Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-21 18:15 UTC

kubernetes / cli-runtime

Set of helpers for creating kubectl commands and plugins.

GoApache-2.0★ 306 stars⑂ 105 forkssince Sep 2018View on GitHub ↗

KindLibraryCommand-line toolhow this is determined

kubernetes/cli-runtime holds a health index of 73 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Vitality (90/100) and lowest on Engineering Quality (38/100). It was last updated today. 2 contributors account 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 64 is calibrated to 73 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

KubernetesOrganization

14,257 followers79 public repossince Aug 2015

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

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	k8s.io/cli-runtime	v0.36.4	-	645	1 day ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

90Excellent · 21% of overall

Development activity

92Excellent

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
28.4/36	Commit cadence — 41/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 146 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 21 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	146
human_commit_share	1
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	41

Release discipline

88Excellent

How it's scored

16.2/27	Ships releases — 50 version tags (no GitHub releases)
36/36	Release recency — latest release 1 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~14.8 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	50
latest_release_tag	v0.36.4
releases_from_tags	yes
days_since_latest_release	1
mean_days_between_releases	14.8

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?

76Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

62Moderate

How it's scored

40.3/60	Stars — 306 stars
16.8/25	Forks — 105 forks
5/15	Watchers — 9 watchers

Inputs used

forks	105
stars	306
watchers	9
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

92Excellent

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
6.3/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	0
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	yes

Sustainability & Governance

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

63Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

60Moderate

How it's scored

25.2/54	Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
11.3/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 50% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 100 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 57 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	2
contributors_sampled	100
top_contributor_share	0.497

Issue & PR responsiveness

1Critical

How it's scored

0/42	Issue resolution — no issues or no data
0/30	PR acceptance — no decided pull requests or no data
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	0
open_issues	0
closed_issues	0
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	—
closed_unmerged_prs	0
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): Issue resolution, PR acceptance, Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

100Exceptional

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
25/25	Owner reach — 14,257 followers of kubernetes
25/25	Track record — 79 public repos, account ~11 yr old

Inputs used

followers	14,257
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	—
owner_login	kubernetes
public_repos	79
account_age_days	4,036

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 go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 1 days ago
20/20	Version history — 645 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	k8s.io/cli-runtime
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	1

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

38Weak · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

30At Risk

How it's scored

0/24	CI workflows
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
0/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — no data

Inputs used

has_ci	no
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

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

Documentation

50Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 2 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	k8s-sig-cli, k8s-staging
has_wiki	no
homepage	—
docs_site	—
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?

52Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

50Moderate

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
0/2.5	CI-Tests — no data
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 57 contributing companies or organizations
0/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no data
0/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 21 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — no data
0/5	SAST — no SAST tool detected
5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — no data
5.2/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 3 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	11
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	7
scorecard_aggregate	5

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, CI-Tests, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

58Moderate

How it's scored

13.7/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 2 affected: k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20260723070748-eed236ceee2c (moderate 6.8), k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0-20260724060523-9589f4d65704 (moderate 6.5)
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
30/40	No advisories left outstanding — 2 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 1,954 days ago

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	6
affected_packages	2
assessed_packages	65
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	moderate 2
direct_affected_packages	2

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 65 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.

60Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

40Weak

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
40/40	Legible commit history — 84 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.84
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

64Moderate

How it's scored

12.6/18	One-command bootstrap — go.mod (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
0/8	Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — no data

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

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

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/76 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	57,446
source_files_sampled	76
oversized_source_files	0

Machine-readable interfaces

50Moderate

How it's scored

40/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — artifacts/openapi/swagger.json
0/20	MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
0/40	Runnable examples

Inputs used

example_dirs	—
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	artifacts/openapi/swagger.json
interfaces_expected_of	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

306GitHub stars

100contributors

146commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

50releases

2bus factor

0open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 105 ⇿

0Stars

105Forks

44Releases

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 2Patch 28

Each point covers 8 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.0 / 10

5.0aggregate

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 · 2026-08-21 18:15 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
n/a	CI-Tests	no pull request found
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0	Code-Review	Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10	Contributors	project has 57 contributing companies or organizations
n/a	Dangerous-Workflow	no workflows found
0	Dependency-Update-Tool	no update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	21 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
n/a	Pinned-Dependencies	no dependencies found
0	SAST	no SAST tool detected
10	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
n/a	Token-Permissions	No tokens found
7	Vulnerabilities	3 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 21

