Executive summary
dlski/python-mediator scores 58 out of 100 and is rated Adequate, while three of its six lenses score higher still: Code Health and Performance at 100 and Architecture at 99, all rated Exemplary. The project hasn't declared a stable release yet, so its lenses are rated against a lower bar than a released product's, while the score itself is worked out as for any repository.
The score is lower than those three because the weakest lens counts most, and here that is Maturity, which scores 50 and is rated Adequate. Its Architecture documentation dimension scores 0 out of 10, and until that reaches 4, Maturity can't be rated higher than Adequate. The first actions are to record your significant design decisions and to improve Documentation Quality — currently 5.0/10. The weakest lenses score close to each other, so improving any of them moves the score.
16 findings are critical, all in Static Analysis (SAST).
Watchdog couldn't measure 15 dimensions in this code, among them Code Coverage, Dependency Hygiene and License Compliance, so they are left out of the score. The product code is 1,860 lines, which would take an estimated 0.1 person-years, around €3,000, to rebuild.
The weakest lenses score close to each other, so improving any of them moves the score.
New since the last survey: 1 finding
- Supply-chain Provenance & Signing · REDACTED
Fixed since the last survey: 1 finding
- Supply-chain Provenance & Signing REDACTED
Rebuild cost: about €3,000 · Estimate
| Cost to rebuild | €1,000 to €5,100, for 17 to 54 hours of work, about 0.1 person-years for one engineer |
|---|---|
| Difficulty of the problem | Standard, judged from the kind of software and how it is built. Code that solves a harder problem, such as payments or medical bookings, costs more per line to write. |
| Quality factor | ×0.8 at a score of 58. Better code takes more work to write, so the factor is ×1.0 at a score of 70, lower below it and higher above it. |
| Size | Very small: 1,860 lines of product code |
Top priorities
Diagnosis: what the measurements show together
Architecture: which parts of the code depend on which
| uses → | 1 common.factory.policies | 2 common.modifiers | 3 common.types | 4 request.base | 5 utils.context | 6 utils.inspection | 7 common.handler.base | 8 common.factory.base | 9 common.factory.utils | 10 common.handler.handlers | 11 common.registry.base | 12 common.factory.cascade | 13 common.factory.factories | 14 common.factory.mappers | 15 common.registry.stores | 16 event.base | 17 common.registry.registry | 18 event.aggregate | 19 event.local | 20 event.registry | 21 request.local | 22 request.registry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 common.factory.policies | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 common.modifiers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 common.types | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 request.base | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 utils.context | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 utils.inspection | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 common.handler.base | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 common.factory.base | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 common.factory.utils | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 common.handler.handlers | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 common.registry.base | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 common.factory.cascade | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 common.factory.factories | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 common.factory.mappers | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 common.registry.stores | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 event.base | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 common.registry.registry | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 event.aggregate | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 event.local | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 20 event.registry | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 request.local | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 22 request.registry | 1 |
7→3 common.handler.base uses common.types✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in common.handler.base uses a type in common.types.
- The types involved
mediator.common.handler.base.Handler→mediator.common.types.ActionResultmediator.common.handler.base.Handler→mediator.common.types.ActionSubject
- Direction
- common.handler.base uses common.types, so a change to common.types can break common.handler.base, while a change to common.handler.base can't break common.types.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.handler.base uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
8→7 common.factory.base uses common.handler.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in common.factory.base uses a type in common.handler.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.base.HandlerFactory→mediator.common.handler.base.Handler
- Direction
- common.factory.base uses common.handler.base, so a change to common.handler.base can break common.factory.base, while a change to common.factory.base can't break common.handler.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.base uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
9→6 common.factory.utils uses utils.inspection✕
- Connections
- 6 pairs of types, where a type in common.factory.utils uses a type in utils.inspection.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.utils.CallableAttributeDetails→mediator.utils.inspection.CallableDetailsmediator.common.factory.utils.CallableHandlerCreate→mediator.utils.inspection.CallableArgmediator.common.factory.utils.CallableHandlerCreate→mediator.utils.inspection.CallableDetailsmediator.common.factory.utils.CallableObjDetails→mediator.utils.inspection.CallableDetailsmediator.common.factory.utils.HandlerSubjectArgGet→mediator.utils.inspection.CallableArgmediator.common.factory.utils.HandlerSubjectArgGet→mediator.utils.inspection.CallableDetails
- Direction
- common.factory.utils uses utils.inspection, so a change to utils.inspection can break common.factory.utils, while a change to common.factory.utils can't break utils.inspection.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.utils uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
9→7 common.factory.utils uses common.handler.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in common.factory.utils uses a type in common.handler.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.utils.CallableHandlerCreate→mediator.common.handler.base.Handler
- Direction
- common.factory.utils uses common.handler.base, so a change to common.handler.base can break common.factory.utils, while a change to common.factory.utils can't break common.handler.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.utils uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
10→3 common.handler.handlers uses common.types✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in common.handler.handlers uses a type in common.types.
- The types involved
mediator.common.handler.handlers.CallableHandler→mediator.common.types.ActionResultmediator.common.handler.handlers.CallableHandler→mediator.common.types.ActionSubject
- Direction
- common.handler.handlers uses common.types, so a change to common.types can break common.handler.handlers, while a change to common.handler.handlers can't break common.types.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.handler.handlers uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
10→7 common.handler.handlers uses common.handler.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in common.handler.handlers uses a type in common.handler.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.handler.handlers.CallableHandler→mediator.common.handler.base.Handler
- Direction
- common.handler.handlers uses common.handler.base, so a change to common.handler.base can break common.handler.handlers, while a change to common.handler.handlers can't break common.handler.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.handler.handlers uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
11→7 common.registry.base uses common.handler.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in common.registry.base uses a type in common.handler.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntry→mediator.common.handler.base.Handler
- Direction
- common.registry.base uses common.handler.base, so a change to common.handler.base can break common.registry.base, while a change to common.registry.base can't break common.handler.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.registry.base uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
12→7 common.factory.cascade uses common.handler.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in common.factory.cascade uses a type in common.handler.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.cascade.HandlerFactoryCascade→mediator.common.handler.base.Handler
- Direction
- common.factory.cascade uses common.handler.base, so a change to common.handler.base can break common.factory.cascade, while a change to common.factory.cascade can't break common.handler.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.cascade uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
12→8 common.factory.cascade uses common.factory.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in common.factory.cascade uses a type in common.factory.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.cascade.InspectionHandlerFactoryCascadeError→mediator.common.factory.base.HandlerFactory
- Direction
- common.factory.cascade uses common.factory.base, so a change to common.factory.base can break common.factory.cascade, while a change to common.factory.cascade can't break common.factory.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.cascade uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
13→1 common.factory.factories uses common.factory.policies✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in common.factory.factories uses a type in common.factory.policies.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.factories.CallableHandlerFactory→mediator.common.factory.policies.CallableHandlerPolicymediator.common.factory.factories.MethodHandlerFactory→mediator.common.factory.policies.MethodHandlerPolicy
- Direction
- common.factory.factories uses common.factory.policies, so a change to common.factory.policies can break common.factory.factories, while a change to common.factory.factories can't break common.factory.policies.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.factories uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
13→7 common.factory.factories uses common.handler.base✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in common.factory.factories uses a type in common.handler.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.factories.CallableHandlerFactory→mediator.common.handler.base.Handlermediator.common.factory.factories.MethodHandlerFactory→mediator.common.handler.base.Handler
- Direction
- common.factory.factories uses common.handler.base, so a change to common.handler.base can break common.factory.factories, while a change to common.factory.factories can't break common.handler.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.factories uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
13→8 common.factory.factories uses common.factory.base✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in common.factory.factories uses a type in common.factory.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.factories.CallableHandlerFactory→mediator.common.factory.base.HandlerFactorymediator.common.factory.factories.MethodHandlerFactory→mediator.common.factory.base.HandlerFactory
- Direction
- common.factory.factories uses common.factory.base, so a change to common.factory.base can break common.factory.factories, while a change to common.factory.factories can't break common.factory.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.factories uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
14→8 common.factory.mappers uses common.factory.base✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in common.factory.mappers uses a type in common.factory.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.factory.mappers.TypeHandlerFactoryMapper→mediator.common.factory.base.HandlerFactorymediator.common.factory.mappers.TypeHandlerFactoryMapper→mediator.common.factory.base.HandlerFactoryMapper
- Direction
- common.factory.mappers uses common.factory.base, so a change to common.factory.base can break common.factory.mappers, while a change to common.factory.mappers can't break common.factory.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.factory.mappers uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
15→11 common.registry.stores uses common.registry.base✕
- Connections
- 6 pairs of types, where a type in common.registry.stores uses a type in common.registry.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.registry.stores.CollectionHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntrymediator.common.registry.stores.CollectionHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerStoremediator.common.registry.stores.MappingHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntrymediator.common.registry.stores.MappingHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerStoremediator.common.registry.stores.ModifierHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntrymediator.common.registry.stores.ModifierHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerStore
- Direction
- common.registry.stores uses common.registry.base, so a change to common.registry.base can break common.registry.stores, while a change to common.registry.stores can't break common.registry.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.registry.stores uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
16→11 event.base uses common.registry.base✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in event.base uses a type in common.registry.base.
