Software health reportschema 0.11.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-07-15 13:21 UTC

comcast / scytale

Xmidt API server written in Go

GoApache-2.0★ 8 stars⑂ 13 forkssince Jan 2017View on GitHub ↗

comcast/scytale holds a health index of 81 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (86/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (49/100). It was last updated today. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

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.

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 69 is calibrated to 81 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

XmidtOrganization

12 followers122 public repossince Jun 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/xmidt-org/scytalepoints to another repo — not scored	v0.13.22	-	86	4 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

86Excellent · 21% of overall

Development activity

84Excellent

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
20.1/36	Commit cadence — 29/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 163 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	163
human_commit_share	—
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	29

Release discipline

90Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 41 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~5.4 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	100
latest_release_tag	v0.13.18
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	41
mean_days_between_releases	5.4

Community & Adoption

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

49Weak · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

30At Risk

How it's scored

13.7/60	Stars — 8 stars
9/25	Forks — 13 forks
7.1/15	Watchers — 20 watchers

Inputs used

forks	13
stars	8
watchers	20
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

70Good

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	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	no

Sustainability & Governance

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

74Good · 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
13.5/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 40% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 19 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 4 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	2
contributors_sampled	19
top_contributor_share	0.398

Issue & PR responsiveness

85Excellent

How it's scored

34.6/42	Issue resolution — 82% of issues closed
26.8/30	PR acceptance — 471/527 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — no data

Inputs used

merged_prs	471
open_issues	17
closed_issues	79
prs_merged_7d	—
prs_decided_7d	—
prs_merged_30d	—
prs_decided_30d	—
issue_closed_ratio	0.823
closed_unmerged_prs	56
first_time_authors_30d	—
first_time_prs_merged_30d	—
first_time_prs_decided_30d	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance, OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

79Good

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
8/25	Owner reach — 12 followers of xmidt-org
25/25	Track record — 122 public repos, account ~7 yr old

Inputs used

followers	12
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	—
owner_login	xmidt-org
public_repos	122
account_age_days	2,574

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

70Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

84Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 4 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .golangci.yaml
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 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	no

Documentation

50Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 1 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	xmidt
has_wiki	no
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

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

63Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

63Moderate

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 — 30 out of 30 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
0/7.5	Code-Review — no data
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 4 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
3/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6
5/5	SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not 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
5.2/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 3 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	6.3

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Code-Review, Packaging. 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.

61Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

1Critical

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
0/40	Legible commit history — no data

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	—
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

92Excellent

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .golangci.yaml
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no data
5/8	Automated maintenance — dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits
6/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	—
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/17 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	21,306
source_files_sampled	17
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

8GitHub stars

19contributors

163commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

100releases

2bus factor

17open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

go package 'github.com/xmidt-org/scytale' points at a different repository (https://github.com/xmidt-org/scytale); excluded from ecosystem scoring

More detail

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.3 / 10

6.3aggregate

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 · 2026-07-15 13:21 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	30 out of 30 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
n/a	Code-Review	Found no human activity in the last 30 changesets
10	Contributors	project has 4 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
6	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6
10	SAST	SAST tool is run on all commits
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7	Vulnerabilities	3 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 21

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/go-kit/kit	`v0.13.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4	`v4.5.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/goph/emperror	`v0.17.3-0.20190703203600-60a8d9faa17b`	go.mod
Go	github.com/gorilla/mux	`v1.8.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/justinas/alice	`v1.2.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.23.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cast	`v1.10.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/viper	`v1.21.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/bascule	`v1.1.5`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/candlelight	`v0.2.14`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/clortho	`v0.1.14`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/sallust	`v0.2.8`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/touchstone	`v0.1.8`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/webpa-common	`v1.11.9`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/webpa-common/v2	`v2.9.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/wrp-go/v3	`v3.7.0`	go.mod
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/gorilla/mux/otelmux	`v0.69.0`	go.mod
Go	go.uber.org/zap	`v1.28.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/SermoDigital/jose	`v0.9.2-0.20161205224733-f6df55f235c2`	go.mod

