Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-14 11:36 UTC

canonical / workshop

Workshops are secure, fast, and composable development environments that come agent-ready.

GoGPL-3.0★ 107 stars⑂ 17 forkssince Dec 2022View on GitHub ↗

KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

#ai-agents #containers #dev-environments #reproducible-environments

canonical/workshop holds a health index of 96 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (96/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (61/100). It was last updated today. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Exceptional

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 83 is calibrated to 96 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

CanonicalOrganization · verified domain

4,023 followers2,461 public repossince Jul 2019

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/canonical/workshop	v0.9.6	-	37	13 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

95Exceptional · 21% of overall

Development activity

99Exceptional

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
35.3/36	Commit cadence — 51/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 1,413 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 11 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	1,413
human_commit_share	0.96
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	51

Release discipline

90Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 37 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 4 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~34 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	37
latest_release_tag	v0.9.6
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	4
mean_days_between_releases	34

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

61Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

47Weak

How it's scored

32.9/60	Stars — 107 stars
10/25	Forks — 17 forks
3.9/15	Watchers — 6 watchers

Inputs used

forks	17
stars	107
watchers	6
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

77Good

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (GPL-3.0)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
6.3/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	—
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	yes

Sustainability & Governance

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

84Excellent · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

62Moderate

How it's scored

25.2/54	Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
13.1/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 42% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 18 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 8 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	2
contributors_sampled	18
top_contributor_share	0.417

Issue & PR responsiveness

80Excellent

How it's scored

25.6/42	Issue resolution — 61% of issues closed
26.4/30	PR acceptance — 837/950 decided PRs merged
13/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — 1/1 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
15/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed

Inputs used

merged_prs	837
open_issues	30
closed_issues	47
prs_merged_7d	11
prs_decided_7d	11
prs_merged_30d	41
prs_decided_30d	42
issue_closed_ratio	0.61
closed_unmerged_prs	113
first_time_authors_30d	1
first_time_prs_merged_30d	1
first_time_prs_decided_30d	1

Ownership & stewardship

100Exceptional

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20	Verified domain
25/25	Owner reach — 4,023 followers of canonical
25/25	Track record — 2,461 public repos, account ~7 yr old

Inputs used

followers	4,023
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	yes
owner_login	canonical
public_repos	2,461
account_age_days	2,614

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 13 days ago
20/20	Version history — 37 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/canonical/workshop
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	13

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

96Exceptional · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

94Exceptional

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 18 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .golangci.yaml
9.6/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 10 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	yes

Documentation

100Exceptional

How it's scored

30/30	README
25/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://ubuntu.com/workshop
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 4 topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	ai-agents, containers, dev-environments, reproducible-environments
has_wiki	yes
homepage	https://ubuntu.com/workshop
docs_site	https://ubuntu.com/workshop
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	yes
has_description	yes

Security

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

70Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

67Good

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 — 10 out of 10 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
7.5/7.5	Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 8 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
5/5	Fuzzing — project is fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 11 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
3.5/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0.8/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 9 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	16
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	2
scorecard_aggregate	6.7

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

Dependency advisories

83Excellent

How it's scored

24.7/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 2 affected: github.com/canonical/lxd v0.0.0-20260521084752-704f941eaeb2 (unknown), golang.org/x/crypto v0.56.0 (unknown)
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
37.2/40	No advisories left outstanding — 1 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 312 days ago

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	9
affected_packages	3
assessed_packages	61
unassessed_packages	27
affected_by_severity	unknown 3
direct_affected_packages	2

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 61 resolved dependencies against OSV. 27 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.

94Exceptional · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

92Excellent

How it's scored

45/45	Agent instructions — .github/copilot-instructions.md
15/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) — llms.txt served by the project website (https://ubuntu.com/llms.txt)
31.7/40	Legible commit history — 57 of 96 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	yes
llms_txt_url	https://ubuntu.com/llms.txt
legible_history_share	0.594
agent_instruction_files	.github/copilot-instructions.md
agent_instruction_max_bytes	5,419

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

91Excellent

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — docs/Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .golangci.yaml
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
4/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 2 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 4 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
7/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	docs/Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.02
toolchain_manifests	go.mod, tests/docs-how-to/connect-vscode/go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.04

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
54.6/55	Manageable file sizes — 4/508 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	153,651
source_files_sampled	508
oversized_source_files	4

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional

How it's scored

0/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20	MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40	Runnable examples — examples

Inputs used

example_dirs	examples
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	—
interfaces_expected_of	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

107GitHub stars

18contributors

1,413commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

37releases

2bus factor

30open issues

Go, PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 17 ⇿

0Stars

17Forks

5Releases

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 0Patch 5

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.7 / 10

6.7aggregate

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 · 2026-09-14 11:35 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	10 out of 10 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
10	Code-Review	all changesets reviewed
10	Contributors	project has 8 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
10	Fuzzing	project is fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	30 commit(s) and 11 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
7	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
10	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
1	Vulnerabilities	9 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 28

