Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-20 17:03 UTC

phalcon / cphalcon

High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension.

PHP · ZephirBSD-3-Clause★ 10,820 stars⑂ 1,931 forkssince Nov 2011View on GitHub ↗

#phalcon #php #extension #php-extension #framework #phalcon-framework #ext-phalcon #phalcon-extension #hacktoberfest

phalcon/cphalcon holds a health index of 94 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Vitality (91/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (54/100). It was last updated today. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Exceptional

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 80 is calibrated to 94 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

The Phalcon PHP FrameworkOrganization · verified domain

207 followers70 public repossince Nov 2011

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
Packagist	phalcon/cphalcon	v5.23.0	2,729	111	4 days ago	framework mvc extension phalcon high-load

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

91Excellent · 21% of overall

Development activity

92Excellent

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
28.4/36	Commit cadence — 41/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 2,818 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 21 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	2,818
human_commit_share	0.97
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	41

Release discipline

90Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 4 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~8.1 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	100
latest_release_tag	v5.23.0
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	4
mean_days_between_releases	8.1

Community & Adoption

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

84Excellent · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

100Exceptional

How it's scored

60/60	Stars — 10,820 stars
25/25	Forks — 1,931 forks
15/15	Watchers — 595 watchers

Inputs used

forks	1,931
stars	10,820
watchers	595
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

92Excellent

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (BSD-3-Clause)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
6.3/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	8
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	opencollective.com
has_pull_request_template	yes

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

49Weak

How it's scored

45.8/80	Monthly downloads — 2,729 downloads/month across packagist
3.2/20	Registry dependents — 2 packages depend on it

Inputs used

packages	phalcon/cphalcon
dependents	2
ecosystems	packagist
total_downloads	253,432
monthly_downloads	2,729
unverified_packages_excluded	—

Sustainability & Governance

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

81Excellent · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

62Moderate

How it's scored

25.2/54	Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
13.4/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 40% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 98 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 72 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	2
contributors_sampled	98
top_contributor_share	0.405

Issue & PR responsiveness

79Good

How it's scored

41.7/42	Issue resolution — 99% of issues closed
24.2/30	PR acceptance — 4,087/5,075 decided PRs merged
13/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — 1/1 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/4 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	4,087
open_issues	42
closed_issues	5,384
prs_merged_7d	7
prs_decided_7d	8
prs_merged_30d	37
prs_decided_30d	39
issue_closed_ratio	0.992
closed_unmerged_prs	988
first_time_authors_30d	1
first_time_prs_merged_30d	1
first_time_prs_decided_30d	1

Ownership & stewardship

92Excellent

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20	Verified domain
16.7/25	Owner reach — 207 followers of phalcon
25/25	Track record — 70 public repos, account ~14 yr old

Inputs used

followers	207
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	yes
owner_login	phalcon
public_repos	70
account_age_days	5,442

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on packagist
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 4 days ago
20/20	Version history — 111 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	phalcon/cphalcon
ecosystems	packagist
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	4

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

80Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

90Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 3 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — phpcs.xml, phpstan.neon
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 5 out of 5 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	yes
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

65Good

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://phalcon.io
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 9 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	phalcon, php, extension, php-extension, framework, phalcon-framework, ext-phalcon, phalcon-extension, hacktoberfest
has_wiki	no
homepage	https://phalcon.io
docs_site	https://phalcon.io
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?

68Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

60Moderate

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 5 out of 5 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
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 0/4 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 72 contributing companies or organizations
0/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no data
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 21 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — no data
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
4.5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — no data
7.5/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	13
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	5
scorecard_aggregate	6

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

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	0
affected_packages	0
assessed_packages	125
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	none
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 125 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.

54Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

27At Risk

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
15/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) — llms.txt served by the project website (https://docs.phalcon.io/llms.txt)
12.1/40	Legible commit history — 22 of 97 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	yes
llms_txt_url	https://docs.phalcon.io/llms.txt
legible_history_share	0.227
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

57Moderate

How it's scored

0/18	One-command bootstrap
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — phpcs.xml, phpstan.neon
0/11	Static type checking
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8	Automated maintenance — 3 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — no data

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	composer.lock
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	no
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.03

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

Code legibility for models

55Moderate

How it's scored

0/45	Type-checkable code — PHP without a type-check config
54.6/55	Manageable file sizes — 48/6,740 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	PHP
largest_source_bytes	540,836
source_files_sampled	6,740
oversized_source_files	48

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional

How it's scored

0/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20	MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40	Runnable examples — example

Inputs used

example_dirs	example
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	—
interfaces_expected_of	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

10,820GitHub stars

98contributors

2,818commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

100releases

2bus factor

42open issues

Packagistpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 1,931 ⇿

0Stars

1,931Forks

99Releases

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.

