Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-15 11:58 UTC

jakebailey / hereby

A simple Node.js task runner

TypeScriptMIT★ 432 stars⑂ 15 forkssince Aug 2022View on GitHub ↗

KindLibraryCommand-line toolhow this is determined

jakebailey/hereby holds a health index of 78 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Vitality (83/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (45/100). It was last updated today. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Good

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.

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)

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 67 is calibrated to 78 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Jake BaileyPersonal account

1,239 followers179 public repossince Aug 2013@microsoft

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish	Tags
npm	hereby	1.15.2	95,149	39	34 days ago	hereby herebyfile task runner build gulp make makefile

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

83Excellent · 21% of overall

Development activity

77Good

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
13.2/36	Commit cadence — 19/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 108 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 23 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	108
human_commit_share	0.78
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	19

Release discipline

92Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 9 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 34 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~85.5 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	9
latest_release_tag	v1.15.2
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	34
mean_days_between_releases	85.5

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

Community & Adoption

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

60Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

54Moderate

How it's scored

42.7/60	Stars — 432 stars
9.6/25	Forks — 15 forks
1.7/15	Watchers — 3 watchers

Inputs used

forks	15
stars	432
watchers	3
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	6
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	api.securityscorecards.dev, codecov.io, github.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

83Excellent

How it's scored

66.4/80	Monthly downloads — 95,149 downloads/month across npm
0/20	Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem

Inputs used

packages	hereby
dependents	—
ecosystems	npm
total_downloads	—
monthly_downloads	95,149
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?

58Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

25At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
0.2/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 99% of commits
5.4/13.5	Contributor breadth — 4 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 5 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	4
top_contributor_share	0.992

Issue & PR responsiveness

50Moderate

How it's scored

34.4/42	Issue resolution — 82% of issues closed
9.4/30	PR acceptance — 91/289 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	91
open_issues	2
closed_issues	9
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0.818
closed_unmerged_prs	198
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

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

Ownership & stewardship

72Good

How it's scored

10/30	Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20	Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
22.2/25	Owner reach — 1,239 followers of jakebailey
25/25	Track record — 179 public repos, account ~13 yr old

Inputs used

followers	1,239
owner_type	User
is_verified	—
owner_login	jakebailey
public_repos	179
account_age_days	4,764

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

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on npm
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 34 days ago
20/20	Version history — 39 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	hereby
ecosystems	npm
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	34

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

63Moderate · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

68Good

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 4 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

55Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://hereby.js.org
10/10	Repository description
0/10	Topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	—
has_wiki	no
homepage	https://hereby.js.org
docs_site	https://hereby.js.org
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

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

78Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

72Good

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 4 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0.5/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — badge detected: InProgress
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 0/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 5 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 23 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
3.5/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7
5/5	SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7.5/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	7.2

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

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional

How it's scored

35/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	0
affected_packages	0
assessed_packages	128
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	none
direct_affected_packages	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 128 resolved dependencies against OSV. 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.

45Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

1Critical

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
1.4/40	Legible commit history — 2 of 78 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.026
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

58Moderate

How it's scored

0/18	One-command bootstrap
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — tsconfig.json
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8	Automated maintenance — 16 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
7/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	package-lock.json
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	tsconfig.json
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.16

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — TypeScript (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/29 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	TypeScript
largest_source_bytes	10,142
source_files_sampled	29
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

432GitHub stars

4contributors

108commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

9releases

1bus factor

2open issues

npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 15 ⇿

0Stars

15Forks

6Releases

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.

Major 0Minor 5Patch 1

Each point covers 3 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 7.2 / 10

7.2aggregate

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 · 2026-09-15 11:58 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
n/a	Branch-Protection	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
10	CI-Tests	4 out of 4 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
2	CII-Best-Practices	badge detected: InProgress
0	Code-Review	Found 0/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10	Contributors	project has 5 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	23 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
7	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7
10	SAST	SAST tool is run on all commits
10	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10	Vulnerabilities	0 existing vulnerabilities detected

