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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-11 02:16 UTC
dotnet / project-system
The .NET Project System for Visual Studio
dotnet/project-system holds a health index of 71 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (83/100) and lowest on Security (58/100). It was last updated 17 days ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.
71
overall / 100Software 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.
71
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 71 is calibrated to 84 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).
Ownership
.NET PlatformOrganization · verified domain
23,348 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?
58
Development activity
56Moderate
Abandonment alert
Work has arrived and nobody has attended to it
no human commit in 268 daysautomated commits excludedissues left unansweredOpenSSF Scorecard reports it unmaintainedcontinuous integration broken
Silence alone is never the finding — a small, finished library may need no commits for years. This alert requires both: no human commit for a long time, and obligations the project is visibly not discharging. Automated commits do not count as maintenance.
How abandonment is assessedHow it's scored
| 28.8/36 | Push recency — last push 17 days ago |
| 9/36 | Commit cadence — 13/52 weeks with commits |
| 18/18 | Commit volume — 102 commits in the last year |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
Inputs used
| commits_last_year | 102 |
| human_commit_share | 1 |
| days_since_last_push | 17 |
| active_weeks_last_year | 13 |
Release discipline
60Moderate
How it's scored
| 27/27 | Ships releases — 3 releases published |
| 0/36 | Release recency — latest release 1,833 days ago |
| 27/27 | Release cadence — a release every ~0 days |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data |
Inputs used
| releases_count | 3 |
| latest_release_tag | 16.0.x |
| releases_from_tags | no |
| days_since_latest_release | 1,833 |
| mean_days_between_releases | 0 |
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?
83
Popularity & adoption
82Excellent
How it's scored
| 48.8/60 | Stars — 1,024 stars |
| 21.8/25 | Forks — 415 forks |
| 11.5/15 | Watchers — 117 watchers |
Inputs used
| forks | 415 |
| stars | 1,024 |
| watchers | 117 |
| 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 | 0 |
| 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?
80
How it's scored
| 25.2/54 | Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| 16.3/22.5 | Commit distribution — top contributor authored 27% of commits |
| 13.5/13.5 | Contributor breadth — 99 contributors |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 22 contributing companies or organizations |
Inputs used
| bus_factor | 2 |
| contributors_sampled | 99 |
| top_contributor_share | 0.274 |
How it's scored
| 35.8/42 | Issue resolution — 85% of issues closed |
| 26.8/30 | PR acceptance — 5,020/5,616 decided PRs merged |
| 0/13 | Newcomer PR acceptance — 0/2 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d |
| 15/15 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed |
Inputs used
| merged_prs | 5,020 |
| open_issues | 604 |
| closed_issues | 3,512 |
| prs_merged_7d | 0 |
| prs_decided_7d | 2 |
| prs_merged_30d | 0 |
| prs_decided_30d | 4 |
| issue_closed_ratio | 0.853 |
| closed_unmerged_prs | 596 |
| first_time_authors_30d | 1 |
| first_time_prs_merged_30d | 0 |
| first_time_prs_decided_30d | 2 |
Ownership & stewardship
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 30/30 | Ownership backing — organization-owned |
| 20/20 | Verified domain |
| 25/25 | Owner reach — 23,348 followers of dotnet |
| 25/25 | Track record — 278 public repos, account ~11 yr old |
Inputs used
| followers | 23,348 |
| owner_type | Organization |
| is_verified | yes |
| owner_login | dotnet |
| public_repos | 278 |
| account_age_days | 4,353 |
Engineering Quality
Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?
74
Engineering practices
74Good
How it's scored
| 24/24 | CI workflows — 2 workflow(s) |
| 24/24 | Tests present |
| 0/16 | Linter config |
| 0/9.6 | Pre-commit hooks |
| 6.4/6.4 | .editorconfig |
| 20/20 | OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 13 out of 13 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
Inputs used
| has_ci | yes |
| has_tests | yes |
| has_editorconfig | yes |
| has_linter_config | no |
| has_precommit_config | no |
Documentation
75Good
How it's scored
| 30/30 | README |
| 25/25 | Documentation directory |
| 0/15 | Documentation / homepage site |
| 10/10 | Repository description |
| 10/10 | Topics — 8 topics |
| 0/10 | Wiki |
Inputs used
| topics | visual-studio, cps, csproj, vbproj, csharp, visual-basic, fsharp, fsproj |
| has_wiki | no |
| homepage | — |
| docs_site | — |
| has_readme | yes |
| has_docs_dir | yes |
| has_description | yes |
Security
Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?
58
Security posture
58Moderate
How it's scored
| 7.5/7.5 | Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo |
| 6/7.5 | Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| 2.5/2.5 | CI-Tests — 13 out of 13 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| 0/2.5 | CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 7.5/7.5 | Code-Review — all changesets reviewed |
| 2.5/2.5 | Contributors — project has 22 contributing companies or organizations |
| 10/10 | Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 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 |
| 0/7.5 | Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0/5 | Packaging — no data |
| 2.5/5 | Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |
| 0/5 | SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 5/5 | Security-Policy — security policy file detected |
| 0/7.5 | Signed-Releases — no data |
| 0/7.5 | Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| 7.5/7.5 | Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Inputs used
| source | openssf_scorecard |
| checks_evaluated | 16 |
| scorecard_version | v5.5.0 |
| checks_inconclusive | 2 |
| scorecard_aggregate | 5.8 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.