- The types involved
mediator.event.base.EventSubscriber→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntrymediator.event.base.EventSubscriber→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerStore
- Direction
- event.base uses common.registry.base, so a change to common.registry.base can break event.base, while a change to event.base can't break common.registry.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.base uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
17→11 common.registry.registry uses common.registry.base✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in common.registry.registry uses a type in common.registry.base.
- The types involved
mediator.common.registry.registry.HandlerRegistry→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntrymediator.common.registry.registry.HandlerRegistry→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerStore
- Direction
- common.registry.registry uses common.registry.base, so a change to common.registry.base can break common.registry.registry, while a change to common.registry.registry can't break common.registry.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.registry.registry uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
17→12 common.registry.registry uses common.factory.cascade✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in common.registry.registry uses a type in common.factory.cascade.
- The types involved
mediator.common.registry.registry.HandlerRegistry→mediator.common.factory.cascade.HandlerFactoryCascade
- Direction
- common.registry.registry uses common.factory.cascade, so a change to common.factory.cascade can break common.registry.registry, while a change to common.registry.registry can't break common.factory.cascade.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: common.registry.registry uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
18→16 event.aggregate uses event.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in event.aggregate uses a type in event.base.
- The types involved
mediator.event.aggregate.EventAggregate→mediator.event.base.EventPublisher
- Direction
- event.aggregate uses event.base, so a change to event.base can break event.aggregate, while a change to event.aggregate can't break event.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.aggregate uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
19→3 event.local uses common.types✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in event.local uses a type in common.types.
- The types involved
mediator.event.local._EventSchedulerHandlerStore→mediator.common.types.ActionSubject
- Direction
- event.local uses common.types, so a change to common.types can break event.local, while a change to event.local can't break common.types.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
19→11 event.local uses common.registry.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in event.local uses a type in common.registry.base.
- The types involved
mediator.event.local._EventSchedulerHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntry
- Direction
- event.local uses common.registry.base, so a change to common.registry.base can break event.local, while a change to event.local can't break common.registry.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
19→15 event.local uses common.registry.stores✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in event.local uses a type in common.registry.stores.
- The types involved
mediator.event.local._EventSchedulerHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.stores.CollectionHandlerStore
- Direction
- event.local uses common.registry.stores, so a change to common.registry.stores can break event.local, while a change to event.local can't break common.registry.stores.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
19→16 event.local uses event.base✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in event.local uses a type in event.base.
- The types involved
mediator.event.local.LocalEventBus→mediator.event.base.EventPublishermediator.event.local.LocalEventBus→mediator.event.base.EventSubscriber
- Direction
- event.local uses event.base, so a change to event.base can break event.local, while a change to event.local can't break event.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
19→17 event.local uses common.registry.registry✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in event.local uses a type in common.registry.registry.
- The types involved
mediator.event.local.LocalEventBus→mediator.common.registry.registry.HandlerRegistry
- Direction
- event.local uses common.registry.registry, so a change to common.registry.registry can break event.local, while a change to event.local can't break common.registry.registry.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
20→17 event.registry uses common.registry.registry✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in event.registry uses a type in common.registry.registry.
- The types involved
mediator.event.registry.EventHandlerRegistry→mediator.common.registry.registry.HandlerRegistry
- Direction
- event.registry uses common.registry.registry, so a change to common.registry.registry can break event.registry, while a change to event.registry can't break common.registry.registry.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: event.registry uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
21→3 request.local uses common.types✕
- Connections
- 2 pairs of types, where a type in request.local uses a type in common.types.
- The types involved
mediator.request.local._RequestExecutorHandlerStore→mediator.common.types.ActionResultmediator.request.local._RequestExecutorHandlerStore→mediator.common.types.ActionSubject
- Direction
- request.local uses common.types, so a change to common.types can break request.local, while a change to request.local can't break common.types.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: request.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
21→4 request.local uses request.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in request.local uses a type in request.base.
- The types involved
mediator.request.local.LocalRequestBus→mediator.request.base.RequestExecutor
- Direction
- request.local uses request.base, so a change to request.base can break request.local, while a change to request.local can't break request.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: request.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
21→11 request.local uses common.registry.base✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in request.local uses a type in common.registry.base.
- The types involved
mediator.request.local._RequestExecutorHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.base.HandlerEntry
- Direction
- request.local uses common.registry.base, so a change to common.registry.base can break request.local, while a change to request.local can't break common.registry.base.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: request.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
21→15 request.local uses common.registry.stores✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in request.local uses a type in common.registry.stores.
- The types involved
mediator.request.local._RequestExecutorHandlerStore→mediator.common.registry.stores.MappingHandlerStore
- Direction
- request.local uses common.registry.stores, so a change to common.registry.stores can break request.local, while a change to request.local can't break common.registry.stores.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: request.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
21→17 request.local uses common.registry.registry✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in request.local uses a type in common.registry.registry.
