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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-17 12:39 UTC

clerk / clerk-sdk-ruby

Access the Clerk Backend API from Ruby

RubyNo license detected★ 32 stars⑂ 19 forkssince May 2021View on GitHub ↗
KindLibraryhow this is determined
#sdk#sdk-ruby#authentication#authentication-middleware

clerk/clerk-sdk-ruby holds a health index of 87 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Sustainability & Governance (85/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (49/100). It was last updated today. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

87
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.

87
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 73 is calibrated to 87 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

ClerkOrganization · verified domain
1,569 followers151 public repossince Apr 2019

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

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publish
RubyGemsclerk-sdk-ruby8.0.0-5736 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

78Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

63Moderate
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 0 days ago
10.4/36Commit cadence — 15/52 weeks with commits
13.5/18Commit volume — 31 commits in the last year
3/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 4 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
Inputs used
commits_last_year31
human_commit_share0.85
days_since_last_push0
active_weeks_last_year15

Release discipline

100Exceptional
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 34 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 36 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~21.4 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count34
latest_release_tagv8.0.0
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release36
mean_days_between_releases21.4
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?

49Weak · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

39Weak
How it's scored
24.2/60Stars — 32 stars
10.5/25Forks — 19 forks
4.3/15Watchers — 7 watchers
Inputs used
forks19
stars32
watchers7
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

45Weak
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
0/22.5License — no license file detected
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseno
readme_badges2
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_servicesshields.io
has_pull_request_templateno

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

71Good
How it's scored
56.5/80Total downloads — 272,040 downloads all-time across rubygems
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesclerk-sdk-ruby
dependents—
ecosystemsrubygems
total_downloads272,040
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?

85Excellent · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

61Moderate
How it's scored
25.2/54Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
12.4/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 45% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 15 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 14 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor2
contributors_sampled15
top_contributor_share0.448

Issue & PR responsiveness

87Excellent
How it's scored
34.4/42Issue resolution — 82% of issues closed
26/30PR acceptance — 103/119 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
15/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
Inputs used
merged_prs103
open_issues4
closed_issues18
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d1
prs_decided_30d1
issue_closed_ratio0.818
closed_unmerged_prs16
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.

Ownership & stewardship

98Exceptional
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20Verified domain
23/25Owner reach — 1,569 followers of clerk
25/25Track record — 151 public repos, account ~7 yr old
Inputs used
followers1,569
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedyes
owner_loginclerk
public_repos151
account_age_days2,715

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on rubygems
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 36 days ago
20/20Version history — 57 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesclerk-sdk-ruby
ecosystemsrubygems
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish36

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

85Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

82Excellent
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 2 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — .rubocop.yml
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
18/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 27 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

90Excellent
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-ruby.git
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 4 topics
0/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicssdk, sdk-ruby, authentication, authentication-middleware
has_wikino
homepage—
docs_sitehttps://github.com/clerk/clerk-sdk-ruby.git
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

62Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

52Moderate
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
3.8/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.2/2.5CI-Tests — 27 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
7.5/7.5Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 14 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
0/2.5License — license file not detected
2.2/7.5Maintained — 4 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
4.5/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 9
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0/7.5Vulnerabilities — 68 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated16
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive2
scorecard_aggregate5.2
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories70
affected_packages20
assessed_packages149
unassessed_packages18
affected_by_severitycritical 2, high 10, moderate 5, low 3
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 149 resolved dependencies against OSV. 18 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.

63Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
15/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) — llms.txt served by the project website (https://clerk.com/llms.txt)
40/40Legible commit history — 71 of 85 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtyes
llms_txt_urlhttps://clerk.com/llms.txt
legible_history_share0.835
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

71Good
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — .rubocop.yml
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
2/10Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8Automated maintenance — 3 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilesGemfile.lock
has_dockerfileyes
typed_languageno
bootstrap_filesMakefile
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0.01
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0.03

Code legibility for models

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — Ruby without a type-check config
54.7/55Manageable file sizes — 6/1,308 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageRuby
largest_source_bytes226,473
source_files_sampled1,308
oversized_source_files6

Key facts

32GitHub stars
15contributors
31commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
34releases
2bus factor
4open issues
RubyGemspackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 19 ⇿
0Stars
19Forks
27Releases

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.

