Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-19 01:36 UTC

pkimetal / pkimetal

PKI Meta-Linter

GoGPL-3.0★ 131 stars⑂ 21 forkssince Nov 2023View on GitHub ↗

KindLibraryApplicationhow this is determined

pkimetal/pkimetal holds a health index of 91 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (100/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (60/100). 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 77 is calibrated to 91 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

pkimetalOrganization

13 followers1 public reposince Mar 2024

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/pkimetal/pkimetal	v1.53.0	-	68	5 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

100Exceptional · 21% of overall

Development activity

100Exceptional

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
36/36	Commit cadence — 52/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 2,018 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 1 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	2,018
human_commit_share	0.38
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	52

Release discipline

100Exceptional

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 68 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 5 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~17.2 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	68
latest_release_tag	v1.53.0
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	5
mean_days_between_releases	17.2

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?

67Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

52Moderate

How it's scored

34.3/60	Stars — 131 stars
10.8/25	Forks — 21 forks
6.4/15	Watchers — 15 watchers

Inputs used

forks	21
stars	131
watchers	15
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

85Excellent

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (GPL-3.0)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5	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	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	api.securityscorecards.dev, github.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

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

63Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

42Weak

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
9.4/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 58% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 10 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 10 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	10
top_contributor_share	0.582

Issue & PR responsiveness

77Good

How it's scored

37/42	Issue resolution — 88% of issues closed
29.8/30	PR acceptance — 2,022/2,036 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/13 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	2,022
open_issues	2
closed_issues	15
prs_merged_7d	2
prs_decided_7d	2
prs_merged_30d	2
prs_decided_30d	2
issue_closed_ratio	0.882
closed_unmerged_prs	14
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

46Weak

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain
8.2/25	Owner reach — 13 followers of pkimetal
7.4/25	Track record — 1 public repos, account ~2 yr old

Inputs used

followers	13
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	no
owner_login	pkimetal
public_repos	1
account_age_days	948

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 5 days ago
20/20	Version history — 68 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/pkimetal/pkimetal
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	5

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 — 20 out of 20 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://pkimet.al/
10/10	Repository description
0/10	Topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	—
has_wiki	yes
homepage	https://pkimet.al/
docs_site	https://pkimet.al/
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?

83Excellent · 16% of overall

Security posture

83Excellent

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 — 20 out of 20 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 0/13 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 10 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 1 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5	Packaging — packaging workflow detected
5/5	Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
5/5	SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
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	16
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	2
scorecard_aggregate	8.2

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

Dependency advisories

85Excellent

How it's scored

26.6/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: golang.org/x/crypto v0.58.0 (unknown)
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
37.2/40	No advisories left outstanding — 1 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 103 days ago

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	1
affected_packages	1
assessed_packages	60
unassessed_packages	18
affected_by_severity	unknown 1
direct_affected_packages	1

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 60 resolved dependencies against OSV. 18 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list. 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.

60Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

19Critical

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.keyfactor.com/llms.txt)
4.2/40	Legible commit history — 3 of 38 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	yes
llms_txt_url	https://docs.keyfactor.com/llms.txt
legible_history_share	0.079
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

79Good

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
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8	Automated maintenance — 10 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum, package-lock.json
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.1

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/51 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	27,054
source_files_sampled	51
oversized_source_files	0

Machine-readable interfaces

50Moderate

How it's scored

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

Inputs used

example_dirs	—
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	doc/openapi.yaml
interfaces_expected_of	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

131GitHub stars

10contributors

2,018commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

68releases

1bus factor

2open issues

Go, npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 21 ⇿

0Stars

21Forks

65Releases

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 1Minor 52Patch 12

Each point covers 3 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 8.2 / 10

8.2aggregate

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 · 2026-10-19 01:36 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	20 out of 20 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 0/13 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10	Contributors	project has 10 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 1 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10	Packaging	packaging workflow detected
10	Pinned-Dependencies	all dependencies are pinned
10	SAST	SAST tool is run on all commits
10	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
10	Token-Permissions	GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
9	Vulnerabilities	1 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 17

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/CVE-2008-0166/dwklint/v2	`v2.1.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/crtsh/ccadb_data	`v1.20261015.90110`	go.mod
Go	github.com/crtsh/ctlint	`v0.0.0-20261013151429-369be866c00b`	go.mod
Go	github.com/crtsh/ctloglists	`v1.20261013.190400`	go.mod
Go	github.com/goccy/go-json	`v0.11.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go	`v1.3.3`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.25.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/sergi/go-diff	`v1.4.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/viper	`v1.21.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/titanous/rocacheck	`v0.0.0-20171023193734-afe73141d399`	go.mod
Go	github.com/valyala/fasthttp	`v1.75.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/zmap/zcrypto	`v0.0.0-20261015235857-7cf9a461cf78`	go.mod
Go	github.com/zmap/zlint/v3	`v3.7.2`	go.mod
Go	go.uber.org/automaxprocs	`v1.6.0`	go.mod
Go	go.uber.org/zap	`v1.28.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.58.0`	go.mod
npm	@redocly/cli	`2.62.1`	package.json

