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inspect.software — a public record of open-source software health

Public-interest software inspection versioned methodology<br>A public record of software health.<br>Bridges, elevators, and food have condition records kept in public. The software underneath all three does not. This is that record: maintainability, engineering quality, security posture, ecosystem adoption, and governance, measured the same way for every repository.<br>01Evidence attached02Results independent of payment03Method versioned

Request a scan<br>Free for high public-value repositories. Private and niche repositories follow the documented certification route.

Public queue operational<br>Queue scan

Public goodIS / 026<br>Trust through inspection.<br>↗Reproducible evidence Every published result links to inspectable source evidence and methodology.

◇Independent results Payment, sponsorship, and vendor alignment cannot alter a published result.

≈Signals, not warranties Results inform review and procurement; they do not replace expert judgement.

Live catalogueThe record, as it stands.

Every repository admitted so far, searchable and rankable, each entry opening on a full report with its evidence.

Indexed repositories 61,443<br>Repositories admitted to the public record — inspected, or queued for a first inspection. Unaffected by the catalogue filters below.

Monthly downloads under inspection 460B<br>Combined monthly package downloads across every indexed repository, as reported by package registries — the dependency footprint the public record covers.

Median health index 60 Moderate<br>The midpoint health index across all inspected repositories, computed under metrics 2.10.0 — a reference point for reading any individual result.

All ecosystems<br>Any timePast monthPast weekPast 24 hoursRepository popularityHealth index · high to lowMonthly downloadsLatest scan time<br>Kind<br>What the repository builds — library, application, host extension. Repositories whose evidence answers nothing are listed under Unclassified.<br>All kinds

Red flags<br>Findings that adjust a rating downward rather than scoring into it. Selecting several shows repositories raising any of them.<br>Abandonment Malicious dependencies High-risk jurisdiction exposure Inorganic growth

5,067 recordsRanked by popularity · browse by tag · record statistics

npm95 Exceptional health index

lobehub/lobehub🤯 LobeHub is your Chief Agent Operator, organizing your agents into 7×24 operations by hiring, scheduling, and reporting on your entire AI team.

TypeScript★ 81.8KAug 20, 2026<br>Custom licenseAug 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Maven97 Exceptional health index

ReactiveX/RxJavaRxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.

Java★ 48.2KAug 21, 2026<br>Apache-2.0Aug 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Maven · npm83 Excellent health index

lysine-dev/retrofitA type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM

Java★ 43.9KAug 21, 2026<br>Apache-2.0Aug 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

crates.io91 Excellent health index

zellij-org/zellijA terminal workspace with batteries included

Rust★ 35K↓ 5,674/moAug 22, 2026<br>MITAug 22, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Go · PyPI99 Exceptional health index

podman-container-tools/podmanPodman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

Go · Shell★ 32.7KAug 23, 2026<br>Apache-2.0Aug 23, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

RubyGems98 Exceptional health index

facebook/rocksdbA library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.

C++★ 32KAug 21, 2026<br>GPL-2.0Aug 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

NuGet100 Exceptional health index

AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaDevelop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI

C#★ 31.4KAug 22, 2026<br>MITAug 22, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

PyPI · npm97 Exceptional health index

locustio/locustWrite scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨

Python · TypeScript★ 28.1K↓ 14.3M/moAug 20, 2026<br>MITAug 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Go88 Excellent health index

uber-go/zapBlazing fast, structured, leveled logging in Go.

Go★ 24.6KAug 22, 2026<br>MITAug 22, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Go91 Excellent health index

OpenListTeam/OpenListA new AList Fork to Anti Trust Crisis

Go★ 24.2KAug 17, 2026<br>AGPL-3.0Aug 17, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

PyPI94 Exceptional health index

oracle/graalGraalVM compiles applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀

Java★ 21.7KAug 21, 2026<br>Custom licenseAug 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Go · npm96 Exceptional health index

TecharoHQ/anubisWeighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

Go★ 21.6KAug 21, 2026<br>MITAug 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

Go92 Excellent health index

bluenviron/mediamtxReady-to-use Media-over-QUIC / SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / MPEG-TS / RTP live media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish, proxy, record and playback real-time video and audio streams.

Go★ 19.9KAug 23, 2026<br>MITAug 23, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0

npm98 Exceptional health...

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