- The types involved
mediator.request.local.LocalRequestBus→mediator.common.registry.registry.HandlerRegistry
- Direction
- request.local uses common.registry.registry, so a change to common.registry.registry can break request.local, while a change to request.local can't break common.registry.registry.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: request.local uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
22→17 request.registry uses common.registry.registry✕
- Connections
- 1 pair of types, where a type in request.registry uses a type in common.registry.registry.
- The types involved
mediator.request.registry.RequestHandlerRegistry→mediator.common.registry.registry.HandlerRegistry
- Direction
- request.registry uses common.registry.registry, so a change to common.registry.registry can break request.registry, while a change to request.registry can't break common.registry.registry.
- Position
- Below the diagonal: request.registry uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
At a glance — Code Health
At a glance — Architecture
At a glance — Maturity
At a glance — Readiness
At a glance — Security
At a glance — Performance
Security & Compliance — OWASP Top-10 mapping
| OWASP category | Findings | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| A05:2025 — Injection | 21 | High / Critical |
| A03:2025 — Software Supply Chain Failures | 8 | Medium |
Roadmap
Begin by capturing significant design decisions in the docs/adr folder to establish a clear architectural record. Simultaneously, enhance the root README by adding a quick-start section for immediate usage and fixing the truncated command example to improve overall documentation quality. Strengthen the CI pipeline by integrating a SAST tool like bandit or semgrep to block security regressions, and resolve the five static analysis warnings in REDACTED to ensure a secure and stable build process.
| Do this | Helps | Effort | Dimension |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record your significant design decisions. Write one short document per decision, giving its date, the situation, the decision and its consequences, and keep them together with your other design documents. A docs/adr folder with each file named by number and title is the easiest place to find them. | +5.0 pts | Medium | Architecture documentation |
| Improve Documentation Quality — currently 5.0/10. | +4.0 pts | Medium | Documentation Quality |
| Resolve the 5 REDACTED finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with REDACTED (5). | +1.6 pts | Low | Static Analysis (SAST) |
| Add a SAST step to CI running what this repository's stack ships: bandit, `semgrep --config=p/python`, or CodeQL's python pack — so a security regression fails the build instead of landing. | +3.2 pts | Medium | Security & performance tooling |
| Resolve the 2 REDACTED finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with REDACTED (2). | +1.0 pts | Low | Static Analysis (SAST) |
| Add a build/run (quick start) section to the root README — the first thing a newcomer needs. | +1.6 pts | Medium | Documentation (README) |
| Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing. | +0.7 pts | Low | Supply-chain Provenance & Signing |
| Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing. | +0.7 pts | Low | Supply-chain Provenance & Signing |
File quality
| File | Score | Band | Worst signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDACTED | 0.3 | Slop | Static Analysis (SAST): High: REDACTED |
| mediator/event/registry.py | 8.5 | Near-clean | Code Duplication: Duplicated block (19 lines × 2) |
How the grades work
A definite problem that already costs you something and drags the score down: a missing authorisation check, a dependency with a known exploit, a build that does not reproduce. Failure here tends to cause failures elsewhere.
Likely wrong, but not failing yet. It degrades the codebase over a longer horizon and can cause failures elsewhere — not urgent this week, not something to carry for two years either.
Recorded, with no effect on how the codebase functions. Present so the survey is complete, not because it needs doing.
Something this survey could not settle from the outside, and which could be critical or serious. Either a control was required and no positive evidence of it exists in the repository — a backup job that nothing shows was ever restored from proves nothing about restores — or our own analysis could not run over that part of the tree. This is not a clean result. These are excluded from the score rather than awarded a pass, so the number on the cover neither rewards nor penalises them: if you act on this survey without resolving them, you carry that risk yourself. Each one is named under Limitations.
Methodology & how to trust this report
Watchdog is a deep, periodic assessment — run each sprint, monthly, or quarterly, taking the time to go wider and deeper than a quick check and surfacing in one coherent report what you'd otherwise piece together from a dozen separate tools. It scores deterministically: the same commit yields the same score, every run. 45 of 48 evaluated dimensions are computed purely by tools and static analysis (confidence 1.0); 3 documentation/naming judgement(s) are LLM-assisted and labelled advisory. Overall confidence is 0.8 — the weighted average across measured dimensions; it falls as more of the score leans on LLM-assisted judgement and rises when it's fully tool-backed.
What we checked — 48 dimensions across the health lenses
- Can you open the finding? Real findings cite a repo-relative file and line you can open at the cited line — never an absolute scratch path. Here, 23 of 37 do; the remainder are repo-wide signals — a dimension-level measurement, not a single line.
- Is there a tool behind the number? Every score below names the method that produced it — Roslyn, git, a scanner, or (for a handful of documentation/naming dimensions) an LLM labelled sampled · advisory — not a narrative.
- Does re-running give the same result? Run it again on the same commit and the score — and this report, byte for byte — is identical. A report whose numbers move between runs is describing the run, not the code.
Tools & methods
| Method | Backs | Version | Evaluator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roslyn static analysis | Complexity, cohesion, coupling, dead code, API surface, layering | 5.3.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| Native secret scanner | Hardcoded secrets / credentials | 1.0.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| Watchdog duplication detector (in-process) | Code duplication | 1.0.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| Coverage (coverlet / dotnet-coverage) | Line & branch coverage | 10.0.400 | ✓ deterministic |
| NuGet / dotnet | Outdated, vulnerable & deprecated dependencies | 10.0.400 | ✓ deterministic |
| git / LibGit2Sharp | Churn hotspots, knowledge concentration, history | 2.43.0 · 0.31.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| gitleaks · semgrep · trivy | Secrets in history, SAST, CVEs, IaC & container, PII / GDPR | 1.86.0 · 0.69.3 | ✓ deterministic |
| LLM (sampled · advisory) | Documentation quality, ADR conformance, naming — sampled over a bounded sample; advisory, never a deterministic measurement | Local LLM | ◐ LLM · sampled · advisory |
Run transparency — what happened this run
- D8 Code Coverage — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. Coverage NOT READ here — but this repository measures it: a coverage step in CI (`pytest mediator/ example/ --cov`) shows that coverage is collected and tracked in your own CI. The built-in collector has no runner for this ecosystem (.py), so the analyzer could not read the number — a gap in the analyzer's language coverage, not an unmeasured repo. Not scored. To have the real number read, produce a coverage report in a standard format (`coverage run -m pytest` then `coverage xml`) and commit it — a hosted scan measures a clone of the repository, so a report that exists only in a working tree, a CI runner's or your own, never reaches it; the artefact is commonly gitignored, so `git add -f` that one file (or un-ignore its path) and commit it alongside the code it measures. You can widen what we reach: optional: produce a coverage report in a standard format (`coverage run -m pytest` then `coverage xml`) and commit it — a hosted scan measures a clone of the repository, so a report that exists only in a working tree, a CI runner's or your own, never reaches it; the artefact is commonly gitignored, so `git add -f` that one file (or un-ignore its path) and commit it alongside the code it measures — then the real number is read on the next scan.
- D12 Dependency Hygiene — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. Not scored — 0 shipped Python distribution(s) were read, but the outdated signal needs pypi.org, and no declaration here carries an exact pin to ask about — a floor or a range installs the newest release it admits and cannot be behind one, so this dimension's own question is only partly answered. NOT a finding that these dependencies are current or healthy.
