# knative-sandbox/operator — health index 79/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository knative-sandbox/operator by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 79 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/knative-sandbox/operator
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/knative-sandbox/operator
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/knative-sandbox/operator/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/k/knative-sandbox/operator.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-18
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.13.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 92/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 80/100 | Good |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 73/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 80/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 67/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 85/100 | Excellent |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Combined operator for Knative. |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 221 |
| Forks | 116 |
| Created | 2020-03-24 |
| Last push | 2026-07-07 |
| Latest release | knative-v1.22.3 |
| Commits (last year) | 148 |
| Bus factor | 1 |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | knative.dev/operator | v0.49.3 | — |

## Vitality — 92/100 (Excellent)

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

### Development activity — 88/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | partial | 28.8 / 36 | last push 11 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 31.2 / 36 | 45/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 148 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 98/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 11 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~17.6 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | partial | 8 / 10 | 5 out of the last 5 releases have a total of 5 signed artifacts. |

### 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 — 62/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 38 / 60 | 221 stars |
| Forks | partial | 17.2 / 25 | 116 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 6.5 / 15 | 16 watchers |

### Community health — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | met | 7.2 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 73/100 (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) — 37/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 4.8 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 79% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 55 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 57 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 93/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 45.9 / 46.8 | 98% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 32.2 / 38.2 | 1677/1989 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 75/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 22.3 / 25 | 1,250 followers of knative |
| Track record | partial | 22.9 / 25 | 30 public repos, account ~8 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 1 package(s) on go |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 13 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 177 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Good)

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 | 7 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml |
| 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 — 65/100 (Moderate)

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

## Security — 67/100 (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 — 67/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging. 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 | 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 | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 57 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | not met | 0 / 7.5 | no 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 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 0.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | partial | 6 / 7.5 | 5 out of the last 5 releases have a total of 5 signed artifacts. |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | 3 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 — 85/100 (Excellent)

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 | vendor/github.com/mikefarah/yq/v4/agents.md, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/AGENTS.md, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 89/100 (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 | vendor/github.com/Azure/go-autorest/GNUmakefile, vendor/github.com/cloudevents/sdk-go/sql/v2/Makefile, vendor/github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3/Makefile, vendor/github.com/felixge/httpsnoop/Makefile, vendor/github.com/go-ini/ini/Makefile, vendor/github.com/gobuffalo/flect/Makefile, vendor/github.com/goccy/go-json/Makefile, vendor/github.com/goccy/go-yaml/Makefile, vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/Makefile, vendor/github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2/Makefile, vendor/github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath/Makefile, vendor/github.com/mailru/easyjson/Makefile, vendor/github.com/mikefarah/yq/v4/Makefile, vendor/github.com/munnerz/goautoneg/Makefile, vendor/github.com/pkg/errors/Makefile, vendor/github.com/prometheus/procfs/Makefile, vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/Makefile, vendor/github.com/wavesoftware/go-ensure/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/atomic/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/multierr/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/zap/Makefile, vendor/go.yaml.in/yaml/v4/GNUmakefile, vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/Makefile, vendor/k8s.io/gengo/v2/Makefile, vendor/sigs.k8s.io/json/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | Go (statically typed) |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | met | 55 / 55 | 0/189 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | vendor/github.com/google/gnostic-models/extensions/extension.proto, vendor/github.com/google/gnostic-models/openapiv2/OpenAPIv2.proto, vendor/github.com/google/gnostic-models/openapiv3/OpenAPIv3.proto, vendor/github.com/google/gnostic-models/openapiv3/annotations.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/istio.io/api/analysis/v1alpha1/message.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/extensions/v1alpha1/wasm.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/meta/v1alpha1/status.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/networking/v1alpha3/destination_rule.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/networking/v1alpha3/envoy_filter.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/networking/v1alpha3/gateway.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/networking/v1alpha3/service_entry.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/networking/v1alpha3/sidecar.proto, vendor/istio.io/api/networking/v1alpha3/virtual_service.proto, 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| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | samples |

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