# yahoo/elide — health index 75/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository yahoo/elide by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 75 out of 100, placing it in the Good 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/yahoo/elide
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/yahoo/elide
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/yahoo/elide/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/y/yahoo/elide.svg
- Inspected: 2026-09-06
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.34.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 70/100 | Good |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 85/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 70/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 40/100 | Weak |
| Security | 16% | 58/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 60/100 | Moderate |

The weighted overall 65 is calibrated to 75 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Elide is a Java library that lets you stand up a GraphQL/JSON-API web service with minimal effort. |
| Classification | library |
| Homepage | https://elide.io |
| Primary language | Java |
| Stars | 1,032 |
| Forks | 236 |
| Created | 2015-10-12 |
| Last push | 2026-09-03 |
| Latest release | 7.2.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 18 |
| Bus factor | 1 |
| Topics | json-api, java-library, java, jpa, hibernate-jpa, graphql, web, mobile, api-framework, elide, hacktoberfest, orm, hibernate, analytics, api, api-rest |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-core | 7.2.0 | — |
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-test-helpers | 7.2.0 | — |
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-async | 7.2.0 | — |
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-graphql | 7.2.0 | — |
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-swagger | 7.2.0 | — |
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-standalone | 7.2.0 | — |
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-model-config | 7.2.0 | — |
| maven | com.yahoo.elide:elide-integration-tests | 7.2.0 | — |

## Vitality — 70/100 (Good)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 21% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 56/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 2 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 4.8 / 36 | 7/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | partial | 11.5 / 18 | 18 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | partial | 4 / 10 | 5 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 4 |

### Release discipline — 92/100 (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 | 52 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 9 days ago |
| Release cadence | partial | 19.8 / 27 | a release every ~91.4 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 9 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 85/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 17% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 78/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 48.9 / 60 | 1,032 stars |
| Forks | partial | 19.8 / 25 | 236 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 9.6 / 15 | 55 watchers |

### Community health — 94/100 (Exceptional)

| 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 | met | 7.2 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 70/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 23% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 44/100 (Weak)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 11.1 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 51% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 67 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 15 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 74/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 37.3 / 42 | 89% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 24.4 / 30 | 2221/2728 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 3 / 15 | Found 6/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 74/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 19.4 / 25 | 495 followers of yahoo |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 206 public repos, account ~18 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 8 package(s) on maven |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 9 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 222 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 40/100 (Weak)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 19% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 24/100 (At Risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | not met | 0 / 24 | — |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | not met | 0 / 16 | — |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | not met | 0 / 20 | 0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |

### Documentation — 65/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://elide.io |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 16 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 58/100 (Moderate)

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 — 47/100 (Weak)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. 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 | not met | 0 / 2.5 | 0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 1.5 / 7.5 | Found 6/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 15 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | excluded | 0 / 10 | no workflows found |
| 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 | partial | 3 / 7.5 | 5 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 4 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | excluded | 0 / 5 | no dependencies found |
| 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 | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | No tokens found |
| Vulnerabilities | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | 3 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the maven:com.yahoo.elide:elide-core@7.2.0 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 32 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | met | 35 / 35 | no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | met | 25 / 25 | no indirect dependency carries a known advisory |
| No advisories left outstanding | excluded | 0 / 40 | no advisory carries a publication date |

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

| 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 (Exceptional)

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 — 60/100 (Moderate)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight: agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but its absence must never gate the top of the scale (calibration saturates at raw 91, so 100/100 remains reachable with AI Readiness at zero).

### Agent context & guidance — 16/100 (Critical)

| 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 | partial | 16.5 / 40 | 22 of 71 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 62/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | partial | 12.6 / 18 | elide-async/pom.xml, elide-bom/pom.xml, elide-core/pom.xml (toolchain convention, no task runner) |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | not met | 0 / 11 | — |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | Java (statically typed) |
| Reproducible environment | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Demonstrated agent practice | partial | 2 / 10 | 1 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 29 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | excluded | 0 / 10 | no dependencies found |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Java (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.6 / 55 | 11/1445 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/delete/nestedCollectionPt1.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/delete/nestedCollectionPt2.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/delete/nestedSingleId.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/delete/rootCollectionPt1.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/delete/rootIdNoDataPt1.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/aliasAmbiguous.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/aliasAttribute.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/aliasPartialQueryAmbiguous.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/aliasRelationship.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/aliasSameRelationship.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/complexAttribute.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/complexAttributeList.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/complexAttributeMap.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/computedAttributes.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/filterByAlias.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/fragmentInline.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/fragmentLoop.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/fragmentOnConnection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/fragmentOnEdges.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/fragmentOnNode.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/fragmentUnknown.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/nestedCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/nestedCollectionFilter.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/nestedCollectionPaginate.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/nestedCollectionSort.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/nestedSingle.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/pageTotalsRelationship.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/pageTotalsRoot.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/pageTotalsRootWithFilter.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/pageTotalsRootWithIds.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/pageTotalsRootWithPagination.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionDateGTFilter.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionDateLTFilter.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionFilter.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionInvalidSort.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionMultiSort.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionPaginateWithOffset.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionPaginateWithoutOffset.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootCollectionSort.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootMultiple.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootMultipleIds.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootSingle.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/rootUnknownField.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/sortByAlias.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/variableDefinition.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/variableInvalidNonNull.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/fetch/variableUnknownReference.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/remove/nestedCollectionNothingToRemove.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/remove/nestedCollectionPt1.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/remove/nestedCollectionPt2.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/remove/nestedCollectionPt3.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/remove/rootCollectionPt1.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/replace/replaceEmptyCollections.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/replace/replaceNestedCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/replace/replaceRootCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/replace/replaceWithIdsFails.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/crossCyclicRelationships.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/nestedCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/nestedCollectionMissingIds.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/nestedSingleUpdate.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/nestedUpdates.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/rootCollectionInvalidIds.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/rootCollectionMissingIds.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/rootSingleWithId.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/rootSingleWithList.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/setComputedAttribute.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/updateComplexAttribute.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/updateComplexAttributeList.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/updateComplexAttributeMap.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/update/updateComplexGraph.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/createComplexAttribute.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/createNestedCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/createNestedSingle.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/createNestedSingleUnshareable.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/createRootCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/createRootSingle.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/createWithVariables.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/crossCyclicRelationships.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/nestedCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/nestedSingleUpdate.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/nestedUpserts.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/nonCreatedIdOnlyRequest2Back.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/nonCreatedIdReferenceCollection.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/rootCollectionMixedIds.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/rootSingleWithId.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/rootSingleWithList.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/setComputedAttribute.graphql, elide-graphql/src/test/resources/graphql/requests/upsert/uspertOnCollection.graphql |
| MCP server | excluded | 0 / 20 | not applicable to this kind of software |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example |

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