# smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos — health index 70/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 70 out of 100, placing it in the Good 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/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/s/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos.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% | 89/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 43/100 | At risk |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 88/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 60/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 59/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 54/100 | Moderate |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Central hub for shared protobuf definitions in Chainlink |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 3 |
| Forks | 5 |
| Created | 2024-08-16 |
| Last push | 2026-07-16 |
| Latest release | cre-sdk/v1alpha.16 |
| Commits (last year) | 195 |
| Bus factor | 5 |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/data-feeds | v0.1.0 | — |
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/job-distributor | v0.20.0 | — |
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/node-platform | v0.2.0 | — |
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/op-catalog | v0.1.0 | — |
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/orchestrator | v0.11.0 | — |
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/rane | v0.0.0 | — |
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/storage-service | v0.3.0 | — |
| go | github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-protos/svr | v1.3.0 | — |

## Vitality — 89/100 (Excellent)

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

### Development activity — 96/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 1 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 31.8 / 36 | 46/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 195 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 78/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 10 releases published |
| Release recency | partial | 16.2 / 36 | latest release 312 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~7.5 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 — 43/100 (At risk)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 19/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 4.9 / 60 | 3 stars |
| Forks | partial | 5 / 25 | 5 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 8.7 / 15 | 37 watchers |

### Community health — 70/100 (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 | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 88/100 (Excellent)

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) — 88/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 45.9 / 54 | 5 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 19.1 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 15% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 57 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10 |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 87/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | excluded | 0 / 46.8 | no issues or no data |
| PR acceptance | partial | 31.5 / 38.2 | 352/428 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | met | 25 / 25 | 4,146 followers of smartcontractkit |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 380 public repos, account ~9 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 8 package(s) on go |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 2 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 28 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 60/100 (Moderate)

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

### Engineering practices — 74/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 13 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | not met | 0 / 16 | — |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 40/100 (At risk)

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

## Security — 59/100 (Moderate)

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 — 59/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): 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 | partial | 6 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10 |
| 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 | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 3.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not 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 | 20 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 — 54/100 (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) — 83/100 (Good)

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 | billing/Makefile, metering/Makefile, ring/Makefile, storage-service/Makefile, svr/Makefile, taskfile.yml, workflows/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | not met | 0 / 11 | — |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | Go (statically typed) |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 7 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |

### Code legibility for models — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54 / 55 | 3/164 source files over 60KB |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | billing/creditreservation/v1/credit_reservation_service.proto, billing/creditreservation/v1alpha/credit_reservation_service.proto, chainlink-ccv/committee-verifier/v1/committee-verifier.proto, chainlink-ccv/heartbeat/v1/heartbeat.proto, chainlink-ccv/message-discovery/v1/message-discovery.proto, chainlink-ccv/message-rules/v1/message-rules.proto, chainlink-ccv/verifier/v1/verifier.proto, cre/capabilities/blockchain/evm/v1alpha/client.proto, cre/capabilities/blockchain/solana/v1alpha/client.proto, cre/capabilities/compute/confidentialworkflow/v1alpha/client.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/actionandtrigger/v1/action_and_trigger.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/basicaction/v1/basic_action.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/basictrigger/v1/basic_trigger.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/consensus/v1alpha/consensus.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/consensus/v1beta/consensus.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/importclash/p1/v1/import.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/importclash/p2/v1/import.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/importclash/v1/clash.proto, cre/capabilities/internal/nodeaction/v1/node_action.proto, cre/capabilities/networking/confidentialhttp/v1alpha/client.proto, cre/capabilities/networking/http/v1alpha/client.proto, cre/capabilities/networking/http/v1alpha/trigger.proto, cre/capabilities/scheduler/cron/v1/trigger.proto, cre/sdk/v1alpha/sdk.proto, cre/sdk/v1beta/sdk.proto, cre/tools/generator/v1alpha/cre_metadata.proto, cre/tools/generator/v1beta/cre_metadata.proto, cre/values/v1/values.proto, data-feeds/bridge_status/v1/bridge_status_event.proto, data-feeds/bridge_status/v1/configuration_item.proto, data-feeds/bridge_status/v1/endpoint_info.proto, data-feeds/bridge_status/v1/job_info.proto, data-feeds/bridge_status/v1/metrics_info.proto, data-feeds/bridge_status/v1/runtime_info.proto, data-feeds/job_spec/v1/job_spec_event.proto, data-feeds/job_spec/v1/ocr2_evm_relay_config.proto, data-feeds/job_spec/v1/ocr2_median_plugin_config.proto, data-feeds/job_spec/v1/ocr2_oracle_spec_info.proto, job-distributor/v1/app/app.proto, job-distributor/v1/csa/csa.proto, job-distributor/v1/job/job.proto, job-distributor/v1/node/node.proto, job-distributor/v1/probation/probation.proto, job-distributor/v1/shared/ptypes/label.proto, linking-service/v1/linking-service.proto, linking-service/v1/linking-types.proto, metering/metering/v1/identity.proto, metering/metering/v1/meter_record.proto, metering/metering/v1/snapshot.proto, metering/metering/v1/utilization.proto, node-platform/common/v1/chain_plugin_config.proto, node-platform/common/v1/health_info.proto, node-platform/common/v1/node_build_info.proto, node-platform/common/v1/node_job_info.proto, op-catalog/v1/datastore/address_reference.proto, op-catalog/v1/datastore/chain_metadata.proto, op-catalog/v1/datastore/common.proto, op-catalog/v1/datastore/contract_metadata.proto, op-catalog/v1/datastore/datastore.proto, op-catalog/v1/datastore/environment_metadata.proto, op-catalog/v1/datastore/transactions.proto, orchestrator/feedsmanager/feedsmanager.proto, rane/v1/metadata.proto, ring/pb/arbiter.proto, ring/pb/consensus.proto, ring/pb/shard_orchestrator.proto, ring/pb/shared.proto, rmn/v1.6/proto/ocr3config/offchainreporting3_offchain_config.proto, rmn/v1.6/proto/serialization/keystore.proto, rmn/v1.6/proto/serialization/rageproxy.proto, rmn/v1.6/proto/serialization/rmn_offchain.proto, storage-service/node/v1/node_service.proto, svr/v1/beholder_tx_message.proto, svr/v1/fastlane_atlas_error.proto, svr/v1/fastlane_atlas_user_op.proto, workflows/bridge_status/v1/bridge_status_event.proto, workflows/bridge_status/v1/configuration_item.proto, workflows/bridge_status/v1/endpoint_info.proto, workflows/bridge_status/v1/job_info.proto, workflows/bridge_status/v1/metrics_info.proto, workflows/bridge_status/v1/runtime_info.proto, workflows/common/v1/base_message.proto, workflows/pb/base_message_legacy.proto, workflows/sources/v1/workflow_metadata_source.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/capability_finished.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/capability_started.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/metadata.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/metering.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/transmissions_scheduled_event.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/transmit_schedule_event.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/trigger_detail.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/user_logs.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/workflow_finished.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/workflow_started.proto, workflows/workflows/v1/workflow_status_changed.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/capability_execution_finished.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/capability_execution_started.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/cre_info.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/transaction_info.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/trigger_execution_started.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_activated.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_activation_abandoned.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_deleted.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_deployed.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_execution_finished.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_execution_profile.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_execution_started.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_key.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_paused.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_updated.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_user_log.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/workflow_user_metric.proto, workflows/workflows/v2/xxx_no_send.proto |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | not met | 0 / 40 | — |

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