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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-06 22:13 UTC

themidnightgospel / Imposter

Mocking library with the perfect balance of Performance and Intuitive API

C#MIT★ 649 stars⑂ 16 forkssince Jul 2025View on GitHub ↗

themidnightgospel/Imposter holds a health index of 87 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (83/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (60/100). It was last updated today. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

87
overall / 100
Excellent

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.

87
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)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

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 73 is calibrated to 87 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Bitchiko TchelidzePersonal account
24 followers48 public repossince Jan 2015Mettler Toledo

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
NuGetImposter0.2.0-200 days agosourcegeneratormockstubimposterroslyntesting

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

83Excellent · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 0 days ago
11.1/36Commit cadence — 16/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 312 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 29 commit(s) and 12 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year312
human_commit_share0.97
days_since_last_push0
active_weeks_last_year16

Release discipline

94Exceptional
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 31 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 0 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~35.1 days
4/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — 2 out of the last 5 releases have a total of 2 signed artifacts.
Inputs used
releases_count31
latest_release_tag0.2.0
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release0
mean_days_between_releases35.1

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

64Moderate · 17% of overall
How it's scored
45.6/60Stars — 649 stars
9.8/25Forks — 16 forks
3.9/15Watchers — 6 watchers
Inputs used
forks16
stars649
watchers6
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (MIT)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges4
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_servicesgithub.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_templateno
How it's scored
50.6/80Total downloads — 73,789 downloads all-time across nuget
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesImposter
dependents—
ecosystemsnuget
total_downloads73,789
monthly_downloads—
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
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
1.4/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 94% of commits
10.8/13.5Contributor breadth — 8 contributors
6/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled8
top_contributor_share0.938
How it's scored
42/42Issue resolution — 100% of issues closed
28.6/30PR acceptance — 42/44 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
merged_prs42
open_issues0
closed_issues26
prs_merged_7d9
prs_decided_7d9
prs_merged_30d11
prs_decided_30d12
issue_closed_ratio1
closed_unmerged_prs2
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
10/30Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
10.1/25Owner reach — 24 followers of themidnightgospel
24.3/25Track record — 48 public repos, account ~11 yr old
Inputs used
followers24
owner_typeUser
is_verified—
owner_loginthemidnightgospel
public_repos48
account_age_days4,273
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on nuget
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 0 days ago
20/20Version history — 20 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesImposter
ecosystemsnuget
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish0

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

80Excellent · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 9 out of 9 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigyes
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

90Excellent
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://themidnightgospel.github.io/Imposter/
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 5 topics
0/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicscsharp, dotnet, mocking, performance, testing
has_wikino
homepagehttps://themidnightgospel.github.io/Imposter/
docs_sitehttps://themidnightgospel.github.io/Imposter/
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

79Good · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
3/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5CI-Tests — 9 out of 9 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
1.5/2.5Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 29 commit(s) and 12 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5Packaging — packaging workflow detected
5/5Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
5/5SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
3/7.5Signed-Releases — 2 out of the last 5 releases have a total of 2 signed artifacts.
7.5/7.5Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
5.2/7.5Vulnerabilities — 3 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated18
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive0
scorecard_aggregate7.4

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories6
affected_packages1
assessed_packages57
unassessed_packages3
affected_by_severityhigh 1
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 57 resolved dependencies against OSV. 3 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. 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.

60Moderate · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
19.8/40Legible commit history — 36 of 97 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.371
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
12.6/18One-command bootstrap — benchmarks/Imposter.Benchmarks/Imposter.Benchmarks.csproj, playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj, playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj (toolchain convention, no task runner)
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
11/11Static type checking — C# (statically typed)
0/10Reproducible environment
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8Automated maintenance — 3 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageyes
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifestsbenchmarks/Imposter.Benchmarks/Imposter.Benchmarks.csproj, playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj, playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj, samples/Sample.Services/Sample.Services.csproj, samples/Sample.Tests/Sample.Tests.csproj, src/Imposter.Abstractions/Imposter.Abstractions.csproj, src/Imposter.CodeGenerator/Imposter.CodeGenerator.csproj, tests/Imposter.Abstractions.Tests/Imposter.Abstractions.Tests.csproj, tests/Imposter.CodeGenerator.Tests/Imposter.CodeGenerator.Tests.csproj, tests/Imposter.Tests/Imposter.Tests.csproj
dependency_bot_commit_share0.03
How it's scored
45/45Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed)
46.9/55Manageable file sizes — 162/1,097 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageC#
largest_source_bytes531,832
source_files_sampled1,097
oversized_source_files162
How it's scored
0/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40Runnable examples — samples
Inputs used
example_dirssamples
has_mcp_signalno
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

649GitHub stars
8contributors
312commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
31releases
1bus factor
0open issues
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 ★ / 16 ⇿
0Stars
16Forks
7Releases

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.

