balena-io/balena-cli holds a health index of 90 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (84/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (53/100). It was last updated 8 days ago. 4 contributors account for most of its recent work.
90
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.
90
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 76 is calibrated to 90 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).
Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
6.3/25
Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — 5 affected: tmp 0.0.33 (high 7.5), uuid 10.0.0 (high 7.5), file-type 16.5.4 (moderate 5.3), +2 more
22.6/40
No advisories left outstanding — 5 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 1,553 days ago
Inputs used
source
osv
advisories
6
affected_packages
5
assessed_packages
891
unassessed_packages
0
affected_by_severity
high 2, moderate 3
direct_affected_packages
0
Matched the npm:balena-cli@25.2.6 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 891 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.
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.
Manageable file sizes — 0/221 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_language
TypeScript
largest_source_bytes
51,238
source_files_sampled
221
oversized_source_files
0
Key facts
515GitHub stars
65contributors
336commits, last 12 months
8days since last push
100releases
4bus factor
333open issues
npmpackage ecosystems
Data collection warnings
Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
More detail
Star and fork history 0 ★ / 156 ⇿
0Stars
156Forks
93Releases
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 3Minor 7Patch 83
Each point covers 11 days.
OpenSSF Scorecard 5.5 / 10
5.5aggregate
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 · 2026-09-19 11:32 UTC
Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 77 direct and 67 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.
Registry
Package
Version
Relation
npm
@balena/compose
^8.0.4
direct
npm
@balena/compose-parser
^0.2.6
direct
npm
@balena/dockerignore
^1.0.2
direct
npm
@balena/env-parsing
^1.1.8
direct
npm
@balena/es-version
^1.0.1
direct
npm
@oclif/core
^4.5.6
direct
npm
@oclif/plugin-autocomplete
^3.2.34
direct
npm
@oclif/plugin-update
^4.7.14
direct
npm
@oclif/plugin-version
^2.2.32
direct
npm
@sentry/node
^10.17.0
direct
npm
balena-config-json
^4.2.7
direct
npm
balena-device-init
^8.2.1
direct
npm
balena-errors
^4.7.3
direct
npm
balena-image-fs
^7.6.0
direct
npm
balena-preload
^19.0.0
direct
npm
balena-sdk
^23.1.13
direct
npm
balena-semver
^4.0.0
direct
npm
balena-settings-client
^6.0.0
direct
npm
balena-settings-storage
^8.1.0
direct
npm
body-parser
^2.0.0
direct
npm
bonjour-service
^1.2.1
direct
npm
chokidar
^3.5.2
direct
npm
cli-truncate
^2.1.0
direct
npm
color-hash
^1.1.1
direct
npm
common-tags
^1.7.2
direct
npm
date-fns
^4.1.0
direct
npm
denymount
^2.3.0
direct
npm
docker-modem
^5.0.6
direct
npm
docker-progress
^5.4.0
direct
npm
dockerode
^4.0.5
direct
npm
ejs
^3.1.6
direct
npm
etcher-sdk
^10.0.0
direct
npm
express
^4.22.1
direct
npm
fast-boot2
^1.1.4
direct
npm
fast-levenshtein
^3.0.0
direct
npm
filenamify
^4.3.0
direct
npm
glob
^7.2.0
direct
npm
global-agent
^2.2.0
direct
npm
global-tunnel-ng
^2.1.1
direct
npm
got
^11.8.3
direct
npm
humanize
0.0.9
direct
npm
indent-string
^4.0.0
direct
npm
inquirer
^7.3.3
direct
npm
is-elevated
^3.0.0
direct
npm
is-root
^2.1.0
direct
npm
js-yaml
^4.1.0
direct
npm
JSONStream
^1.0.3
direct
npm
jwt-decode
^3.1.2
direct
npm
livepush
^3.5.2
direct
npm
lodash
^4.17.21
direct
npm
mime
^2.4.6
direct
npm
ndjson
^2.0.0