0481216201812022-022024-022026-02
Major 3Minor 13Patch 5

Each point covers 4 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.2 / 10
5.2aggregate

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 · 2026-09-17 12:39 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
5Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
9CI-Tests27 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
10Code-Reviewall changesets reviewed
10Contributorsproject has 14 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
0Licenselicense file not detected
3Maintained4 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
0Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
9SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 9
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0Vulnerabilities68 existing vulnerabilities detected
All dependencies 167

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 167 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
RubyGemsactioncable8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactionmailbox8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactionmailer8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactionpack8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactiontext8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactionview8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactivejob8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactivemodel8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactiverecord8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactivestorage8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactivesupport—indirect
RubyGemsactivesupport8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsactivesupport8.0.5.1indirect
RubyGemsaddressable2.8.7indirect
RubyGemsansi1.5.0indirect
RubyGemsast2.4.2indirect
RubyGemsbase64—indirect
RubyGemsbase640.3.0indirect
RubyGemsbcrypt_pbkdf1.1.1indirect
RubyGemsbenchmark0.5.0indirect
RubyGemsbigdecimal3.3.1indirect
RubyGemsbigdecimal4.1.2indirect
RubyGemsbindex0.8.1indirect
RubyGemsbootsnap1.18.4indirect
RubyGemsbrakeman7.0.0indirect
RubyGemsbuilder3.3.0indirect
RubyGemscapybara3.40.0indirect
RubyGemsclerk-sdk-ruby5.0.0.pre.betaindirect
RubyGemsconcurrent-ruby—indirect
RubyGemsconcurrent-ruby1.3.5indirect
RubyGemsconcurrent-ruby1.3.8indirect
RubyGemsconnection_pool2.5.4indirect
RubyGemsconnection_pool3.0.2indirect
RubyGemscrass1.0.6indirect
RubyGemsdate3.4.1indirect
RubyGemsdebug1.10.0indirect
RubyGemsdotenv—indirect
RubyGemsdotenv3.1.7indirect
RubyGemsdotenv3.2.0indirect
RubyGemsdotenv-rails3.1.7indirect
RubyGemsdrb2.2.3indirect
RubyGemsed255191.3.0indirect
RubyGemserubi1.13.1indirect
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RubyGemsfaraday—indirect
RubyGemsfaraday2.12.2indirect
RubyGemsfaraday2.14.3indirect
RubyGemsfaraday-multipart—indirect
RubyGemsfaraday-multipart1.1.0indirect
RubyGemsfaraday-multipart1.2.0indirect
RubyGemsfaraday-net_http3.4.0indirect
RubyGemsfaraday-retry—indirect
RubyGemsfaraday-retry2.2.1indirect
RubyGemsfaraday-retry2.4.0indirect
RubyGemsfugit1.11.1indirect
RubyGemsglobalid1.3.0indirect
RubyGemsi18n1.14.7indirect
RubyGemsi18n1.15.2indirect
RubyGemsimportmap-rails2.1.0indirect
RubyGemsio-console0.8.0indirect
RubyGemsirb1.14.3indirect
RubyGemsjbuilder2.13.0indirect
RubyGemsjson2.8.2indirect
RubyGemsjson2.9.1indirect
RubyGemsjwt—indirect
RubyGemsjwt2.10.1indirect
RubyGemsjwt3.2.0indirect
RubyGemskamal2.4.0indirect
RubyGemslanguage_server-protocol3.17.0.4indirect
