# rn/linuxkit — health index 35/100 (At risk)

> Inspection of the public repository rn/linuxkit by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 35 out of 100, placing it in the At risk 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/rn/linuxkit
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/rn/linuxkit
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/rn/linuxkit/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/r/rn/linuxkit.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-21
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.18.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 20/100 | Critical |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 12/100 | Critical |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 43/100 | At risk |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 67/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 31/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 62/100 | Moderate |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 2 |
| Forks | 1 |
| Created | 2017-04-19 |
| Last push | 2025-03-10 |
| Latest release | v1.5.3 |
| Commits (last year) | 0 |
| Bus factor | 2 |
| Fork | yes |

## Vitality — 20/100 (Critical)

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

### Development activity — 1/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | not met | 0 / 36 | last push 497 days ago |
| Commit cadence | not met | 0 / 36 | 0/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | not met | 0 / 18 | 0 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | not met | 0 / 10 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |

### Release discipline — 48/100 (At risk)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | partial | 16.2 / 27 | 10 version tags (no GitHub releases) |
| Release recency | partial | 7.2 / 36 | latest release 574 days ago |
| Release cadence | partial | 19.8 / 27 | a release every ~89.7 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### 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 — 12/100 (Critical)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 1/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | not met | 0 / 60 | 2 stars |
| Forks | not met | 0 / 25 | 1 forks |
| Watchers | not met | 0 / 15 | 1 watchers |

### Community health — 25/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | not met | 0 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 43/100 (At risk)

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) — 62/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 25.2 / 54 | 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 13.1 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 42% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 55 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 1/100 (Critical)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | excluded | 0 / 46.8 | no issues or no data |
| PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 38.2 | no decided pull requests or no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | not met | 0 / 15 | Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 61/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | partial | 10 / 30 | personal (user) account |
| Verified domain | excluded | 0 / 20 | not applicable to user accounts |
| Owner reach | partial | 15.4 / 25 | 137 followers of rn |
| Track record | partial | 23.6 / 25 | 38 public repos, account ~13 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 67/100 (Moderate)

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

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 4 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 20 | no pull request found |

### Documentation — 35/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | not met | 0 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Repository description | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Topics | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 31/100 (At risk)

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 — 31/100 (At risk)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | not met | 0 / 7.5 | branch protection not enabled on development/release branches |
| CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 2.5 | no pull request found |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 55 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | not met | 0 / 7.5 | no update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | no SAST tool detected |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 60 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### 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 — 62/100 (Moderate)

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 — 1/100 (Critical)

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

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

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 88/100 (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 | Makefile, contrib/crosvm/Makefile, kernel/Makefile, pkg/Makefile, pkg/host-timesync-daemon/vendor/github.com/pkg/errors/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/fifo/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/ttrpc/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/distribution/reference/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/felixge/httpsnoop/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/pelletier/go-toml/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/pkg/errors/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/vishvananda/netlink/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/go.opencensus.io/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/Makefile, pkg/init/vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/Makefile, pkg/metadata/vendor/github.com/diskfs/go-diskfs/Makefile, pkg/metadata/vendor/github.com/elliotwutingfeng/asciiset/Makefile, pkg/metadata/vendor/github.com/vishvananda/netlink/Makefile, pkg/tss/src/glibc_stubs/Makefile, projects/clear-containers/kernel/Makefile, projects/clear-containers/tools/Makefile, projects/compose/Makefile, projects/ima-namespace/Makefile, projects/ima-namespace/ima-utils/Makefile, projects/ima-namespace/kernel/Makefile, projects/landlock/kernel-landlock/Makefile, projects/memorizer/kernel-memorizer/Makefile, projects/miragesdk/examples/https-unikernel/Makefile, projects/miragesdk/src/Makefile, projects/miragesdk/src/fdd/Makefile, projects/okernel/Makefile, projects/selinux/Makefile, projects/selinux/init/Makefile, projects/selinux/kernel/Makefile, projects/shiftfs/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/Azure/go-autorest/GNUmakefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/Code-Hex/vz/v3/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/anchore/go-struct-converter/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/containerd/ttrpc/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/distribution/reference/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/felixge/httpsnoop/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/gofrs/flock/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/hyperkit/go/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moul/gotty-client/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/pkg/errors/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/rn/iso9660wrap/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/vmware/govmomi/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/go.opencensus.io/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/Makefile, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/Makefile, test/Makefile, test/cases/020_kernel/111_kmod_5.4.x/src/Makefile, test/cases/020_kernel/113_kmod_5.10.x/src/Makefile, test/cases/020_kernel/116_kmod_5.15.x/src/Makefile, test/cases/020_kernel/119_kmod_6.6.x/src/Makefile, test/pkg/Makefile, tools/Makefile, tools/alpine/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | Go (statically typed) |
| 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 | not met | 0 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | met | 55 / 55 | 0/156 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3/cgroup1/stats/metrics.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/runtime/sandbox/v1/sandbox.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/containers/v1/containers.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/content/v1/content.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/diff/v1/diff.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/events/v1/events.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/images/v1/images.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/introspection/v1/introspection.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/leases/v1/leases.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/namespaces/v1/namespace.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/sandbox/v1/sandbox.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/snapshots/v1/snapshots.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/streaming/v1/streaming.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/tasks/v1/tasks.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/transfer/v1/transfer.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/version/v1/version.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/descriptor.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/event.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/fieldpath.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/introspection.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/metrics.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/mount.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/platform.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/runc/options/oci.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/sandbox.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/task/task.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/transfer/imagestore.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/transfer/importexport.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/transfer/progress.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/transfer/registry.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/transfer/streaming.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/ttrpc/request.proto, pkg/init/vendor/github.com/containerd/ttrpc/test.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/services/content/v1/content.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/containerd/ttrpc/request.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/containerd/ttrpc/test.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/docker/docker/api/swagger.yaml, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/docker/docker/api/types/swarm/runtime/plugin.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/apierror/internal/proto/custom_error.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/apierror/internal/proto/error.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/api/services/control/control.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/api/types/worker.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/frontend/gateway/pb/gateway.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/session/auth/auth.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/session/filesync/filesync.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/session/secrets/secrets.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/session/sshforward/ssh.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/session/upload/upload.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/solver/errdefs/errdefs.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/solver/pb/ops.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/sourcepolicy/pb/policy.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/util/apicaps/pb/caps.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/moby/buildkit/util/stack/stack.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/tonistiigi/fsutil/types/stat.proto, src/cmd/linuxkit/vendor/github.com/tonistiigi/fsutil/types/wire.proto |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Community profile unavailable
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/init' from its registry
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/kmsg' from its registry
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/rngd' from its registry
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/mount' from its registry
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/sysfs' from its registry
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/binfmt' from its registry
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/extend' from its registry
- Could not fetch go package 'github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pkg/format' from its registry

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