direct
npm
node-cleanup
^2.1.2
direct
npm
node-unzip-2
^0.2.8
direct
npm
open
^7.1.0
direct
npm
patch-package
^8.0.0
direct
npm
prettyjson
^1.2.5
direct
npm
progress-stream
^2.0.0
direct
npm
reconfix
^1.0.2
direct
npm
resin-cli-form
^5.0.0
direct
npm
resin-cli-visuals
^4.0.1
direct
npm
resin-doodles
^0.2.2
direct
npm
resin-stream-logger
^0.1.2
direct
npm
semver
^7.3.5
direct
npm
shell-escape
^0.2.0
direct
npm
split
^1.0.1
direct
npm
stream-to-promise
^2.2.0
direct
npm
string-width
^4.2.3
direct
npm
strip-ansi-stream
^1.0.0
direct
npm
tar-stream
^2.1.3
direct
npm
tar-utils
^3.0.3
direct
npm
through2
^2.0.3
direct
npm
tmp
^0.2.1
direct
npm
typed-error
^3.2.1
direct
npm
update-notifier
^5.1.0
direct
npm
which
^2.0.2
direct
npm
window-size
^1.1.0
direct
npm
@balena/abstract-sql-to-typescript
^5.1.5
indirect
npm
@balena/lint
^9.4.0
indirect
npm
@electron/notarize
^2.0.0
indirect
npm
@types/chai
^4.3.0
indirect
npm
@types/chai-as-promised
^7.1.4
indirect
npm
@types/cli-truncate
^2.0.0
indirect
npm
@types/common-tags
^1.8.1
indirect
npm
@types/dockerode
3.3.23
indirect
npm
@types/ejs
^3.1.0
indirect
npm
@types/express
^4.17.25
indirect
npm
@types/fast-levenshtein
^0.0.4
indirect
npm
@types/fs-extra
^11.0.4
indirect
npm
@types/glob
^7.2.0
indirect
npm
@types/global-agent
^2.1.1
indirect
npm
@types/global-tunnel-ng
^2.1.1
indirect
npm
@types/inquirer
^7.3.3
indirect
npm
@types/intercept-stdout
^0.1.0
indirect
npm
@types/is-root
^2.1.2
indirect
npm
@types/js-yaml
^4.0.5
indirect
npm
@types/jsonwebtoken
^9.0.6
indirect
npm
@types/klaw
^3.0.7
indirect
npm
@types/lodash
^4.14.178
indirect
npm
@types/mime
^3.0.4
indirect
npm
@types/mocha
^10.0.7
indirect
npm
@types/mock-fs
^4.13.4
indirect
npm
@types/ndjson
^2.0.1
indirect
npm
@types/node
^24.10.1
indirect
npm
@types/node-cleanup
^2.1.2
indirect
npm
@types/prettyjson
^0.0.33
indirect
npm
@types/progress-stream
^2.0.2
indirect
npm
@types/semver
^7.3.9
indirect
npm
@types/shell-escape
^0.2.0
indirect
npm
@types/sinon
^17.0.3
indirect
npm
@types/split
^1.0.0
indirect
npm
@types/stream-to-promise
^2.2.1
indirect
npm
@types/supports-color
^8.1.3
indirect
npm
@types/tar-stream
^2.2.2
indirect
npm
@types/through2
^2.0.36
indirect
npm
@types/tmp
^0.2.3
indirect
npm
@types/update-notifier
^4.1.1
indirect
npm
@types/which
^2.0.1
indirect
npm
@types/window-size
^1.1.1
indirect
npm
catch-uncommitted
^2.0.0
indirect
npm
chai
^4.3.4
indirect
npm
chai-as-promised
^7.1.1
indirect
npm
cross-env
^7.0.3
indirect
npm
deep-object-diff
^1.1.0
indirect
npm
ent
^2.2.0
indirect
npm
fs-extra
^11.2.0
indirect
npm
husky
^9.1.5
indirect
npm
inline-source-cli
^2.0.0
indirect
npm
intercept-stdout
^0.1.2
indirect
npm
jsonwebtoken
^9.0.0
indirect
npm
klaw
^4.1.0
indirect
npm
mkdirp
^3.0.1
indirect
npm
mocha
^10.6.0
indirect
npm
mock-fs
^5.2.0
indirect
npm
mockttp
^4.2.0
indirect
npm
oclif
^4.22.61
indirect
npm
pinejs-client-core
^8.5.0
indirect
npm
simple-git
^3.14.1
indirect
npm
sinon
^19.0.0
indirect
npm
string-to-stream
^3.0.1
indirect
npm
supports-color
^8.1.1
indirect
npm
ts-node
^10.4.0
indirect
npm
typescript
^5.9.2
indirect
npm
windosu
^0.3.0
indirect
Dependency advisories 5
Installing npm:balena-cli@25.2.6 pulls in 891 packages, direct and transitive: 5 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.
Package
Version
Relation
Severity
Advisories
Fixed in
tmp
0.0.33
indirect
high
2
0.2.6
uuid
10.0.0
indirect
high
1
13.0.1
file-type
16.5.4
indirect
moderate
1
21.3.1
follow-redirects
1.15.11
indirect
moderate
1
1.16.0
got
9.6.0
indirect
moderate
1
12.1.0
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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