Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-08-22 14:05 UTC

tighten / duster

Automatic configuration for Laravel apps to apply Tighten's standard linting & code standards.

PHPMIT★ 600 stars⑂ 27 forkssince Feb 2021View on GitHub ↗

KindCommand-line toolhow this is determined

#codequality #formatter #laravel #linter #php

tighten/duster holds a health index of 86 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Security (76/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (45/100). It was last updated 14 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

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.

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)

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 72 is calibrated to 86 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

TightenOrganization

294 followers105 public repossince Jul 2013

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish	Tags
Packagist	tightenco/duster	v3.4.6	138,515	67	36 days ago	php laravel code-style tightenco duster

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

75Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

64Moderate

How it's scored

28.8/36	Push recency — last push 14 days ago
9.7/36	Commit cadence — 14/52 weeks with commits
15.2/18	Commit volume — 48 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 21 commit(s) and 3 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	48
human_commit_share	0.98
days_since_last_push	14
active_weeks_last_year	14

Release discipline

92Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 67 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 36 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~65.2 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	67
latest_release_tag	v3.4.6
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	36
mean_days_between_releases	65.2

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

Community & Adoption

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

70Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

62Moderate

How it's scored

45.1/60	Stars — 600 stars
11.8/25	Forks — 27 forks
5.3/15	Watchers — 10 watchers

Inputs used

forks	27
stars	600
watchers	10
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

70Good

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	0
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

84Excellent

How it's scored

68.6/80	Monthly downloads — 138,515 downloads/month across packagist
15.4/20	Registry dependents — 206 packages depend on it

Inputs used

packages	tightenco/duster
dependents	206
ecosystems	packagist
total_downloads	2,990,219
monthly_downloads	138,515
unverified_packages_excluded	—

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

70Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

40Weak

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
7.3/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 67% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 18 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 5 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	18
top_contributor_share	0.674

Issue & PR responsiveness

81Excellent

How it's scored

38/42	Issue resolution — 90% of issues closed
29.2/30	PR acceptance — 115/118 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
3/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 4/14 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2

Inputs used

merged_prs	115
open_issues	9
closed_issues	85
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0.904
closed_unmerged_prs	3
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

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

Ownership & stewardship

73Good

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain
17.8/25	Owner reach — 294 followers of tighten
25/25	Track record — 105 public repos, account ~13 yr old

Inputs used

followers	294
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	no
owner_login	tighten
public_repos	105
account_age_days	4,770

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on packagist
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 36 days ago
20/20	Version history — 67 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	tightenco/duster
ecosystems	packagist
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	36

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

74Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

90Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 1 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .php-cs-fixer.dist.php, .php-cs-fixer.php, phpstan.neon
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 10 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	yes
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

50Moderate

How it's scored

30/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 5 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	codequality, formatter, laravel, linter, php
has_wiki	no
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	yes

Security

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

76Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

70Good

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 10 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1.5/7.5	Code-Review — Found 4/14 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 5 contributing companies or organizations
0/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no data
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 21 commit(s) and 3 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — no data
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — no data
7.5/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	12
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	6
scorecard_aggregate	7

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional

How it's scored

35/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	7
affected_packages	2
assessed_packages	101
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	high 2
direct_affected_packages	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 101 resolved dependencies against OSV. 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.

45Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

20At Risk

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
19.6/40	Legible commit history — 36 of 98 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.367
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

59Moderate

How it's scored

0/18	One-command bootstrap
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .php-cs-fixer.dist.php, .php-cs-fixer.php, phpstan.neon
0/11	Static type checking
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
2/10	Demonstrated agent practice — 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8	Automated maintenance — 2 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — no data

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	composer.lock
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	no
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0.01
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.02

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

Code legibility for models

55Moderate

How it's scored

0/45	Type-checkable code — PHP without a type-check config
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/78 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	PHP
largest_source_bytes	20,554
source_files_sampled	78
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

600GitHub stars

18contributors

48commits, last 12 months

14days since last push

67releases

1bus factor

9open issues

Packagistpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 27 ⇿

0Stars

27Forks

54Releases

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.