04812161642025-112026-042026-09
Major 0Minor 0Patch 7
OpenSSF Scorecard 7.4 / 10
7.4aggregate

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 · 2026-10-06 22:13 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
4Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10CI-Tests9 out of 9 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0Code-ReviewFound 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
6Contributorsproject has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained29 commit(s) and 12 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10Packagingpackaging workflow detected
10Pinned-Dependenciesall dependencies are pinned
10SASTSAST tool is run on all commits
10Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
4Signed-Releases2 out of the last 5 releases have a total of 2 signed artifacts.
10Token-PermissionsGitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
7Vulnerabilities3 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 18
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk17.6.2playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj
NuGetShouldly4.3.0playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj
NuGetMoq4.20.72playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj
NuGetxunit2.4.2playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp$(ROSLYN_VERSION)playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj
NuGetBenchmarkDotNet0.13.2playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj
NuGetxunit.runner.visualstudio2.4.5playground/Imposter.Ideation/Imposter.Ideation.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk17.6.2playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj
NuGetShouldly4.3.0playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj
NuGetMoq4.20.72playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj
NuGetxunit2.4.2playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp$(ROSLYN_VERSION)playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj
NuGetBenchmarkDotNet0.13.2playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj
NuGetxunit.runner.visualstudio2.4.5playground/Imposter.Playground/Imposter.Playground.csproj
NuGetPolyfill1.32.1src/Imposter.Abstractions/Imposter.Abstractions.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.PerformanceSensitiveAnalyzers3.3.1src/Imposter.CodeGenerator/Imposter.CodeGenerator.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.Analyzers4.14.0src/Imposter.CodeGenerator/Imposter.CodeGenerator.csproj
NuGetPolySharp1.15.0src/Imposter.CodeGenerator/Imposter.CodeGenerator.csproj
All dependencies 60

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 11 direct and 49 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
NuGetBenchmarkDotNet0.13.2direct
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.Analyzers4.14.0direct
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp—direct
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.PerformanceSensitiveAnalyzers3.3.1direct
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk17.6.2direct
NuGetMoq4.20.72direct
NuGetPolyfill1.32.1direct
NuGetPolySharp1.15.0direct
NuGetShouldly4.3.0direct
NuGetxunit2.4.2direct
NuGetxunit.runner.visualstudio2.4.5direct
NuGetFakeItEasy8.1.0indirect
NuGetImposter—indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.SourceGenerators.Testing.XUnit1.1.2indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces—indirect
NuGetMicrosoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces5.0.0-2.finalindirect
NuGetNSubstitute5.3.0indirect
NuGetRocks10.1.0indirect
PyPIbabel2.18.0indirect
PyPIbackrefs8.0indirect
PyPIbeautifulsoup44.15.0indirect
PyPIcertifi2026.7.22indirect
PyPIcharset-normalizer3.5.1indirect
PyPIclick8.5.0indirect
PyPIcolorama0.4.6indirect
PyPIghp-import2.1.0indirect
PyPIidna3.19indirect
PyPIjinja23.1.6indirect
PyPImarkdown3.10.3indirect
PyPImarkdown-it-py3.0.0indirect
PyPImarkdownify1.2.3indirect
PyPImarkupsafe3.0.3indirect
PyPImdformat0.7.22indirect
PyPImdformat-tables1.0.0indirect
PyPImdurl0.1.2indirect
PyPImergedeep1.3.4indirect
PyPImike2.2.0indirect
PyPImkdocs1.6.1indirect
PyPImkdocs-get-deps0.2.2indirect
PyPImkdocs-llmstxt0.5.0indirect
PyPImkdocs-material9.7.7indirect
PyPImkdocs-material-extensions1.3.1indirect
PyPIpackaging26.3indirect
PyPIpaginate0.5.7indirect
PyPIpathspec1.1.1indirect
PyPIplatformdirs4.11.7indirect
PyPIpygments2.21.0indirect
PyPIpymdown-extensions11.0.2indirect
PyPIpyparsing3.3.2indirect
PyPIpython-dateutil2.9.0.post0indirect
PyPIpyyaml6.0.3indirect
PyPIpyyaml-env-tag1.1indirect
PyPIrequests2.34.2indirect
PyPIsix1.17.0indirect
PyPIsoupsieve2.9.2indirect
PyPItyping-extensions4.16.0indirect
PyPIurllib32.7.0indirect
PyPIverspec0.1.0indirect
PyPIwatchdog6.0.0indirect
PyPIwcwidth0.8.3indirect
Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 57 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 3 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
urllib32.7.0indirecthigh62.8.0

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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