Software health reportschema 0.32.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-20 03:59 UTC

paritytech / arkworks-extensions

Arkworks extensions enabling customizable hooks for EC operations

RustApache-2.0★ 50 stars⑂ 4 forkssince Dec 2022View on GitHub ↗

#arkworks #cryptography #elliptic-curves

paritytech/arkworks-extensions holds a health index of 62 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate band. It scores highest on Sustainability & Governance (71/100) and lowest on Security (46/100). It was last updated 5 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Moderate

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 58 is calibrated to 62 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Parity TechnologiesOrganization

2,066 followers774 public repossince Sep 2015

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	Tags
crates.io	ark-models-ext	0.6.0	149,916	5	5 days ago	arkworks cryptography elliptic-curves pairing

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

57Moderate · 21% of overall

Development activity

45Weak

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 5 days ago
2.8/36	Commit cadence — 4/52 weeks with commits
6.3/18	Commit volume — 4 commits in the last year
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 1 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

commits_last_year	4
human_commit_share	1
days_since_last_push	5
active_weeks_last_year	4

Release discipline

74Good

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 5 releases published
27/36	Release recency — latest release 113 days ago
12.6/27	Release cadence — a release every ~273.9 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	5
latest_release_tag	0.5.2
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	113
mean_days_between_releases	273.9

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

Community & Adoption

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

53Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

34At Risk

How it's scored

27.4/60	Stars — 50 stars
4/25	Forks — 4 forks
2.7/15	Watchers — 4 watchers

Inputs used

forks	4
stars	50
watchers	4
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
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	0
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

86Excellent

How it's scored

69/80	Monthly downloads — 149,916 downloads/month across crates
0/20	Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem

Inputs used

packages	ark-models-ext
dependents	—
ecosystems	crates
total_downloads	4,907,583
monthly_downloads	149,916
unverified_packages_excluded	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

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

71Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

22At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
1.5/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 94% of commits
5.4/13.5	Contributor breadth — 4 contributors
6/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	4
top_contributor_share	0.935

Issue & PR responsiveness

78Good

How it's scored

42/42	Issue resolution — 100% of issues closed
24/30	PR acceptance — 24/30 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
1.5/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 3/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1

Inputs used

merged_prs	24
open_issues	0
closed_issues	3
prs_merged_7d	1
prs_decided_7d	1
prs_merged_30d	1
prs_decided_30d	1
issue_closed_ratio	1
closed_unmerged_prs	6
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

98Exceptional

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
23.8/25	Owner reach — 2,066 followers of paritytech
25/25	Track record — 774 public repos, account ~10 yr old

Inputs used

followers	2,066
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	—
owner_login	paritytech
public_repos	774
account_age_days	3,998

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

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on crates
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 5 days ago
20/20	Version history — 5 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	ark-models-ext
ecosystems	crates
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	5

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

60Moderate · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

50Moderate

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 1 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
2/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 2 out of 14 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 1

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

75Good

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://docs.rs/ark-models-ext
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 3 topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	arkworks, cryptography, elliptic-curves
has_wiki	yes
homepage	—
docs_site	https://docs.rs/ark-models-ext
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

46Weak · 16% of overall

Security posture

35Weak

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0.2/2.5	CI-Tests — 2 out of 14 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 1
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0.8/7.5	Code-Review — Found 3/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
1.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
0/7.5	Maintained — 1 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
5.2/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 3 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	16
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	2
scorecard_aggregate	3.5

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

Dependency advisories

89Excellent

How it's scored

26.6/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: derivative 2.2.0 (unknown)
25/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
37.2/40	No advisories left outstanding — 1 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 784 days ago

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	1
affected_packages	1
assessed_packages	45
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	unknown 1
direct_affected_packages	1

Matched the crates:ark-models-ext@0.6.0 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 45 packages. 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.

48Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

11Critical

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
11.2/40	Legible commit history — 21 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.21
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

56Moderate

How it's scored

12.6/18	One-command bootstrap — Cargo.toml, curves/bls12_377/Cargo.toml, curves/bls12_381/Cargo.toml (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — Rust (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
0/8	Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	Cargo.lock
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	Cargo.toml, curves/bls12_377/Cargo.toml, curves/bls12_381/Cargo.toml, curves/bn254/Cargo.toml, curves/bw6_761/Cargo.toml, curves/bw6_767/Cargo.toml, curves/ed25519/Cargo.toml, curves/ed_on_bls12_377/Cargo.toml, curves/ed_on_bls12_381_bandersnatch/Cargo.toml, curves/ed_on_bn254/Cargo.toml, curves/pallas/Cargo.toml, curves/secp256k1/Cargo.toml, curves/vesta/Cargo.toml, models/Cargo.toml
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Rust (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/59 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Rust
largest_source_bytes	11,105
source_files_sampled	59
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

50GitHub stars

4contributors

4commits, last 12 months

5days since last push

5releases

1bus factor

0open issues

crates.iopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 4 ⇿

0Stars

4Forks

2Releases

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.