- D14 License Compliance — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. Not scored — this repository's package manifest is not parsed for licence data yet. A gap in the analyzer's language coverage, NOT a finding that the repository's licenses are compliant (a Python pyproject.toml/requirements.txt (pip/uv/Poetry)), which this pass does not parse yet — so this dimension asserts nothing about this repository's licensing in either direction.
- D15 Churn × Complexity Hotspots — measured, with a gap in what it reached — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. Git history depth insufficient — this repository has 28 commit(s), too few for a reliable trend signal. The clone is complete, so there is no deeper history to fetch: the signal returns as the project accumulates history.
- D16 Bus Factor — not measured this run — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. Single-contributor repository — bus factor is not applicable (1 contributor(s) across 28 commit(s) sampled, automation and bot accounts excluded). Concentration needs a team to concentrate: with one contributor there is nobody to spread the knowledge to, so there is nothing here for the owner to act on.
- D22 Internal API Consistency — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. D22 identifies the intentionally-exposed surface from `IsPackable` and `.Contracts` project names, MSBuild conventions read off the loaded project set. This target exposed no such projects, so the probe never ran; this says nothing about whether the repository has a public API. This repository commits no C#/VB source at all, so there was never an MSBuild project set to read these conventions off. That is OUR side and it is an ADMISSION gap, not an environment fault: it declares a published package (pyproject.toml), but no published-package marker D22 reads admitted any project here. D22 DOES collect the public API of every language in this tree, and admits a project only when its manifest makes that ecosystem's publication act in a form the marker recognises — so what is missing is not a collector but an admission rule for the publication act this repository makes, if it makes one. The remedy is a better discriminator for that marker — not a collector, and no change to the scan image can close it. The marker's rules are measured to refuse applications, so one refused repository is the rule working as calibrated; several are the evidence that it is too strict.
- D34 Knowledge Freshness — not measured this run — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. Too few commits to judge knowledge freshness (28 commit(s) sampled).
- D35 Change Coupling — measured, with a gap in what it reached — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. Git history depth insufficient — this repository has 28 commit(s), too few for a reliable change-coupling signal. The clone is complete, so there is no deeper history to fetch: the signal returns as the project accumulates history.
- D44 Platform End-of-Life — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This dimension reads a project's own statement about the platform it runs on: a TargetFramework in a .NET project file, a .nvmrc or .python-version, a capped requires-python, a Rust toolchain file or Cargo.toml rust-version, a .go-version, .java-version, .ruby-version, .tool-versions or .sdkmanrc, a go.mod go directive, a Maven or Gradle Java level or toolchain, a Gemfile's ruby directive, a mix.exs elixir requirement, a rebar.config minimum_otp_vsn, a pubspec.yaml SDK constraint, a build.sbt scalaVersion, or a framework major pinned by a dependency constraint. This repository carries none of them, so nothing about its platform was established. That is a gap in this analyzer's coverage, NOT a finding that the platform is supported — a language whose runtime is declared elsewhere (Package.swift, a Dockerfile) is simply not read here yet.
- AX6 Interface segregation — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check is computed over the public interfaces this run's compilations declare, and none was loaded, so it had nothing to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
- C1 Data Protection — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. These personal data controls are read from declarative annotations, request middleware, entity/column names and guard methods in a C# source model, and none was loaded on this run, so there was nothing to gather. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository lacks personal data controls.
- GD1 Unfinished & placeholder code — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check reads C# syntax, F#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Dart, Ruby and Scala source only, and no C#, F#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Dart, Ruby or Scala was found, and this repository's Python is not read yet, so it had nothing of this repository's product to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
- IC1 Incompleteness & stubs — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check reads C# syntax, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Dart, Ruby and Scala source only, and no C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Dart, Ruby or Scala was found, and this repository's Python is not read yet, so it had nothing of this repository's product to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
- P5 DR & Backup — not measured this run — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. No backup/snapshot/replication config, RTO/RPO or restore-procedure documentation was found — and no production persistence was detected either (no data-access packages, no data-store services, no database resources), so there is nothing in this repository whose loss a DR control would recover. If this system's data lives in a platform or ops repo we can't see, that's where the DR evidence belongs.
- S1 Web-Security Posture — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. These web-security controls are read from declarative annotations, request middleware, entity/column names and guard methods in a C# source model, and none was loaded on this run, so there was nothing to gather. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository lacks web-security controls.
- X16 Unfloored truncation loop — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check reads C# syntax, and JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, PHP, Dart, Ruby, Scala and Kotlin source only, and no C# was loaded and no JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, PHP, Dart, Ruby, Scala or Kotlin was found in this repository, so it had nothing of this repository's product to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
- X18 Disposal-pattern correctness — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check reads C# syntax, and JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Dart, Ruby, Scala and PHP source only, and no C# was loaded and no JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Dart, Ruby, Scala or PHP was found in this repository, so it had nothing of this repository's product to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
- X29 Per-element action decided by a fixed element — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check reads C# syntax, and JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Rust, Dart, Ruby, Scala and Kotlin source only, and no C# was loaded and no JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Rust, Dart, Ruby, Scala or Kotlin was found in this repository, so it had nothing of this repository's product to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
- X4 Structured logging — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check reads C# syntax, and JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, PHP, Dart, Ruby, Scala and Rust source only, and no C# was loaded, and this repository's JavaScript/TypeScript, Python and PHP make no call through a named logger, so it had nothing of this repository's product to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
- X5 Nullable reference types — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This check reads C# syntax and MSBuild project configuration, TypeScript source and its tsconfig files, Java source and its package and module declarations, PHP source and its PHPStan and Psalm configuration, Dart source and its pubspec language version, Ruby source and its Sorbet and Steep configuration, Scala source and its build's explicit-nulls, WartRemover and Scalafix settings, and Kotlin source only, and no C# was loaded, no TypeScript was found, and this repository's Python is not read yet, so it had nothing of this repository's product to read. That is a gap in this analyzer's language reach — not a finding that the repository is free of what this check looks for.
Limitations & what we did not check
Watchdog assesses the repository exactly as committed, and only the repository. By design it does not reach outside the source tree: the live cloud account, the running CI/CD pipeline, the host's branch-protection and approval rules, the production configuration, or a restore actually exercised against a backup are all out of scope. That boundary is a feature, not a gap — a repo-relative, deterministic scan re-runs identically on any commit and every finding opens at a real file and line, where a live audit can neither be reproduced nor traced. The visible consequence is that controls which leave no in-repo evidence are reported as "not evidenced" and excluded from the score rather than awarded a number a static scan cannot justify.
Per-dimension blind spots
- D1 Cyclomatic Complexity: Cyclomatic complexity counts branches statically — it cannot tell an essential decision tree from accidental tangle, nor see complexity that lives in data or configuration (large switch-case token tables, DSL lexers/parsers, data-as-code rule tables) rather than control flow: a tokenizer's many single-character cases read as high complexity though each branch is trivial.
- D2 Cognitive Complexity: Cognitive-complexity heuristics approximate how hard code is to follow; genuine domain difficulty and well-named intent that eases reading are not captured.
