# withastro/astro — health index 88/100 (Excellent)

> Inspection of the public repository withastro/astro by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 88 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent 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/withastro/astro
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/withastro/astro
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/withastro/astro/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/w/withastro/astro.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-14
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.9.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 100/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 92/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 87/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 80/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 81/100 | Good |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 72/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work! |
| Homepage | https://astro.build |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| Stars | 61,005 |
| Forks | 3,629 |
| Created | 2021-03-15 |
| Last push | 2026-07-14 |
| Latest release | astro@7.0.9 |
| Commits (last year) | 2,134 |
| Bus factor | 5 |
| Topics | astro, blog, browser, components, hybrid, islands, node, server, static, static-site-generator, universal |

## Vitality — 100/100 (Excellent)

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 2134 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 6 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 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 0 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~0.6 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 — 92/100 (Excellent)

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

### Popularity & adoption — 98/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 61,005 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 3,629 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 12.9 / 15 | 212 watchers |

### Community health — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 87/100 (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 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 16% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 48 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 93/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 46.5 / 46.8 | 99% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 33.2 / 38.2 | 9053/10423 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 13.5 / 15 | Found 29/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9 |

### 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 | 4,252 followers of withastro |
| Track record | partial | 24.9 / 25 | 58 public repos, account ~7 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Good)

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

### Engineering practices — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 23 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | eslint.config.js |
| 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 — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://astro.build |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 11 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 81/100 (Good)

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 — 81/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | 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 |
| 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 | partial | 1.2 / 2.5 | badge detected: Passing |
| Code-Review | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | Found 29/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 48 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 | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 6 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 2.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file 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 | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 0 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 — 72/100 (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) — 72/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, Automated maintenance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | eslint.config.js |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | .github/scripts/tsconfig.json, benchmark/packages/adapter/tsconfig.json, benchmark/packages/timer/tsconfig.json, benchmark/tsconfig.json, examples/advanced-routing/tsconfig.json, examples/basics/tsconfig.json, examples/blog/tsconfig.json, examples/component/tsconfig.json, examples/container-with-vitest/tsconfig.json, examples/framework-alpine/tsconfig.json, examples/framework-multiple/tsconfig.json, examples/framework-preact/tsconfig.json, examples/framework-react/tsconfig.json, examples/framework-solid/tsconfig.json, examples/framework-svelte/tsconfig.json, examples/framework-vue/tsconfig.json, examples/hackernews/tsconfig.json, examples/integration/tsconfig.json, examples/minimal/tsconfig.json, examples/portfolio/tsconfig.json, examples/ssr/tsconfig.json, examples/starlog/tsconfig.json, examples/toolbar-app/tsconfig.json, examples/with-markdoc/tsconfig.json, examples/with-mdx/tsconfig.json, examples/with-nanostores/tsconfig.json, examples/with-tailwindcss/tsconfig.json, examples/with-vitest/tsconfig.json, packages/astro-prism/tsconfig.json, packages/astro-rss/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/components/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/actions-blog/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/actions-react-19/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/client-only/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/cloudflare/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/custom-client-directives/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/performance/fixtures/md/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/performance/fixtures/mdoc/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/performance/fixtures/mdx/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/performance/fixtures/utils/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/alias-css-url/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/alias-path-alias-style/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/alias-tsconfig-no-baseurl/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/alias-tsconfig/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-check-errors/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-check-no-errors/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-check-watch/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-env-content-collections/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-env-required-public/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-env-server-fail/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-env-server-secret/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/astro-env/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/content-collections-image-hmr/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/content-collections-type-inference/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-deletion/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-infersize/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-layout/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-picture-emit-file/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-remark-imgattr/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-ssg/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-svg-in-island/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-svg/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image-unconventional-settings/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/core-image/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/css-deduplication/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/custom-renderer/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/live-loaders/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/react-and-solid/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/svg-deduplication/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/tsconfig-handling/baseUrl/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/tsconfig-handling/extends-array/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/tsconfig-handling/extends-chain/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/tsconfig-handling/invalid/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/tsconfig-handling/jsconfig/jsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/tsconfig-handling/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/fixtures/url-import-suffix/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/test/types/tsconfig.json, packages/astro/tsconfig.json, packages/create-astro/test/fixtures/not-empty/tsconfig.json, packages/create-astro/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/alpinejs/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/cloudflare/test/fixtures/astro-env/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/cloudflare/test/fixtures/custom-entryfile/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/cloudflare/test/fixtures/vite-plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/cloudflare/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/markdoc/test/fixtures/image-assets-custom/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/markdoc/test/fixtures/image-assets/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/markdoc/test/fixtures/render-with-components/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/markdoc/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/mdx/test/fixtures/mdx-images/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/mdx/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/netlify/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/node/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/partytown/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/preact/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/react/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/sitemap/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/solid/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/svelte/test/fixtures/conditional-rendering/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/svelte/test/fixtures/prop-types/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/svelte/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/vercel/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/vue/test/fixtures/prop-types/tsconfig.json, packages/integrations/vue/tsconfig.json, packages/internal-helpers/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/astro-check/test/fixture/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/astro-check/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/language-server/test/check/fixture/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/language-server/test/fixture/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/language-server/test/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/language-server/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/ts-plugin/test/fixtures/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/ts-plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/vscode/tsconfig.json, packages/language-tools/yaml2ts/tsconfig.json, packages/markdown/remark/tsconfig.json, packages/markdown/satteri/tsconfig.json, packages/telemetry/tsconfig.json, packages/underscore-redirects/tsconfig.json, packages/upgrade/tsconfig.json, scripts/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | devcontainer, Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 5 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5 |

### 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 | 3/2742 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 | examples |

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