Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-13 21:30 UTC

miniscruff / changie

Automated changelog tool for preparing releases with lots of customization options

GoMIT★ 904 stars⑂ 46 forkssince Dec 2020View on GitHub ↗

KindCommand-line toolTerminal interfaceLibraryhow this is determined

#golang #changelog #changelog-generator #ci #cd #release-automation #devops #devops-tools #go

miniscruff/changie holds a health index of 87 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (86/100) and lowest on Security (57/100). It was last updated 1 day ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Excellent

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 73 is calibrated to 87 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

RonniePersonal account

40 followers39 public repossince Aug 2014Peacock

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
Go	github.com/miniscruff/changie	v1.26.0	-	53	23 days ago	—
npm	changie	1.26.0	34,586	23	23 days ago	changelog

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

79Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

77Good

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 1 days ago
13.8/36	Commit cadence — 20/52 weeks with commits
17.1/18	Commit volume — 80 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 25 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	80
human_commit_share	0.44
days_since_last_push	1
active_weeks_last_year	20

Release discipline

83Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 52 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 23 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~49.4 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	52
latest_release_tag	v1.26.0
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	23
mean_days_between_releases	49.4

Community & Adoption

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

78Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

66Good

How it's scored

47.9/60	Stars — 904 stars
13.8/25	Forks — 46 forks
4.3/15	Watchers — 7 watchers

Inputs used

forks	46
stars	904
watchers	7
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 (MIT)
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	3
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	shields.io
has_pull_request_template	yes

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

76Good

How it's scored

60.5/80	Monthly downloads — 34,586 downloads/month across go, npm
0/20	Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem

Inputs used

packages	github.com/miniscruff/changie, changie
dependents	—
ecosystems	go, npm
total_downloads	—
monthly_downloads	34,586
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?

64Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

37Weak

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
8.4/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 63% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 26 contributors
6/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	26
top_contributor_share	0.628

Issue & PR responsiveness

75Good

How it's scored

40.6/42	Issue resolution — 97% of issues closed
24.9/30	PR acceptance — 545/656 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 1/22 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	545
open_issues	7
closed_issues	200
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	2
prs_decided_30d	2
issue_closed_ratio	0.966
closed_unmerged_prs	111
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

57Moderate

How it's scored

10/30	Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20	Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
11.6/25	Owner reach — 40 followers of miniscruff
23.7/25	Track record — 39 public repos, account ~12 yr old

Inputs used

followers	40
owner_type	User
is_verified	—
owner_login	miniscruff
public_repos	39
account_age_days	4,398

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

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 2 package(s) on go, npm
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 23 days ago
20/20	Version history — 53 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/miniscruff/changie, changie
ecosystems	go, npm
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	23

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

86Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

84Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .golangci.yml
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 13 out of 13 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	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

90Excellent

How it's scored

30/30	README
25/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://changie.dev/
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 9 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	golang, changelog, changelog-generator, ci, cd, release-automation, devops, devops-tools, go
has_wiki	no
homepage	https://changie.dev/
docs_site	https://changie.dev/
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	yes
has_description	yes

Security

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

57Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

46Weak

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 13 out of 13 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 1/22 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
1.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
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 — 25 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5	Packaging — packaging workflow detected
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
3.8/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 5 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	18
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	0
scorecard_aggregate	4.5

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	5
affected_packages	2
assessed_packages	85
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	unknown 2
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 85 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.

68Good · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

16Critical

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
15.8/40	Legible commit history — 13 of 44 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.295
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

82Excellent

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .golangci.yml
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 51 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.51

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/41 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	21,437
source_files_sampled	41
oversized_source_files	0

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional

How it's scored

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

Inputs used

example_dirs	examples
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	—
interfaces_expected_of	—

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

Key facts

904GitHub stars

26contributors

80commits, last 12 months

1days since last push

52releases

1bus factor

7open issues

Go, npm, PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 46 ⇿

0Stars

46Forks

48Releases

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 1Minor 29Patch 18

Each point covers 6 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 4.5 / 10

4.5aggregate

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 · 2026-09-13 21:30 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
0	Branch-Protection	branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
10	CI-Tests	13 out of 13 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0	Code-Review	Found 1/22 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
6	Contributors	project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
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	25 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10	Packaging	packaging workflow detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
5	Vulnerabilities	5 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 8

