Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-12 23:11 UTC

giantswarm / search-mcp

An MCP server to access Giant Swarm's documentation, handbook, and intranet.

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KindNetwork serviceMCP serverCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

giantswarm/search-mcp holds a health index of 86 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (96/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (24/100). It was last updated 2 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

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.

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 72 is calibrated to 86 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Giant SwarmOrganization · verified domain

148 followers1,174 public repossince May 2014

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

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/giantswarm/search-mcp	v0.3.33	-	37	2 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

96Exceptional · 21% of overall

Development activity

94Exceptional

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 2 days ago
29.8/36	Commit cadence — 43/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 173 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	173
human_commit_share	0.23
days_since_last_push	2
active_weeks_last_year	43

Release discipline

100Exceptional

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 37 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 2 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~1.4 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	37
latest_release_tag	v0.3.33
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	2
mean_days_between_releases	1.4

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?

24At Risk · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

1Critical

How it's scored

0/60	Stars — 0 stars
0/25	Forks — 0 forks
0/15	Watchers — 0 watchers

Inputs used

forks	0
stars	0
watchers	0
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	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	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
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?

70Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

35Weak

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
10.8/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 52% of commits
5.4/13.5	Contributor breadth — 4 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 4 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	4
top_contributor_share	0.522

Issue & PR responsiveness

67Good

How it's scored

21/42	Issue resolution — 50% of issues closed
27.3/30	PR acceptance — 164/180 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — no data

Inputs used

merged_prs	164
open_issues	1
closed_issues	1
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	1
issue_closed_ratio	0.5
closed_unmerged_prs	16
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance, OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

91Excellent

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20	Verified domain
15.6/25	Owner reach — 148 followers of giantswarm
25/25	Track record — 1,174 public repos, account ~12 yr old

Inputs used

followers	148
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	yes
owner_login	giantswarm
public_repos	1,174
account_age_days	4,506

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 2 days ago
20/20	Version history — 37 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/giantswarm/search-mcp
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	2

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

86Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

94Exceptional

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 9 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .golangci.yaml
9.6/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	yes

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 — 1 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	mcp-server
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?

75Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

69Good

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
3.8/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 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
0/7.5	Code-Review — no data
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 4 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
3/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6
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
6.8/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 1 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	6.9

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Code-Review, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional

How it's scored

35/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	2
affected_packages	1
assessed_packages	43
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	moderate 1
direct_affected_packages	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 43 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.

93Exceptional · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

85Excellent

How it's scored

45/45	Agent instructions — .claude/CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules/docker.mdc, .cursor/rules/general.mdc, .cursor/rules/go.mdc, .cursor/rules/zz_generated.base-llm-rules.mdc, .cursor/rules/zz_generated.go-llm-rules.mdc
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
40/40	Legible commit history — 22 of 23 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.957
agent_instruction_files	.claude/CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules/docker.mdc, .cursor/rules/general.mdc, .cursor/rules/go.mdc, .cursor/rules/zz_generated.base-llm-rules.mdc, .cursor/rules/zz_generated.go-llm-rules.mdc
agent_instruction_max_bytes	3,012

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

96Exceptional

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .golangci.yaml
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
10/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 7 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 58 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
6/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum, uv.lock
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.07
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.58

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/26 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	20,920
source_files_sampled	26
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

0GitHub stars

4contributors

173commits, last 12 months

2days since last push

37releases

1bus factor

1open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

More detail

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.9 / 10

6.9aggregate

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 · 2026-09-12 23:11 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
5	Branch-Protection	branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10	CI-Tests	30 out of 30 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
n/a	Code-Review	Found no human activity in the last 30 changesets
10	Contributors	project has 4 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
6	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6
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
9	Vulnerabilities	1 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 6

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/v2	`v2.5.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery	`v1.13.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go	`v1.0.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.24.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/oauth2	`v0.37.0`	go.mod

All dependencies 43

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 6 direct and 37 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/johanneskaufmann/html-to-markdown/v2	`v2.5.2`	direct
Go	github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go	`v1.0.0`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.24.1`	direct
Go	github.com/puerkitobio/goquery	`v1.13.0`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/oauth2	`v0.37.0`	direct
Go	github.com/andybalholm/cascadia	`v1.3.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/beorn7/perks	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2	`v2.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/jsonschema-go	`v0.4.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/johanneskaufmann/dom	`v0.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg	`v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_model	`v0.6.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/common	`v0.70.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/procfs	`v0.21.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6	`v6.0.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/cast	`v1.7.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.9`	indirect
Go	github.com/yosida95/uritemplate/v3	`v3.0.2`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.58.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.47.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.41.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.11`	indirect
PyPI	ats-tests	`0.1.0`	indirect
PyPI	certifi	`2026.7.22`	indirect
PyPI	charset-normalizer	`3.5.1`	indirect
PyPI	colorama	`0.4.6`	indirect
PyPI	deprecated	`1.3.1`	indirect
PyPI	idna	`3.19`	indirect
PyPI	iniconfig	`2.3.0`	indirect
PyPI	packaging	`26.3`	indirect
PyPI	pluggy	`1.6.0`	indirect
PyPI	pygments	`2.21.0`	indirect
PyPI	pykube-ng	`23.6.0`	indirect
PyPI	pytest	`8.4.2`	indirect
PyPI	pytest-helm-charts	`1.3.4`	indirect
PyPI	pytest-rerunfailures	`16.3`	indirect
PyPI	pyyaml	`6.0.3`	indirect
PyPI	requests	`2.34.2`	indirect
PyPI	urllib3	`2.7.0`	indirect
PyPI	wrapt	`2.4.0`	indirect

Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 43 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
pytest	`8.4.2`	indirect	moderate	2	`9.0.3`

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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