# n8n-io/n8n — health index 87/100 (Excellent)

> Inspection of the public repository n8n-io/n8n by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 87 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent 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/n8n-io/n8n
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/n8n-io/n8n
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/n8n-io/n8n/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/n/n8n-io/n8n.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-13
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.9.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 93/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 87/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 65/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 91/100 | Excellent |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. |
| Homepage | https://n8n.io |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| Stars | 196,209 |
| Forks | 59,293 |
| Created | 2019-06-22 |
| Last push | 2026-07-13 |
| Latest release | stable |
| Commits (last year) | 7,181 |
| Bus factor | 7 |
| Topics | ai, apis, automation, cli, data-flow, development, integration-framework, integrations, ipaas, low-code, low-code-platform, mcp, mcp-client, mcp-server, n8n, no-code, self-hosted, typescript, workflow, workflow-automation |

## Vitality — 96/100 (Excellent)

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 7181 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 — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 2 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~0.3 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### 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 — 93/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 196,209 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 59,293 forks |
| Watchers | met | 15 / 15 | 1,138 watchers |

### Community health — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| 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 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 87/100 (Excellent)

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) — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 51.3 / 54 | 7 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 17.4 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 22% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 14 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 44.7 / 46.8 | 96% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 30.5 / 38.2 | 18470/23164 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 79/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | met | 25 / 25 | 14,195 followers of n8n-io |
| Track record | partial | 24.1 / 25 | 45 public repos, account ~7 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 90/100 (Excellent)

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 | 92 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | eslint.config.mjs |
| 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 — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://n8n.io |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 20 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 65/100 (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 — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| 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 14 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | met | 5 / 5 | project is fuzzed |
| License | partial | 2.2 / 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 | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 3.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 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 | 98 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 — 91/100 (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 | .agents/skills/AGENTS.md, .github/CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/generated/sqlite-schema/agents.md, packages/@n8n/agents/AGENTS.md, packages/@n8n/ai-workflow-builder.ee/AGENTS.md, packages/@n8n/ai-workflow-builder.ee/CLAUDE.md, packages/@n8n/db/AGENTS.md, packages/@n8n/instance-ai/CLAUDE.md, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/AGENTS.md, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/CLAUDE.md, packages/cli/src/modules/n8n-packages/CLAUDE.md, packages/frontend/AGENTS.md, packages/frontend/CLAUDE.md, packages/frontend/editor-ui/src/app/stores/workflowDocument/CLAUDE.md, packages/nodes-base/AGENTS.md, packages/nodes-base/CLAUDE.md, packages/testing/janitor/CLAUDE.md, packages/testing/playwright/AGENTS.md, packages/testing/playwright/CLAUDE.md, scripts/instance-seeding/AGENTS.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 96/100 (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 | packages/@n8n/ai-workflow-builder.ee/evaluations/programmatic/python/justfile, packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/justfile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | .github/scripts/jsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/agents/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/ai-node-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/ai-utilities/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/ai-workflow-builder.ee/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/api-types/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/backend-common/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/backend-network/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/backend-test-utils/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/benchmark/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/chat-hub/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/cli/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/client-oauth2/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/codemirror-lang-sql/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/codemirror-lang/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/computer-use/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/config/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/constants/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/crdt/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/create-node/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/db/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/decorators/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/di/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/engine/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/errors/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/eslint-config/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/eslint-plugin-community-nodes/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/expression-runtime/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/extension-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/imap/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/instance-ai/evaluations/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/instance-ai/scripts/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/instance-ai/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/json-schema-to-zod/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/local-gateway/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/mcp-apps/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/mcp-browser-extension/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/mcp-browser/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/declarative/custom/template/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/declarative/github-issues/template/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/programmatic/ai/memory-custom/template/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/programmatic/ai/model-ai-custom-example/template/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/programmatic/ai/model-ai-custom/template/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/programmatic/ai/model-openai-compatible/template/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/programmatic/example/template/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/node-cli/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/nodes-langchain/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/permissions/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/scheduler/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/stylelint-config/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/syslog-client/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/pyrightconfig.json, packages/@n8n/task-runner/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/tournament/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/typeorm/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/typescript-config/modern/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/utils/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/vitest-config/tsconfig.json, packages/@n8n/workflow-sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/cli/tsconfig.json, packages/core/tsconfig.json, packages/extensions/insights/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/@n8n/chat/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/@n8n/composables/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/@n8n/design-system/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/@n8n/i18n/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/@n8n/rest-api-client/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/@n8n/stores/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/@n8n/storybook/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend/editor-ui/tsconfig.json, packages/node-dev/tsconfig.json, packages/nodes-base/tsconfig.json, packages/testing/code-health/tsconfig.json, packages/testing/containers/tsconfig.json, packages/testing/janitor/tsconfig.json, packages/testing/performance/tsconfig.json, packages/testing/playwright/tsconfig.json, packages/testing/rules-engine/tsconfig.json, packages/testing/test-impact/tsconfig.json, packages/workflow/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | devcontainer, Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 7 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.7 / 55 | 84/18018 source files over 60KB |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | packages/cli/src/public-api/v1/openapi.yml |
| MCP server | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example, examples, sample, samples |

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