# dotCMS/core — health index 80/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository dotCMS/core by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 80 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/dotCMS/core
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/dotCMS/core
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/dotCMS/core/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/d/dotCMS/core.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% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 76/100 | Good |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 86/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 44/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 88/100 | Excellent |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The Visual Headless Content Management System for Enterprises |
| Homepage | http://dotcms.com |
| Primary language | Java |
| Stars | 950 |
| Forks | 482 |
| Created | 2012-03-15 |
| Last push | 2026-07-15 |
| Latest release | v25.07.10_lts_v15 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,319 |
| Bus factor | 7 |
| Topics | dotcms, cloud, java, cms, content, opensouce, headless-cms, graphql, dxp, content-management-system |

## Vitality — 96/100 (Excellent)

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1319 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 24 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 0 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~0.7 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### 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 — 76/100 (Good)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 81/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 48.3 / 60 | 950 stars |
| Forks | partial | 22.4 / 25 | 482 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 10.6 / 15 | 81 watchers |

### Community health — 71/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 86/100 (Excellent)

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) — 95/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 51.3 / 54 | 7 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 19.9 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 11% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 7 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 93/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 44.6 / 46.8 | 96% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 33.4 / 38.2 | 13859/15885 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 68/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 12.8 / 25 | 60 followers of dotCMS |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 144 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 | 59 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.json, eslint.config.mjs |
| 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 | http://dotcms.com |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 10 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 44/100 (At risk)

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 — 44/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | not met | 0 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 6 / 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 7 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | not met | 0 / 10 | 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 | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 24 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 | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 210 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 — 88/100 (Excellent)

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 | .cursor/rules/README.md, .cursor/rules/doc-updates.mdc, .cursor/rules/dotcms-guide.mdc, .cursor/rules/e2e-rules.mdc, .cursor/rules/frontend-context.mdc, .cursor/rules/java-context.mdc, .cursor/rules/test-context.mdc, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/instructions/frontend.instructions.md, CLAUDE.md, core-web/AGENTS.md, core-web/CLAUDE.md, core-web/apps/dotcms-ui-e2e/AGENTS.md, core-web/apps/dotcms-ui-e2e/CLAUDE.md, core-web/apps/dotcms-ui/AGENTS.md, core-web/apps/mcp-server/CLAUDE.md, core-web/libs/block-editor/CLAUDE.md, core-web/libs/new-block-editor/CLAUDE.md, core-web/libs/portlets/CLAUDE.md, core-web/libs/portlets/edit-ema/portlet/src/lib/store/CLAUDE.md, core-web/libs/sdk/client/CLAUDE.md, core-web/libs/sdk/react/CLAUDE.md, dotCMS/src/main/java/com/dotcms/rest/CLAUDE.md, examples/angular-ssr/CLAUDE.md, examples/nextjs-experiments/CLAUDE.md, examples/nextjs/CLAUDE.md, test-jmeter/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 88/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | .mise.toml, justfile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.json, eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | .github/actions/issues/issue-fetcher/tsconfig.json, .github/actions/issues/issue-labeler/tsconfig.json, .github/actions/legacy-release/changelog-report/tsconfig.json, .github/actions/legacy-release/rc-changelog/tsconfig.json, .github/scripts/gather-release-data/tsconfig.json, .github/scripts/release-qa-status/tsconfig.json, core-web/apps/ai-evals/tsconfig.json, core-web/apps/dotcdn/tsconfig.json, core-web/apps/dotcms-binary-field-builder/tsconfig.json, core-web/apps/dotcms-block-editor/tsconfig.json, core-web/apps/dotcms-ui-e2e/tsconfig.json, core-web/apps/dotcms-ui/tsconfig.json, core-web/apps/mcp-server/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/block-editor/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/data-access/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/dot-layout-grid/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/dot-rules/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/dotcms-js/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/dotcms-models/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/dotcms-webcomponents/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/dotcms/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/edit-content-bridge/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/edit-content/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/global-store/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/image-editor/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/new-block-editor/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-analytics/data-access/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-analytics/portlet/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-categories/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-content-drive/portlet/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-content-drive/ui/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-es-search/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-experiments/data-access/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-experiments/portlet/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-locales/data-access/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-locales/portlet/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-plugins/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-publishing-queue/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-query-tool/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-tags/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-usage/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/dot-velocity-playground/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/edit-ema/portlet/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/portlets/edit-ema/ui/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/ai/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/analytics/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/angular/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/client/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/create-app/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/experiments/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/react/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/types/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/uve/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/sdk/vue/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/template-builder/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/ui/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/utils-testing/tsconfig.json, core-web/libs/utils/tsconfig.json, e2e/dotcms-e2e-node/frontend/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-ssr/tsconfig.json, examples/angular/tsconfig.json, examples/astro/tsconfig.json, examples/nextjs-experiments/tsconfig.json, examples/nextjs/tsconfig.json, examples/vuejs/tsconfig.json, starter/nextjs/jsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | devcontainer, Dockerfile, 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 — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Java (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.3 / 55 | 202/15649 source files over 60KB |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | dotCMS/src/main/resources/com/dotcms/graphql/schema.graphqls, dotCMS/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/openapi/openapi.yaml |
| MCP server | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Could not fetch maven package 'com.dotcms:dotcms-bom' from its registry
- Could not fetch maven package 'com.dotcms:dotcms-build-parent' from its registry
- Could not fetch npm package 'core-web' from its registry
- Could not fetch maven package 'com.dotcms:dotcms-core-web' from its registry
- Could not fetch maven package 'com.dotcms:dotcms-core' from its registry
- Could not fetch maven package 'com.dotcms:dotcms-integration' from its registry
- Could not fetch npm package 'dotcms-postman' from its registry
- Could not fetch maven package 'com.dotcms:dotcms-postman' from its registry
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 4824 packages (counts remain complete)

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