All dependencies 117

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 21 direct and 96 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/go-kit/kit	`v0.13.0`	direct
Go	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4	`v4.5.2`	direct
Go	github.com/goph/emperror	`v0.17.3-0.20190703203600-60a8d9faa17b`	direct
Go	github.com/gorilla/mux	`v1.8.1`	direct
Go	github.com/justinas/alice	`v1.2.0`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.23.2`	direct
Go	github.com/sermodigital/jose	`v0.9.2-0.20161205224733-f6df55f235c2`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cast	`v1.10.0`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/viper	`v1.21.0`	direct
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/bascule	`v1.1.5`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/candlelight	`v0.2.14`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/clortho	`v0.1.14`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/sallust	`v0.2.8`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/touchstone	`v0.1.8`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/webpa-common	`v1.11.9`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/webpa-common/v2	`v2.9.0`	direct
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/wrp-go/v3	`v3.7.0`	direct
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/gorilla/mux/otelmux	`v0.69.0`	direct
Go	go.uber.org/zap	`v1.28.0`	direct
Go	github.com/armon/go-metrics	`v0.4.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go	`v1.55.8`	indirect
Go	github.com/beorn7/perks	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/billhathaway/consistenthash	`v0.0.0-20140718022140-addea16d2229`	indirect
Go	github.com/c9s/goprocinfo	`v0.0.0-20210130143923-c95fcf8c64a8`	indirect
Go	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5	`v5.0.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2	`v2.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/davecgh/go-spew	`v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc`	indirect
Go	github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4	`v4.4.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/fatih/color	`v1.16.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop	`v1.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify	`v1.9.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-kit/log	`v0.2.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt	`v0.6.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logr/logr	`v1.4.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logr/stdr	`v1.2.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2	`v2.4.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-zookeeper/zk	`v1.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/goccy/go-json	`v0.10.6`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/gorilla/websocket	`v1.5.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2	`v2.29.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/consul/api	`v1.33.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/errwrap	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp	`v0.5.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog	`v1.6.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/go-immutable-radix	`v1.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror	`v1.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/go-rootcerts	`v1.0.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru	`v1.0.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/hashicorp/serf	`v0.10.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/influxdata/influxdb1-client	`v0.0.0-20220302092344-a9ab5670611c`	indirect
Go	github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath	`v0.4.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/jtacoma/uritemplates	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/lestrrat-go/blackmagic	`v1.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/lestrrat-go/httpcc	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/lestrrat-go/httprc	`v1.0.6`	indirect
Go	github.com/lestrrat-go/iter	`v1.0.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v2	`v2.1.7`	indirect
Go	github.com/lestrrat-go/option	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-colorable	`v0.1.13`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`v0.0.20`	indirect
Go	github.com/miekg/dns	`v1.1.72`	indirect
Go	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg	`v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822`	indirect
Go	github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-go	`v0.4.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2	`v2.2.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/pkg/errors	`v0.9.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib	`v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_model	`v0.6.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/common	`v0.66.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/procfs	`v0.16.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/sagikazarmark/locafero	`v0.11.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/segmentio/asm	`v1.2.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/segmentio/ksuid	`v1.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/sourcegraph/conc	`v0.3.1-0.20240121214520-5f936abd7ae8`	indirect
Go	github.com/spaolacci/murmur3	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`v1.15.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/stretchr/objx	`v0.5.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/subosito/gotenv	`v1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/ugorji/go/codec	`v1.2.14`	indirect
Go	github.com/vividcortex/gohistogram	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/chronon	`v0.1.13`	indirect
Go	github.com/xmidt-org/themis	`v0.4.36`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk	`v1.2.1`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp	`v0.65.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/jaeger	`v1.17.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/zipkin	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace	`v1.44.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp	`v1.10.0`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/dig	`v1.19.0`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/fx	`v1.24.0`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/multierr	`v1.11.0`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v2	`v2.4.2`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3	`v3.0.4`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.54.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20250808145144-a408d31f581a`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/mod	`v0.37.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.56.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.22.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.47.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.40.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/tools	`v0.47.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api	`v0.0.0-20260622175928-b703f567277d`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc	`v0.0.0-20260622175928-b703f567277d`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/grpc	`v1.82.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.11`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2	`v2.2.1`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	indirect

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