Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-13 02:58 UTC

openclaw / wacli

WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send

GoMIT★ 2,733 stars⑂ 342 forkssince Dec 2025View on GitHub ↗

KindCommand-line toolhow this is determined

openclaw/wacli holds a health index of 90 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on AI Readiness (93/100) and lowest on Sustainability & Governance (67/100). It was last updated today. 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 76 is calibrated to 90 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

openclawOrganization

23,614 followers90 public repossince Jan 2026

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/openclaw/wacli	v0.18.2	-	28	1 day ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

86Excellent · 21% of overall

Development activity

83Excellent

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
18.7/36	Commit cadence — 27/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 417 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 9 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	417
human_commit_share	0.94
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	27

Release discipline

90Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 27 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 1 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~5.2 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	27
latest_release_tag	v0.18.2
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	1
mean_days_between_releases	5.2

Community & Adoption

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

68Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

84Excellent

How it's scored

55.7/60	Stars — 2,733 stars
21.1/25	Forks — 342 forks
6.8/15	Watchers — 18 watchers

Inputs used

forks	342
stars	2,733
watchers	18
growth_state	organic
growth_factor_pct	100

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	6
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

67Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

39Weak

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
6.9/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 69% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 49 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 15 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	49
top_contributor_share	0.693

Issue & PR responsiveness

73Good

How it's scored

40.4/42	Issue resolution — 96% of issues closed
17.8/30	PR acceptance — 182/306 decided PRs merged
10.6/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — 13/16 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
4.5/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 10/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 3

Inputs used

merged_prs	182
open_issues	4
closed_issues	102
prs_merged_7d	22
prs_decided_7d	23
prs_merged_30d	42
prs_decided_30d	47
issue_closed_ratio	0.962
closed_unmerged_prs	124
first_time_authors_30d	7
first_time_prs_merged_30d	13
first_time_prs_decided_30d	16

Ownership & stewardship

69Good

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain
25/25	Owner reach — 23,614 followers of openclaw
14.4/25	Track record — 90 public repos, account ~0 yr old

Inputs used

followers	23,614
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	no
owner_login	openclaw
public_repos	90
account_age_days	251

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 1 days ago
20/20	Version history — 28 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/openclaw/wacli
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	1

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

77Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

68Good

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 6 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 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	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

90Excellent

How it's scored

30/30	README
25/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://wacli.sh
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 3 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	cli, go, whatsapp
has_wiki	no
homepage	https://wacli.sh
docs_site	https://wacli.sh
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?

78Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

72Good

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
2.2/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 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
2.2/7.5	Code-Review — Found 10/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 3
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 15 contributing companies or organizations
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 — 30 commit(s) and 9 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5	Packaging — packaging workflow detected
4.5/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9
3/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 6
4.5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
7.5/7.5	Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
6.8/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 1 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	18
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	0
scorecard_aggregate	7.2

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	1
affected_packages	1
assessed_packages	82
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	unknown 1
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 82 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.

93Exceptional · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Agent instructions — AGENTS.md
15/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) — llms.txt served by the project website (https://wacli.sh/llms.txt)
40/40	Legible commit history — 94 of 94 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	yes
llms_txt_url	https://wacli.sh/llms.txt
legible_history_share	1
agent_instruction_files	AGENTS.md
agent_instruction_max_bytes	4,179

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

86Excellent

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
8/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 4 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 1 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
9/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum, pnpm-lock.yaml
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.04
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.01

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
54.6/55	Manageable file sizes — 2/288 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	116,243
source_files_sampled	288
oversized_source_files	2

Key facts

2,733GitHub stars

49contributors

417commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

27releases

1bus factor

4open issues

Go, npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
Star history carried forward from 2026-07-21: GitHub restricted the stargazers API to repository admins, so it can no longer be collected. The repository has 2733 stars today.

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Star and fork history 2,656 ★ / 342 ⇿

2,656Stars

342Forks

24Releases

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.

Only the most recent history is shown — this repository exceeds the collection window, so the earliest history is not captured.

Star history is shown as collected on 2026-07-21. GitHub restricted the stargazers API to repository administrators in July 2026, so this series can no longer be extended; the current star total above remains live.

