# go-task/task — health index 80/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository go-task/task 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/go-task/task
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/go-task/task
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/go-task/task/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/g/go-task/task.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-20
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.15.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 94/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 94/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 69/100 | Moderate |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 80/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 61/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 64/100 | Moderate |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | A fast, cross-platform build tool inspired by Make, designed for modern workflows. |
| Homepage | https://taskfile.dev |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 15,858 |
| Forks | 870 |
| Created | 2017-02-27 |
| Last push | 2026-07-19 |
| Latest release | nightly |
| Commits (last year) | 422 |
| Bus factor | 1 |
| Topics | go, make, makefile, task, task-runner, devops, build-tool, taskfile |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/go-task/task/v3 | v3.52.0 | — |

## Vitality — 94/100 (Excellent)

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

### Development activity — 96/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 31.8 / 36 | 46/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 422 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 7 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 1 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~23.5 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 — 94/100 (Excellent)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 95/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 15,858 stars |
| Forks | partial | 24.5 / 25 | 870 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 10.3 / 15 | 72 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 69/100 (Moderate)

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) — 44/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 11 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 51% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 23 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 78/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 42.4 / 46.8 | 91% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 29.8 / 38.2 | 957/1230 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 6 / 15 | Found 12/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 66/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 16.1 / 25 | 175 followers of go-task |
| Track record | partial | 20.1 / 25 | 12 public repos, account ~9 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 1 package(s) on go |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 17 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 100 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Good)

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 | 9 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .golangci.yml |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 18 out of 18 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://taskfile.dev |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 8 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 61/100 (Moderate)

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 — 61/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 18 out of 18 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 | partial | 3 / 7.5 | Found 12/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 23 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no 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 | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 4 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 8 |
| SAST | partial | 2 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 4 |
| 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 | partial | 0.8 / 7.5 | 9 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 — 64/100 (Moderate)

