# subsquid/squid-sdk — health index 36/100 (At risk)

> Inspection of the public repository subsquid/squid-sdk by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 36 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/subsquid/squid-sdk
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/subsquid/squid-sdk
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/subsquid/squid-sdk/report
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- Inspected: 2026-07-19
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.14.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 99/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 81/100 | Good |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 66/100 | Moderate |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 80/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 20/100 | Critical |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 79/100 | Good |

High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy applies a 50% multiplier to weighted overall health and gives it an At risk ceiling of 49.

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | TypeScript ETL toolkit for indexing Ethereum, Solana, and Substrate data, sourced from SQD Network. |
| Homepage | https://sqd.dev/sdk |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 1,334 |
| Forks | 195 |
| Created | 2021-12-10 |
| Last push | 2026-07-17 |
| Latest release | 2026-05-11 |
| Commits (last year) | 527 |
| Bus factor | 2 |
| Topics | blockchain, blockchain-indexer, ethereum, etl, evm, graphql, indexing, ponder, sdk, solana, sqd, subgraph, subsquid, substrate, the-graph, typescript, web3 |

## Vitality — 99/100 (Excellent)

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

### Development activity — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 1 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 34.6 / 36 | 50/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 527 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 — 100/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 5 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 68 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~13.5 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 — 81/100 (Good)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 50.7 / 60 | 1,334 stars |
| Forks | partial | 19.1 / 25 | 195 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 7.2 / 15 | 21 watchers |

### Community health — 85/100 (Excellent)

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

## Sustainability & Governance — 66/100 (Moderate)

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) — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 25.2 / 54 | 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 11.3 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 50% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 40 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 6 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 37.5 / 46.8 | 80% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 27.8 / 38.2 | 289/398 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | not met | 0 / 15 | Found 1/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 73/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 20.2 / 25 | 651 followers of subsquid |
| Track record | partial | 23.2 / 25 | 63 public repos, account ~5 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Good)

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

### Engineering practices — 84/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 7 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | biome.json |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 10 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 75/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://sqd.dev/sdk |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 17 topics |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 20/100 (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 — 20/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized. High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy applies a 50% multiplier to Security posture and gives it an At risk ceiling of 49.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | not met | 0 / 7.5 | branch protection not enabled on development/release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 10 out of 10 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 | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Found 1/23 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 6 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 | met | 5 / 5 | project is 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 | not met | 0 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 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 | 83 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 50/100 (Moderate)

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 | partial | 50 / 100 | Russia: top_contributor (2) |