Major 0Minor 0Patch 1

Each point covers 2 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 3.5 / 10

3.5aggregate

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 · 2026-08-20 03:59 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
0	Branch-Protection	branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
1	CI-Tests	2 out of 14 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 1
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1	Code-Review	Found 3/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
6	Contributors	project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0	Dependency-Update-Tool	no update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
0	Maintained	1 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
10	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7	Vulnerabilities	3 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 5

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
crates.io	ark-ff	`—`	models/Cargo.toml
crates.io	ark-ec	`—`	models/Cargo.toml
crates.io	ark-std	`—`	models/Cargo.toml
crates.io	ark-serialize	`—`	models/Cargo.toml
crates.io	derivative	`—`	models/Cargo.toml

All dependencies 149

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 5 direct and 144 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
crates.io	ark-ec	`0.6.0`	direct
crates.io	ark-ff	`0.6.0`	direct
crates.io	ark-serialize	`0.6.0`	direct
crates.io	ark-std	`0.6.0`	direct
crates.io	derivative	`2.2.0`	direct
crates.io	ahash	`0.8.11`	indirect
crates.io	allocator-api2	`0.2.21`	indirect
crates.io	android_system_properties	`0.1.6`	indirect
crates.io	ark-algebra-test-templates	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-bls12-377	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-bls12-381	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-bn254	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-bw6-761	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-bw6-767	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-curve25519	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-ed-on-bls12-377	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-ed-on-bls12-381-bandersnatch	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-ed-on-bn254	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-ed25519	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-ff-asm	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-ff-macros	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-pallas	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-poly	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-r1cs-std	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-relations	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-secp256k1	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-serialize-derive	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	ark-vesta	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	autocfg	`1.4.0`	indirect
crates.io	base64	`0.22.1`	indirect
crates.io	bitflags	`1.3.2`	indirect
crates.io	block-buffer	`0.10.4`	indirect
crates.io	bs58	`0.5.1`	indirect
crates.io	bumpalo	`3.20.3`	indirect
crates.io	byteorder	`1.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	cc	`1.4.2`	indirect
crates.io	cfg-if	`1.0.0`	indirect
crates.io	chrono	`0.4.45`	indirect
crates.io	core-foundation-sys	`0.8.7`	indirect
crates.io	cpufeatures	`0.2.17`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-deque	`0.8.6`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-epoch	`0.9.18`	indirect
crates.io	crossbeam-utils	`0.8.21`	indirect
crates.io	crypto-common	`0.1.6`	indirect
crates.io	defmt	`1.1.1`	indirect
crates.io	defmt-macros	`1.1.1`	indirect
crates.io	defmt-parser	`1.0.0`	indirect
crates.io	deranged	`0.5.8`	indirect
crates.io	digest	`0.10.7`	indirect
crates.io	dyn-clone	`1.0.20`	indirect
crates.io	educe	`0.6.0`	indirect
crates.io	either	`1.14.0`	indirect
crates.io	enum-ordinalize	`4.3.0`	indirect
crates.io	enum-ordinalize-derive	`4.3.1`	indirect
crates.io	equivalent	`1.0.2`	indirect
crates.io	find-msvc-tools	`0.1.10`	indirect
crates.io	fnv	`1.0.7`	indirect
crates.io	foldhash	`0.1.5`	indirect
