | 751 |
| Forks | 102 |
| Created | 2025-10-22 |
| Last push | 2026-07-21 |
| Latest release | v2.0.0-beta.62 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,124 |
| Bus factor | 1 |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | alchemy | 0.93.12 | 516,455 |
| npm | @alchemy.run/pr-package | 0.0.0 | 1,726 |
| npm | @alchemy.run/better-auth | 0.11.0 | 5,869 |

## Vitality — 90/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 84/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 20.1 / 36 | 29/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1124 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 80 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 7 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~3.8 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 0 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 59/100 (Moderate)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 66/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 46.6 / 60 | 751 stars |
| Forks | partial | 16.7 / 25 | 102 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 2.7 / 15 | 4 watchers |

### Community health — 25/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | not met | 0 / 22.5 | no license file detected |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 95/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 76.3 / 80 | 524,050 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 60/100 (Moderate)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 39/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 6.6 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 70% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 50 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 7 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 58/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 27.6 / 46.8 | 59% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 29 / 38.2 | 549/725 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 1.5 / 15 | Found 4/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 56/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 13.4 / 25 | 73 followers of alchemy-run |
| Track record | partial | 12.7 / 25 | 27 public repos, account ~1 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 3 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 42 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 355 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 60/100 (Moderate)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 64/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 5 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | not met | 0 / 16 | — |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | partial | 16 / 20 | 26 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8 |

### Documentation — 55/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://alchemy.run |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 45/100 (At risk)

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 — 35/100 (At risk)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 2.2 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | partial | 2 / 2.5 | 26 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 0.8 / 7.5 | Found 4/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 7 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | not met | 0 / 7.5 | no update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | not met | 0 / 2.5 | license file not detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 35 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 83/100 (Good)

Matched the npm:alchemy@0.93.12 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 278 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 | partial | 8.4 / 25 | 2 affected: undici 7.24.8 (high 7.5), ws 8.18.0 (high 7.5) |
| No advisories left outstanding | met | 40 / 40 | no advisory has been public longer than 90 days |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Excellent)

| 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 (Excellent)

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 — 70/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, packages/alchemy/src/AWS/AGENTS.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | met | 15 / 15 | llms.txt present |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 97 of 97 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 47/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | not met | 0 / 11 | — |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | benchmark/container/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-ec2/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-ecs/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-eks/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-lambda-httpapi/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-lambda-rpc/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-lambda/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-rds/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-rest-api/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-static-site/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-vite/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-agent/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-d1-drizzle/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-dev/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-effect-sql-d1/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-email/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-git-artifacts/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-neon-drizzle/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-planetscale-mysql-drizzle/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-planetscale-postgres-drizzle/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-pr-package/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-secrets-store/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-solidjs-ssr/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-solidstart/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-static-site/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-tanstack-rpc-drizzle/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-tanstack-start-solid/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-tanstack/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-vue/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-worker-async/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-worker/tsconfig.json, examples/docker-postgres/tsconfig.json, examples/monorepo-multi-stack/backend/tsconfig.json, examples/monorepo-multi-stack/frontend/tsconfig.json, examples/monorepo-multi-stack/tsconfig.json, examples/monorepo-single-stack/backend/tsconfig.json, examples/monorepo-single-stack/frontend/tsconfig.json, examples/monorepo-single-stack/tsconfig.json, packages/alchemy-test/tsconfig.json, packages/alchemy/test/Cloudflare/Website/react-router-rsc-fixture/tsconfig.json, packages/alchemy/test/Cloudflare/Website/tanstack-dev-bindings-fixture/tsconfig.json, packages/alchemy/tsconfig.json, packages/better-auth/tsconfig.json, packages/pr-package/tsconfig.json, test/cross-version-test/test/01-beta.39/tsconfig.json, test/cross-version-test/test/02-beta.44/tsconfig.json, test/cross-version-test/test/03-beta.45/tsconfig.json, test/cross-version-test/test/04-beta.59/tsconfig.json, test/cross-version-test/test/05-current/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json, website/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | partial | 2 / 10 | 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | not met | 0 / 8 | no automated dependency updates observed |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 2 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2 |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.9 / 55 | 12/9892 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 40/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

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