# railwayapp/railpack — health index 69/100 (Moderate)

> Inspection of the public repository railwayapp/railpack by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 69 out of 100, placing it in the Moderate band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/railwayapp/railpack
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/railwayapp/railpack
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/railwayapp/railpack/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/r/railwayapp/railpack.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-17
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.11.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 93/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 70/100 | Good |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 70/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 93/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 1/100 | Critical |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 84/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Zero-config application builder that automatically analyzes and turns your code into an image |
| Homepage | https://railpack.com |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 1,105 |
| Forks | 135 |
| Created | 2025-01-15 |
| Last push | 2026-07-17 |
| Latest release | v0.31.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 275 |
| Bus factor | 1 |
| Topics | buildkit, oci-image, railway |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | docs | 0.4.0 | 4,090 |
| go | github.com/railwayapp/railpack | v0.31.1 | — |

## Vitality — 93/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 89/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 26.3 / 36 | 38/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 275 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 1 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~4.6 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 70/100 (Good)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 71/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 49.4 / 60 | 1,105 stars |
| Forks | partial | 17.7 / 25 | 135 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 3.9 / 15 | 6 watchers |

### Community health — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 60/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 48.2 / 80 | 4,090 downloads/month across go, npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 70/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 33/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 6.8 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 70% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 32 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 83/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 37.3 / 46.8 | 80% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 33.5 / 38.2 | 433/495 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | excluded | 0 / 15 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Ownership & stewardship — 79/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | met | 25 / 25 | 3,869 followers of railwayapp |
| Track record | partial | 24 / 25 | 44 public repos, account ~6 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 2 package(s) on go, npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 1 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 126 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 93/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 88/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 5 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.cjs, eslint.config.js, eslint.config.mjs |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 20 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Documentation — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://railpack.com |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 3 topics |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 1/100 (Critical)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 1/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Dependency lockfiles. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security policy (SECURITY.md) | not met | 0 / 30 | — |
| Dependabot config | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Dependency lockfiles | excluded | 0 / 25 | published library — lockfiles are an application concern, not expected |
| CodeQL workflow | not met | 0 / 20 | — |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Excellent)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 84/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 100/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, Automated maintenance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | examples/dockerignore/Justfile, examples/dockerignore/app/Justfile, examples/elixir-latest/mise.toml, examples/elixir-phoenix/mise.toml, examples/go-cmd-dirs/mise.toml, examples/go-mod/mise.toml, examples/mise-config/mise.toml, examples/node-latest-pnpm-mise-native-deps/mise.toml, examples/node-lts-npm-native-deps/mise.toml, examples/node-oldest/mise.toml, examples/python-compiled/mise.toml, examples/python-freethreaded/mise.toml, examples/python-latest/mise.toml, examples/python-oldest/mise.toml, examples/python-uv-latest-locked/mise.toml, examples/ruby-3-precompiled/mise.toml, examples/ruby-latest/mise.toml, examples/ruby-vanilla/mise.toml, examples/rust-rocket/mise.toml, mise.toml |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.cjs, eslint.config.js, eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | docs/tsconfig.json, examples/config-file/tsconfig.json, examples/expo-spa/tsconfig.json, examples/node-angular/tsconfig.json, examples/node-astro-server/tsconfig.json, examples/node-astro/tsconfig.json, examples/node-bun-bunfig/tsconfig.json, examples/node-bun/tsconfig.json, examples/node-corepack/tsconfig.json, examples/node-next-spa/tsconfig.json, examples/node-next/tsconfig.json, examples/node-nuxt/server/tsconfig.json, examples/node-nuxt/tsconfig.json, examples/node-prisma/tsconfig.json, examples/node-remix/tsconfig.json, examples/node-spa-staticfile/tsconfig.json, examples/node-svelte-kit/tsconfig.json, examples/node-tanstack-start/tsconfig.json, examples/node-turborepo/apps/web/tsconfig.json, examples/node-turborepo/packages/ui/tsconfig.json, examples/node-turborepo/packages/utils/tsconfig.json, examples/node-vite-react-router-spa/tsconfig.json, examples/node-vite-react-router-ssr/tsconfig.json, examples/node-vite-react/tsconfig.json, examples/node-vite-svelte/tsconfig.json, examples/node-yarn-1/tsconfig.json, examples/node-yarn-2-node-linker/tsconfig.json, examples/node-yarn-2/tsconfig.json, examples/node-yarn-3/tsconfig.json, examples/node-yarn-4/tsconfig.json, examples/php-laravel-11-react/jsconfig.json, examples/php-laravel-12-react/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.8 / 55 | 3/670 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 40/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example, examples |

## Collection warnings

- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 4216 packages (counts remain complete)
- OpenSSF Scorecard timed out after 240s; skipping Scorecard checks

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