Major 2Minor 25Patch 48

Each point covers 10 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.0 / 10

6.0aggregate

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 · 2026-10-20 17:03 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
n/a	Branch-Protection	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
10	CI-Tests	5 out of 5 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
0	Code-Review	Found 0/4 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10	Contributors	project has 72 contributing companies or organizations
n/a	Dangerous-Workflow	no workflows found
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	30 commit(s) and 21 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
n/a	Pinned-Dependencies	no dependencies found
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
9	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
n/a	Token-Permissions	No tokens found
10	Vulnerabilities	0 existing vulnerabilities detected

All dependencies 125

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 125 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Packagist	amphp/amp	`3.1.3`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/byte-stream	`2.1.2`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/cache	`2.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/dns	`2.4.1`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/parallel	`2.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/parser	`1.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/pipeline	`1.2.7`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/process	`2.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/serialization	`1.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/socket	`2.4.1`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/sync	`2.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	clue/ndjson-react	`1.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/pcre	`3.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/semver	`3.5.1`	indirect
Packagist	composer/xdebug-handler	`3.0.5`	indirect
Packagist	danog/advanced-json-rpc	`3.2.3`	indirect
Packagist	daverandom/libdns	`2.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer	`1.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	dnoegel/php-xdg-base-dir	`0.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	doctrine/annotations	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	doctrine/deprecations	`1.1.6`	indirect
Packagist	doctrine/lexer	`3.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	ergebnis/agent-detector	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	evenement/evenement	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	felixfbecker/language-server-protocol	`1.5.3`	indirect
Packagist	fidry/cpu-core-counter	`1.4.1`	indirect
Packagist	friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer	`3.95.27`	indirect
Packagist	graham-campbell/result-type	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	kelunik/certificate	`1.1.3`	indirect
Packagist	league/uri	`7.8.1`	indirect
Packagist	league/uri-interfaces	`7.8.1`	indirect
Packagist	masterminds/html5	`2.11.0`	indirect
Packagist	monolog/monolog	`2.11.1`	indirect
Packagist	mustache/mustache	`3.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	myclabs/deep-copy	`1.14.0`	indirect
Packagist	netresearch/jsonmapper	`5.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	nikic/php-parser	`5.9.0`	indirect
Packagist	pds/composer-script-names	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	pds/skeleton	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	phalcon/cli-options-parser	`2.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	phalcon/code-quality	`1.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	phalcon/ide-stubs	`5.22.0`	indirect
Packagist	phalcon/quill	`0.5.0`	indirect
Packagist	phalcon/talon	`1.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	phalcon/zephir	`1.6.1`	indirect
Packagist	phar-io/manifest	`2.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	phar-io/version	`3.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpbench/container	`2.2.3`	indirect
Packagist	phpbench/phpbench	`1.4.3`	indirect
Packagist	phpdocumentor/reflection-common	`2.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock	`6.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	phpdocumentor/type-resolver	`2.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpoption/phpoption	`1.10.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpstan/phpdoc-parser	`2.3.6`	indirect
Packagist	phpstan/phpstan	`2.3.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-code-coverage	`10.1.16`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-file-iterator	`4.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-invoker	`4.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-text-template	`3.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-timer	`6.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/phpunit	`10.5.66`	indirect
Packagist	predis/predis	`3.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/cache	`3.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/container	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	psr/event-dispatcher	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-factory	`1.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-message	`2.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/log	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	react/cache	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/child-process	`0.6.7`	indirect
Packagist	react/dns	`1.14.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/event-loop	`1.6.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/promise	`3.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/socket	`1.17.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/stream	`1.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	revolt/event-loop	`1.0.9`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/cli-parser	`2.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/code-unit	`2.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup	`3.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/comparator	`5.0.5`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/complexity	`3.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/diff	`5.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/environment	`6.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/exporter	`5.1.4`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/global-state	`6.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/lines-of-code	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/object-enumerator	`5.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/object-reflector	`3.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/recursion-context	`5.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/type	`4.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/version	`4.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	seld/jsonlint	`1.12.1`	indirect
Packagist	spatie/array-to-xml	`3.4.4`	indirect
Packagist	squizlabs/php_codesniffer	`4.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/browser-kit	`6.4.44`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/console	`6.4.47`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/deprecation-contracts	`3.7.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/dom-crawler	`6.4.44`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher	`6.4.44`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts	`3.7.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/filesystem	`6.4.45`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/finder	`6.4.47`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/http-client	`6.4.47`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/http-client-contracts	`3.7.3`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/mime	`6.4.46`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/options-resolver	`6.4.30`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-ctype	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme	`1.43.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-idn	`1.43.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer	`1.43.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-mbstring	`1.43.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php80	`1.43.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php81	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php83	`1.43.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php84	`1.43.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/process	`6.4.46`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/service-contracts	`3.7.3`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/stopwatch	`6.4.24`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/string	`6.4.46`	indirect
Packagist	theseer/tokenizer	`1.3.1`	indirect
Packagist	twig/twig	`3.30.0`	indirect
Packagist	vimeo/psalm	`6.20.0`	indirect
Packagist	vlucas/phpdotenv	`5.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	webmozart/assert	`1.12.1`	indirect
Packagist	webmozart/glob	`4.7.0`	indirect

Dependency advisories 0

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 125 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

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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