# google-research/google-research — health index 53/100 (Moderate)

> Inspection of the public repository google-research/google-research by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 53 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate 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/google-research/google-research
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/google-research/google-research
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/google-research/google-research/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/g/google-research/google-research.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-21
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.16.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 59/100 | Moderate |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 86/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 64/100 | Moderate |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 44/100 | At risk |
| Security | 16% | 2/100 | Critical |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 59/100 | Moderate |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Google Research |
| Homepage | https://research.google |
| Primary language | Jupyter Notebook |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 38,408 |
| Forks | 8,459 |
| Created | 2018-10-04 |
| Last push | 2026-07-20 |
| Commits (last year) | 246 |
| Bus factor | 19 |
| Topics | machine-learning, ai, research |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| pypi | ebp | 1.0.4 | — |
| pypi | hct | 0.0.2 | 36 |
| pypi | aloe | 0.2.0 | 1,989 |
| pypi | gift | 0.1.0 | — |
| pypi | lego | 0.1.3 | — |

## Vitality — 59/100 (Moderate)

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

### Development activity — 98/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 33.9 / 36 | 49/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 246 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Release discipline — 1/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | not met | 0 / 27 | no releases published |
| Release recency | not met | 0 / 36 | no releases |
| Release cadence | not met | 0 / 27 | no releases |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### 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 — 86/100 (Excellent)

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 38,408 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 8,459 forks |
| Watchers | met | 15 / 15 | 777 watchers |

### Community health — 70/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 64/100 (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) — 98/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | met | 54 / 54 | 19 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 20.5 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 9% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 17/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 11.3 / 46.8 | 24% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 2.9 / 38.2 | 34/445 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | excluded | 0 / 15 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Ownership & stewardship — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | met | 25 / 25 | 16,693 followers of google-research |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 350 public repos, account ~7 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 53/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 1 package(s) on pypi |
| Publish recency | partial | 4 / 35 | latest publish 3225 days ago |
| Version history | partial | 4 / 20 | 1 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 44/100 (At risk)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 30/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | not met | 0 / 24 | — |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | not met | 0 / 16 | — |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 20 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### 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://research.google |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 3 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 2/100 (Critical)

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 — 1/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Dependency lockfiles. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security policy (SECURITY.md) | not met | 0 / 30 | — |
| Dependabot config | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Dependency lockfiles | excluded | 0 / 25 | published library — lockfiles are an application concern, not expected |
| CodeQL workflow | not met | 0 / 20 | — |

### Dependency advisories — 7/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 1718 resolved dependencies against OSV; 1089 could not be assessed (no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list). 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.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | partial | 0.6 / 35 | 100 affected: numpy 1.15.4 (critical 9.8), numpy 1.16.2 (critical 9.8), numpy 1.21.1=py39hdbf815f_0 (critical 9.8), +97 more |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | excluded | 0 / 25 | transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope |
| No advisories left outstanding | partial | 4.7 / 40 | 35 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 3261 days ago |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dependency reported as a malicious package | met | 100 / 100 | no dependency is reported as a malicious package |

