Software health reportschema 0.27.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-02 04:25 UTC

dotnet / WatsonWebserver

Watson is the fastest, easiest way to build scalable RESTful web servers and services in C#.

C#MIT★ 502 stars⑂ 104 forkssince Aug 2016View on GitHub ↗

#web #webapp #rest-api #rest #restful #restapi #server #cloud #multithreading #endpoint #http #http-server #https #https-server #watson-webserver #stream #dynamic-routes #watson #httpresponse #nuget

dotnet/WatsonWebserver holds a health index of 57 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (76/100) and lowest on Engineering Quality (25/100). It was last updated today. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Moderate

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.

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)

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 55 is calibrated to 57 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

.NET PlatformOrganization

23,104 followers278 public repossince Oct 2014

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

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

64Moderate · 21% of overall

Development activity

74Good

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
12.5/36	Commit cadence — 18/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 102 commits in the last year
7/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 9 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 7

Inputs used

commits_last_year	102
human_commit_share	1
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	18

Release discipline

48Weak

How it's scored

16.2/27	Ships releases — 3 version tags (no GitHub releases)
0/36	Release recency — latest release 2,556 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~14.5 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	3
latest_release_tag	2.1.4
releases_from_tags	yes
days_since_latest_release	2,556
mean_days_between_releases	14.5

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?

76Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

68Good

How it's scored

43.8/60	Stars — 502 stars
16.8/25	Forks — 104 forks
7.5/15	Watchers — 23 watchers

Inputs used

forks	104
stars	502
watchers	23
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

85Excellent

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	—
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

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

65Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

27At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
1.6/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 93% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 15 contributors
3/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	15
top_contributor_share	0.93

Issue & PR responsiveness

75Good

How it's scored

42/42	Issue resolution — 100% of issues closed
23.2/30	PR acceptance — 24/31 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 2/28 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	24
open_issues	0
closed_issues	107
prs_merged_7d	—
prs_decided_7d	—
prs_merged_30d	—
prs_decided_30d	—
issue_closed_ratio	1
closed_unmerged_prs	7
first_time_authors_30d	—
first_time_prs_merged_30d	—
first_time_prs_decided_30d	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

100Exceptional

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
25/25	Owner reach — 23,104 followers of dotnet
25/25	Track record — 278 public repos, account ~11 yr old

Inputs used

followers	23,104
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	—
owner_login	dotnet
public_repos	278
account_age_days	4,313

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

25At Risk · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

1Critical

How it's scored

0/24	CI workflows
0/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
0/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 2 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_ci	no
has_tests	no
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

60Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 20 topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	web, webapp, rest-api, rest, restful, restapi, server, cloud, multithreading, endpoint, http, http-server, https, https-server, watson-webserver, stream, dynamic-routes, watson, httpresponse, nuget
has_wiki	yes
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

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

42Weak · 16% of overall

Security posture

37Weak

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
4.5/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
0/2.5	CI-Tests — 0 out of 2 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 2/28 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
0.8/2.5	Contributors — project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3
0/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no data
0/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
5.2/7.5	Maintained — 9 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 7
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — no data
7.5/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	14
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	4
scorecard_aggregate	3.7

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

64Moderate

How it's scored

14/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: Newtonsoft.Json 9.0.1 (high 7.5)
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
33.7/40	No advisories left outstanding — 1 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 1,501 days ago

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	1
affected_packages	1
assessed_packages	25
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	high 1
direct_affected_packages	1

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 25 resolved dependencies against OSV. 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.

58Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

56Moderate

How it's scored

45/45	Agent instructions — CLAUDE.md
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
10.7/40	Legible commit history — 20 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.2
agent_instruction_files	CLAUDE.md
agent_instruction_max_bytes	11,580

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

44Weak

How it's scored

12.6/18	One-command bootstrap — src/Test.Authentication/Test.Authentication.csproj, src/Test.Automated/Test.Automated.csproj, src/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost.csproj (toolchain convention, no task runner)
0/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — C# (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile
10/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 12 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
0/8	Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	no
lockfiles	—
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.12
toolchain_manifests	src/Test.Authentication/Test.Authentication.csproj, src/Test.Automated/Test.Automated.csproj, src/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost.csproj, src/Test.Benchmark/Test.Benchmark.csproj, src/Test.BrowserInterop/Test.BrowserInterop.csproj, src/Test.ChunkServer/Test.ChunkServer.csproj, src/Test.CurlInterop/Test.CurlInterop.csproj, src/Test.DataReader/Test.DataReader.csproj, src/Test.Default/Test.Default.csproj, src/Test.Docker/Test.Docker.csproj, src/Test.HeadResponse/Test.HeadResponse.csproj, src/Test.HostBuilder/Test.HostBuilder.csproj, src/Test.Loopback/Test.Loopback.csproj, src/Test.MaxConnections/Test.MaxConnections.csproj, src/Test.OpenApi/Test.OpenApi.csproj, src/Test.Parameters/Test.Parameters.csproj, src/Test.RestApi/Test.RestApi.csproj, src/Test.Routing/Test.Routing.csproj, src/Test.Serialization/Test.Serialization.csproj, src/Test.ServerSentEvents/Test.ServerSentEvents.csproj, src/Test.Shared/Test.Shared.csproj, src/Test.Stream/Test.Stream.csproj, src/Test.WebsocketClient/Test.WebsocketClient.csproj, src/Test.WebsocketServer/Test.WebsocketServer.csproj, src/Test.XUnit/Test.XUnit.csproj, src/Watson.Clients/Watson.Clients.csproj, src/WatsonWebserver/WatsonWebserver.csproj
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

