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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-15 08:29 UTC

cucumber / gherkin-utils

API for working with Gherkin documents

TypeScript · JavaMIT★ 20 stars⑂ 8 forkssince Nov 2022View on GitHub ↗
KindLibraryCommand-line toolhow this is determined
#polyglot-release#java#javascript#tidelift

cucumber/gherkin-utils holds a health index of 92 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (94/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (58/100). It was last updated today. 3 contributors account for most of its recent work.

92
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.

92
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 78 is calibrated to 92 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

CucumberOrganization
1,014 followers142 public repossince Jul 2010

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

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
Mavenio.cucumber:gherkin-utils12.0.2-1640 days ago—
npm@cucumber/gherkin-utils12.0.29,620,3833040 days agocucumber

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

94Exceptional · 21% of overall

Development activity

96Exceptional
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 0 days ago
32.5/36Commit cadence — 47/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 216 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year216
human_commit_share0.12
days_since_last_push0
active_weeks_last_year47

Release discipline

92Excellent
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 14 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 40 days ago
19.8/27Release cadence — a release every ~99.3 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count14
latest_release_tagv12.0.2
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release40
mean_days_between_releases99.3
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?

70Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

33At Risk
How it's scored
20.7/60Stars — 20 stars
7/25Forks — 8 forks
5.3/15Watchers — 10 watchers
Inputs used
forks8
stars20
watchers10
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_badges5
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_servicesgithub.com, opencollective.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_templateyes

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

100Exceptional
How it's scored
80/80Monthly downloads — 9,620,383 downloads/month across maven, npm
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesio.cucumber:gherkin-utils, @cucumber/gherkin-utils
dependents—
ecosystemsmaven, npm
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads9,620,383
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?

76Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

75Good
How it's scored
36/54Bus factor — 3 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
15.8/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 30% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 19 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 14 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor3
contributors_sampled19
top_contributor_share0.298

Issue & PR responsiveness

58Moderate
How it's scored
23.7/42Issue resolution — 56% of issues closed
26.9/30PR acceptance — 157/175 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/24 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
merged_prs157
open_issues10
closed_issues13
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d0
issue_closed_ratio0.565
closed_unmerged_prs18
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

77Good
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20Verified domain
21.6/25Owner reach — 1,014 followers of cucumber
25/25Track record — 142 public repos, account ~16 yr old
Inputs used
followers1,014
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedno
owner_logincucumber
public_repos142
account_age_days5,919

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 2 package(s) on maven, npm
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 40 days ago
20/20Version history — 30 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesio.cucumber:gherkin-utils, @cucumber/gherkin-utils
ecosystemsmaven, npm
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish40

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

70Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

84Excellent
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 8 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — biome.json
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 6 out of 6 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

50Moderate
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 4 topics
0/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicspolyglot-release, java, javascript, tidelift
has_wikino
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?

82Excellent · 16% of overall

Security posture

78Good
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 — 6 out of 6 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 0/24 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
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
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5Packaging — packaging workflow detected
5/5Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
5/5SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
7.5/7.5Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
6.8/7.5Vulnerabilities — 1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated17
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive1
scorecard_aggregate7.8
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_packages2
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 maven:io.cucumber:gherkin-utils@12.0.2 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 2 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.

58Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

1Critical
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
0/40Legible commit history — no data
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
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)

85Excellent
How it's scored
12.6/18One-command bootstrap — java/pom.xml (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — biome.json
11/11Static type checking — javascript/tsconfig.json
10/10Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8Automated maintenance — 88 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilespackage-lock.json
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageyes
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configsjavascript/tsconfig.json
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifestsjava/pom.xml
dependency_bot_commit_share0.88

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional
How it's scored
45/45Type-checkable code — TypeScript (statically typed)
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/25 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageTypeScript
largest_source_bytes19,697
source_files_sampled25
oversized_source_files0

Key facts

20GitHub stars
19contributors
216commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
14releases
3bus factor
10open issues
Maven, npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 8 ⇿
0Stars
8Forks
10Releases

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.

02468812023-022024-102026-05
Major 3Minor 2Patch 5

Each point covers 3 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 7.8 / 10
7.8aggregate

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 · 2026-09-15 08:29 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
3Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10CI-Tests6 out of 6 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 0/24 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10Contributorsproject has 14 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 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10Packagingpackaging workflow detected
10Pinned-Dependenciesall dependencies are pinned
10SASTSAST tool is run on all commits
10Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
10Token-PermissionsGitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
9Vulnerabilities1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 8
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
Mavenorg.junit:junit-bom6.1.3java/pom.xml
Mavenio.cucumber:messages[32.0.0,35.0.0)java/pom.xml
Mavenorg.jspecify:jspecify[1.0.0,2.0.0)java/pom.xml
npm@cucumber/gherkin^42.0.0javascript/package.json
npm@cucumber/messages^34.0.0javascript/package.json
npm@teppeis/multimaps3.0.0javascript/package.json
npmcommander15.0.0javascript/package.json
npmsource-map-support^0.5.21javascript/package.json
All dependencies 171

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 8 direct and 163 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
Mavenio.cucumber:messages—direct
Mavenorg.jspecify:jspecify—direct
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Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin—indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin—indirect
Mavenorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin—indirect
Mavenorg.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin—indirect
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Dependency advisories 0

Installing maven:io.cucumber:gherkin-utils@12.0.2 pulls in 2 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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