- D3 God Classes: "God class" is sized by members and responsibilities visible in the type — a deliberately broad facade over a coherent subsystem can read the same as an accidental grab-bag. For front-end JS the file-length check is cohesion-aware (a single-responsibility module — one class/IIFE — earns a 3× threshold), but cohesion is approximated from top-level declarations, not true dependency structure.
- D4 Code Duplication: Duplication is token-similarity — an in-process token-stream comparison over sliding windows, with type-aware normalization — so it finds copy-paste, not semantic duplication expressed differently. Committed machine-written code (scaffolded migrations, designer/codegen output, protobuf/OpenAPI stubs, model snapshots) is EXCLUDED — its repetition is the tool's, not the team's — so the score reflects hand-written duplication only.
- D6 Cohesion (LCOM4): LCOM4 cohesion is syntactic — it infers connectivity from which methods touch which fields/methods by name, not from real runtime behaviour or intent.
- D9 Test Distribution: The test-pyramid shape is inferred from project/folder naming and references, with a single test host bucketed per-file by its path tier and content signals — a suite that names tiers unconventionally and gives no per-file signal can still be mis-bucketed.
- D11 Test Reliability: Flakiness is inferred from history/markers — Watchdog runs the suite once (for coverage), not the repeated runs under varied conditions that reveal nondeterminism, so a flaky test never recorded as failing is invisible here.
- D13 Secret Scanning: Secret detection is signature- and entropy-based on the current tree — a secret that does not match a known pattern, or one already rotated, will not be flagged (a clean scan is "nothing matched", not "no secrets exist").
- D15 Churn × Complexity Hotspots: Churn hotspots come from git history — a freshly imported or squashed repository has no churn signal, and recent rewrites can mask a historically risky file.
- D17 Explicit Debt: Acknowledged-debt signals (TODO/FIXME, suppressions, dead code) are textual — undocumented debt that nobody marked, and debt that lives in design rather than annotations, is invisible. Committed machine-written code (scaffolded migrations, designer/codegen output, generated stubs) is excluded — it is never the team's dead code to delete.
- D19 Documentation Quality: Documentation quality is judged by an LLM over a bounded sample of docs — it reads what is written, not whether the docs match the running system, and it is advisory, not a measurement. Its critique rows are drawn from a closed category vocabulary and each row means the same thing in every run, so two scans can be compared row by row; the SET that fires is still a sample, and does not repeat exactly. Measured on one frozen input, six scans at one engine SHA: 2-5 critique rows per scan, 8 distinct rows across the six, 3 of those 8 seen in only one scan. So a D19 row is evidence about the documentation, but a COUNT of D19 rows is not a quantity — never read a change in it as an improvement or a regression.
- D21 Naming Consistency: Naming quality is an LLM judgement over a bounded sample — it assesses clarity/consistency of the names it sees, not domain-correctness, and is advisory.
- D26 Project Cohesion: Project focus is sized from members/namespaces per project — a project that is broad by deliberate design reads the same as one that has sprawled.
- D27 Navigability: Indirection/navigability is structural — it measures hops to follow a call, not whether that indirection buys real flexibility or just ceremony.
- D28 Secrets (history): Secret-history scanning sweeps the git log for known patterns — a secret that predates the available history, or never matched a signature, is not found (clean means "nothing matched in the history we can see").
- D29 Static Analysis (SAST): SAST findings are pattern-based (semgrep) — it finds classes of bug it has rules for; logic flaws, auth/authorization gaps and issues needing runtime context are out of reach (and clean means "no rule matched").
- D35 Change Coupling: Change coupling is co-change in COMMITS — files split across separate commits, or coupled only through a shared config/build step, read as uncoupled, and a sweeping commit (rename/format) is excluded so it doesn't couple everything. It shows that files change together, not WHY: a high coupling can be a healthy cohesive pair as readily as a hidden leak.
- AX10 Code composition: Role is inferred from namespace/folder convention, not semantics — a domain concept living in a folder named "Services" reads as application, and the split is lines-of-code, not business value. The business-logic-share score is a SOFT, FLOORED signal: it contributes to the Architecture lens but is floored at the Critical gate, so an infrastructure-heavy design (a gateway, an ETL, a driver) is legitimately low without being nuked to zero.
- M4 Documentation accuracy: Onboarding quality is an LLM read of the docs/setup present — it cannot run the onboarding or measure how long a real new joiner takes; the verdict is sampled and advisory.
- P4 Deployment & Rollback: Approval/branch-protection rules live in repository settings the scan cannot see — only their in-repo evidence (config files, workflows) is checked, so a control enforced purely in the host's settings reads as "not evidenced".
- P6 Release Hygiene: Rollback/observability controls are inferred from repo artefacts (pipelines, dashboards-as-code) — controls configured in external tooling, with no in-repo trace, cannot be credited.
The LLM boundary
Dimensions
D1 · Cyclomatic Complexity
0 method(s) exceeded the cyclomatic complexity threshold of 15.
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
0 method(s) exceeded the cognitive complexity threshold of 15.
D3 · God Classes
0 god class(es) detected.
D4 · Code Duplication
1 duplicated block group(s) detected.
What to do
- Resolve the 1 Duplicated block (19 lines × 2) finding(s) in Code Duplication — start with registry.py. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Enforce Code Duplication in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Verified — provenance only; does not change the score.
D6 · Cohesion (LCOM4)
0 of 10 classes have LCOM4 above 3.
D9 · Test Distribution
35 test methods: 35 unit, 0 integration, 0 BDD, 0 e2e. The Python suite contributes 35 test function(s) across 18 file(s) declaring at least one — every `def test…` in a file pytest or unittest would collect, which is those frameworks' own definition of a case; a parametrize table counts once, so this is a floor. Its tier split is read from file names and paths only.
D11 · Test Reliability
0 flaky across 1 measured tier(s). Python (repository root, 18 test files): measured (0 flaky).
D13 · Secret Scanning
Secret scan ran and found no leaked secrets.
D15 · Churn × Complexity Hotspots
No churn × complexity hotspots in the window.
D17 · Explicit Debt
0 deducted task-comment markers across 1860 LoC (0.0/KLoC) → score 10.0. Task comments only: this repository's language is read without a compiler, so D17's suppression, dead-code and commented-out-code arms did not run and this score counts fewer marker kinds than a .NET repository's would.
D19 · Documentation Quality
The repository's root README is a single cohesive document that states what the project is (an asyncio CQRS/ES microframework), its compatibility, and four key features with strong ordering. It also links to CI, codecov, pypi stats, and a license badge. However it is clipped mid-command example ('from mediator.request import LocalRequestBus') before any installation, usage, or contribution guidance appears, so those are not yet visible.
What to do
- Improve Documentation Quality — currently 5.0/10. — The repository's root README is a single cohesive document that states what the project is (an asyncio CQRS/ES microframework), its compatibility, and four key features with strong ordering. It also links to CI, codecov, pypi stats, and a license badge. However it is clipped mid-command example ('from mediator.request import LocalRequestBus') before any installation, usage, or contribution guidance appears, so those are not yet visible.
D21 · Naming Consistency
0 naming inconsistencies across 0 sampled symbols.
D26 · Project Cohesion
0 of 1 build units (Python) flagged as possibly oversized/incoherent.