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/adrg/xdg	`v0.5.3`	go.mod
Go	github.com/canonical/gencodo	`v0.3.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/canonical/lxd	`v0.0.0-20260521084752-704f941eaeb2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/canonical/x-go	`v0.0.0-20230522092633-7947a7587f5b`	go.mod
Go	github.com/coreos/go-systemd	`v0.0.0-20191104093116-d3cd4ed1dbcf`	go.mod
Go	github.com/godbus/dbus/v5	`v5.2.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/gorilla/mux	`v1.8.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/gorilla/websocket	`v1.5.3`	go.mod
Go	github.com/jessevdk/go-flags	`v1.6.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/juju/ansiterm	`v1.0.1-0.20260902080743-06414fabd2b1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/juju/clock	`v1.1.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/juju/retry	`v1.0.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/pkg/sftp	`v1.13.11`	go.mod
Go	github.com/pkg/term	`v1.1.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`v1.15.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	go.mod
Go	go.uber.org/mock	`v0.6.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.56.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.58.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.48.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.45.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.41.0`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/check.v1	`v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/httprequest.v1	`v1.2.1`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/tomb.v2	`v2.0.0-20161208151619-d5d1b5820637`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	go.mod

All dependencies 88

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 28 direct and 60 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/adrg/xdg	`v0.5.3`	direct
Go	github.com/canonical/gencodo	`v0.3.0`	direct
Go	github.com/canonical/lxd	`v0.0.0-20260521084752-704f941eaeb2`	direct
Go	github.com/canonical/x-go	`v0.0.0-20230522092633-7947a7587f5b`	direct
Go	github.com/coreos/go-systemd	`v0.0.0-20191104093116-d3cd4ed1dbcf`	direct
Go	github.com/godbus/dbus/v5	`v5.2.2`	direct
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	direct
Go	github.com/gorilla/mux	`v1.8.1`	direct
Go	github.com/gorilla/websocket	`v1.5.3`	direct
Go	github.com/jessevdk/go-flags	`v1.6.1`	direct
Go	github.com/juju/ansiterm	`v1.0.1-0.20260902080743-06414fabd2b1`	direct
Go	github.com/juju/clock	`v1.1.1`	direct
Go	github.com/juju/retry	`v1.0.1`	direct
Go	github.com/pkg/sftp	`v1.13.11`	direct
Go	github.com/pkg/term	`v1.1.0`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`v1.15.0`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	direct
Go	go.uber.org/mock	`v0.6.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.56.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.58.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.48.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.45.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.41.0`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/check.v1	`v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/httprequest.v1	`v1.2.1`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/tomb.v2	`v2.0.0-20161208151619-d5d1b5820637`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	direct
Go	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2	`v2.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/clipperhouse/uax29/v2	`v2.7.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/flosch/pongo2	`v0.0.0-20200913210552-0d938eb266f3`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4	`v4.1.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logr/logr	`v1.4.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logr/stdr	`v1.2.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5	`v5.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/gorilla/securecookie	`v1.1.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/juju/errors	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter	`v1.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/kr/fs	`v0.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/kr/pretty	`v0.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/kr/text	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/lunixbochs/vtclean	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth	`v0.0.24`	indirect
Go	github.com/muhlemmer/gu	`v0.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/pkg/xattr	`v0.4.12`	indirect
Go	github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal	`v1.14.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/sirupsen/logrus	`v1.9.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/zitadel/logging	`v0.7.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/zitadel/oidc/v3	`v3.47.5`	indirect
Go	github.com/zitadel/schema	`v1.3.2`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk	`v1.2.1`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel	`v1.43.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric	`v1.43.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace	`v1.43.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/oauth2	`v0.36.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.22.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/errgo.v1	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v2	`v2.4.0`	indirect
PyPI	canonical-sphinx	`—`	indirect
PyPI	jinja2	`—`	indirect
PyPI	myst-parser	`—`	indirect
PyPI	packaging	`—`	indirect
PyPI	pyyaml	`—`	indirect
PyPI	rst2html	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-autobuild	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-config-options	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-contributor-listing	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-design	`0.6.1`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-filtered-toctree	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-last-updated-by-git	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-llm	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-notfound-page	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-related-links	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-rerediraffe	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-reredirects	`0.1.6`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-roles	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-sitemap	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-structured-toc	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-tabs	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-terminal	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-ubuntu-images	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-youtube-links	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-jquery	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-mermaid	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxext-opengraph	`—`	indirect
PyPI	vale	`—`	indirect

Dependency advisories 3

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 61 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 3 carry known advisories, of which 2 are direct. 27 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
github.com/canonical/lxd	`v0.0.0-20260521084752-704f941eaeb2`	direct	unknown	7	—
golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.56.0`	direct	unknown	1	—
go.opentelemetry.io/otel	`v1.43.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`1.44.0`

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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