# inngest/inngestctl — health index 81/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository inngest/inngestctl by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 81 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/inngest/inngestctl
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/inngest/inngestctl
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/inngest/inngestctl/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/i/inngest/inngestctl.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-17
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.12.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 80/100 | Good |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 81/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 53/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 84/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The leading workflow orchestration platform.  Run stateful step functions and AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge. |
| Homepage | https://www.inngest.com/docs |
| Primary language | Go |
| Stars | 5,614 |
| Forks | 326 |
| Created | 2021-06-07 |
| Last push | 2026-07-17 |
| Latest release | v1.37.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,431 |
| Bus factor | 4 |
| Topics | cli, event-driven, serverless-functions, queues, serverless, event-driven-architecture, workflow-engine, workflows |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/inngest/inngest | v1.37.0 | — |
| npm | inngest-cli | 1.37.0 | 1,214,369 |

## Vitality — 96/100 (Excellent)

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1431 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 1 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 3 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~3 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 — 80/100 (Good)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 88/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 5,614 stars |
| Forks | partial | 20.9 / 25 | 326 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 6.7 / 15 | 17 watchers |

### Community health — 71/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 81/100 (Good)

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) — 83/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 43.2 / 54 | 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 16.4 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 27% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 51 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 18 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 38.2 / 46.8 | 82% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 34.5 / 38.2 | 3680/4083 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 13.5 / 15 | Found 29/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 73/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 19.2 / 25 | 469 followers of inngest |
| Track record | partial | 23.9 / 25 | 116 public repos, account ~5 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 90/100 (Excellent)

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 | 19 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc, .flake8, .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml, eslint.config.mjs |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 90/100 (Excellent)

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

## Security — 53/100 (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 — 53/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 30 out of 30 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 | 6.8 / 7.5 | Found 29/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 18 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | not met | 0 / 10 | 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 | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 1 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 2 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 4 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| 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 | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 74 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 — 84/100 (Good)

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 — 75/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | .github/copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, cmd/doctor/AGENTS.md, pkg/api/v2/CLAUDE.md, pkg/constraintapi/CLAUDE.md, ui/apps/support/CLAUDE.md, vendor/github.com/inngest/inngestgo/AGENTS.md, vendor/github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 93/100 (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 | Makefile, vendor/connectrpc.com/connect/Makefile, vendor/github.com/Songmu/gotesplit/Makefile, vendor/github.com/agnivade/levenshtein/Makefile, vendor/github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2/Makefile, vendor/github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2/fpconv/Makefile, vendor/github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2/proto/Makefile, vendor/github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2/server/Makefile, vendor/github.com/aws/smithy-go/Makefile, vendor/github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/v2/Makefile, vendor/github.com/coder/websocket/Makefile, vendor/github.com/distribution/reference/Makefile, vendor/github.com/dmarkham/enumer/Makefile, vendor/github.com/doug-martin/goqu/v9/Makefile, vendor/github.com/emicklei/proto/Makefile, vendor/github.com/felixge/httpsnoop/Makefile, vendor/github.com/getsentry/sentry-go/Makefile, vendor/github.com/go-chi/chi/v5/Makefile, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto/Makefile, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto/Makefile, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor/Makefile, vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/Makefile, vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/Makefile, vendor/github.com/inngest/expr/Makefile, vendor/github.com/inngest/go-httpstat/Makefile, vendor/github.com/inngest/inngestgo/Makefile, vendor/github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath/Makefile, vendor/github.com/karlseguin/ccache/v2/Makefile, vendor/github.com/karlseguin/ccache/v3/Makefile, vendor/github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/v2/pbutil/Makefile, vendor/github.com/ohler55/ojg/Makefile, vendor/github.com/ohler55/ojg/alt/Makefile, vendor/github.com/ohler55/ojg/gen/Makefile, vendor/github.com/ohler55/ojg/jp/Makefile, vendor/github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go/Makefile, vendor/github.com/pelletier/go-toml/Makefile, vendor/github.com/pkg/errors/Makefile, vendor/github.com/pressly/goose/v3/Makefile, vendor/github.com/prometheus/procfs/Makefile, vendor/github.com/spf13/cast/Makefile, vendor/github.com/spf13/viper/Makefile, vendor/github.com/stretchr/objx/Taskfile.yml, vendor/github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go/Makefile, vendor/github.com/urfave/cli/v2/Makefile, vendor/github.com/urfave/cli/v3/Makefile, vendor/github.com/yuin/gopher-lua/Makefile, vendor/github.com/yuin/gopher-lua/parse/Makefile, vendor/go.opencensus.io/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/goleak/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/multierr/Makefile, vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/Makefile, vendor/gopkg.in/ini.v1/Makefile, vendor/modernc.org/libc/Makefile, vendor/modernc.org/mathutil/Makefile, vendor/modernc.org/memory/Makefile, vendor/modernc.org/sqlite/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc, .flake8, .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml, eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | docs/api-docs/tsconfig.json, npm/tsconfig.json, tests/js/tsconfig.json, ui/apps/dashboard/tsconfig.json, ui/apps/dev-server-ui/tsconfig.json, ui/apps/support/tsconfig.json, ui/packages/components/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | devcontainer, Dockerfile, Nix, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 4 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 4 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.4 / 55 | 27/2451 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | pkg/coreapi/gql.mutations.graphql, pkg/coreapi/gql.query.graphql, pkg/coreapi/gql.schema.graphql, proto/api/v2/options.proto, proto/api/v2/service.proto, proto/connect/v1/connect.proto, proto/connect/v1/service.proto, proto/constraintapi/v1/service.proto, proto/debug/v1/batch.proto, proto/debug/v1/constraintapi.proto, proto/debug/v1/debounce.proto, proto/debug/v1/pause.proto, proto/debug/v1/queue.proto, proto/debug/v1/service.proto, proto/debug/v1/singleton.proto, proto/event/v1/event.proto, proto/queue/v1/consumer.proto, proto/queue/v1/producer.proto, proto/queue/v1/types.proto, proto/run/v2/run.proto, proto/run/v2/span.proto, proto/state/v2/state.proto, proto/third_party/google/api/annotations.proto, proto/third_party/google/api/http.proto, proto/third_party/protoc-gen-openapiv2/options/annotations.proto, proto/third_party/protoc-gen-openapiv2/options/openapiv2.proto, proto/trace/v1/span.proto, vendor/github.com/99designs/gqlgen/init-templates/schema.graphqls, vendor/github.com/cockroachdb/errors/errorspb/errors.proto, vendor/github.com/cockroachdb/errors/errorspb/hintdetail.proto, vendor/github.com/cockroachdb/errors/errorspb/markers.proto, vendor/github.com/cockroachdb/errors/errorspb/tags.proto, vendor/github.com/cockroachdb/errors/errorspb/testing.proto, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto/gogo.proto, vendor/github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/apierror/internal/proto/custom_error.proto, vendor/github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/apierror/internal/proto/error.proto, vendor/github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2/protoc-gen-openapiv2/options/annotations.proto, vendor/github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2/protoc-gen-openapiv2/options/openapiv2.proto, vendor/github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2/validator/prelude.graphql |
| MCP server | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | not met | 0 / 40 | — |

## Collection warnings

- go package 'github.com/inngest/inngest' points at a different repository (https://github.com/inngest/inngest); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'inngest-cli' points at a different repository (git+https://github.com/inngest/inngest.git); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 3515 packages (counts remain complete)

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