D27 · Navigability
65 % of calls cross a namespace and 0 % go through an interface, but 60 % of collaborators are co-located — so following a call takes several hops. Baseline: small — navigation cost is tolerated.
What to do
- Improve Navigability — currently 8.7/10. — 65 % of calls cross a namespace and 0 % go through an interface, but 60 % of collaborators are co-located — so following a call takes several hops. Baseline: small — navigation cost is tolerated.
D28 · Secrets (history)
gitleaks scanned the full history AND the current working tree and found no secrets.
D29 · Static Analysis (SAST)
21 finding(s): 0 critical, 16 high, 5 medium, 0 low. 14 unpinned-GitHub-Actions row(s) are reported here but scored by D36 (supply-chain provenance), which measures that posture as `pinned_actions` — one pinning decision is charged once, not once per lens.
What to do
- Resolve the 5 REDACTED finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with REDACTED (5). — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (5 warning-level).
- Resolve the 2 REDACTED finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with REDACTED (2). — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 issue-level).
- No action in Static Analysis (SAST) — all 14 REDACTED finding(s) are reported here at file:line but scored by D36 (supply-chain provenance), so none is charged to this dimension. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (14 issue-level, 0 of them charged here).
D35 · Change Coupling
No strong hidden change-coupling between production files.
D36 · Supply-chain Provenance & Signing
0/4 supply-chain integrity signals present (provenance, signing, SBOM, pinned actions).
What to do
- Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing — start with REDACTED. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
Frontend & cross-cutting dimensions
AX10 · Code composition
What to do
- The domain core is a small share of production code, but most of the rest matched no layer vocabulary at all — so this is not yet an anemic-domain finding. The namespace/path convention could not place that code, which makes the composition above a statement about the naming, not about the design. Name the layers (or check that the repository's conventions differ from the ones this check knows) before reading a thin domain into it.
AX3 · Project dependency cycles
AX4 · Dependency direction
M1 · Documentation (README)
What to do
- Add a build/run (quick start) section to the root README — the first thing a newcomer needs.
- Add an 'Architecture' / 'How it works' section to the root README — the high-level shape.
M2 · Architecture documentation
- No Architecture Decision Records found — no conventional ADR directory, no numbered `NNNN-title` documents in any markup this check reads, and nothing ADR-shaped by content. Design rationale recorded elsewhere (a design-notes tree, a mailing list, pull-request discussion) is not visible to this check and is not re-findable per decision, so a future maintainer cannot ask why one choice was made and get an answer.
- No C4/Structurizr/PlantUML/Mermaid/Graphviz/D2 diagram, no drawn diagram named for the architecture, no file named `architecture` or `design` in any markup this check reads, and nothing in the README, docs or contributor guides that announces the shape — no `## Architecture` heading, no "architecture overview"/"high-level design" phrasing, no "the architecture is …" introduction, no guided code tour. A shape laid out in prose that never names itself as the architecture is not visible to this check, and neither is one kept outside the repository, so this row reports the absence of a re-findable shape document — not evidence that nobody wrote the shape down.
What to do
- Record your significant design decisions. Write one short document per decision, giving its date, the situation, the decision and its consequences, and keep them together with your other design documents. A docs/adr folder with each file named by number and title is the easiest place to find them.
- Add a C4 context/container diagram (Structurizr, PlantUML or Mermaid) or an architecture.md overview.
M3 · Folder & project structure
- Production code isn't grouped under a src/ folder — it all sits under mediator/ alongside the root build files, so the conventional src/ boundary between the product and its tooling isn't drawn.
What to do
- Group production code under src/ (or split deliberately, e.g. backend/ + frontend/) so production and tooling code aren't mixed at the root.
M4 · Documentation accuracy
P1 · CI/CD gates
P10 · Library API & versioning
P3 · Security & performance tooling
- No static application security testing detected. For this repository's stack, add bandit, `semgrep --config=p/python`, or CodeQL's python pack as a CI step. What was searched, so you can tell an absence from a miss: the 5162 CI workflow file(s) in this repository, and the scanner and linter configuration checked in beside them. A scan that runs outside CI, one configured in your forge's web UI rather than in a committed file, or a tool whose name is none of those this check carries, is not seen — if that is your case the row is wrong, and saying so is more useful than adding a second scanner.
What to do
- Add a SAST step to CI running what this repository's stack ships: bandit, `semgrep --config=p/python`, or CodeQL's python pack — so a security regression fails the build instead of landing.
- Enable Dependabot/Renovate or a dependency-review gate.
- Add gitleaks/trufflehog in CI to block PRs that introduce committed secrets.
P4 · Deployment & Rollback
- The release is automated and no gate that pauses it for a human is DECLARED IN THIS REPOSITORY'S PIPELINE FILES. What was read: every file under `.github/workflows/`, `.forgejo/workflows/`, `.gitea/workflows/`, `.azuredevops/` and `.azure-pipelines/`, plus `.gitlab-ci*` and `azure-pipelines*` — with comment text stripped, so documenting a gate is not declaring one. What would have counted: GitLab's `when: manual`, CircleCI's `type: approval`, an Azure `ManualValidation@` task or an `approvals:` block, a Jenkins `input` step, a `uses:` step naming an approval action, an `environment:` paired with `reviewers` / `required_reviewers` / `protection` / `wait-timer` / `deployment_branch_policy`, a draft-release step, a `workflow_dispatch` promotion, or a release-event gate. ★ What this cannot see, because none of it is a file: a GitHub environment whose required reviewers are configured in repo SETTINGS, a branch protection rule, or an organisation deployment policy — all of them real, enforced gates that live outside the repository. If yours is one of those, this row is wrong and nothing in the tree could have told us. Otherwise: whatever the release trigger points at is published to users unreviewed, so a mistagged or unverified commit ships and the only remedy is a follow-up release.
What to do
- Nothing pauses a release for a human: publish as a draft release (or gate the release job on a protected tag/manual dispatch) so a bad build can be stopped before users can download it.
P6 · Release Hygiene
- No CHANGELOG/HISTORY/RELEASES file — what shipped when isn't easy to reconstruct for support or audit. (Versioning/tagging makes releases traceable, but a changelog records the what.)
What to do
- Keep a changelog (e.g. Keep-a-Changelog) recording what shipped in each release.
PF3 · Async & latency hygiene
X1 · Async correctness
X12 · Unreachable branch
X13 · Undrained process stream
X14 · Bypassable address classification
X15 · Unvalidated length from an untrusted reader
X17 · Uncapped recursion over a caller-supplied document
X19 · Unrestored process-global state
X21 · Side-effecting pattern guard
X22 · Contradicted release guard
X23 · Unguarded diagnostic materialisation
X24 · Document value interpolated into markup unescaped
X25 · Inert configuration knob
X26 · Unsynchronised callback handoff
X27 · Collection changed while being enumerated
X28 · Index access outside its own emptiness guard
X3 · Exception handling
X30 · Support guard that admits what it rejects
Reference — by lens
| Lens | Score | Rating | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code Health | 100% | Exemplary | Solid. |
| Architecture | 99% | Exemplary | Solid. |
| Maturity | 50% | Adequate — gated by M2 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Readiness | 52% | Adequate — gated by P3 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Security | 51% | Adequate — gated by D36 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Performance | 100% | Exemplary | Strongest area. |
Unscored — 1 check(s) recorded observations but carry no score
- P12 CI test-gate honesty — 1 observation(s) recorded · Reported, not scored — this card publishes what the CI gate does with the test inventory rather than grading it. The findings above are its output.
