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conventional-changelog / commitlint

📓 Lint commit messages

TypeScriptMIT★ 18,742 stars⑂ 969 forkssince Feb 2016View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

conventional-changelog/commitlint holds a health index of 95 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Vitality (96/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (65/100). It was last updated 1 day ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

95
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.

95
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 82 is calibrated to 95 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

502 followers12 public repossince Dec 2015

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

Package ecosystems

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

96Exceptional · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 1 days ago
29.1/36Commit cadence — 42/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 407 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year407
human_commit_share0.19
days_since_last_push1
active_weeks_last_year42

Release discipline

100Exceptional
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 35 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~15 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count100
latest_release_tagv21.2.2
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release35
mean_days_between_releases15
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?

95Exceptional · 17% of overall
How it's scored
60/60Stars — 18,742 stars
24.9/25Forks — 969 forks
10.1/15Watchers — 67 watchers
Inputs used
forks969
stars18,742
watchers67
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

92Excellent
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (MIT)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
6.3/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges0
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateyes
How it's scored
80/80Monthly downloads — 121,049,743 downloads/month across npm
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packages@commitlint/cli, @commitlint/core, commitlint, @commitlint/ensure, @commitlint/execute-rule, @commitlint/cz-commitlint, @commitlint/config-angular, @commitlint/config-nx-scopes
dependents—
ecosystemsnpm
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads121,049,743
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?

74Good · 23% of overall
How it's scored
25.2/54Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
12.8/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 43% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 98 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 54 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor2
contributors_sampled98
top_contributor_share0.432
How it's scored
37.6/42Issue resolution — 90% of issues closed
19.4/30PR acceptance — 2,750/4,263 decided PRs merged
13/13Newcomer PR acceptance — 6/6 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
3/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 1/4 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
Inputs used
merged_prs2,750
open_issues75
closed_issues642
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d9
prs_decided_30d9
issue_closed_ratio0.895
closed_unmerged_prs1,513
first_time_authors_30d2
first_time_prs_merged_30d6
first_time_prs_decided_30d6
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20Verified domain
19.4/25Owner reach — 502 followers of conventional-changelog
20.1/25Track record — 12 public repos, account ~10 yr old
Inputs used
followers502
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedno
owner_loginconventional-changelog
public_repos12
account_age_days3,918

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 8 package(s) on npm
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 35 days ago
20/20Version history — 166 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packages@commitlint/cli, @commitlint/core, commitlint, @commitlint/ensure, @commitlint/execute-rule, @commitlint/cz-commitlint, @commitlint/config-angular, @commitlint/config-nx-scopes
ecosystemsnpm
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish35

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

80Excellent · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 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

90Excellent
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://commitlint.js.org
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 4 topics
0/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsgit, commit, lint, conventions
has_wikino
homepagehttps://commitlint.js.org
docs_sitehttps://commitlint.js.org
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

67Good · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
2.2/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 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
1.5/7.5Code-Review — Found 1/4 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 54 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 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5Packaging — packaging workflow detected
1/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
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_evaluated17
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive1
scorecard_aggregate5.9
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): 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
25/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories0
affected_packages0
assessed_packages70
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severitynone
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the npm:commitlint@21.2.2 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 70 packages. 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.

65Good · 4% of overall
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://commitlint.js.org/llms.txt)
0/40Legible commit history — no data
Inputs used
has_llms_txtyes
llms_txt_urlhttps://commitlint.js.org/llms.txt
legible_history_share—
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — .mise.toml
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
11/11Static type checking — @commitlint/cli/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/config-conventional/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/config-pnpm-scopes/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/config-validator/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/core/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/cz-commitlint/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/ensure/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/execute-rule/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/format/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/is-ignored/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/lint/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/load/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/message/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/parse/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/prompt/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/read/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/resolve-extends/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/rules/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/to-lines/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/top-level/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/travis-cli/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/types/tsconfig.json, @packages/test-environment/tsconfig.json, @packages/test/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json
10/10Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
10/10Demonstrated agent practice — 11 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8Automated maintenance — 81 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
2/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilespnpm-lock.yaml
has_dockerfileyes
typed_languageyes
bootstrap_files.mise.toml
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs@commitlint/cli/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/config-conventional/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/config-pnpm-scopes/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/config-validator/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/core/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/cz-commitlint/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/ensure/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/execute-rule/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/format/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/is-ignored/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/lint/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/load/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/message/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/parse/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/prompt/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/read/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/resolve-extends/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/rules/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/to-lines/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/top-level/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/travis-cli/tsconfig.json, @commitlint/types/tsconfig.json, @packages/test-environment/tsconfig.json, @packages/test/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json
agent_commit_share0.11
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0.81
How it's scored
45/45Type-checkable code — TypeScript (statically typed)
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/377 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageTypeScript
largest_source_bytes33,924
source_files_sampled377
oversized_source_files0

Key facts

18,742GitHub stars
98contributors
407commits, last 12 months
1days since last push
100releases
2bus factor
75open issues
npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 969 ⇿
0Stars
969Forks
100Releases

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.

02004006008001,000964132016-102021-092026-09
Major 7Minor 33Patch 60

Each point covers 10 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.9 / 10
5.9aggregate

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 15:07 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
3Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10CI-Tests30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
2Code-ReviewFound 1/4 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
10Contributorsproject has 54 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 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10Packagingpackaging workflow detected
2Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
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 38
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All dependencies 59

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 11 direct and 48 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

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Dependency advisories 0

Installing npm:commitlint@21.2.2 pulls in 70 packages, direct and transitive: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.

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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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.

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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