# lynx-family/lynx — health index 96/100 (Exceptional)

> Inspection of the public repository lynx-family/lynx by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 96 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional 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/lynx-family/lynx
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/lynx-family/lynx
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/lynx-family/lynx/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/l/lynx-family/lynx.svg
- Inspected: 2026-08-05
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.31.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 95/100 | Exceptional |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 92/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 86/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 84/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 61/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 85/100 | Excellent |

The weighted overall 84 is calibrated to 96 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Empower the Web community and invite more to build across platforms. |
| Classification | library, mobile, cli |
| Homepage | https://lynxjs.org |
| Primary language | C++ |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 15,041 |
| Forks | 541 |
| Created | 2025-03-04 |
| Last push | 2026-08-05 |
| Latest release | 4.0.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 3,488 |
| Bus factor | 11 |
| Topics | cross-platform, lynx, lynxjs |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | lynx-libs-mono | 0.0.1-security | 9 |
| npm | @lynx-js/tasm | 0.0.50 | 60,447 |
| npm | @lynx-js/node-lynx | 0.1.1 | 417 |
| npm | @lynx-js/types | 4.1.0 | 50,224 |
| npm | @lynx-js/css-defines | 0.0.16 | 1,351 |
| npm | @lynx-js/lynx-core | 0.1.4 | 78,516 |
| npm | @lynx-js/type-config | 4.1.3 | 14,739 |
| npm | @lynx-js/type-element-api | 0.0.9 | 10,381 |

## Vitality — 95/100 (Exceptional)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 21% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 99/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 35.3 / 36 | 51/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 3488 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 21 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 | 23 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 4 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~24.1 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 17 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 92/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 17% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 93/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 15,041 stars |
| Forks | partial | 22.8 / 25 | 541 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 10.5 / 15 | 80 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (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 | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 89/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 71.1 / 80 | 216,075 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 86/100 (Excellent)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 23% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 98/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | met | 54 / 54 | 11 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 20.9 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 7% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 93 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 7 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 64/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 22.5 / 42 | 54% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 21.4 / 30 | 4929/6915 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 12 / 15 | Found 18/21 approved changesets -- score normalized to 8 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 84/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | excluded | 0 / 20 | verified-domain status not read for this organization |
| Owner reach | partial | 24.4 / 25 | 2,506 followers of lynx-family |
| Track record | partial | 13.2 / 25 | 25 public repos, account ~1 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 7 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 5 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 36 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 84/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 19% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 15 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.json, tox.ini |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 28 out of 28 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 75/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://lynxjs.org |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 3 topics |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 61/100 (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 — 51/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 6 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 2.2 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 28 out of 28 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 / 7.5 | Found 18/21 approved changesets -- score normalized to 8 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 7 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 21 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2 |
| SAST | partial | 3.5 / 5 | SAST tool detected but not 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 | 129 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 1259 resolved dependencies against OSV; 46 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.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | met | 35 / 35 | no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | excluded | 0 / 25 | transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope |
| No advisories left outstanding | excluded | 0 / 40 | no advisory carries a publication date |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dependency reported as a malicious package | met | 100 / 100 | no dependency is reported as a malicious package |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Exceptional)

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? Carries a deliberately small weight: agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but its absence must never gate the top of the scale (calibration saturates at raw 91, so 100/100 remains reachable with AI Readiness at zero).