### 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 — 59/100 (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) — 85/100 (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 | bigg/bigg/model/tree_clib/Makefile, design_bipartite_experiments/Makefile, ials/vae_benchmarks/Makefile, lamp/Makefile, lego/lego/cpp_sampler/Makefile, mucped23/report/Makefile, rcs_tnsa/src/Makefile, sparse_user_encoders/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | not met | 0 / 11 | — |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | symbiosis/frontend/src/tsconfig.json, symbiosis/frontend/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Code legibility for models — 82/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | partial | 27 / 45 | Jupyter Notebook with type-check config (symbiosis/frontend/src/tsconfig.json, symbiosis/frontend/tsconfig.json) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.6 / 55 | 68/9891 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | aptamers_mlpd/search/search.proto, aptamers_mlpd/util/aptamer.proto, aptamers_mlpd/util/measurement.proto, aptamers_mlpd/util/selection.proto, automl_zero/algorithm.proto, automl_zero/experiment.proto, automl_zero/fec_cache.proto, automl_zero/generator.proto, automl_zero/instruction.proto, automl_zero/mutator.proto, automl_zero/task.proto, automl_zero/train_budget.proto, clay/proto/dimension.proto, clay/proto/observation.proto, cognate_inpaint_neighbors/neighbors/model/feature_neighborhood_tensor_opts.proto, eq_mag_prediction/eq_mag_prediction/earthquakes.proto, es_maml/first_order/first_order.proto, es_maml/zero_order/zero_order.proto, evanet/inception_cell_spec.proto, fm4tlp/models/model_config.proto, gigamol/molecule_graph_proto/molecule_graph.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/annotated_recording_collection.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/annotated_recording_collection_sensor_options.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/class_mappings_side_packet_calculator.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/compute_sample_magnitude_variance_calculator.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/drop_on_threshold_value_calculator.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/extract_sensor_data_from_annotated_recording_collection_calculator.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/filter_annotated_recording_collection_calculator.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/merge_sensor_data_into_annotated_recording_collection_calculator.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/processing_options.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/set_annotated_recording_collection_metadata_calculator.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/string_label_class_map.proto, intent_recognition/intent_recognition/processing/window_calculator.proto, keypose/data.proto, llm4mobile/episode.proto, parallel_clustering/clustering/config.proto, parallel_clustering/clustering/util/dynamic_weight_threshold.proto, scann/scann/data_format/features.proto, scann/scann/distance_measures/one_to_many/scale_encoding.proto, scann/scann/partitioning/kmeans_tree_partitioner.proto, scann/scann/partitioning/linear_projection_tree.proto, scann/scann/partitioning/partitioner.proto, scann/scann/proto/auto_tuning.proto, scann/scann/proto/brute_force.proto, scann/scann/proto/centers.proto, scann/scann/proto/crowding.proto, scann/scann/proto/disjoint_restrict_token.proto, scann/scann/proto/distance_measure.proto, scann/scann/proto/exact_reordering.proto, scann/scann/proto/hash.proto, scann/scann/proto/hashed.proto, scann/scann/proto/input_output.proto, scann/scann/proto/metadata.proto, scann/scann/proto/min_distance.proto, scann/scann/proto/partitioning.proto, scann/scann/proto/projection.proto, scann/scann/proto/results.proto, scann/scann/proto/scann.proto, scann/scann/scann_ops/scann_assets.proto, scann/scann/trees/kmeans_tree/kmeans_tree.proto, smith/experiment_config.proto, smith/wiki_doc_pair.proto, smu/dataset.proto, streetview_contrails_dataset/persistence/streetview_dataset.proto, tf3d/utils/protos/string_int_label_map.proto |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | demos, example, examples, notebooks, sample, samples |

## Collection warnings

- pypi package 'ebp' points at a different repository (https://github.com/YuhaoCheng/EasyBuildProject); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- pypi package 'hct' points at a different repository (https://github.com/upb-lea/HCT_heat_sink_computation_toolbox); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- pypi package 'aloe' points at a different repository (https://github.com/aloetesting/aloe); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- Could not fetch pypi package 'bigg' from its registry
- Could not fetch pypi package 'cisc' from its registry
- Could not fetch pypi package 'fvlm.rovit' from its registry
- pypi package 'lego' points at a different repository (https://github.com/MBALearnsToCode/Lego); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 2807 packages (counts remain complete)
- Advisory severity resolved for 120 of 1274 advisories (lookup cap); the remainder are reported as unknown severity
- OpenSSF Scorecard did not return a usable result (2026/07/21 00:59:34 Warning: PATs stored in env variables GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN and GITHUB_TOKEN differ. Scorecard will use the former.); skipping Scorecard checks

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