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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-20 14:49 UTC

howsoai / howso-engine-py

Howso Engine

PythonAGPL-3.0★ 21 stars⑂ 6 forkssince Sep 2023View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

howsoai/howso-engine-py holds a health index of 88 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (95/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (53/100). It was last updated today. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

88
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.

88
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)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

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 74 is calibrated to 88 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

HowsoOrganization · verified domain
60 followers24 public repossince Jun 2023

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

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
PyPIhowso-engine68.2.05,9153440 days agomachinelearningartificialintelligence

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

95Exceptional · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 0 days ago
34.6/36Commit cadence — 50/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 219 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year219
human_commit_share0.95
days_since_last_push0
active_weeks_last_year50
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 0 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~3 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
Inputs used
releases_count100
latest_release_tag68.2.0
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release0
mean_days_between_releases3

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

53Moderate · 17% of overall
How it's scored
21.1/60Stars — 21 stars
5.8/25Forks — 6 forks
4.3/15Watchers — 7 watchers
Inputs used
forks6
stars21
watchers7
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (AGPL-3.0)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges0
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateno
How it's scored
50.3/80Monthly downloads — 5,915 downloads/month across pypi
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packageshowso-engine
dependents—
ecosystemspypi
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads5,915
unverified_packages_excluded—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

80Excellent · 23% of overall
How it's scored
25.2/54Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
14.5/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 36% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 17 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
bus_factor2
contributors_sampled17
top_contributor_share0.356
How it's scored
31.5/42Issue resolution — 75% of issues closed
28.7/30PR acceptance — 721/754 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
15/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
Inputs used
merged_prs721
open_issues1
closed_issues3
prs_merged_7d4
prs_decided_7d5
prs_merged_30d23
prs_decided_30d24
issue_closed_ratio0.75
closed_unmerged_prs33
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20Verified domain
12.8/25Owner reach — 60 followers of howsoai
16.8/25Track record — 24 public repos, account ~3 yr old
Inputs used
followers60
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedyes
owner_loginhowsoai
public_repos24
account_age_days1,209

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on pypi
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 0 days ago
20/20Version history — 344 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packageshowso-engine
ecosystemspypi
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish0

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

76Good · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — .flake8, .pylintrc, pyproject.toml ([tool.isort], [tool.yapf]), ruff.toml
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configno
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://docs.howso.com/
10/10Repository description
0/10Topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topics—
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_sitehttps://docs.howso.com/
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

63Moderate · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
3/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
7.5/7.5Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5Packaging — packaging workflow detected
1/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7.5/7.5Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated18
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive0
scorecard_aggregate5.4

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories0
affected_packages0
assessed_packages78
unassessed_packages19
affected_by_severitynone
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 78 resolved dependencies against OSV. 19 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.

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.

60Moderate · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
40/40Legible commit history — 94 of 95 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.989
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — .flake8, .pylintrc, pyproject.toml ([tool.isort], [tool.yapf]), ruff.toml
11/11Static type checking — pyrightconfig.json
0/10Reproducible environment
6/10Demonstrated agent practice — 3 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
0/8Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
2/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_filesMakefile
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configspyrightconfig.json
agent_commit_share0.03
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0
How it's scored
27/45Type-checkable code — Python with type-check config (pyrightconfig.json)
49.3/55Manageable file sizes — 11/106 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languagePython
largest_source_bytes308,556
source_files_sampled106
oversized_source_files11

Key facts

21GitHub stars
17contributors
219commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
100releases
2bus factor
1open issues
PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • deps.dev does not index pypi:howso-engine@68.2.0; advisories assessed against the repository dependency graph instead

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 6 ⇿
0Stars
6Forks

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

123456612024-022024-112025-09

Each point covers 2 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.4 / 10
5.4aggregate

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 · 2026-10-20 14:49 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
4Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10CI-Tests30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
10Code-Reviewall changesets reviewed
10Contributorsproject has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
0Dependency-Update-Toolno update tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10Packagingpackaging workflow detected
2Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
0Signed-ReleasesProject has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10Vulnerabilities0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 17
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
PyPIcertifi—pyproject.toml
PyPIFaker>=4.1.1pyproject.toml
PyPIhumanize>=4.0.0pyproject.toml
PyPImmh3—pyproject.toml
PyPInumpy>=2.3,<2.5pyproject.toml
PyPIpackaging—pyproject.toml
PyPIpandas<3.0pyproject.toml
PyPIpsutil—pyproject.toml
PyPIpython-dateutil—pyproject.toml
PyPIpyyaml~=6.0pyproject.toml
PyPIrequests>=2.32.4,<3.0pyproject.toml
PyPIrich~=15.0pyproject.toml
PyPIsacremoses—pyproject.toml
PyPIsemantic-version~=2.0pyproject.toml
PyPItyping-extensions~=4.9pyproject.toml
PyPIurllib3>=2.6.3pyproject.toml
PyPIamalgam-lang==36.0.1pyproject.toml
All dependencies 97

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 27 direct and 70 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
PyPIamalgam-lang36.0.1direct
PyPIcertifi2026.10.18direct
PyPIfaker—direct
PyPIfaker40.43.0direct
PyPIhumanize—direct
PyPIhumanize4.16.0direct
PyPImmh35.3.1direct
PyPInumpy—direct
PyPInumpy2.4.6direct
PyPIpackaging26.3direct
PyPIpandas—direct
PyPIpandas2.3.3direct
PyPIpsutil7.2.2direct
PyPIpython-dateutil2.9.0.post0direct
PyPIpyyaml—direct
PyPIpyyaml6.0.3direct
PyPIrequests—direct
PyPIrequests2.34.2direct
PyPIrich—direct
PyPIrich15.0.0direct
PyPIsacremoses0.2.0direct
PyPIsemantic-version—direct
PyPIsemantic-version2.10.0direct
PyPItyping-extensions—direct
PyPItyping-extensions4.16.0direct
PyPIurllib3—direct
PyPIurllib32.8.0direct
PyPIastroid4.3.4indirect
PyPIbuild1.6.1indirect
PyPIcharset-normalizer3.5.2indirect
PyPIclick8.5.0indirect
PyPIcloudpickle3.1.2indirect
PyPIcoverage7.16.2indirect
PyPIdill—indirect
PyPIdill0.4.1indirect
PyPIexecnet2.1.2indirect
PyPIflake8—indirect
PyPIflake83.9.2indirect
PyPIflake8-docstrings1.7.0indirect
PyPIflake8-import-order0.19.2indirect
PyPIidna3.20indirect
PyPIiniconfig2.3.1indirect
PyPIinstaller1.1.0indirect
PyPIisort9.0.2indirect
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PyPIpygments2.21.0indirect
PyPIpylint4.1.3indirect
PyPIpyproject-hooks1.3.3indirect
PyPIpytest—indirect
PyPIpytest9.1.1indirect
PyPIpytest-cov7.1.0indirect
PyPIpytest-mock—indirect
PyPIpytest-mock1.13.0indirect
PyPIpytest-xdist3.8.0indirect
PyPIpytz2026.5indirect
PyPIregex2026.9.29indirect
PyPIruff—indirect
PyPIruff0.11.13indirect
PyPIscikit-learn—indirect
PyPIscikit-learn1.9.1indirect
PyPIscipy1.17.1indirect
PyPIscipy1.18.1indirect
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PyPIsetuptools—indirect
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PyPIwheel—indirect
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Dependency advisories 0

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 78 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 19 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

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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