# novuhq/novu — health index 86/100 (Excellent)

> Inspection of the public repository novuhq/novu by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 86 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/novuhq/novu
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/novuhq/novu
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/novuhq/novu/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/n/novuhq/novu.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% | 100/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 81/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 56/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 75/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The open-source communication infrastructure for agents and products |
| Homepage | https://go.novu.co/github |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| Stars | 39,303 |
| Forks | 4,357 |
| Created | 2021-08-26 |
| Last push | 2026-07-13 |
| Latest release | @novu/framework@v2.12.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 2,263 |
| Bus factor | 4 |
| Topics | agents, communication, email, inbox, infrastructure, nodejs, notification-center, notifications, novu, push-notifications, react, reactjs, sms, transactional, typescript |

## Vitality — 100/100 (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 | 2263 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 — 100/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 0 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~4.7 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### 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 — 96/100 (Excellent)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 97/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 39,303 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 4,357 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 12.4 / 15 | 174 watchers |

### Community health — 94/100 (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 | met | 7.2 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 81/100 (Good)

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) — 84/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 43.2 / 54 | 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 25% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 39 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 82/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 45.3 / 46.8 | 97% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 31.2 / 38.2 | 8130/9954 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 6 / 15 | Found 11/25 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 76/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 21.8 / 25 | 1,070 followers of novuhq |
| Track record | partial | 24 / 25 | 98 public repos, account ~5 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 | 40 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.json, biome.json, eslint.config.mjs |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 29 out of 29 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://go.novu.co/github |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 15 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 56/100 (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 — 56/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | 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 |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 29 out of 29 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 | 3 / 7.5 | Found 11/25 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 39 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | not met | 0 / 10 | 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 | 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 | 2.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 43 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 — 75/100 (Good)

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 | .cursor/rules/api-property-optionality-hygiene.mdc, .cursor/rules/api.mdc, .cursor/rules/clickhouse.mdc, .cursor/rules/context-engineering.mdc, .cursor/rules/dal-repository.mdc, .cursor/rules/dashboard.mdc, .cursor/rules/dependency-graph.mdc, .cursor/rules/infrastructure.mdc, .cursor/rules/novu.mdc, .cursor/rules/packages.mdc, .cursor/rules/pnpm-release-age.mdc, .cursor/rules/pullrequest.mdc, .cursor/rules/testing.mdc, .cursor/rules/worker.mdc, .cursor/rules/ws.mdc, .deepsec/AGENTS.md, AGENTS.md, docs/AGENTS.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 72/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.json, biome.json, eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | apps/api/tsconfig.json, apps/dashboard/tests/tsconfig.json, apps/dashboard/tsconfig.json, apps/inbound-mail/tsconfig.json, apps/webhook/tsconfig.json, apps/worker/tsconfig.json, apps/ws/tsconfig.json, enterprise/packages/ai/tsconfig.json, enterprise/packages/api/tsconfig.json, enterprise/packages/auth/tsconfig.json, enterprise/packages/billing/tsconfig.json, enterprise/packages/shared-services/tsconfig.json, enterprise/packages/translation/tsconfig.json, enterprise/workers/scheduler/test/tsconfig.json, enterprise/workers/scheduler/tsconfig.json, enterprise/workers/socket/tsconfig.json, enterprise/workers/step-resolver/tsconfig.json, enterprise/workers/thalamus-observer/tsconfig.json, libs/agent-evals/tsconfig.json, libs/application-generic/tsconfig.json, libs/automation/tsconfig.json, libs/dal/tsconfig.json, libs/internal-sdk/tsconfig.json, libs/maily-core/tsconfig.json, libs/maily-render/tsconfig.json, libs/notifications/tsconfig.json, libs/testing/tsconfig.json, packages/add-inbox/tsconfig.json, packages/agent-toolkit/tsconfig.json, packages/chat-adapter-email/tsconfig.json, packages/chat-adapter-sendblue/tsconfig.json, packages/chat-adapter/tsconfig.json, packages/framework/tsconfig.json, packages/js/tsconfig.json, packages/nextjs/tsconfig.json, packages/novu/src/commands/init/templates/app-agent-ai-sdk/ts/tsconfig.json, packages/novu/src/commands/init/templates/app-agent-langchain/ts/tsconfig.json, packages/novu/src/commands/init/templates/app-agent/ts/tsconfig.json, packages/novu/src/commands/init/templates/app-chat-sdk/ts/tsconfig.json, packages/novu/src/commands/init/templates/app-react-email/ts/tsconfig.json, packages/novu/tsconfig.json, packages/providers/tsconfig.json, packages/react-native/tsconfig.json, packages/react/tsconfig.json, packages/shared/tsconfig.json, packages/stateless/tsconfig.json, playground/nestjs/tsconfig.json, playground/nextjs/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 | 5 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.9 / 55 | 14/7785 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples, recipes |

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