Major 3Minor 18Patch 33

Each point covers 5 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 7.0 / 10

7.0aggregate

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 · 2026-08-22 14:04 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
n/a	Branch-Protection	internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
10	CI-Tests	10 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
2	Code-Review	Found 4/14 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
10	Contributors	project has 5 contributing companies or organizations
n/a	Dangerous-Workflow	no workflows found
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	21 commit(s) and 3 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
n/a	Pinned-Dependencies	no dependencies found
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
10	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
n/a	Token-Permissions	No tokens found
10	Vulnerabilities	0 existing vulnerabilities detected

All dependencies 101

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 101 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Packagist	brick/math	`0.18.0`	indirect
Packagist	carbonphp/carbon-doctrine-types	`3.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	clue/ndjson-react	`1.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/pcre	`3.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/semver	`3.4.4`	indirect
Packagist	composer/xdebug-handler	`3.0.5`	indirect
Packagist	doctrine/inflector	`2.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	dragonmantank/cron-expression	`3.6.0`	indirect
Packagist	ergebnis/agent-detector	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	evenement/evenement	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	fidry/cpu-core-counter	`1.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	filp/whoops	`2.18.4`	indirect
Packagist	friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer	`3.95.13`	indirect
Packagist	graham-campbell/result-type	`1.1.4`	indirect
Packagist	guzzlehttp/guzzle	`7.14.1`	indirect
Packagist	guzzlehttp/promises	`2.5.1`	indirect
Packagist	guzzlehttp/psr7	`2.12.5`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/bus	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/cache	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/collections	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/conditionable	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/config	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/console	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/container	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/contracts	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/events	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/filesystem	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/macroable	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/pipeline	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/process	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/reflection	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/support	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/testing	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	illuminate/view	`12.63.0`	indirect
Packagist	jolicode/jolinotif	`2.7.3`	indirect
Packagist	jolicode/php-os-helper	`0.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	laravel-zero/foundation	`12.54.1`	indirect
Packagist	laravel-zero/framework	`12.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	laravel/agent-detector	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	laravel/pint	`1.29.3`	indirect
Packagist	laravel/prompts	`0.3.21`	indirect
Packagist	league/flysystem	`3.35.2`	indirect
Packagist	league/flysystem-local	`3.31.0`	indirect
Packagist	league/mime-type-detection	`1.17.0`	indirect
Packagist	nesbot/carbon	`3.13.1`	indirect
Packagist	nikic/php-parser	`5.8.0`	indirect
Packagist	nunomaduro/collision	`8.9.4`	indirect
Packagist	nunomaduro/laravel-console-summary	`1.14.0`	indirect
Packagist	nunomaduro/laravel-console-task	`1.11.0`	indirect
Packagist	nunomaduro/laravel-desktop-notifier	`2.10.0`	indirect
Packagist	nunomaduro/termwind	`2.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpoption/phpoption	`1.9.5`	indirect
Packagist	psr/clock	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/container	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	psr/event-dispatcher	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-client	`1.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-factory	`1.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-message	`2.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/log	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	psr/simple-cache	`3.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	ralouphie/getallheaders	`3.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	ramsey/collection	`2.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	ramsey/uuid	`4.9.3`	indirect
Packagist	react/cache	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/child-process	`0.6.7`	indirect
Packagist	react/dns	`1.14.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/event-loop	`1.6.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/promise	`3.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/socket	`1.17.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/stream	`1.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/diff	`6.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	spatie/invade	`1.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	squizlabs/php_codesniffer	`4.0.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/clock	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/console	`7.4.14`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/deprecation-contracts	`3.7.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/error-handler	`7.4.14`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher	`7.4.14`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts	`3.7.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/filesystem	`7.4.11`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/finder	`7.4.14`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/options-resolver	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-ctype	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer	`1.38.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-mbstring	`1.38.2`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php80	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php81	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php83	`1.38.2`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php84	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php85	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/process	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/service-contracts	`3.7.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/stopwatch	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/string	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/translation	`7.4.14`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/translation-contracts	`3.7.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/var-dumper	`7.4.14`	indirect
Packagist	tightenco/tlint	`9.6.1`	indirect
Packagist	vlucas/phpdotenv	`5.6.4`	indirect
Packagist	voku/portable-ascii	`2.1.1`	indirect

Dependency advisories 2

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 101 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 2 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
guzzlehttp/guzzle	`7.14.1`	indirect	high	6	`8.0.1`
squizlabs/php_codesniffer	`4.0.1`	indirect	high	1	`4.0.2`

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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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.

Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

How one result sits in the wider record: aggregate statistics — Packagist.

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