Not evidenced — 1 control(s) we could not find positive evidence for
- P5 DR & Backup — not evidenced — repo shows no backup/RTO/RPO controls; absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control
Not included — 70 check(s) not relevant to this codebase
- AC1 Text alternatives — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC2 Forms & labels — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC3 Page structure — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC4 Keyboard semantics — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC5 ARIA correctness — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC6 Visual & motion safety — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AC7 A11y enforcement — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
- AX1 Captive dependencies — Not applicable: this repository's Python imports no dependency-injection container and defines no container of its own — nothing that both registers and resolves bindings, and nothing that names two lifetimes — so nothing holds one lifetime's instance while handing out another's.
- AX2 Stateful singletons — No container singleton was found, so there is no shared instance for concurrent requests to race on. No function in this Python code is served by a threaded web framework (a Flask, Bottle or FastAPI route, a Django or Pyramid view), so no module is shared between request threads.
- AX5 Architecture & structure — not assessed — architecture style/structure is computed from a project graph (projects, types, module namespaces) that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- AX6 Interface segregation — not assessed — interface segregation is computed over a type surface that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- AX7 Slice cohesion — not applicable — not a vertical-slice architecture
- AX8 Test isolation — no test/production split to check
- AX9 CQS / query purity — no CQRS query handlers detected — query purity is not applicable to this codebase
- AXB1 Runtime evidence locked — no reproducible boot — This repository has nothing the runtime tiers could boot or serve — no markup, no UI framework or web-server dependency, no UI component source, no native UI project and no API definition — nothing here is a surface to boot — so runtime a11y/egress/header evidence has no subject here. Not applicable: this is neither a gap in the scan nor a finding about your code.
- AXB2 Runtime readiness — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
- C1 Data Protection — Not assessed: these personal data controls are read from a source model (declarative annotations, request middleware, entity/column names, guard methods) that was not loaded for this repository — because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. Absence of an idiom this check recognises is NOT evidence that this repository lacks personal data controls: it may implement them entirely in its own ecosystem. This is a gap in the analyzer's language coverage, not a finding about this repository.
- C2 Access Controls — No access-control surface detected in the analyzed source — this repository registers no route and starts no server another machine can reach (no Flask/FastAPI/Starlette route, Django urlpatterns or class-based view, Tornado handler). Access control is therefore N/A here — a library or command-line tool is authorized by the application that serves it, not by itself. If this codebase grows request handlers, the dimension reactivates and a default-deny posture is expected then.
- C3 Audit Trail — No personal data detected in a persisted data model — no PII-named field (email, first_name, date_of_birth, phone, …) or stored credential in a Django, SQLAlchemy, SQLModel, Peewee, Tortoise or MongoEngine model, a migration or a SQL schema — and no database or data-store client (Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, psycopg, PyMongo, …) in the source either, so this repository keeps no sensitive data whose changes an audit trail would record. If it does (through a store configured outside this repository, for instance), the trail belongs to wherever that data is stored.
- C4 Data Retention — No personal data detected in a persisted data model — no PII-named field (email, first_name, date_of_birth, phone, …) or stored credential on a Django, SQLAlchemy, SQLModel, Peewee, Tortoise or mongoengine model, in a migration or in a SQL schema — and no database or data-store client (django.db, sqlalchemy, psycopg2, pymongo, sqlite3, …) imported either, so this repository keeps no personal data whose lifetime a retention limit would bound.
- C5 Data-Subject Rights — No personal data detected in a persisted data model — no PII-named field (email, first_name, date_of_birth, phone, …) or stored credential on a Django, SQLAlchemy, SQLModel, Peewee, Tortoise or mongoengine model, in a migration or in a SQL schema — and no database or data-store client (django.db, sqlalchemy, psycopg2, pymongo, sqlite3, …) imported either, so this repository keeps no personal data for a data subject to erase, export or consent over.
- D10 Test Quality — ~1067 lines of test source are present (.py) but no test cases reached the test census for this repository — no test root we could resolve declared them, or the files we read declare no cases in a test framework we recognise — so skipped/assertion-free tests couldn't be counted. Not scored — this is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository.
- D12 Dependency Hygiene — Not scored — 0 shipped Python distribution(s) were read, but the outdated signal needs pypi.org, and no declaration here carries an exact pin to ask about — a floor or a range installs the newest release it admits and cannot be behind one, so this dimension's own question is only partly answered. NOT a finding that these dependencies are current or healthy.
- D14 License Compliance — Package manifest not parsed for licence data — analyzer language-coverage gap
- D16 Bus Factor — single-contributor repository — bus factor is not applicable
- D18 Solution Shape — D18 scores the shape of a .NET solution; this repository has no .NET solution or project files, so the dimension does not apply.
- D20 ADR Quality — N/A — ADRs are expected on deployable products with a user-facing host, not consumed libraries; no ADR log is required here.
- D22 Internal API Consistency — The exposed public-API surface could not be collected — no C#/VB projects loaded.
- D23 Boundary Type-Coupling — No bounded-context organisation was detected either — neither a context-shaped layout, nor 2+ sibling source directories each declaring an aggregate root, nor 2+ projects each declaring an entity of their own. Declaring this codebase's bounded contexts (≥2) would let cross-boundary type coupling be assessed. Declare them in `.codehealth/config.yaml` at the repository root (create it if absent), mapping each context name to the module-path or namespace prefixes that belong to it — e.g. `architecture:` → `contexts:` → `Billing: ["src/billing", "Acme.Billing"]`, `Catalog: ["src/catalog", "Acme.Catalog"]`.
- D24 Comment Value — No inline comments to assess — comment value is not applicable here.
- D25 ADR Conformance — no ADRs to check
- D30 Dependency Vulnerabilities — Not scored — no dependency manifest in a supported ecosystem was read for this repository. A gap in the analyzer's language coverage, NOT a finding that the repository is free of vulnerable dependencies (a Python pyproject.toml/requirements.txt (pip/uv/Poetry) — not scanned yet).
- D31 IaC & Container Security — No Infrastructure-as-Code or container manifests found (Dockerfile, Docker Compose, Terraform, Kubernetes/Helm, CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep, Ansible); nothing to scan.
- D32 Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) — No personal data was found crossing a boundary the PII/GDPR ruleset checks — nothing written to a log or console sink, placed in a URL or query string, or persisted to browser storage. That is a clean result for the LEAK surface only: this ruleset detects personal data escaping, it does not inventory the personal data a repository holds, so it is not evidence that this repository has no personal-data surface. The personal-data map (Appendix C) and the C1-C5 compliance cards are what speak to that.
- D34 Knowledge Freshness — too few commits to judge knowledge freshness
- D37 Vulnerability-disclosure Policy — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md/.markdown/.rst/.txt at root or under .github/.forgejo/.gitea/docs, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed.