## AI Readiness — 79/100 (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 | AGENTS.md |
| 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 | graphql/graphql-server/Makefile, graphql/openreader/Makefile, substrate/ss58/Makefile, substrate/substrate-ingest/Makefile, test/astar-erc20/Makefile, test/balances/Makefile, test/erc20-transfers/Makefile, test/fuel-indexer/Makefile, test/gear-nft/Makefile, test/karura-erc20/Makefile, test/polkavm-erc20/Makefile, test/shibuya-erc20/Makefile, test/shibuya-psp22/Makefile, test/solana-example/Makefile, test/starknet-indexer/Makefile, test/tron-usdt/Makefile, typeorm/typeorm-config/Makefile, typeorm/typeorm-migration/Makefile, typeorm/typeorm-store/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | biome.json |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | bitcoin/bitcoin-data-service/tsconfig.json, bitcoin/bitcoin-dump/tsconfig.json, bitcoin/bitcoin-ingest/tsconfig.json, bitcoin/bitcoin-normalization/tsconfig.json, bitcoin/bitcoin-rpc/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-abi/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-codec/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-data-service/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-dump/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-ingest/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-normalization/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-objects/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-processor/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-rpc/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-stream/tsconfig.json, evm/evm-typegen/tsconfig.json, fuel/fuel-data/tsconfig.json, fuel/fuel-dump/tsconfig.json, fuel/fuel-ingest/tsconfig.json, fuel/fuel-normalization/tsconfig.json, fuel/fuel-objects/tsconfig.json, fuel/fuel-stream/tsconfig.json, graphql/graphql-server/tsconfig.json, graphql/openreader/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-fills-data-service/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-fills-data/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-fills-ingest/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-fills-normalization/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-replica-cmds-data-service/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-replica-cmds-data/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-replica-cmds-ingest/tsconfig.json, hyperliquid/hyperliquid-replica-cmds-normalization/tsconfig.json, meta/squid-sdk/tsconfig.json, ops/workspace/tsconfig.json, ops/xcm-typegen/tsconfig.json, processor/batch-processor/tsconfig.json, solana/borsh/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-data-service/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-dump/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-ingest/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-normalization/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-objects/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-rpc-data/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-rpc/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-spray/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-stream/tsconfig.json, solana/solana-typegen/tsconfig.json, starknet/starknet-data/tsconfig.json, starknet/starknet-normalization/tsconfig.json, starknet/starknet-objects/tsconfig.json, starknet/starknet-rpc/tsconfig.json, starknet/starknet-stream/tsconfig.json, substrate/frontier/tsconfig.json, substrate/ink-abi/tsconfig.json, substrate/ink-typegen/tsconfig.json, substrate/scale-codec/tsconfig.json, substrate/scale-type-system/tsconfig.json, substrate/ss58-codec/tsconfig.json, substrate/ss58/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-data-raw/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-data/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-dump/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-ingest/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-metadata-explorer/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-metadata-service/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-processor/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-runtime/tsconfig.json, substrate/substrate-typegen/tsconfig.json, test/astar-erc20/tsconfig.json, test/balances/tsconfig.json, test/borsh-bench/tsconfig.json, test/data/tsconfig.json, test/erc20-transfers/tsconfig.json, test/evm-codec-bench/tsconfig.json, test/fuel-indexer/tsconfig.json, test/gear-nft/tsconfig.json, test/gql-client/tsconfig.json, test/karura-erc20/tsconfig.json, test/polkavm-erc20/tsconfig.json, test/shibuya-erc20/tsconfig.json, test/shibuya-psp22/tsconfig.json, test/solana-example/tsconfig.json, test/starknet-indexer/tsconfig.json, test/tron-usdt/tsconfig.json, test/types/tsconfig.json, tron/tron-data-service/tsconfig.json, tron/tron-data/tsconfig.json, tron/tron-dump/tsconfig.json, tron/tron-ingest/tsconfig.json, tron/tron-normalization/tsconfig.json, tron/tron-processor/tsconfig.json, typeorm/typeorm-codegen/tsconfig.json, typeorm/typeorm-config/tsconfig.json, typeorm/typeorm-migration/tsconfig.json, typeorm/typeorm-store/tsconfig.json, util/commands/tsconfig.json, util/http-client/tsconfig.json, util/logger/tsconfig.json, util/portal-client/tsconfig.json, util/rpc-client/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-archive-client/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-archive-layout/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-code-printer/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-commander/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-config/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-counters/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-data-service/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-data-source/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-dump-cli/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-fs/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-hex/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-http-server/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-ingest-cli/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-ingest-tools/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-json-fix-unsafe-integers/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-json/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-processor-tools/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-prometheus-server/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-range/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-read-lines/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-squid-id/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-testing/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-ts-node/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-validation/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal-worker-thread/tsconfig.json, util/util-internal/tsconfig.json, util/util-naming/tsconfig.json, util/util-timeout/tsconfig.json, util/util-xxhash/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 | 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 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.9 / 55 | 2/1109 source files over 60KB |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | graphql/graphql-server/src/test/check-extension/schema.graphql, graphql/graphql-server/src/test/resolvers-extension/schema.graphql, graphql/graphql-server/src/test/schema-plain/schema.graphql, graphql/openreader/fixtures/schema.graphql, graphql/openreader/fixtures/schema/1.graphql, test/astar-erc20/schema.graphql, test/balances/schema.graphql, test/erc20-transfers/schema.graphql, test/fuel-indexer/schema.graphql, test/gear-nft/schema.graphql, test/karura-erc20/schema.graphql, test/polkavm-erc20/schema.graphql, test/shibuya-erc20/schema.graphql, test/shibuya-psp22/schema.graphql, test/starknet-indexer/schema.graphql, test/tron-usdt/schema.graphql |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | not met | 0 / 40 | — |

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