### Agent context & guidance — 85/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | AGENTS.md, ai/skills/lynx-api-docs/skills/using-lynx-api-docs/AGENTS.md, clay/lynx_adaptor/native_module/AGENTS.md, clay/ui/component/AGENTS.md, core/AGENTS.md, core/animation/AGENTS.md, core/animation/basic_animation/AGENTS.md, core/animation/lynx_basic_animator/AGENTS.md, core/base/AGENTS.md, core/base/android/AGENTS.md, core/base/darwin/AGENTS.md, core/base/harmony/AGENTS.md, core/base/threading/AGENTS.md, core/build/AGENTS.md, core/event/AGENTS.md, core/include/AGENTS.md, core/inspector/AGENTS.md, core/list/AGENTS.md, core/parser/AGENTS.md, core/public/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/css/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/css/ng/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/css/ng/parser/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/css/ng/selector/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/css/parser/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/data/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/dom/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/dom/fiber/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/dom/fragment/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/dom/selector/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/dom/vdom/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/dom/vdom/radon/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/events/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/pipeline/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/signal/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/simple_styling/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/starlight/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/starlight/layout/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/starlight/style/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/starlight/types/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/tasm/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/tasm/react/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/tasm/react/android/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/ui_component/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/ui_component/list/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/ui_wrapper/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/ui_wrapper/common/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/ui_wrapper/layout/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/ui_wrapper/layout/textra/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/ui_wrapper/painting/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/utils/AGENTS.md, core/renderer/worklet/AGENTS.md, core/resource/AGENTS.md, core/resource/lazy_bundle/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/common/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/common/bindings/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/common/bindings/event/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/common/napi/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/bindings/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/bindings/modules/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/bytecode/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/bytecode/quickjs/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/jsi/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/jsi/jsc/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/jsi/jsvm/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/jsi/quickjs/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/js/jsi/v8/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/lepus/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/lepus/bindings/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/lepus/compiler/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/lepusng/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/lepusng/napi/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/lepusng/napi/worklet/AGENTS.md, core/runtime/profile/AGENTS.md, core/services/AGENTS.md, core/services/event_report/AGENTS.md, core/services/fsp_tracing/AGENTS.md, core/services/performance/AGENTS.md, core/services/recorder/AGENTS.md, core/services/replay/AGENTS.md, core/services/ssr/AGENTS.md, core/services/timing_handler/AGENTS.md, core/shared_data/AGENTS.md, core/shell/AGENTS.md, core/shell/android/AGENTS.md, core/shell/ios/AGENTS.md, core/shell/runtime/AGENTS.md, core/style/AGENTS.md, core/template_bundle/AGENTS.md, core/template_bundle/template_codec/AGENTS.md, core/template_bundle/template_codec/binary_decoder/AGENTS.md, core/template_bundle/template_codec/binary_encoder/AGENTS.md, core/template_bundle/template_codec/binary_encoder/css_encoder/AGENTS.md, core/template_bundle/template_codec/binary_encoder/style_object_encoder/AGENTS.md, core/template_bundle/template_codec/generator/AGENTS.md, core/value_wrapper/AGENTS.md, platform/embedder/public/AGENTS.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 78 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 74/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | third_party/binding/idl-codegen/third_party/doc/build/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.json, tox.ini |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | devtool/base_devtool/js_libraries/logbox-types/tsconfig.json, devtool/base_devtool/js_libraries/logbox/tsconfig.json, devtool/lynx_devtool/resources/devtool-switch/tsconfig.json, devtool/lynx_devtool/resources/lynx-error-parser/tsconfig.json, explorer/homepage/tsconfig.json, js_libraries/lynx-core/tsconfig.json, js_libraries/lynx-runtime-shared/tsconfig.json, js_libraries/type-config/tsconfig.json, js_libraries/type-element-api/tsconfig.json, js_libraries/types/tsconfig.json, oliver/lynx-tasm/tsconfig.json, oliver/node-lynx/tsconfig.json, third_party/py_deps/bs4/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/certifi/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/charset_normalizer/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/idna/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/jinja2/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/json5/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/markupsafe/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/soupsieve/py.typed, third_party/py_deps/urllib3/py.typed, tools/api/parser/ts_morph/tsconfig.json, tools/css_generator/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | not met | 0 / 10 | no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| Automated maintenance | not met | 0 / 8 | no automated dependency updates observed |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 2 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | C++ (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.5 / 55 | 81/8427 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | excluded | 0 / 40 | not applicable to this kind of software |
| MCP server | excluded | 0 / 20 | not applicable to this kind of software |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example, examples |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- First-time contributor figures cover 12 of 14 authors (cap 12)
- npm package 'lynx-libs-mono' points at a different repository (npm/security-holder); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- Could not fetch npm package '@lynx-js/ios-polyfill-promise' from its registry
- Advisory severity resolved for 120 of 145 advisories (lookup cap); the remainder are reported as unknown severity

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