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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-19 07:15 UTC

commonmark / commonmark-java

Java library for parsing and rendering CommonMark (Markdown)

JavaBSD-2-Clause★ 2,702 stars⑂ 338 forkssince Jul 2015View on GitHub ↗
KindLibraryMobile applicationhow this is determined

commonmark/commonmark-java holds a health index of 86 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (87/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (53/100). It was last updated 8 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

86
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.

86
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 72 is calibrated to 86 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

CommonMarkOrganization
349 followers6 public repossince Sep 2014

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

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publish
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark0.30.1-218 days ago
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-ins0.30.1-218 days ago
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-test-util0.30.1-218 days ago
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-autolink0.30.1-218 days ago
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-footnotes0.30.1-118 days ago
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts0.30.1-48 days ago
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-tables0.30.1-218 days ago
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-integration-test0.30.1-218 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

79Good · 21% of overall
How it's scored
28.8/36Push recency — last push 8 days ago
13.2/36Commit cadence — 19/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 140 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 6 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year140
human_commit_share1
days_since_last_push8
active_weeks_last_year19
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 45 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 8 days ago
19.8/27Release cadence — a release every ~79.9 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count45
latest_release_tagcommonmark-parent-0.30.1
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release8
mean_days_between_releases79.9
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?

87Excellent · 17% of overall
How it's scored
55.7/60Stars — 2,702 stars
21.1/25Forks — 338 forks
11/15Watchers — 96 watchers
Inputs used
forks338
stars2,702
watchers96
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

85Excellent
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (BSD-2-Clause)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges3
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_servicescodecov.io, github.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_templateno

Sustainability & Governance

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

65Good · 23% of overall
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
4/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 82% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 50 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 8 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled50
top_contributor_share0.822
How it's scored
39.7/42Issue resolution — 94% of issues closed
24.9/30PR acceptance — 174/210 decided PRs merged
6.5/13Newcomer PR acceptance — 2/4 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
0/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 2/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
merged_prs174
open_issues12
closed_issues205
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d2
prs_decided_30d4
issue_closed_ratio0.945
closed_unmerged_prs36
first_time_authors_30d3
first_time_prs_merged_30d2
first_time_prs_decided_30d4
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20Verified domain
18.3/25Owner reach — 349 followers of commonmark
18.2/25Track record — 6 public repos, account ~12 yr old
Inputs used
followers349
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedno
owner_logincommonmark
public_repos6
account_age_days4,427

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 8 package(s) on maven
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 8 days ago
20/20Version history — 21 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesorg.commonmark:commonmark, org.commonmark:commonmark-ext-ins, org.commonmark:commonmark-test-util, org.commonmark:commonmark-ext-autolink, org.commonmark:commonmark-ext-footnotes, org.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts, org.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-tables, org.commonmark:commonmark-integration-test
ecosystemsmaven
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish8

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

68Good · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 2 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 5 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigyes
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

60Moderate
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 6 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicscommonmark, java, markdown, parser, renderer, library
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

64Moderate · 16% of overall
How it's scored
6.8/7.5Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
2.5/2.5CI-Tests — 5 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5Code-Review — Found 2/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 8 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
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 6 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
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
7.5/7.5Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated15
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive3
scorecard_aggregate5.5
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, 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
advisories0
affected_packages0
assessed_packages31
unassessed_packages18
affected_by_severitynone
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 31 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.

