# commercetools/merchant-center-application-kit — health index 78/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository commercetools/merchant-center-application-kit by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 78 out of 100, placing it in the Good 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/commercetools/merchant-center-application-kit
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/commercetools/merchant-center-application-kit
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/commercetools/merchant-center-application-kit/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/c/commercetools/merchant-center-application-kit.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-15
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.11.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 95/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 69/100 | Moderate |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 74/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 58/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 79/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Tools and components for developing Merchant Center Customizations 🛠 |
| Homepage | https://docs.commercetools.com/merchant-center-customizations |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 78 |
| Forks | 29 |
| Created | 2018-10-08 |
| Last push | 2026-07-12 |
| Latest release | v27.8.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 170 |
| Bus factor | 2 |
| Topics | javascript, frontend, react, toolkit, audit-frontend, commercetools-scp |

## Vitality — 95/100 (Excellent)

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

### Development activity — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 3 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 28.4 / 36 | 41/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 170 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 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 4 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~7.1 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 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 69/100 (Moderate)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 49/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 30.6 / 60 | 78 stars |
| Forks | partial | 12.1 / 25 | 29 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 6.7 / 15 | 17 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 74/100 (Good)

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) — 62/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 25.2 / 54 | 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 12.8 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 43% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 68 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 11 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 43.6 / 46.8 | 93% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 31.1 / 38.2 | 2964/3647 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 73/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 17.9 / 25 | 305 followers of commercetools |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 221 public repos, account ~14 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 90/100 (Excellent)

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

### Engineering practices — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 7 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.js, .eslintrc.yaml, eslint.config.js |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://docs.commercetools.com/merchant-center-customizations |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 6 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 58/100 (Moderate)