RubyGemslint_roller1.1.0indirect
RubyGemslogger1.6.6indirect
RubyGemslogger1.7.0indirect
RubyGemsloofah2.24.1indirect
RubyGemsmail2.8.1indirect
RubyGemsmarcel1.1.0indirect
RubyGemsmatrix0.4.2indirect
RubyGemsmini_mime1.1.5indirect
RubyGemsmini_portile22.8.9indirect
RubyGemsminitest—indirect
RubyGemsminitest5.26.0indirect
RubyGemsminitest6.0.1indirect
RubyGemsminitest-focus—indirect
RubyGemsminitest-focus1.4.1indirect
RubyGemsminitest-reporters—indirect
RubyGemsminitest-reporters1.7.1indirect
RubyGemsmsgpack1.7.5indirect
RubyGemsmultipart-post2.4.1indirect
RubyGemsmustermann3.1.1indirect
RubyGemsnet-http0.6.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-imap0.5.5indirect
RubyGemsnet-pop0.1.2indirect
RubyGemsnet-protocol0.2.2indirect
RubyGemsnet-scp4.0.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-sftp4.0.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-smtp0.5.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-ssh7.3.0indirect
RubyGemsnio4r2.7.4indirect
RubyGemsnio4r2.7.5indirect
RubyGemsnokogiri1.18.10indirect
RubyGemsostruct0.6.1indirect
RubyGemsparallel1.26.3indirect
RubyGemsparser3.3.7.1indirect
RubyGemsprism1.7.0indirect
RubyGemspropshaft1.1.0indirect
RubyGemspsych5.2.2indirect
RubyGemspublic_suffix6.0.1indirect
RubyGemspuma—indirect
RubyGemspuma6.4.3indirect
RubyGemspuma6.5.0indirect
RubyGemsraabro1.4.0indirect
RubyGemsracc1.8.1indirect
RubyGemsrack—indirect
RubyGemsrack3.1.21indirect
RubyGemsrack3.2.4indirect
RubyGemsrack-protection4.2.1indirect
RubyGemsrack-session2.1.1indirect
RubyGemsrack-session2.1.2indirect
RubyGemsrack-test2.2.0indirect
RubyGemsrackup—indirect
RubyGemsrackup2.2.1indirect
RubyGemsrackup2.3.1indirect
RubyGemsrails8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsrails-dom-testing2.3.0indirect
RubyGemsrails-html-sanitizer1.6.2indirect
RubyGemsrailties8.0.4indirect
RubyGemsrainbow3.1.1indirect
RubyGemsrake—indirect
RubyGemsrake13.2.1indirect
RubyGemsrdoc6.10.0indirect
RubyGemsregexp_parser2.10.0indirect
RubyGemsreline0.6.0indirect
RubyGemsrexml3.4.4indirect
RubyGemsrubocop—indirect
RubyGemsrubocop1.73.2indirect
RubyGemsrubocop-ast1.38.1indirect
RubyGemsrubocop-minitest—indirect
RubyGemsrubocop-minitest0.37.1indirect
RubyGemsruby-progressbar1.13.0indirect
RubyGemsrubyzip2.4.1indirect
RubyGemssecurerandom0.4.1indirect
RubyGemsselenium-webdriver4.27.0indirect
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Dependency advisories 20

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 149 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 20 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 18 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
activestorage8.0.4indirectcritical68.1.3.1
rack-session2.1.1indirectcritical12.1.2
activesupport8.0.4indirecthigh38.1.2.1
addressable2.8.7indirecthigh12.9.0
concurrent-ruby1.3.5indirecthigh31.3.7
faraday2.12.2indirecthigh32.14.3
jwt2.10.1indirecthigh13.2.0
nokogiri1.18.10indirecthigh111.19.4
puma6.4.3indirecthigh28.0.2
puma6.5.0indirecthigh28.0.2
rack3.2.4indirecthigh153.2.6
websocket-driver0.7.7indirecthigh40.8.2
loofah2.24.1indirectmoderate12.25.2
mail2.8.1indirectmoderate12.9.1
msgpack1.7.5indirectmoderate11.8.2
net-imap0.5.5indirectmoderate100.6.4.1
sqlite32.5.0indirectmoderate22.9.5
actionview8.0.4indirectlow18.1.2.1
json2.9.1indirectlow12.19.9
rails-html-sanitizer1.6.2indirectlow11.7.1

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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