# nmdra/notebrain-cli — health index 55/100 (Moderate)

> Inspection of the public repository nmdra/notebrain-cli by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 55 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate 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/nmdra/notebrain-cli
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/nmdra/notebrain-cli
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/nmdra/notebrain-cli/report
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- 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% | 73/100 | Good |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 33/100 | At risk |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 49/100 | At risk |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 69/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 44/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 85/100 | Excellent |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | A local-first CLI that makes your Obsidian vault searchable and AI- Agents queryable with semantic search and hidden connections. 100% local, no servers. |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 15 |
| Forks | 2 |
| Created | 2026-06-18 |
| Last push | 2026-07-12 |
| Latest release | v2.3.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 168 |
| Bus factor | 1 |
| Topics | agent-skills, bubbletea, charm, chromadb, go, markdown, obsidian, pkm-obsidian, semantic-search |

## Vitality — 73/100 (Good)

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

### Development activity — 57/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 1 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 2.8 / 36 | 4/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 168 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | not met | 0 / 10 | project was created within the last 90 days. Please review its contents carefully |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 8 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 1 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~3.5 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 — 33/100 (At risk)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 19/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 18.6 / 60 | 15 stars |
| Forks | not met | 0 / 25 | 2 forks |
| Watchers | not met | 0 / 15 | 0 watchers |

### Community health — 50/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 49/100 (At risk)

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) — 13/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 0.9 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 96% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | partial | 2.7 / 13.5 | 2 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | not met | 0 / 10 | project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0 |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 42.1 / 46.8 | 90% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | met | 38.2 / 38.2 | 13/13 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | not met | 0 / 15 | Found 0/9 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 60/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | partial | 10 / 30 | personal (user) account |
| Verified domain | excluded | 0 / 20 | not applicable to user accounts |
| Owner reach | partial | 13.6 / 25 | 76 followers of nmdra |
| Track record | partial | 24.4 / 25 | 71 public repos, account ~5 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 69/100 (Moderate)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 82/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 1 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 | partial | 12 / 20 | 3 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 6 |

### Documentation — 50/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 9 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 44/100 (At risk)

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 — 44/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | not met | 0 / 7.5 | branch protection not enabled on development/release branches |
| CI-Tests | partial | 1.5 / 2.5 | 3 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 6 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Found 0/9 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
| Contributors | not met | 0 / 2.5 | project has 0 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 0 |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | not met | 0 / 7.5 | project was created within the last 90 days. Please review its contents carefully |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| SAST | partial | 2 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 4 |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not 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 | 4.5 / 7.5 | 4 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 | .agents/AGENTS.md, vendor/github.com/amikos-tech/chroma-go-local/AGENTS.md, vendor/github.com/amikos-tech/chroma-go-local/CLAUDE.md, vendor/github.com/amikos-tech/pure-tokenizers/CLAUDE.md, vendor/github.com/clipperhouse/displaywidth/AGENTS.md, vendor/github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2/AGENTS.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 86/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | Makefile, vendor/charm.land/bubbletea/v2/Taskfile.yaml, vendor/charm.land/lipgloss/v2/Taskfile.yaml, vendor/github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3/Makefile, vendor/github.com/amikos-tech/chroma-go-local/Makefile, vendor/github.com/amikos-tech/pure-tokenizers/Makefile, vendor/github.com/creasty/defaults/Makefile, vendor/github.com/forPelevin/gomoji/Makefile, vendor/github.com/go-playground/universal-translator/Makefile, vendor/github.com/go-playground/validator/v10/Makefile, vendor/github.com/leodido/go-urn/makefile, vendor/github.com/pkg/errors/Makefile, vendor/github.com/sahilm/fuzzy/Makefile, vendor/github.com/yuin/goldmark/Makefile, vendor/go.abhg.dev/goldmark/hashtag/mise.toml, vendor/go.abhg.dev/goldmark/wikilink/mise.toml, vendor/go.uber.org/multierr/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/zap/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, Nix, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | partial | 5 / 8 | dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |

### 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 | 0/55 source files over 60KB |

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