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.
71
Agent context & guidance
79Good
How it's scored
| 45/45 | Agent instructions — .github/copilot-instructions.md |
| 0/15 | Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) |
| 33.6/40 | Legible commit history — 63 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |
Inputs used
| has_llms_txt | no |
| llms_txt_url | — |
| legible_history_share | 0.63 |
| agent_instruction_files | .github/copilot-instructions.md |
| agent_instruction_max_bytes | 4,909 |
Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)
55Moderate
How it's scored
| 12.6/18 | One-command bootstrap — eng/tools/OneLocBuildSetup/OneLocBuildSetup.csproj, setup/ProjectSystemSetup/ProjectSystemSetup.csproj, setup/SetupManifest/Setup.csproj (toolchain convention, no task runner) |
| 22/22 | Automated tests |
| 0/11 | Lint / format config |
| 11/11 | Static type checking — C# (statically typed) |
| 0/10 | Reproducible environment |
| 4/10 | Demonstrated agent practice — 2 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| 0/8 | Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed |
| 5/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |
Inputs used
| has_nix | no |
| has_tests | yes |
| lockfiles | — |
| has_dockerfile | no |
| typed_language | yes |
| bootstrap_files | — |
| has_devcontainer | no |
| has_linter_config | no |
| typecheck_configs | — |
| agent_commit_share | 0.02 |
| toolchain_manifests | eng/tools/OneLocBuildSetup/OneLocBuildSetup.csproj, setup/ProjectSystemSetup/ProjectSystemSetup.csproj, setup/SetupManifest/Setup.csproj, setup/VisualStudioEditorsSetup/VisualStudioEditorsSetup.csproj, src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Watch.BrowserRefresh/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Watch.BrowserRefresh.csproj, src/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier.csproj, src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj, src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj, tests/DeployIntegrationDependencies/DeployIntegrationDependencies.csproj, tests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.IntegrationTests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.IntegrationTests.csproj, tests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.TestServices.UnitTests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.TestServices.UnitTests.csproj, tests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.UnitTests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.UnitTests.csproj, tests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.UnitTests/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.UnitTests.csproj |
| dependency_bot_commit_share | 0 |
Code legibility for models
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 45/45 | Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed) |
| 54.9/55 | Manageable file sizes — 2/1,432 source files over 60KB |
Inputs used
| primary_language | C# |
| largest_source_bytes | 129,436 |
| source_files_sampled | 1,432 |
| oversized_source_files | 2 |
Key facts
1,024GitHub stars
99contributors
102commits, last 12 months
17days since last push
3releases
2bus factor
604open issues
—package ecosystems
Data collection warnings
- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- Could not fetch npm package '@microsoft/microsoft.visualstudio.projectsystem.managed' from its registry
- No resolved dependencies carried a version and a supported ecosystem
More detail
Star and fork history 0 ★ / 415 ⇿
0Stars
415Forks
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 0
Each point covers 10 days.
OpenSSF Scorecard 5.8 / 10
5.8aggregate
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).
| 10 | Binary-Artifacts | no binaries found in the repo |
| 8 | Branch-Protection | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| 10 | CI-Tests | 13 out of 13 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| 0 | CII-Best-Practices | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 10 | Code-Review | all changesets reviewed |
| 10 | Contributors | project has 22 contributing companies or organizations |
| 10 | Dangerous-Workflow | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 0 | Dependency-Update-Tool | no update tool detected |
| 0 | Fuzzing | project is not fuzzed |
| 10 | License | license file detected |
| 0 | Maintained | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| n/a | Packaging | packaging workflow not detected |
| 5 | Pinned-Dependencies | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |
| 0 | SAST | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 10 | Security-Policy | security policy file detected |
| n/a | Signed-Releases | no releases found |
| 0 | Token-Permissions | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| 10 | Vulnerabilities | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Direct dependencies 22
| Registry | Package | Version constraint | Manifest |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | Nerdbank.GitVersioning | — | src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Watch.BrowserRefresh/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Watch.BrowserRefresh.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Web.Middleware | — | src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Watch.BrowserRefresh/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Watch.BrowserRefresh.csproj |
| NuGet | Nerdbank.GitVersioning | — | src/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent | — | src/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.Data | — | src/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.Host | — | src/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.PipeRpc | — | src/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier/Microsoft.Extensions.DotNetDeltaApplier.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Query | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.VS | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Deployment.DotNet.Releases | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj |
| NuGet | IsExternalInit | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Interop.18.0 | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.Data | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.PipeRpc | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Client | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.RpcContracts | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Common | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Contracts | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.HotReload.Components | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Internal.MicroBuild.NpmPack | — | src/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed/Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.csproj |
All dependencies 21
Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 18 direct and 3 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.
| Registry | Package | Version | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | IsExternalInit | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Common | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Deployment.DotNet.Releases | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.Data | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.Host | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Agent.PipeRpc | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Client | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.HotReload.Web.Middleware | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Contracts | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Interop.18.0 | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.HotReload.Components | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Internal.MicroBuild.NpmPack | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Query | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.VS | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.RpcContracts | — | direct |
| NuGet | Nerdbank.GitVersioning | — | direct |
| NuGet | CommandLineParser | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Build | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Configuration.Interop | — | indirect |
Dependency advisories not assessed
Advisory matching could not run for this report: No resolved dependencies carried a version and a supported ecosystem
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