crates.io	futures-core	`0.3.34`	indirect
crates.io	futures-task	`0.3.34`	indirect
crates.io	futures-util	`0.3.34`	indirect
crates.io	generic-array	`0.14.7`	indirect
crates.io	hashbrown	`0.12.3`	indirect
crates.io	hashbrown	`0.17.1`	indirect
crates.io	hex	`0.4.3`	indirect
crates.io	iana-time-zone	`0.1.65`	indirect
crates.io	iana-time-zone-haiku	`0.1.2`	indirect
crates.io	indexmap	`1.9.3`	indirect
crates.io	indexmap	`2.14.0`	indirect
crates.io	itertools	`0.14.0`	indirect
crates.io	itoa	`1.0.14`	indirect
crates.io	jiff	`0.2.35`	indirect
crates.io	jiff-core	`0.1.0`	indirect
crates.io	jiff-static	`0.2.35`	indirect
crates.io	jiff-tzdb	`0.1.8`	indirect
crates.io	jiff-tzdb-platform	`0.1.3`	indirect
crates.io	js-sys	`0.3.104`	indirect
crates.io	lazy_static	`1.5.0`	indirect
crates.io	libc	`0.2.170`	indirect
crates.io	log	`0.4.33`	indirect
crates.io	memchr	`2.7.4`	indirect
crates.io	nu-ansi-term	`0.50.3`	indirect
crates.io	num-bigint	`0.4.6`	indirect
crates.io	num-conv	`0.2.2`	indirect
crates.io	num-integer	`0.1.46`	indirect
crates.io	num-traits	`0.2.19`	indirect
crates.io	once_cell	`1.20.3`	indirect
crates.io	pin-project-lite	`0.2.16`	indirect
crates.io	portable-atomic	`1.15.0`	indirect
crates.io	portable-atomic-util	`0.2.7`	indirect
crates.io	powerfmt	`0.2.0`	indirect
crates.io	ppv-lite86	`0.2.20`	indirect
crates.io	proc-macro2	`1.0.93`	indirect
crates.io	quote	`1.0.38`	indirect
crates.io	rand	`0.8.5`	indirect
crates.io	rand_chacha	`0.3.1`	indirect
crates.io	rand_core	`0.6.4`	indirect
crates.io	rayon	`1.10.0`	indirect
crates.io	rayon-core	`1.12.1`	indirect
crates.io	ref-cast	`1.0.26`	indirect
crates.io	ref-cast-impl	`1.0.26`	indirect
crates.io	rustversion	`1.0.23`	indirect
crates.io	schemars	`0.9.0`	indirect
crates.io	schemars	`1.2.2`	indirect
crates.io	serde	`1.0.229`	indirect
crates.io	serde_core	`1.0.229`	indirect
crates.io	serde_derive	`1.0.229`	indirect
crates.io	serde_json	`1.0.151`	indirect
crates.io	serde_with	`3.22.0`	indirect
crates.io	sha2	`0.10.8`	indirect
crates.io	sharded-slab	`0.1.7`	indirect
crates.io	shlex	`2.0.1`	indirect
crates.io	slab	`0.4.12`	indirect
crates.io	smallvec	`1.15.2`	indirect
crates.io	syn	`1.0.109`	indirect
crates.io	syn	`2.0.98`	indirect
crates.io	syn	`3.0.3`	indirect
crates.io	thiserror	`2.0.20`	indirect
crates.io	thiserror-impl	`2.0.20`	indirect
crates.io	thread_local	`1.1.10`	indirect
crates.io	time	`0.3.55`	indirect
crates.io	time-core	`0.1.9`	indirect
crates.io	time-macros	`0.2.32`	indirect
crates.io	tinyvec	`1.12.0`	indirect
crates.io	tinyvec_macros	`0.1.1`	indirect
crates.io	tracing	`0.1.41`	indirect
crates.io	tracing-attributes	`0.1.28`	indirect
crates.io	tracing-core	`0.1.36`	indirect
crates.io	tracing-log	`0.2.0`	indirect
crates.io	tracing-subscriber	`0.3.23`	indirect
crates.io	typenum	`1.18.0`	indirect
crates.io	unicode-ident	`1.0.17`	indirect
crates.io	valuable	`0.1.1`	indirect
crates.io	version_check	`0.9.5`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen	`0.2.127`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-macro	`0.2.127`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-macro-support	`0.2.127`	indirect
crates.io	wasm-bindgen-shared	`0.2.127`	indirect
crates.io	windows-core	`0.62.2`	indirect
crates.io	windows-implement	`0.60.2`	indirect
crates.io	windows-interface	`0.59.3`	indirect
crates.io	windows-link	`0.2.1`	indirect
crates.io	windows-result	`0.4.1`	indirect
crates.io	windows-strings	`0.5.1`	indirect
crates.io	windows-sys	`0.61.2`	indirect
crates.io	zerocopy	`0.7.35`	indirect
crates.io	zerocopy-derive	`0.7.35`	indirect
crates.io	zeroize	`1.8.1`	indirect
crates.io	zmij	`1.0.23`	indirect

Dependency advisories 1

Installing crates:ark-models-ext@0.6.0 pulls in 45 packages, direct and transitive: 1 carry known advisories, of which 1 are direct dependencies.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
derivative	`2.2.0`	direct	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 v0.32.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

How one result sits in the wider record: aggregate statistics — crates.io.

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