All dependencies 78

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 17 direct and 61 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/crtsh/ccadb_data	`v1.20261015.90110`	direct
Go	github.com/crtsh/ctlint	`v0.0.0-20261013151429-369be866c00b`	direct
Go	github.com/crtsh/ctloglists	`v1.20261013.190400`	direct
Go	github.com/cve-2008-0166/dwklint/v2	`v2.1.0`	direct
Go	github.com/goccy/go-json	`v0.11.2`	direct
Go	github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go	`v1.3.3`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.25.0`	direct
Go	github.com/sergi/go-diff	`v1.4.0`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/viper	`v1.21.0`	direct
Go	github.com/titanous/rocacheck	`v0.0.0-20171023193734-afe73141d399`	direct
Go	github.com/valyala/fasthttp	`v1.75.0`	direct
Go	github.com/zmap/zcrypto	`v0.0.0-20261015235857-7cf9a461cf78`	direct
Go	github.com/zmap/zlint/v3	`v3.7.2`	direct
Go	go.uber.org/automaxprocs	`v1.6.0`	direct
Go	go.uber.org/zap	`v1.28.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.58.0`	direct
npm	@redocly/cli	`2.62.1`	direct
Go	github.com/badkeys/badkeys	`v0.0.21`	indirect
Go	github.com/beorn7/perks	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/certlint/certlint	`v1.8.6`	indirect
Go	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2	`v2.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/cve-2008-0166/dwk_blocklists_sqlite3	`v0.0.0-20250725083057-d37481c06d85`	indirect
Go	github.com/digicert/pkilint	`v0.13.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/dustin/go-humanize	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify	`v1.10.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-logr/logr	`v1.4.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2	`v2.5.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/klauspost/compress	`v1.20.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/kroeckx/x509lint	`v0.0.0-20260109123110-103c92f2f1ad`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`v0.0.24`	indirect
Go	github.com/molecule-man/go-brrr	`v1.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg	`v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822`	indirect
Go	github.com/ncruces/go-strftime	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/pelletier/go-toml	`v1.9.5`	indirect
Go	github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2	`v2.4.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_model	`v0.6.3`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/common	`v0.72.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/procfs	`v0.22.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/remyoudompheng/bigfft	`v0.0.0-20230129092748-24d4a6f8daec`	indirect
Go	github.com/rspeer/python-ftfy	`v6.3.1+incompatible`	indirect
Go	github.com/sagikazarmark/locafero	`v0.12.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`v1.15.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/cast	`v1.10.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/spf13/pflag	`v1.0.10`	indirect
Go	github.com/subosito/gotenv	`v1.6.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/weppos/publicsuffix-go	`v0.50.4-0.20261008072451-fc2bc5756b8d`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/multierr	`v1.11.0`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3	`v3.0.5`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.61.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.49.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.43.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.12`	indirect
Go	k8s.io/klog/v2	`v2.140.0`	indirect
Go	modernc.org/libc	`v1.79.0`	indirect
Go	modernc.org/mathutil	`v1.7.1`	indirect
Go	modernc.org/memory	`v1.12.1`	indirect
Go	modernc.org/sqlite	`v1.60.1`	indirect
Go	zombiezen.com/go/sqlite	`v1.4.2`	indirect
PyPI	black	`—`	indirect
PyPI	cryptography	`—`	indirect
PyPI	flake8	`—`	indirect
PyPI	furo	`—`	indirect
PyPI	gmpy2	`—`	indirect
PyPI	iso3166	`—`	indirect
PyPI	iso4217	`—`	indirect
PyPI	mypy	`—`	indirect
PyPI	publicsuffixlist	`—`	indirect
PyPI	pyasn1	`—`	indirect
PyPI	pyasn1-alt-modules	`—`	indirect
PyPI	pyasn1-fasder	`—`	indirect
PyPI	pytest	`—`	indirect
PyPI	python-dateutil	`—`	indirect
PyPI	python-iso639	`—`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx	`—`	indirect
PyPI	validators	`—`	indirect
PyPI	wcwidth	`—`	indirect

Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 60 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 1 are direct. 18 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.58.0`	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 v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

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

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