All dependencies 128

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 128 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
npm	@changesets/apply-release-plan	`8.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/assemble-release-plan	`7.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/changelog-git	`1.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/cli	`3.0.1`	indirect
npm	@changesets/config	`4.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/errors	`1.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/format	`0.1.2`	indirect
npm	@changesets/get-dependents-graph	`3.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/git	`4.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/parse	`1.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/pre	`3.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/read	`1.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/should-skip-package	`1.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/types	`7.0.0`	indirect
npm	@changesets/write	`1.0.1`	indirect
npm	@clack/core	`1.4.3`	indirect
npm	@clack/prompts	`1.7.0`	indirect
npm	@dprint/android-arm64	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/android-x64	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/darwin-arm64	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/darwin-x64	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/json	`0.23.0`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-arm64-glibc	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-arm64-musl	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-loong64-glibc	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-loong64-musl	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-ppc64-glibc	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-ppc64-musl	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-riscv64-glibc	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-x64-glibc	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/linux-x64-musl	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/markdown	`0.23.2`	indirect
npm	@dprint/typescript	`0.96.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/win32-arm64	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@dprint/win32-x64	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	@manypkg/find-root	`3.1.0`	indirect
npm	@manypkg/get-packages	`3.1.0`	indirect
npm	@manypkg/tools	`2.1.2`	indirect
npm	@oxlint-tsgolint/darwin-arm64	`7.0.2001`	indirect
npm	@oxlint-tsgolint/darwin-x64	`7.0.2001`	indirect
npm	@oxlint-tsgolint/linux-arm64	`7.0.2001`	indirect
npm	@oxlint-tsgolint/linux-x64	`7.0.2001`	indirect
npm	@oxlint-tsgolint/win32-arm64	`7.0.2001`	indirect
npm	@oxlint-tsgolint/win32-x64	`7.0.2001`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-android-arm-eabi	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-android-arm64	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-darwin-arm64	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-darwin-x64	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-freebsd-x64	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm-gnueabihf	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm-musleabihf	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm64-gnu	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-arm64-musl	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-ppc64-gnu	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-riscv64-gnu	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-riscv64-musl	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-s390x-gnu	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-x64-gnu	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-linux-x64-musl	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-openharmony-arm64	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-win32-arm64-msvc	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-win32-ia32-msvc	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@oxlint/binding-win32-x64-msvc	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/deps.graph-sequencer	`1100.0.1`	indirect
npm	@types/node	`26.4.0`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-aix-ppc64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-darwin-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-darwin-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-freebsd-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-freebsd-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-arm	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-loong64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-mips64el	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-ppc64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-riscv64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-s390x	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-linux-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-netbsd-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-netbsd-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-openbsd-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-openbsd-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-sunos-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-win32-arm64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	@typescript/typescript-win32-x64	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	acorn	`8.18.0`	indirect
npm	acorn-loose	`8.5.2`	indirect
npm	acorn-walk	`8.3.5`	indirect
npm	cac	`7.0.0`	indirect
npm	commander	`14.0.3`	indirect
npm	console-grid	`2.2.4`	indirect
npm	dprint	`0.56.1`	indirect
npm	dprint-plugin-yaml	`0.6.0`	indirect
npm	eight-colors	`1.3.3`	indirect
npm	fast-string-truncated-width	`3.0.3`	indirect
npm	fast-string-width	`3.0.2`	indirect
npm	fast-wrap-ansi	`0.2.2`	indirect
npm	fdir	`6.5.0`	indirect
npm	foreground-child	`4.0.3`	indirect
npm	has-flag	`4.0.0`	indirect
npm	html-escaper	`2.0.2`	indirect
npm	human-id	`4.2.1`	indirect
npm	import-meta-resolve	`4.2.0`	indirect
npm	istanbul-lib-coverage	`3.2.2`	indirect
npm	istanbul-lib-report	`3.0.1`	indirect
npm	istanbul-reports	`3.2.0`	indirect
npm	jju	`1.4.0`	indirect
npm	jsonc-parser	`3.3.1`	indirect
npm	launch-editor	`2.14.1`	indirect
npm	lz-utils	`2.1.1`	indirect
npm	make-dir	`4.0.0`	indirect
npm	monocart-coverage-reports	`2.13.0`	indirect
npm	monocart-locator	`1.0.3`	indirect
npm	oxlint	`1.80.0`	indirect
npm	oxlint-tsgolint	`7.0.2001`	indirect
npm	package-manager-detector	`1.8.0`	indirect
npm	picocolors	`1.1.1`	indirect
npm	picomatch	`4.0.7`	indirect
npm	semver	`7.8.5`	indirect
npm	shell-quote	`1.10.0`	indirect
npm	signal-exit	`4.1.0`	indirect
npm	sisteransi	`1.0.5`	indirect
npm	supports-color	`7.2.0`	indirect
npm	tinyexec	`1.3.0`	indirect
npm	tinyglobby	`0.2.17`	indirect
npm	typescript	`7.0.2`	indirect
npm	undici-types	`8.3.0`	indirect
npm	yaml	`2.9.0`	indirect

Dependency advisories 0

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 128 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

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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