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/google/gnostic-models	`v0.7.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/google/go-cmp	`v0.7.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/liggitt/tabwriter	`v0.0.0-20181228230101-89fcab3d43de`	go.mod
Go	github.com/moby/term	`v0.5.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	go.mod
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	go.mod
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v2	`v2.4.4`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.22.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.40.0`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4	`v4.13.0`	go.mod
Go	k8s.io/api	`v0.0.0-20260724040949-10b39a39bcee`	go.mod
Go	k8s.io/apimachinery	`v0.0.0-20260723070748-eed236ceee2c`	go.mod
Go	k8s.io/client-go	`v0.0.0-20260724060523-9589f4d65704`	go.mod
Go	k8s.io/klog/v2	`v2.140.0`	go.mod
Go	k8s.io/kube-openapi	`v0.0.0-20260721132016-d427ff9ee9ad`	go.mod
Go	k8s.io/utils	`v0.0.0-20260626114624-be93311217bd`	go.mod
Go	sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api	`v0.21.1`	go.mod
Go	sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml	`v0.21.1`	go.mod
Go	sigs.k8s.io/yaml	`v1.6.0`	go.mod

All dependencies 65

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 21 direct and 44 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/google/gnostic-models	`v0.7.0`	direct
Go	github.com/google/go-cmp	`v0.7.0`	direct
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	direct
Go	github.com/liggitt/tabwriter	`v0.0.0-20181228230101-89fcab3d43de`	direct
Go	github.com/moby/term	`v0.5.2`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	direct
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	direct
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v2	`v2.4.4`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.22.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.40.0`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4	`v4.13.0`	direct
Go	k8s.io/api	`v0.0.0-20260724040949-10b39a39bcee`	direct
Go	k8s.io/apimachinery	`v0.0.0-20260723070748-eed236ceee2c`	direct
Go	k8s.io/client-go	`v0.0.0-20260724060523-9589f4d65704`	direct
Go	k8s.io/klog/v2	`v2.140.0`	direct
Go	k8s.io/kube-openapi	`v0.0.0-20260721132016-d427ff9ee9ad`	direct
Go	k8s.io/utils	`v0.0.0-20260626114624-be93311217bd`	direct
Go	sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api	`v0.21.1`	direct
Go	sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml	`v0.21.1`	direct
Go	sigs.k8s.io/yaml	`v1.6.0`	direct
Go	github.com/azure/go-ansiterm	`v0.0.0-20250102033503-faa5f7b0171c`	indirect
Go	github.com/blang/semver/v4	`v4.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/davecgh/go-spew	`v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc`	indirect
Go	github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3	`v3.13.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2	`v2.9.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-errors/errors	`v1.4.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logr/logr	`v1.4.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/cmdutils	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/conv	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/fileutils	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/jsonutils	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/loading	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/mangling	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/netutils	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/pools	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/stringutils	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/typeutils	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-openapi/swag/yamlutils	`v0.27.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/btree	`v1.1.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/json-iterator/go	`v1.1.12`	indirect
Go	github.com/modern-go/concurrent	`v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd`	indirect
Go	github.com/modern-go/reflect2	`v1.0.3-0.20250322232337-35a7c28c31ee`	indirect
Go	github.com/monochromegane/go-gitignore	`v0.0.0-20200626010858-205db1a8cc00`	indirect
Go	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg	`v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822`	indirect
Go	github.com/peterbourgon/diskv	`v2.0.1+incompatible`	indirect
Go	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib	`v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2`	indirect
Go	github.com/x448/float16	`v0.8.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/xlab/treeprint	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3	`v3.0.4`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.57.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/oauth2	`v0.36.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.47.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.45.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/time	`v0.15.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.12-0.20260120151049-f2248ac996af`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/inf.v0	`v0.9.1`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	indirect
Go	sigs.k8s.io/json	`v0.0.0-20250730193827-2d320260d730`	indirect
Go	sigs.k8s.io/randfill	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v6	`v6.4.2`	indirect

Dependency advisories 2

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 65 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 2 carry known advisories, of which 2 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
k8s.io/apimachinery	`v0.0.0-20260723070748-eed236ceee2c`	direct	moderate	2	`1.18.7`
k8s.io/client-go	`v0.0.0-20260724060523-9589f4d65704`	direct	moderate	4	`1.20.0-alpha.2`

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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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.

Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

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