# nrwl/nx — health index 87/100 (Excellent)

> Inspection of the public repository nrwl/nx 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/nrwl/nx
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/nrwl/nx
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/nrwl/nx/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/n/nrwl/nx.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-14
- 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% | 95/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 88/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 80/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 68/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 81/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The Monorepo Platform that amplifies both developers and AI agents. Nx optimizes your builds, scales your CI, and fixes failed PRs automatically. Ship in half the time. |
| Homepage | https://nx.dev |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 29,170 |
| Forks | 2,930 |
| Created | 2017-08-11 |
| Last push | 2026-07-13 |
| Latest release | 23.1.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 2,626 |
| Bus factor | 6 |
| Topics | angular, build, build-system, build-tool, building-tool, cli, cypress, hacktoberfest, javascript, monorepo, nextjs, nodejs, nx, nx-workspaces, react, storybook, 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 | 2626 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 1 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 ~1.4 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 — 95/100 (Excellent)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 98/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 29,170 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 2,930 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 13.5 / 15 | 264 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| 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 — 88/100 (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) — 91/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 48.6 / 54 | 6 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 19.3 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 14% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 28 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 94/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 45.5 / 46.8 | 97% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 33.2 / 38.2 | 16447/18975 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 22 / 25 | 1,151 followers of nrwl |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 166 public repos, account ~9 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Good)

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 | 13 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 — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://nx.dev |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 17 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 68/100 (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 — 68/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 6 / 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 28 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 | 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 1 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 3.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |
| 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 | 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 | 284 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 — 81/100 (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 | AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, packages/devkit/CLAUDE.md, packages/nx/src/native/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 93/100 (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 | mise.toml |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | astro-docs/tsconfig.json, e2e/angular/tsconfig.json, e2e/cypress/tsconfig.json, e2e/detox/tsconfig.json, e2e/docker/tsconfig.json, e2e/dotnet/tsconfig.json, e2e/esbuild/tsconfig.json, e2e/eslint/tsconfig.json, e2e/expo/tsconfig.json, e2e/gradle/tsconfig.json, e2e/jest/tsconfig.json, e2e/js/tsconfig.json, e2e/lerna-smoke-tests/tsconfig.json, e2e/maven/tsconfig.json, e2e/module-federation/tsconfig.json, e2e/next/tsconfig.json, e2e/node/tsconfig.json, e2e/nuxt/tsconfig.json, e2e/nx-build/tsconfig.json, e2e/nx-init/tsconfig.json, e2e/nx/tsconfig.json, e2e/playwright/tsconfig.json, e2e/plugin/tsconfig.json, e2e/react-native/tsconfig.json, e2e/react/tsconfig.json, e2e/release/tsconfig.json, e2e/remix/tsconfig.json, e2e/rollup/tsconfig.json, e2e/rspack/tsconfig.json, e2e/storybook/tsconfig.json, e2e/utils/tsconfig.json, e2e/vite/tsconfig.json, e2e/vue/tsconfig.json, e2e/web/tsconfig.json, e2e/webpack/tsconfig.json, e2e/workspace-create/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/appshell-css/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/csr-css-assets/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/csr-css/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/csr-i18n/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/csr-scss/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/csr-tailwind/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/module-federation/host/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/module-federation/remote/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/ssg-css/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/ssr-css/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/zoneless-csr-css/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/zoneless-csr-i18n/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/zoneless-ssg-css/tsconfig.json, examples/angular-rspack/zoneless-ssr-css/tsconfig.json, graph/client-e2e/tsconfig.json, graph/client/tsconfig.json, graph/migrate/tsconfig.json, graph/project-details/tsconfig.json, graph/shared/tsconfig.json, graph/ui-code-block/tsconfig.json, graph/ui-common/tsconfig.json, graph/ui-icons/tsconfig.json, graph/ui-project-details/tsconfig.json, graph/ui-render-config/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/data-access-courses/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/data-access-documents/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/feature-ai/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/feature-analytics/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/feature-search/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/models-document/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/models-menu/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/models-package/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/nx-dev-e2e/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/nx-dev/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-animations/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-blog/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-common/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-courses/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-fence/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-icons/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-markdoc/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-primitives/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-references/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-theme/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/ui-video-courses/tsconfig.json, nx-dev/util-ai/tsconfig.json, packages/angular-rspack-compiler/tsconfig.json, packages/angular-rspack/tsconfig.json, packages/angular/tsconfig.json, packages/create-nx-plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/create-nx-workspace/tsconfig.json, packages/cypress/tsconfig.json, packages/detox/tsconfig.json, packages/devkit/tsconfig.json, packages/docker/tsconfig.json, packages/dotnet/tsconfig.json, packages/esbuild/tsconfig.json, packages/eslint-plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/eslint/tsconfig.json, packages/expo/tsconfig.json, packages/express/tsconfig.json, packages/gradle/tsconfig.json, packages/jest/tsconfig.json, packages/js/src/utils/test-fixtures/tsconfig.json, packages/js/src/utils/typescript/test-fixtures/tsconfig.json, packages/js/tsconfig.json, packages/maven/tsconfig.json, packages/module-federation/tsconfig.json, packages/nest/tsconfig.json, packages/next/tsconfig.json, packages/node/src/generators/application/files/common/tsconfig.json, packages/node/tsconfig.json, packages/nuxt/tsconfig.json, packages/nx/tsconfig.json, packages/playwright/tsconfig.json, packages/plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/react-native/tsconfig.json, packages/react/tsconfig.json, packages/remix/tsconfig.json, packages/rollup/tsconfig.json, packages/rsbuild/tsconfig.json, packages/rspack/tsconfig.json, packages/storybook/tsconfig.json, packages/vite/tsconfig.json, packages/vitest/tsconfig.json, packages/vue/tsconfig.json, packages/web/src/generators/application/files/app-webpack/tsconfig.json, packages/web/tsconfig.json, packages/webpack/tsconfig.json, packages/workspace/tsconfig.json, tools/documentation/create-embeddings/tsconfig.json, tools/eslint-rules/tsconfig.json, tools/update-repos/tsconfig.json, tools/workspace-plugin/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | devcontainer, 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 | partial | 7 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |

### Code legibility for models — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.4 / 55 | 53/5259 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 40/100 (At risk)

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

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