Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-27 18:58 UTC

pythonnet / clr-loader

Loader for different .NET runtimes

PythonMIT★ 43 stars⑂ 32 forkssince Oct 2019View on GitHub ↗

pythonnet/clr-loader holds a health index of 77 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (76/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (59/100). It was last updated 2 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Good

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 66 is calibrated to 77 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

pythonnetOrganization

84 followers8 public repossince Nov 2013

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
PyPI	clr_loader	0.3.1	3,058,956	21	131 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

73Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

65Good

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 2 days ago
9.7/36	Commit cadence — 14/52 weeks with commits
15.3/18	Commit volume — 50 commits in the last year
4/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 5 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 4

Inputs used

commits_last_year	50
human_commit_share	0.88
days_since_last_push	2
active_weeks_last_year	14

Release discipline

84Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 17 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 2 days ago
12.6/27	Release cadence — a release every ~159.8 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	17
latest_release_tag	v0.3.1
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	2
mean_days_between_releases	159.8

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?

59Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

41Weak

How it's scored

26.3/60	Stars — 43 stars
12.4/25	Forks — 32 forks
2.7/15	Watchers — 4 watchers

Inputs used

forks	32
stars	43
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 (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	4
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	github.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

100Exceptional

How it's scored

80/80	Monthly downloads — 3,058,956 downloads/month across pypi
0/20	Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem

Inputs used

packages	clr_loader
dependents	—
ecosystems	pypi
total_downloads	—
monthly_downloads	3,058,956
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?

62Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

32At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
3.1/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 86% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 15 contributors
6/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	15
top_contributor_share	0.862

Issue & PR responsiveness

67Good

How it's scored

33.6/42	Issue resolution — 80% of issues closed
23/30	PR acceptance — 62/81 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 3/19 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1

Inputs used

merged_prs	62
open_issues	8
closed_issues	32
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	1
prs_decided_30d	1
issue_closed_ratio	0.8
closed_unmerged_prs	19
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

63Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain
13.9/25	Owner reach — 84 followers of pythonnet
18.9/25	Track record — 8 public repos, account ~12 yr old

Inputs used

followers	84
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	no
owner_login	pythonnet
public_repos	8
account_age_days	4,656

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on pypi
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 131 days ago
20/20	Version history — 21 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	clr_loader
ecosystems	pypi
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	131

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

76Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

66Good

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 2 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
18/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 11 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9

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://pythonnet.github.io/clr-loader/
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 4 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	clr, dotnet, python, ffi
has_wiki	no
homepage	—
docs_site	https://pythonnet.github.io/clr-loader/
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?

61Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

51Moderate

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
2.2/2.5	CI-Tests — 11 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0.8/7.5	Code-Review — Found 3/19 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
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
3/7.5	Maintained — 5 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 4
5/5	Packaging — packaging workflow detected
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
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7.5/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	17
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	1
scorecard_aggregate	5.1

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Signed-Releases. 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
25/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
0/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	0
affected_packages	0
assessed_packages	2
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	none
direct_affected_packages	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the pypi:clr_loader@0.3.1 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 2 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.

63Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

24At Risk

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
24.2/40	Legible commit history — 40 of 88 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.455
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

71Good

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Justfile
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — clr_loader/py.typed
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 12 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
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	uv.lock
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	no
bootstrap_files	Justfile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	clr_loader/py.typed
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	example/example.csproj, netfx_loader/ClrLoader.csproj
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.12

Code legibility for models

80Excellent

How it's scored

27/45	Type-checkable code — Python with type-check config (clr_loader/py.typed)
52.5/55	Manageable file sizes — 1/22 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Python
largest_source_bytes	80,337
source_files_sampled	22
oversized_source_files	1

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

43GitHub stars

15contributors

50commits, last 12 months

2days since last push

17releases

1bus factor

8open issues

NuGet, PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 32 ⇿

0Stars

32Forks

16Releases

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 1Patch 15

Each point covers 6 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.1 / 10

5.1aggregate

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 · 2026-08-27 18:58 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
3	Branch-Protection	branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
9	CI-Tests	11 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1	Code-Review	Found 3/19 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
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
4	Maintained	5 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 4
10	Packaging	packaging workflow 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
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10	Vulnerabilities	0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 3

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
NuGet	NXPorts	`1.1.0`	netfx_loader/ClrLoader.csproj
NuGet	Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies	`1.0.3`	netfx_loader/ClrLoader.csproj
PyPI	cffi	`>= 1.17`	pyproject.toml

All dependencies 44

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 4 direct and 40 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
NuGet	Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies	`1.0.0`	direct
NuGet	Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies	`1.0.3`	direct
NuGet	NXPorts	`1.1.0`	direct
PyPI	cffi	`2.1.1`	direct
NuGet	Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms	`1.1.0`	indirect
NuGet	Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies.net461	`1.0.0`	indirect
NuGet	Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies.net461	`1.0.3`	indirect
NuGet	NETStandard.Library	`2.0.3`	indirect
PyPI	accessible-pygments	`0.0.5`	indirect
PyPI	alabaster	`1.0.0`	indirect
PyPI	babel	`2.18.0`	indirect
PyPI	beautifulsoup4	`4.15.0`	indirect
PyPI	certifi	`2026.7.22`	indirect
PyPI	charset-normalizer	`3.5.1`	indirect
PyPI	colorama	`0.4.6`	indirect
PyPI	docutils	`0.22.4`	indirect
PyPI	exceptiongroup	`1.3.1`	indirect
PyPI	furo	`2025.12.19`	indirect
PyPI	idna	`3.19`	indirect
PyPI	imagesize	`2.0.0`	indirect
PyPI	iniconfig	`2.3.0`	indirect
PyPI	jinja2	`3.1.6`	indirect
PyPI	markupsafe	`3.0.3`	indirect
PyPI	packaging	`26.3`	indirect
PyPI	pluggy	`1.6.0`	indirect
PyPI	pycparser	`3.0`	indirect
PyPI	pygments	`2.21.0`	indirect
PyPI	pytest	`9.1.1`	indirect
PyPI	requests	`2.34.2`	indirect
PyPI	roman-numerals	`4.1.0`	indirect
PyPI	ruff	`0.16.3`	indirect
PyPI	snowballstemmer	`3.1.1`	indirect
PyPI	soupsieve	`2.9.2`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx	`9.1.0`	indirect
PyPI	sphinx-basic-ng	`1.0.0b2`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-applehelp	`2.0.0`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-devhelp	`2.0.0`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp	`2.1.0`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-jsmath	`1.0.1`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-qthelp	`2.0.0`	indirect
PyPI	sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml	`2.0.0`	indirect
PyPI	tomli	`2.4.1`	indirect
PyPI	typing-extensions	`4.16.0`	indirect
PyPI	urllib3	`2.7.0`	indirect

Dependency advisories 0

Installing pypi:clr_loader@0.3.1 pulls in 2 packages, direct and transitive: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.

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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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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