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 — 1/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | not met | 0 / 45 | no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 98/100 (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 | Taskfile.yml, mise.toml, testdata/abs_path/Taskfile.yml, testdata/alias/Taskfile.yml, testdata/checksum/Taskfile.yml, testdata/cmds_vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/concurrency/Taskfile.yml, testdata/cyclic/Taskfile.yml, testdata/deferred/Taskfile.yml, testdata/deps/Taskfile.yml, testdata/desc/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dir/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dir/dynamic_var/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dir/dynamic_var/subdirectory/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dir/dynamic_var_on_created_dir/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dir/explicit_doesnt_exist/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dir/explicit_exists/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/default/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/env_var_in_path/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/error_included_envs/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/include1/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/local_env_in_path/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/local_var_in_path/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/missing_env/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv/parse_error/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dotenv_task/default/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dry/Taskfile.yml, testdata/dry_checksum/Taskfile.yml, testdata/empty_task/Taskfile.yml, testdata/empty_taskfile/Taskfile.yml, testdata/env/Taskfile.yml, testdata/error_code/Taskfile.yml, testdata/evaluate_symlinks_in_paths/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/exit_code/Taskfile.yml, testdata/exit_immediately/Taskfile.yml, testdata/expand/Taskfile.yml, testdata/failfast/default/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/failfast/task/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/file_names/Taskfile.yaml/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/file_names/Taskfile.yml/Taskfile.yml, testdata/for/cmds/Taskfile.yml, testdata/for/deps/Taskfile.yml, testdata/force/Taskfile.yml, testdata/fuzzy/Taskfile.yml, testdata/generates/Taskfile.yml, testdata/gitignore/Taskfile.yml, testdata/gitignore_included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/gitignore_included/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/gitignore_included_override/Taskfile.yml, testdata/gitignore_included_override/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/gitignore_negation/Taskfile.yml, testdata/gitignore_nested/Taskfile.yml, testdata/if/Taskfile.yml, testdata/ignore_errors/Taskfile.yml, testdata/ignore_nil_elements/cmds/Taskfile.yml, testdata/ignore_nil_elements/deps/Taskfile.yml, testdata/ignore_nil_elements/includes/Taskfile.yml, testdata/ignore_nil_elements/preconditions/Taskfile.yml, testdata/ignore_signals/Taskfile.yml, testdata/include_with_vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/include_with_vars_inside_include/Taskfile.yml, testdata/include_with_vars_multi_level/Taskfile.yml, testdata/include_with_vars_multi_level/bar/Taskfile.yml, testdata/include_with_vars_multi_level/foo/Taskfile.yml, testdata/include_with_vars_multi_level/lib/Taskfile.yml, testdata/included_taskfile_var_merging/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/included_taskfile_var_merging/bar/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/included_taskfile_var_merging/foo/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/includes/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes/module1/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes/module2/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_call_root_task/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_checksum/correct/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_checksum/correct_remote/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_checksum/incorrect/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_cycle/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_cycle/one/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_cycle/one/two/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_deps/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_empty/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_flatten/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_flatten/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_flatten/nested/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_incorrect/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_internal/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_interpolation/include/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_interpolation/include_with_dir/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_interpolation/include_with_env_variable/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_interpolation/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_missing_taskfile/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_multi_level/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_multi_level/one/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_multi_level/one/two/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_multi_level/one/two/three/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_optional/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_optional_explicit_false/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_optional_implicit_false/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_rel_path/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_rel_path/common/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_rel_path/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_remote/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_remote/first/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_remote/first/second/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_shadowed_default/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_silent/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_unshadowed_default/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_with_excludes/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_with_excludes/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/includes_yaml/included/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/interactive_vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/internal_task/Taskfile.yml, testdata/json_list_format/Taskfile.yml, testdata/label_error/Taskfile.yml, testdata/label_list/Taskfile.yml, testdata/label_status/Taskfile.yml, testdata/label_summary/Taskfile.yml, testdata/label_uptodate/Taskfile.yml, testdata/label_var/Taskfile.yml, testdata/list_desc_interpolation/Taskfile.yml, testdata/list_mixed_desc/Taskfile.yml, testdata/output_group/Taskfile.yml, testdata/output_group_error_only/Taskfile.yml, testdata/params/Taskfile.yml, testdata/platforms/Taskfile.yml, testdata/precondition/Taskfile.yml, testdata/prefix_uptodate/Taskfile.yml, testdata/prompt/Taskfile.yml, testdata/requires/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_once_shared_deps/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_once_shared_deps/library/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_once_shared_deps/service-a/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_once_shared_deps/service-b/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_when_changed/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_when_changed/library/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_when_changed/service-a/Taskfile.yml, testdata/run_when_changed/service-b/Taskfile.yml, testdata/secrets/Taskfile.yml, testdata/shopts/command_level/Taskfile.yml, testdata/shopts/global_level/Taskfile.yml, testdata/shopts/task_level/Taskfile.yml, testdata/short_task_notation/Taskfile.yml, testdata/silent/Taskfile.yml, testdata/single_cmd_dep/Taskfile.yml, testdata/special_vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/special_vars/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/split_args/Taskfile.yml, testdata/status/Taskfile.yml, testdata/status_vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/summary-vars-requires/Taskfile.yml, testdata/summary/Taskfile.yml, testdata/taskfile_walk/Taskfile.yml, testdata/timestamp/Taskfile.yml, testdata/user_working_dir/Taskfile.yml, testdata/user_working_dir_with_includes/Taskfile.yml, testdata/user_working_dir_with_includes/included/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/entrypoint-global-dotenv/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/entrypoint-global-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/entrypoint-task-call-dotenv/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/entrypoint-task-call-task-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/entrypoint-task-call-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/entrypoint-task-dotenv/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/entrypoint-task-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/included-global-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/included-task-call-dotenv/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/included-task-call-task-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/included-task-call-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/included-task-dotenv/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/included-task-vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/included-task/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_inheritance/v3/shell/Taskfile.yml, testdata/var_references/Taskfile.yml, testdata/vars/Taskfile.yml, testdata/vars/any/Taskfile.yml, testdata/version/v1/Taskfile.yml, testdata/version/v2/Taskfile.yml, testdata/version/v3/Taskfile.yml, testdata/watch/Taskfile.yaml, testdata/wildcards/Taskfile.yml, website/Taskfile.yml, website/src/public/Taskfile.yml |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .golangci.yml |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | website/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 8 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 8 |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.6 / 55 | 1/148 source files over 60KB |

## Collection warnings

- Could not fetch npm package 'website2' from its registry

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