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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-15 10:21 UTC

k3ldar / .NetCorePluginManager

.Net Core Plugin Manager, extend web applications using plugin technology enabling true SOLID and DRY principles when developing applications

C#GPL-3.0★ 31 stars⑂ 19 forkssince Sep 2018View on GitHub ↗
KindLibraryPluginhow this is determined

k3ldar/.NetCorePluginManager holds a health index of 53 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (68/100) and lowest on Vitality (22/100). It was last updated 124 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

53
overall / 100
Moderate

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.

53
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 52 is calibrated to 53 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Si CarterPersonal account
7 followers28 public repossince Oct 2013

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

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
NuGetAspNetCore.PluginManager.Languages5.10.0-35130 days agoaspnetcorepluginmanagersystemadmininternalstatisticslanguagetranslation

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

22At Risk · 21% of overall
How it's scored
9.9/36Push recency — last push 124 days ago
1.4/36Commit cadence — 2/52 weeks with commits
4.3/18Commit volume — 2 commits in the last year
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
commits_last_year2
human_commit_share0.98
days_since_last_push124
active_weeks_last_year2
How it's scored
16.2/27Ships releases — 23 version tags (no GitHub releases)
0/36Release recency — latest release 1,401 days ago
12.6/27Release cadence — a release every ~137.3 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count23
latest_release_tagv5.0.0
releases_from_tagsyes
days_since_latest_release1,401
mean_days_between_releases137.3
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?

63Moderate · 17% of overall
How it's scored
24/60Stars — 31 stars
10.5/25Forks — 19 forks
1.7/15Watchers — 3 watchers
Inputs used
forks19
stars31
watchers3
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

92Excellent
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (GPL-3.0)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
6.3/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges12
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_servicesci.appveyor.com, github.com, sonarcloud.io
has_pull_request_templateyes
How it's scored
52.3/80Total downloads — 109,056 downloads all-time across nuget
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesAspNetCore.PluginManager.Languages
dependents—
ecosystemsnuget
total_downloads109,056
monthly_downloads—
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?

54Moderate · 23% of overall
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
0/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 100% of commits
1.4/13.5Contributor breadth — 1 contributors
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled1
top_contributor_share1
How it's scored
36/42Issue resolution — 86% of issues closed
27.8/30PR acceptance — 102/110 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/28 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
merged_prs102
open_issues28
closed_issues169
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d0
issue_closed_ratio0.858
closed_unmerged_prs8
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
10/30Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
6.5/25Owner reach — 7 followers of k3ldar
22.6/25Track record — 28 public repos, account ~12 yr old
Inputs used
followers7
owner_typeUser
is_verified—
owner_logink3ldar
public_repos28
account_age_days4,731
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on nuget
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 130 days ago
20/20Version history — 35 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesAspNetCore.PluginManager.Languages
ecosystemsnuget
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish130

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

68Good · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 2 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
2/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 3 out of 28 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 1
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigyes
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

85Excellent
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 7 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsasp-net-core, plugin-manager, memory-cache, user-sessions, robots-txt, cache-control, restrict-ip
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

55Moderate · 16% of overall
How it's scored
6/7.5Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
0.2/2.5CI-Tests — 3 out of 28 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 1
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5Code-Review — Found 0/28 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5Contributors — project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
0/7.5Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
3.5/5SAST — SAST tool detected but not run on all commits
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7.5/7.5Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated15
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive3
scorecard_aggregate4.4
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

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
advisories3
affected_packages2
assessed_packages68
unassessed_packages3
affected_by_severitycritical 1, high 1
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 68 resolved dependencies against OSV. 3 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.

57Moderate · 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 — 80 of 98 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.816
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
12.6/18One-command bootstrap — DAL/PluginManager.DAL.TextFiles/PluginManager.DAL.TextFiles.csproj, Database/PluginManager.SimpleDB/SimpleDB.csproj, Demo/DemoApiPlugin/DemoApiPlugin.csproj (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
11/11Static type checking — C# (statically typed)
0/10Reproducible environment
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8Automated maintenance — 2 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageyes
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifestsDAL/PluginManager.DAL.TextFiles/PluginManager.DAL.TextFiles.csproj, Database/PluginManager.SimpleDB/SimpleDB.csproj, Demo/DemoApiPlugin/DemoApiPlugin.csproj, Demo/DemoRazorWebsitePlugin/DemoWebsitePlugin.csproj, Demo/NetCorePluginDemoWebsite/AspNetCore.PluginManager.DemoWebsite.csproj, Languages/Languages.csproj, Plugins/ApiAuthorization.Plugin/ApiAuthorization.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/BadEgg.Plugin/BadEgg.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Blog.Plugin/Blog.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Breadcrumb.Plugin/Breadcrumb.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/CacheControl.Plugin/CacheControl.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Company.Plugin/CompanyPlugin.csproj, Plugins/Cron.Plugin/Cron.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Documentation.Plugin/Documentation.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Download.Plugin/DownloadPlugin.csproj, Plugins/DynamicContent.Plugin/DynamicContent.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/ErrorManager.Plugin/ErrorManager.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/GeoIpPlugin/GeoIpPlugin.csproj, Plugins/HelpDesk.Plugin/HelpDeskPlugin.csproj, Plugins/ImageManager.Plugin/ImageManager.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/LocalizationPlugin/Localization.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Login.Plugin/Login.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/MemoryCachePlugin/MemoryCachePlugin.csproj, Plugins/Products.Plugin/ProductsPlugin.csproj, Plugins/Resources.Plugin/Resources.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/RestrictIp.Plugin/RestrictIp.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/SDGeoIpPlugin/SieraDeltaGeoIpPlugin.csproj, Plugins/Search.Plugin/Search.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/SeoPlugin/SeoPlugin.csproj, Plugins/ShoppingCart.Plugin/ShoppingCart.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Sitemap.Plugin/Sitemap.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Spider.Plugin/Spider.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/Subdomain.Plugin/Subdomain.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/SystemAdmin.Plugin/SystemAdmin.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/UserAccount.Plugin/UserAccount.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/UserSessionMiddlewarePlugin/UserSessionMiddleware.Plugin.csproj, Plugins/WebSmokeTest.Plugin/WebSmokeTest.Plugin.csproj, Tests/AspNetCore.PluginManager.Tests/AspNetCore.PluginManager.Tests.csproj, Tests/PluginManager.DAL.TextFiles.Tests/PluginManager.DAL.TextFiles.Tests.csproj
dependency_bot_commit_share0.02
How it's scored
45/45Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed)
54/55Manageable file sizes — 21/1,115 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageC#
largest_source_bytes1,364,603
source_files_sampled1,115
oversized_source_files21