53Moderate · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
13.9/40Legible commit history — 26 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.26
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
12.6/18One-command bootstrap — commonmark-android-test/app/build.gradle, commonmark-android-test/build.gradle, commonmark-ext-autolink/pom.xml (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
11/11Static type checking — Java (statically typed)
0/10Reproducible environment
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
0/8Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageyes
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifestscommonmark-android-test/app/build.gradle, commonmark-android-test/build.gradle, commonmark-ext-autolink/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-footnotes/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-gfm-strikethrough/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-gfm-tables/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-heading-anchor/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-image-attributes/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-ins/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-task-list-items/pom.xml, commonmark-ext-yaml-front-matter/pom.xml, commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml, commonmark-test-util/pom.xml, commonmark/pom.xml, pom.xml
dependency_bot_commit_share0
How it's scored
45/45Type-checkable code — Java (statically typed)
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/302 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageJava
largest_source_bytes46,269
source_files_sampled302
oversized_source_files0
How it's scored
0/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40Runnable examples — example, examples
Inputs used
example_dirsexample, examples
has_mcp_signalno
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

2,702GitHub stars
50contributors
140commits, last 12 months
8days since last push
45releases
1bus factor
12open issues
Mavenpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 338 ⇿
0Stars
338Forks
45Releases

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.

012525037533782015-082021-032026-10
Major 0Minor 0Patch 0

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 · 2026-10-19 07:14 UTC

9Binary-Artifactsbinaries present in source code
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal 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
10CI-Tests5 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0Code-ReviewFound 2/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10Contributorsproject has 8 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained30 commit(s) and 6 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
0Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10Vulnerabilities0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 39
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-autolink/pom.xml
Mavenorg.nibor.autolink:autolink${autolink.version}commonmark-ext-autolink/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-footnotes/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-gfm-strikethrough/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-gfm-tables/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-heading-anchor/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-image-attributes/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-ins/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-task-list-items/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-ext-yaml-front-matter/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-autolink—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-footnotes—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-ins—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-strikethrough—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-tables—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-image-attributes—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-task-list-items—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-yaml-front-matter—commonmark-integration-test/pom.xml
Mavenorg.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter—commonmark-test-util/pom.xml
Mavenorg.assertj:assertj-core—commonmark-test-util/pom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-autolink0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-footnotes0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-image-attributes0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-ins0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-strikethrough0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-tables0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-heading-anchor0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-task-list-items0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-yaml-front-matter0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-test-util0.30.2-SNAPSHOTpom.xml
Mavenorg.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter5.13.1pom.xml
Mavenorg.assertj:assertj-core3.27.7pom.xml
Mavenorg.openjdk.jmh:jmh-core1.37pom.xml
Mavenorg.openjdk.jmh:jmh-generator-annprocess1.37pom.xml
All dependencies 49

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 32 direct and 17 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
Mavenorg.assertj:assertj-core—direct
Mavenorg.assertj:assertj-core3.27.7direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-autolink—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-autolink0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-footnotes—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-footnotes0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-alerts0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-strikethrough—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-strikethrough0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-tables—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-gfm-tables0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-heading-anchor0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-image-attributes—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-image-attributes0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-ins—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-ins0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-task-list-items—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-task-list-items0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-yaml-front-matter—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-ext-yaml-front-matter0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-test-util—direct
Mavenorg.commonmark:commonmark-test-util0.30.2-SNAPSHOTdirect
Mavenorg.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter—direct
Mavenorg.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter5.13.1direct
Mavenorg.nibor.autolink:autolink0.12.0direct
Mavenorg.openjdk.jmh:jmh-core—direct
Mavenorg.openjdk.jmh:jmh-core1.37direct
Mavenorg.openjdk.jmh:jmh-generator-annprocess—direct
Mavenorg.openjdk.jmh:jmh-generator-annprocess1.37direct
Mavencom.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin3.9.0indirect
Mavenorg.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin5.1.9indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin3.14.0indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin3.2.7indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin—indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin3.1.4indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin—indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin3.4.2indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin—indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin3.11.2indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin3.1.1indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin3.3.1indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin3.5.3indirect
Mavenorg.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin3.2.0indirect
Mavenorg.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin0.8.13indirect
Mavenorg.pegdown:pegdown1.6.0indirect
Mavenorg.sonatype.central:central-publishing-maven-plugin0.8.0indirect
Dependency advisories 0

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 31 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 0 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.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

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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Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

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