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 — 58/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3.8 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 11 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file 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 | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| 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 | 67 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### 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 — 79/100 (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 — 75/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, application-templates/starter-typescript/AGENTS.md, application-templates/starter-typescript/CLAUDE.md, application-templates/starter/AGENTS.md, application-templates/starter/CLAUDE.md, custom-views-templates/starter-typescript/AGENTS.md, custom-views-templates/starter-typescript/CLAUDE.md, custom-views-templates/starter/AGENTS.md, custom-views-templates/starter/CLAUDE.md, packages-backend/eslint-config-node/AGENTS.md, packages-backend/eslint-config-node/CLAUDE.md, packages-backend/express/AGENTS.md, packages-backend/express/CLAUDE.md, packages-backend/loggers/AGENTS.md, packages-backend/loggers/CLAUDE.md, packages/actions-global/AGENTS.md, packages/actions-global/CLAUDE.md, packages/application-components/AGENTS.md, packages/application-components/CLAUDE.md, packages/application-config/AGENTS.md, packages/application-config/CLAUDE.md, packages/application-shell-connectors/AGENTS.md, packages/application-shell-connectors/CLAUDE.md, packages/application-shell/AGENTS.md, packages/application-shell/CLAUDE.md, packages/assets/AGENTS.md, packages/assets/CLAUDE.md, packages/babel-preset-mc-app/AGENTS.md, packages/babel-preset-mc-app/CLAUDE.md, packages/browser-history/AGENTS.md, packages/browser-history/CLAUDE.md, packages/codemod/AGENTS.md, packages/codemod/CLAUDE.md, packages/constants/AGENTS.md, packages/constants/CLAUDE.md, packages/create-mc-app/AGENTS.md, packages/create-mc-app/CLAUDE.md, packages/cypress/AGENTS.md, packages/cypress/CLAUDE.md, packages/eslint-config-mc-app/AGENTS.md, packages/eslint-config-mc-app/CLAUDE.md, packages/i18n/AGENTS.md, packages/i18n/CLAUDE.md, packages/jest-preset-mc-app/AGENTS.md, packages/jest-preset-mc-app/CLAUDE.md, packages/jest-stylelint-runner/AGENTS.md, packages/jest-stylelint-runner/CLAUDE.md, packages/l10n/AGENTS.md, packages/l10n/CLAUDE.md, packages/mc-dev-authentication/AGENTS.md, packages/mc-dev-authentication/CLAUDE.md, packages/mc-html-template/AGENTS.md, packages/mc-html-template/CLAUDE.md, packages/mc-scripts/AGENTS.md, packages/mc-scripts/CLAUDE.md, packages/notifications/AGENTS.md, packages/notifications/CLAUDE.md, packages/permissions/AGENTS.md, packages/permissions/CLAUDE.md, packages/react-notifications/AGENTS.md, packages/react-notifications/CLAUDE.md, packages/sdk/AGENTS.md, packages/sdk/CLAUDE.md, packages/sentry/AGENTS.md, packages/sentry/CLAUDE.md, packages/url-utils/AGENTS.md, packages/url-utils/CLAUDE.md, playground/AGENTS.md, playground/CLAUDE.md, visual-testing-app/AGENTS.md, visual-testing-app/CLAUDE.md, website-components-playground/AGENTS.md, website-components-playground/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 66/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.js, .eslintrc.yaml, eslint.config.js |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | application-templates/starter-typescript/tsconfig.json, custom-views-templates/starter-typescript/tsconfig.json, cypress/tsconfig.json, packages-backend/eslint-config-node/tsconfig.json, packages-backend/express/tsconfig.json, packages-backend/loggers/tsconfig.json, packages/codemod/tsconfig.json, packages/create-mc-app/tsconfig.json, packages/cypress/tsconfig.json, packages/mc-dev-authentication/tsconfig.json, packages/mc-html-template/tsconfig.json, packages/mc-scripts/tsconfig.json, playground/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json, visual-testing-app/tsconfig.json, website-components-playground/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | met | 55 / 55 | 0/1080 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | application-templates/starter-typescript/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/fetch-channel-details.ctp.graphql, application-templates/starter-typescript/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/fetch-channels.ctp.graphql, application-templates/starter-typescript/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/update-channel-details.ctp.graphql, application-templates/starter/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/fetch-channel-details.ctp.graphql, application-templates/starter/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/fetch-channels.ctp.graphql, application-templates/starter/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/update-channel-details.ctp.graphql, custom-views-templates/starter-typescript/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/fetch-channels.ctp.graphql, custom-views-templates/starter/src/hooks/use-channels-connector/fetch-channels.ctp.graphql, packages/application-components/src/components/custom-views/custom-views-selector/fetch-custom-views-by-locator.settings.graphql, packages/application-shell-connectors/src/components/project-extension-image-regex/fetch-project-extension-image-regex.settings.graphql, packages/application-shell-connectors/src/utils/select-user-id/select-user-id.mc.graphql, packages/application-shell/src/components/authenticated/authenticated.mc.graphql, packages/application-shell/src/components/fetch-project/fetch-project.mc.graphql, packages/application-shell/src/components/fetch-user/fetch-user.mc.graphql, packages/application-shell/src/components/navbar/fetch-project-extensions-navbar.settings.graphql, packages/application-shell/src/components/project-switcher/project-switcher.mc.graphql, packages/application-shell/src/components/setup-flop-flip-provider/fetch-all-features.mc.graphql, packages/application-shell/src/hooks/use-applications-menu/fetch-applications-menu.proxy.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/create-custom-application-deployment-preview.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/create-custom-application.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/create-custom-view.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/delete-custom-application-deployment-preview.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/fetch-custom-application.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/fetch-custom-view.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/fetch-user-organizations.core.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/update-custom-application-deployment-preview.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/update-custom-application.settings.graphql, packages/mc-scripts/src/utils/update-custom-view.settings.graphql, playground/src/components/custom-views/fetch-channels.ctp.graphql, playground/src/components/state-machines-details/fetch-state.ctp.graphql, playground/src/components/state-machines-list/fetch-states.ctp.graphql |
| MCP server | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 3482 packages (counts remain complete)

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