Major 0Minor 14Patch 10

OpenSSF Scorecard 7.2 / 10

7.2aggregate

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 02:58 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
3	Branch-Protection	branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10	CI-Tests	30 out of 30 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
3	Code-Review	Found 10/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 3
10	Contributors	project has 15 contributing companies or organizations
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	30 commit(s) and 9 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10	Packaging	packaging workflow detected
9	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9
6	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 6
9	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
10	Token-Permissions	GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
9	Vulnerabilities	1 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 9

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3	`v1.14.52`	go.mod
Go	github.com/mdp/qrterminal/v3	`v3.2.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	go.mod
Go	go.mau.fi/whatsmeow	`v0.0.0-20260909164725-b25a56d63729`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.59.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.48.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.46.0`	go.mod
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.12`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	go.mod

All dependencies 82

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 9 direct and 73 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3	`v1.14.52`	direct
Go	github.com/mdp/qrterminal/v3	`v3.2.1`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	direct
Go	go.mau.fi/whatsmeow	`v0.0.0-20260909164725-b25a56d63729`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.59.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.48.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/term	`v0.46.0`	direct
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.12`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	direct
Go	cel.dev/expr	`v0.25.3`	indirect
Go	filippo.io/edwards25519	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4	`v4.13.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/beeper/argo-go	`v1.1.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/coder/websocket	`v1.8.15`	indirect
Go	github.com/coreos/go-semver	`v0.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/cubicdaiya/gonp	`v1.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/davecgh/go-spew	`v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc`	indirect
Go	github.com/elliotchance/orderedmap/v3	`v3.1.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/fatih/structtag	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql	`v1.10.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/cel-go	`v0.31.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/jackc/pgpassfile	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/jackc/pgservicefile	`v0.0.0-20240606120523-5a60cdf6a761`	indirect
Go	github.com/jackc/pgx/v5	`v5.11.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/jackc/puddle/v2	`v2.2.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/jinzhu/inflection	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/kr/pretty	`v0.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-colorable	`v0.1.15`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`v0.0.24`	indirect
Go	github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3	`v0.35.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3-wasm/v5	`v5.0.35304`	indirect
Go	github.com/ncruces/julianday	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/petermattis/goid	`v0.0.0-20260820044319-269ab09b5261`	indirect
Go	github.com/pganalyze/pg_query_go/v6	`v6.2.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/pingcap/errors	`v0.11.5-0.20250523034308-74f78ae071ee`	indirect
Go	github.com/pingcap/failpoint	`v0.0.0-20260811232634-55ac33a48e3b`	indirect
Go	github.com/pingcap/log	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/pingcap/tidb/pkg/parser	`v0.0.0-20260904102931-f2c346fe4f36`	indirect
Go	github.com/riza-io/grpc-go	`v0.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal	`v1.16.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/rs/zerolog	`v1.35.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	indirect
Go	github.com/sqlc-dev/doubleclick	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/sqlc-dev/sqlc	`v1.31.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/tetratelabs/wazero	`v1.12.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2	`v2.5.37`	indirect
Go	github.com/wasilibs/go-pgquery	`v0.0.0-20260908021017-318158a2ab67`	indirect
Go	github.com/wasilibs/wazero-helpers	`v0.0.0-20250123031827-cd30c44769bb`	indirect
Go	go.mau.fi/libsignal	`v0.2.2`	indirect
Go	go.mau.fi/util	`v0.10.1-0.20260820140024-eb612d936fde`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel	`v1.46.0`	indirect
Go	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric	`v1.46.0`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/atomic	`v1.11.0`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/multierr	`v1.11.0`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/zap	`v1.28.0`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3	`v3.0.5`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.57.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20260908205506-85c1c2202aba`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.23.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.42.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api	`v0.0.0-20260904194346-d0f1323225a4`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc	`v0.0.0-20260904194346-d0f1323225a4`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/grpc	`v1.83.2`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2	`v2.2.1`	indirect
Go	rsc.io/qr	`v0.2.0`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.android-arm64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.android-x64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.darwin-arm64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.darwin-x64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.freebsd-x64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.linux-arm64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.linux-arm64-musl	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.linux-ppc64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.linux-riscv64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.linux-s390x	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.linux-x64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.linux-x64-musl	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.win32-arm64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	@pnpm/exe.win32-x64	`12.4.1`	indirect
npm	pnpm	`12.4.1`	indirect

Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 82 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.57.0`	indirect	unknown	1	—

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.

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