Key facts

31GitHub stars
1contributors
2commits, last 12 months
124days since last push
23releases
1bus factor
28open issues
NuGetpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 19 ⇿
0Stars
19Forks
20Releases

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.

0481216201922019-012022-012025-01
Major 4Minor 14Patch 2

Each point covers 6 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 4.4 / 10
4.4aggregate

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 · 2026-09-15 10:21 UTC

8Binary-Artifactsbinaries present in source code
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal 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
1CI-Tests3 out of 28 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 1
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0Code-ReviewFound 0/28 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
0Contributorsproject has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
0Maintained0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
0Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
7SASTSAST tool detected but not run on all commits
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10Vulnerabilities0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 1
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
NuGetSonarAnalyzer.CSharp10.3.0.106239Languages/Languages.csproj
All dependencies 71

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 71 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
npmcommitplease3.2.0indirect
npmeslint-config-jquery3.0.0indirect
npmglob7.2.0indirect
npmgrunt1.4.1indirect
npmgrunt-bowercopy1.2.5indirect
npmgrunt-cli1.4.3indirect
npmgrunt-compare-size0.4.2indirect
npmgrunt-contrib-concat1.0.1indirect
npmgrunt-contrib-csslint2.0.0indirect
npmgrunt-contrib-qunit5.1.1indirect
npmgrunt-contrib-requirejs1.0.0indirect
npmgrunt-contrib-uglify5.0.1indirect
npmgrunt-eslint23.0.0indirect
npmgrunt-git-authors3.2.0indirect
npmgrunt-html14.5.0indirect
npmjquery>=1.8.0 <4.0.0indirect
npmload-grunt-tasks5.1.0indirect
npmrimraf3.0.2indirect
npmtestswarm1.1.2indirect
NuGetApplicationSettings1.2.0indirect
NuGetApplicationSettings2.3.0indirect
NuGetAspNetCore.PluginManager5.10.0indirect
NuGetFirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient10.2.0indirect
NuGetFirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient10.3.4indirect
NuGetHtmlAgilityPack1.12.4indirect
NuGetjQuery3.7.1indirect
NuGetJQuery-Growl1.3.1.1indirect
NuGetjQuery.Bootgrid1.3.1indirect
NuGetjQuery.Validation1.21.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.AspNetCore.Http2.3.10indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.AspNetCore.Mvc2.1.2indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.RuntimeCompilation9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Data.SqlClient7.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Caching.Abstractions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration2.1.1indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration8.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.Abstractions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder2.1.1indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder8.0.1indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.CommandLine9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileExtensions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json2.1.1indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json8.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Localization9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.ObjectPool9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Options9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Options.ConfigurationExtensions9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.Primitives9.0.0indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.Extensions.WebEncoders9.0.0indirect
NuGetMiddleware5.10.0indirect
NuGetMySql.Data8.4.0indirect
NuGetPluginManager5.10.0indirect
NuGetSC.Shared.Library.Core—indirect
NuGetSC.Shared.Library.Core2.8.3indirect
NuGetSC.Shared.Library.Core.Windows—indirect
NuGetSharedPluginFeatures5.10.0indirect
NuGetSimpleDB5.10.0indirect
NuGetSystem.Data.SqlClient4.8.6indirect
NuGetSystem.Drawing.Common4.5.1indirect
NuGetSystem.Drawing.Common9.0.0indirect
NuGetSystem.IO.Pipelines9.0.0indirect
Dependency advisories 2

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 68 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 2 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 3 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
System.Drawing.Common4.5.1indirectcritical15.0.3
grunt1.4.1indirecthigh21.5.3

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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