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3	`v3.5.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/Masterminds/sprig/v3	`v3.3.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea	`v0.24.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/cqroot/prompt	`v0.9.3`	go.mod
Go	github.com/invopop/jsonschema	`v0.14.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/kballard/go-shellquote	`v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	go.mod

All dependencies 85

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 8 direct and 77 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea	`v0.24.2`	direct
Go	github.com/cqroot/prompt	`v0.9.3`	direct
Go	github.com/invopop/jsonschema	`v0.14.0`	direct
Go	github.com/kballard/go-shellquote	`v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51`	direct
Go	github.com/masterminds/semver/v3	`v3.5.0`	direct
Go	github.com/masterminds/sprig/v3	`v3.3.0`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	direct
Go	dario.cat/mergo	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/atotto/clipboard	`v0.1.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/aymanbagabas/go-osc52/v2	`v2.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/bahlo/generic-list-go	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/buger/jsonparser	`v1.1.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles	`v0.16.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss	`v0.9.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/containerd/console	`v1.0.4-0.20230313162750-1ae8d489ac81`	indirect
Go	github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2	`v2.0.6`	indirect
Go	github.com/cqroot/multichoose	`v0.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/huandu/xstrings	`v1.5.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/lucasb-eyer/go-colorful	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/masterminds/goutils	`v1.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`v0.0.18`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-localereader	`v0.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth	`v0.0.15`	indirect
Go	github.com/mitchellh/copystructure	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk	`v1.0.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/muesli/ansi	`v0.0.0-20211018074035-2e021307bc4b`	indirect
Go	github.com/muesli/cancelreader	`v0.2.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/muesli/reflow	`v0.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/muesli/termenv	`v0.15.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/pb33f/ordered-map/v2	`v2.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/rivo/uniseg	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2	`v2.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/shopspring/decimal	`v1.4.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/cast	`v1.7.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.9`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3	`v3.0.4`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v4	`v4.0.0-rc.2`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.52.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.20.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.45.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.43.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.37.0`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/check.v1	`v1.0.0-20180628173108-788fd7840127`	indirect
PyPI	babel	`2.18.0`	indirect
PyPI	cairocffi	`1.7.1`	indirect
PyPI	cairosvg	`2.9.0`	indirect
PyPI	certifi	`2026.7.22`	indirect
PyPI	cffi	`2.1.1`	indirect
PyPI	charset-normalizer	`3.5.1`	indirect
PyPI	click	`8.4.2`	indirect
PyPI	colorama	`0.4.6`	indirect
PyPI	cssselect2	`0.9.0`	indirect
PyPI	defusedxml	`0.7.1`	indirect
PyPI	ghp-import	`2.1.0`	indirect
PyPI	idna	`3.18`	indirect
PyPI	jinja2	`3.1.6`	indirect
PyPI	markdown	`3.10.3`	indirect
PyPI	markupsafe	`3.0.3`	indirect
PyPI	mergedeep	`1.3.4`	indirect
PyPI	mkdocs	`1.6.1`	indirect
PyPI	mkdocs-macros-plugin	`1.5.0`	indirect
PyPI	mkdocs-material	`9.7.7`	indirect
PyPI	mkdocs-material-extensions	`1.3.1`	indirect
PyPI	packaging	`26.3`	indirect
PyPI	paginate	`0.5.7`	indirect
PyPI	pathspec	`1.1.1`	indirect
PyPI	pillow	`12.3.0`	indirect
PyPI	platformdirs	`4.11.3`	indirect
PyPI	pycparser	`3.0`	indirect
PyPI	pygments	`2.20.0`	indirect
PyPI	pymdown-extensions	`11.0.1`	indirect
PyPI	python-dateutil	`2.9.0.post0`	indirect
PyPI	pyyaml	`6.0.3`	indirect
PyPI	pyyaml-env-tag	`1.1`	indirect
PyPI	regex	`2026.7.19`	indirect
PyPI	requests	`2.34.2`	indirect
PyPI	six	`1.17.0`	indirect
PyPI	termcolor	`3.3.0`	indirect
PyPI	tinycss2	`1.5.1`	indirect
PyPI	urllib3	`2.7.0`	indirect
PyPI	watchdog	`6.0.0`	indirect
PyPI	webencodings	`0.6.1`	indirect

Dependency advisories 2

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 85 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 2 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.52.0`	indirect	unknown	4	`0.56.0`
golang.org/x/text	`v0.37.0`	indirect	unknown	1	`0.39.0`

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.

How one result sits in the wider record: aggregate statistics — Go, npm.

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