Code legibility for models

99Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed)
54.3/55	Manageable file sizes — 4/335 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	C#
largest_source_bytes	472,069
source_files_sampled	335
oversized_source_files	4

Key facts

502GitHub stars

15contributors

102commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

3releases

1bus factor

0open issues

—package ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 104 ⇿

0Stars

104Forks

3Releases

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.

Major 0Minor 0Patch 3

Each point covers 9 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 3.7 / 10

3.7aggregate

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 · 2026-08-02 04:25 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
6	Branch-Protection	branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
0	CI-Tests	0 out of 2 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0	Code-Review	Found 2/28 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
3	Contributors	project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3
n/a	Dangerous-Workflow	no workflows found
0	Dependency-Update-Tool	no update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
7	Maintained	9 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 7
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
n/a	Token-Permissions	No tokens found
10	Vulnerabilities	0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 14

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.0.17`	src/Test.Authentication/Test.Authentication.csproj
NuGet	Watson	`6.6.0`	src/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost.csproj
NuGet	Watson.Core	`6.6.0`	src/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost.csproj
NuGet	Watson.Lite	`6.6.0`	src/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost/Test.Benchmark.LegacyHost.csproj
NuGet	Microsoft.Playwright	`1.58.0`	src/Test.BrowserInterop/Test.BrowserInterop.csproj
NuGet	Inputty	`1.0.6`	src/Test.DataReader/Test.DataReader.csproj
NuGet	Inputty	`1.0.5`	src/Test.Default/Test.Default.csproj
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.0.17`	src/Test.HeadResponse/Test.HeadResponse.csproj
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.1.2`	src/Test.HostBuilder/Test.HostBuilder.csproj
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.1.2`	src/Test.MaxConnections/Test.MaxConnections.csproj
NuGet	Newtonsoft.Json	`13.0.1`	src/Test.Parameters/Test.Parameters.csproj
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.0.14`	src/Test.Routing/Test.Routing.csproj
NuGet	Inputty	`1.0.5`	src/Test.Serialization/Test.Serialization.csproj
NuGet	Newtonsoft.Json	`13.0.3`	src/Test.Serialization/Test.Serialization.csproj

All dependencies 25

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 12 direct and 13 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
NuGet	Inputty	`1.0.5`	direct
NuGet	Inputty	`1.0.6`	direct
NuGet	Microsoft.Playwright	`1.58.0`	direct
NuGet	Newtonsoft.Json	`13.0.1`	direct
NuGet	Newtonsoft.Json	`13.0.3`	direct
NuGet	Newtonsoft.Json	`9.0.1`	direct
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.0.14`	direct
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.0.17`	direct
NuGet	RestWrapper	`3.1.2`	direct
NuGet	Watson	`6.6.0`	direct
NuGet	Watson.Core	`6.6.0`	direct
NuGet	Watson.Lite	`6.6.0`	direct
NuGet	IpMatcher	`1.0.5`	indirect
NuGet	Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces	`10.0.0`	indirect
NuGet	Microsoft.CSharp	`4.7.0`	indirect
NuGet	Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk	`17.12.0`	indirect
NuGet	RegexMatcher	`1.0.0`	indirect
NuGet	RegexMatcher	`1.0.9`	indirect
NuGet	System.Buffers	`4.6.0`	indirect
NuGet	System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource	`8.0.1`	indirect
NuGet	System.Text.Json	`10.0.5`	indirect
NuGet	Timestamps	`1.0.12`	indirect
NuGet	UrlMatcher	`3.0.2`	indirect
NuGet	xunit	`2.9.3`	indirect
NuGet	xunit.runner.visualstudio	`2.8.2`	indirect

Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 25 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 1 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
Newtonsoft.Json	`9.0.1`	direct	high	1	`13.0.1`

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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