# graphql-hive/graphql-yoga — health index 95/100 (Exceptional)

> Inspection of the public repository graphql-hive/graphql-yoga by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 95 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional 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/graphql-hive/graphql-yoga
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/graphql-hive/graphql-yoga
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/graphql-hive/graphql-yoga/report
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- Inspected: 2026-08-12
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.31.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 94/100 | Exceptional |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 87/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 83/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 80/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 63/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 74/100 | Good |

The weighted overall 82 is calibrated to 95 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 🧘 Rewrite of a fully-featured GraphQL Server with focus on easy setup, performance & great developer experience.  The core of Yoga implements WHATWG Fetch API and can run/deploy on any JS environment. |
| Classification | web-ui, network-service, library |
| Homepage | https://the-guild.dev/graphql/yoga-server |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 8,531 |
| Forks | 594 |
| Created | 2017-11-15 |
| Last push | 2026-08-12 |
| Latest release | release-1782317638369 |
| Commits (last year) | 359 |
| Bus factor | 4 |
| Topics | graphql, graphql-server, javascript, typescript, w3c, fetch, whatwg, nodejs, bun, deno, the-guild |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | @graphql-yoga/logger | 2.0.1 | 6,331,204 |
| npm | @graphql-yoga/nestjs | 3.22.2 | 178,473 |
| npm | @graphql-yoga/graphiql | 4.4.4 | 24,363 |
| npm | graphql-yoga | 5.21.2 | 6,725,102 |
| npm | @graphql-yoga/subscription | 5.0.5 | 7,640,704 |
| npm | @graphql-yoga/render-graphiql | 5.21.2 | 263,569 |
| npm | @graphql-yoga/nestjs-federation | 3.22.2 | 37,663 |
| npm | @graphql-yoga/render-apollo-sandbox | 0.7.2 | 5,987 |

## Vitality — 94/100 (Exceptional)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 21% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 25.6 / 36 | 37/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 359 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 49 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~23.1 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 9 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 87/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 17% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 93/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 8,531 stars |
| Forks | partial | 23.1 / 25 | 594 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 9.9 / 15 | 62 watchers |

### Community health — 70/100 (Good)

| 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 | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | met | 80 / 80 | 14,875,861 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 83/100 (Excellent)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 23% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 83/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 43.2 / 54 | 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 16.2 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 28% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 95 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 76 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 80/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 36.1 / 42 | 86% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 25.6 / 30 | 2989/3506 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 7.5 / 15 | Found 7/14 approved changesets -- score normalized to 5 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 72/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | excluded | 0 / 20 | verified-domain status not read for this organization |
| Owner reach | partial | 13.1 / 25 | 65 followers of graphql-hive |
| Track record | partial | 14.4 / 25 | 28 public repos, account ~1 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 7 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 65 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 4491 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 19% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 7 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.json |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 27 out of 27 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 65/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://the-guild.dev/graphql/yoga-server |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 11 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 63/100 (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 — 54/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3.8 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 27 out of 27 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 | 3.8 / 7.5 | Found 7/14 approved changesets -- score normalized to 5 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 76 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 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 2.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 136 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the npm:graphql-yoga@5.21.2 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 24 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | met | 35 / 35 | no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | met | 25 / 25 | no indirect dependency carries a known advisory |
| No advisories left outstanding | excluded | 0 / 40 | no advisory carries a publication date |

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

| 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 (Exceptional)

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 — 74/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight: agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but its absence must never gate the top of the scale (calibration saturates at raw 91, so 100/100 remains reachable with AI Readiness at zero).

### Agent context & guidance — 29/100 (At Risk)

| 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 | partial | 28.6 / 40 | 22 of 41 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 95/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | .mise.toml |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.json |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | benchmark/tsconfig.json, envelop-website/tsconfig.json, examples/apollo-federation-compatibility/tsconfig.json, examples/apollo-managed-federation/tsconfig.json, examples/aws-lambda/tsconfig.json, examples/bun-pothos/tsconfig.json, examples/bun-yoga-ws/tsconfig.json, examples/bun/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-advanced/tsconfig.json, examples/cloudflare-modules/tsconfig.json, examples/defer-stream/tsconfig.json, examples/deno/tsconfig.json, examples/egg/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/apollo-server/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/azure-functions/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/cloudflare-workers/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/express-graphql/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/google-cloud-functions/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/graphql-helix-auth0/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/graphql-helix-defer-stream/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/graphql-helix/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/graphql-http/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/graphql-socket.io/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/graphql-sse/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/graphql-ws/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/lambda-aws/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/nexus/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/simple-http/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/typegraphql/tsconfig.json, examples/envelop/with-esm/tsconfig.json, examples/error-handling/tsconfig.json, examples/express-helmet/tsconfig.json, examples/express/tsconfig.json, examples/fastify-modules/tsconfig.json, examples/fastify/tsconfig.json, examples/file-upload-nextjs-pothos/tsconfig.json, examples/file-upload-nexus/tsconfig.json, examples/file-upload/tsconfig.json, examples/firebase/functions/tsconfig.json, examples/gcp-functions/tsconfig.json, examples/generic-auth/tsconfig.json, examples/graphql-armor/tsconfig.json, examples/graphql-sse/tsconfig.json, examples/graphql-ws/tsconfig.json, examples/hackernews/tsconfig.json, examples/hapi/tsconfig.json, examples/issue-template/tsconfig.json, examples/koa/tsconfig.json, examples/live-query/tsconfig.json, examples/nestjs-apollo-federation-compatibility/tsconfig.json, examples/nextjs-app/tsconfig.json, examples/nextjs-auth/tsconfig.json, examples/nextjs-legacy-pages/tsconfig.json, examples/nextjs-ws/tsconfig.json, examples/node-ts/tsconfig.json, examples/pothos/tsconfig.json, examples/redis-pub-sub/tsconfig.json, examples/request-cancelation/tsconfig.json, examples/response-cache/tsconfig.json, examples/service-worker/tsconfig.json, examples/sofa/tsconfig.json, examples/subscriptions/tsconfig.json, examples/sveltekit/.svelte-kit/tsconfig.json, examples/sveltekit/tsconfig.json, examples/uwebsockets/tsconfig.json, packages/envelop/plugins/newrelic/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json, website/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | met | 10 / 10 | 9 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 59 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 5 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.9 / 55 | 1/603 source files over 60KB |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | examples/apollo-federation-compatibility/schema.graphql, examples/fastify-modules/src/modules/basic/typeDefs/schema.graphql, examples/hackernews/src/schema/base/schema.graphql, examples/nestjs-apollo-federation-compatibility/schema.graphql, packages/nestjs/__tests__/fixtures/graphql/cats/cats.types.graphql |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- npm package '@graphql-yoga/logger' points at a different repository (https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-yoga); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 3000 of 4119 packages (counts remain complete)

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