# wagoodman/syft — health index 40/100 (At risk)

> Inspection of the public repository wagoodman/syft by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 40 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/wagoodman/syft
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/wagoodman/syft
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/wagoodman/syft/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/w/wagoodman/syft.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-25
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.27.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 42/100 | At risk |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 14/100 | Critical |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 46/100 | At risk |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 52/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 42/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 67/100 | Moderate |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 3 |
| Forks | 1 |
| Created | 2021-12-12 |
| Last push | 2026-01-09 |
| Latest release | v0.0.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 293 |
| Bus factor | 2 |
| Fork | yes |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/anchore/syft | v1.49.0 | — |

## Vitality — 42/100 (At risk)

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

### Development activity — 38/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | partial | 3.6 / 36 | last push 196 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 15.9 / 36 | 23/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 293 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 — 47/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 1 releases published |
| Release recency | partial | 7.2 / 36 | latest release 611 days ago |
| Release cadence | partial | 12.6 / 27 | cadence unknown (single release) |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | no human commit for 197 days, with nothing left unanswered; held at dormant by nothing open to answer |

## Community & Adoption — 14/100 (Critical)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 5/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 4.9 / 60 | 3 stars |
| Forks | not met | 0 / 25 | 1 forks |
| Watchers | not met | 0 / 15 | 0 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 — 46/100 (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) — 61/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 25.2 / 54 | 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 12.6 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 44% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 98 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 35 contributing companies or organizations |

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

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 | not met | 0 / 38.2 | 0/4 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | not met | 0 / 15 | Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |

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

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 | 23.2 / 25 | 1,675 followers of wagoodman |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 110 public repos, account ~15 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 52/100 (Moderate)

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

### Engineering practices — 80/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 13 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .golangci.yaml |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 20 | no pull request found |

### Documentation — 10/100 (Critical)

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

## Security — 42/100 (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 — 43/100 (At risk)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | not met | 0 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| 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 35 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 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 | partial | 3 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool detected: CodeQL |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 319 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 39/100 (At risk)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 428 resolved dependencies against OSV; 1 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.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | partial | 6.5 / 35 | 7 affected: github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5 v5.7.0 (high 8.1), github.com/hashicorp/go-getter v1.8.4 (high 7.5), github.com/anchore/stereoscope v0.0.0-20200706164556-7cf39d7f4639 (moderate 5.3), +4 more |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | excluded | 0 / 25 | transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope |
| No advisories left outstanding | partial | 22.9 / 40 | 5 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 905 days ago |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dependency reported as a malicious package | met | 100 / 100 | no dependency is reported as a malicious package |

### 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 — 67/100 (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 — 40/100 (At risk)

| 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 | met | 40 / 40 | 40 of 40 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | Makefile, Taskfile.yaml, cmd/syft/internal/test/integration/test-fixtures/Makefile, schema/cyclonedx/Makefile, syft/file/cataloger/executable/test-fixtures/Makefile, syft/file/cataloger/executable/test-fixtures/elf/Makefile, syft/file/cataloger/executable/test-fixtures/elf/project/Makefile, syft/file/cataloger/executable/test-fixtures/shared-info/Makefile, syft/file/cataloger/executable/test-fixtures/shared-info/project/Makefile, syft/file/cataloger/executable/test-fixtures/shared-info/project/hello/Makefile, syft/file/cataloger/executable/test-fixtures/shared-info/project/libhello/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/elf-test-fixtures/elfbinwithcorrupt/elfsrc/makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/elf-test-fixtures/elfbinwithcorrupt/makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/elf-test-fixtures/elfbinwithnestedlib/elfsrc/makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/elf-test-fixtures/elfbinwithnestedlib/makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/elf-test-fixtures/elfbinwithsisterlib/elfsrc1/makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/elf-test-fixtures/elfbinwithsisterlib/elfsrc2/makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/elf-test-fixtures/elfbinwithsisterlib/makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/dotnet/test-fixtures/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/test-fixtures/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/test-fixtures/archs/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/internal/pe/test-fixtures/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/java/test-fixtures/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/java/test-fixtures/jar-metadata/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/java/test-fixtures/java-builds/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/kernel/test-fixtures/Makefile, syft/pkg/cataloger/redhat/test-fixtures/Makefile, test/cli/test-fixtures/Makefile, test/cli/test-fixtures/image-java-spdx-tools/Makefile, test/cli/test-fixtures/registry/Makefile, test/install/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .golangci.yaml |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | Go (statically typed) |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | not met | 0 / 10 | no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 47 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 6 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6 |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.7 / 55 | 6/1181 source files over 60KB |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example, examples, sample |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- Community profile unavailable
- go package 'github.com/anchore/syft' points at a different repository (https://github.com/anchore/syft); excluded from ecosystem scoring

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