# helium/helium-program-library — health index 86/100 (Excellent)

> Inspection of the public repository helium/helium-program-library by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 86 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent 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/helium/helium-program-library
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/helium/helium-program-library
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- Inspected: 2026-07-30
- Methodology: metrics 2.5.0, report schema 0.27.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 98/100 | Exceptional |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 59/100 | Moderate |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 73/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 64/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 60/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 83/100 | Excellent |

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

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Helium programs to run on the Solana blockchain |
| Classification | web-ui, cli, library, network-service |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 163 |
| Forks | 60 |
| Created | 2022-08-24 |
| Last push | 2026-07-29 |
| Latest release | @helium/blockchain-api@0.14.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 420 |
| Bus factor | 1 |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | @helium/fanout-sdk | 0.11.16 | 797 |
| npm | @helium/currency-utils | 0.11.16 | 2,214 |
| npm | @helium/dc-auto-top-sdk | 0.11.16 | 87 |
| npm | @helium/anchor-resolvers | 0.11.16 | 10,436 |
| npm | @helium/automation-hooks | 0.11.16 | 233 |
| npm | @helium/data-credits-sdk | 0.11.16 | 5,370 |
| npm | @helium/helium-admin-cli | 0.11.18 | 1,665 |
| npm | @helium/distributor-oracle | 0.11.16 | 1,213 |

## Vitality — 98/100 (Exceptional)

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 32.5 / 36 | 47/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 420 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 2 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~0.4 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 12 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 59/100 (Moderate)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 58/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 35.8 / 60 | 163 stars |
| Forks | partial | 14.8 / 25 | 60 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 7.1 / 15 | 20 watchers |

### Community health — 50/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | not met | 0 / 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) — 72/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 57.9 / 80 | 22,015 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 73/100 (Good)

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) — 40/100 (Weak)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 7.2 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 68% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 15 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 4 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 87/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 36.8 / 42 | 88% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 28.1 / 30 | 1040/1111 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 10.5 / 15 | Found 10/14 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 22 / 25 | 1,130 followers of helium |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 200 public repos, account ~12 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 8 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 5 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 324 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 64/100 (Moderate)

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

### Engineering practices — 80/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 7 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | partial | 16 / 20 | 13 out of 15 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8 |

### Documentation — 40/100 (Weak)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 60/100 (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 — 57/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Signed-Releases. 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 | partial | 2 / 2.5 | 13 out of 15 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | Found 10/14 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 4 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 | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| Security-Policy | partial | 1.5 / 5 | security policy file 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 | 259 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 72/100 (Good)

Matched the npm:@helium/fanout-sdk@0.11.16 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 150 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 | partial | 8.4 / 25 | 2 affected: bigint-buffer 1.1.5 (high 7.5), uuid 8.3.2 (high 7.5) |
| No advisories left outstanding | partial | 29.1 / 40 | 2 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 481 days ago |

### 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 — 83/100 (Excellent)

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 — 82/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | .cursorrules |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | partial | 36.5 / 40 | 67 of 98 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | partial | 12.6 / 18 | Cargo.toml, programs/circuit-breaker/Cargo.toml, programs/data-credits/Cargo.toml (toolchain convention, no task runner) |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | packages/account-fetch-cache-hooks/tsconfig.json, packages/account-fetch-cache/tsconfig.json, packages/account-postgres-sink-service/tsconfig.json, packages/anchor-resolvers/tsconfig.json, packages/asset-ownership-service/tsconfig.json, packages/automation-hooks/tsconfig.json, packages/blockchain-api-client/tsconfig.json, packages/blockchain-api/tsconfig.json, packages/circuit-breaker-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/crons/tsconfig.json, packages/currency-utils/tsconfig.json, packages/data-credits-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/dc-auto-top-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/distributor-oracle/tsconfig.json, packages/docsite/jsconfig.json, packages/entity-invalidator/tsconfig.json, packages/fanout-metadata-service/tsconfig.json, packages/fanout-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/faucet-service/tsconfig.json, packages/helium-admin-cli/tsconfig.json, packages/helium-entity-manager-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/helium-react-hooks/tsconfig.json, packages/helium-sub-daos-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/helium-vote-service/tsconfig.json, packages/hexboosting-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/hotspot-utils/tsconfig.json, packages/hpl-crons-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/idls/tsconfig.json, packages/lazy-distributor-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/lazy-transactions-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/metadata-service/tsconfig.json, packages/migration-service/tsconfig.json, packages/mini-fanout-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/mobile-entity-manager-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/monitor-service/tsconfig.json, packages/no-emit-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/price-oracle-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/recent-helium-transactions-service/tsconfig.json, packages/rewards-oracle-faucet-service/tsconfig.json, packages/rewards-oracle-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/spl-utils/tsconfig.json, packages/sus/tsconfig.json, packages/tokens-to-rent-service/tsconfig.json, packages/treasury-management-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/tuktuk-dca-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/tuktuk-dca-service/tsconfig.json, packages/tuktuk-pyth-service/tsconfig.json, packages/voter-stake-registry-hooks/tsconfig.json, packages/voter-stake-registry-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/vsr-metadata-service/tsconfig.json, packages/welcome-pack-sdk/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | met | 10 / 10 | 20 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | not met | 0 / 8 | no automated dependency updates observed |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |

### Code legibility for models — 99/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.1 / 55 | 20/1161 source files over 60KB |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 3000 of 4405 packages (counts remain complete)

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