- D39 IL Efficiency — D39 measures the IL emitted by a .NET build; this repository has no .NET solution or project files, so the dimension does not apply.
- D40 Network Egress Confinement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; network egress policy is a cluster-native control that may live at the platform/firewall layer, so there is nothing to assess here.
- D41 Kernel & Syscall Confinement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; seccomp/AppArmor/SELinux confinement is a workload-level control, so there is nothing to assess here.
- D42 Runtime Threat Enforcement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; runtime threat-detection and admission-control policy are cluster-level controls, so there is nothing to assess here.
- D43 Malicious Dependencies — Not scored — no dependency manifest in a supported ecosystem was read for this repository. A gap in the analyzer's language coverage, NOT a finding that the repository is free of vulnerable dependencies (a Python pyproject.toml/requirements.txt (pip/uv/Poetry) — not scanned yet).
- D44 Platform End-of-Life — Platform end-of-life not assessed — this repository declares no platform this pass reads
- D5 Coupling — Not applicable — this Python build ships 1 production module(s), so there is no coupling BETWEEN modules to measure. (Its test and non-production modules are not part of the shipped graph.)
- D7 Architectural Integrity — no checkable ADRs, and no project-reference graph for the cycle pass to read — so this dimension makes no claim about dependency cycles in either direction (where this repository's language has an import-cycle lens, cycles are reported there). Architectural integrity not assessed
- D8 Code Coverage — Coverage not included — suite not readable by the collector
- DM1 Domain Modelling — not scored — this repository shows only 1 of the 3 signals this lens looks for (4 value object(s))
- ED1 Event-Driven — not scored — this repository shows none of the 3 signals this lens looks for
- ED5 Idempotency — no mutating command handlers or message consumers detected — idempotency check not applicable
- ES1 Event Sourcing — not scored — this repository shows none of the 3 signals this lens looks for
- GD1 Unfinished & placeholder code — no source files were read — this check reads C#, F#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Dart, Ruby and Scala, and none was read for this repository's product. That is a limit of the analyzer, not a finding about your code.
- IC1 Incompleteness & stubs — not analysed — these correctness checks read a source model that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- P2 Observability — This repository's Python source (1 module(s), 30 file(s) read) declares no entry point and bootstraps no server, and nothing here deploys a service — it is a library, run inside whatever hosts it, so production observability (structured logging, tracing/metrics, health checks) is N/A. If it grows a binary or a service, the dimension reactivates.
- P7 Outbound HTTP resilience — not applicable — no HTTP server, API framework or worker entry point was found in the Python source, so there is no service whose uptime a failing dependency could take down
- P8 Schema migrations — no ORM, schema-migration tool or schema auto-create was found in this repository's dependency manifests or source, so there is no database schema for this check to judge
- P9 Domain vs controller coverage — no coverage report found on disk — produce a coverage report in a standard format (`coverage run -m pytest` then `coverage xml`) and commit it — a hosted scan measures a clone of the repository, so a report that exists only in a working tree, a CI runner's or your own, never reaches it; the artefact is commonly gitignored, so `git add -f` that one file (or un-ignore its path) and commit it alongside the code it measures, or wire coverage collection into CI, to enable this cross-layer check
- PF1 Benchmark discipline — Not applicable: no benchmark suite was found. This check searched for a pytest-benchmark or pytest-codspeed dependency with tests taking the `benchmark` fixture, an asv.conf.json with its `time_`/`mem_`/`peakmem_` benchmarks, or a pyperf Runner, and for a `*benchmark*` script that this repository's CI runs. Benchmarks are credited as a bonus, so their absence is neither scored nor deducted.
- PF2 Allocation hygiene — Not applicable: Python runs on a garbage-collected runtime that gives a program no allocation-control idiom to choose on a hot path — no pools, stack allocation or value types — so allocation awareness is not something this code can be rated on.
- S1 Web-Security Posture — Not assessed: these web-security controls are read from a source model (declarative annotations, request middleware, entity/column names, guard methods) that was not loaded for this repository — because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. Absence of an idiom this check recognises is NOT evidence that this repository lacks web-security controls: it may implement them entirely in its own ecosystem. This is a gap in the analyzer's language coverage, not a finding about this repository.
- X10 Duplicated predicate — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
- X16 Unfloored truncation loop — not analysed — these correctness checks read a source model that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- X18 Disposal-pattern correctness — not analysed — these correctness checks read a source model that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- X2 Cancellation propagation — no C# was loaded; this repository's Python was read, and no request in it can be cancelled by a caller — a Python request takes no token: asyncio cancels the task and trio or anyio the scope that made it, from outside the call, and requests, httpx, aiohttp and gRPC take a timeout, not a cancellation
- X20 Mistyped argument guard — This check asks whether an argument guard reports an EMPTY value as a NULL one, which needs a language that throws a null-specific argument exception — .NET's ArgumentNullException, the JVM's NullPointerException, Dart's ArgumentError.notNull. This repository contains none of those languages: the ones it is written in have a single exception for a bad argument, so there is no pair of exceptions to confuse and nothing here for it to assess. Not a gap in the analyzer and not a finding about your code.
- X29 Per-element action decided by a fixed element — not analysed — these correctness checks read a source model that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- X32 Type resolved by simple name across every loaded assembly — This check is about how a .NET program searches the assemblies loaded into its process for a type, and this repository contains no .NET source, so there is nothing here for it to assess. Not a gap in the analyzer and not a finding about your code.
- X4 Structured logging — not analysed — these correctness checks read a source model that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- X5 Nullable reference types — not analysed — these correctness checks read a source model that was not loaded for this repository, because the repository is written in a language this check does not yet model, or because its projects failed to load. This is a gap in the analyzer, not a finding about this repository
- X6 Hand-rolled structured-format parsing — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
- X7 Silent fallback defaults — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
- X9 Subsumed condition operand — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
Appendix A — Findings (grouped)
Critical — 16 finding(s)
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- Duplicated block (19 lines × 2) mediator/event/registry.py:25
- Coverage collected but not gated
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- No ADRs
- No architecture diagram/doc
- No src/ separation
- No SAST
- No release approval gate
- No changelog
Appendix B — Reproduction & audit trail
| Dimension | Tool | Version | Command | Findings | Raw output |
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| D28 · Secrets (history) | gitleaks | — | gitleaks detect --no-banner --config /opt/gitleaks-rules/watchdog-gitleaks.toml --report-format json --report-path /tmp/watchdog-gitleaks-f0da1df8437d4871851665e8bcf170b1/history.json --exit-code 0 --source . | 0 | artifacts/raw/gitleaks-history.json |
| D28 · Secrets (history) | gitleaks | — | gitleaks detect --no-git --no-banner --config /opt/gitleaks-rules/watchdog-gitleaks.toml --report-format json --report-path /tmp/watchdog-gitleaks-f0da1df8437d4871851665e8bcf170b1/tree.json --exit-code 0 --source . | 0 | artifacts/raw/gitleaks-tree.json |
| D29 · Static Analysis (SAST) | semgrep | — | semgrep --config /opt/semgrep-rules/security-audit.yml --config /opt/semgrep-rules/owasp-top-ten.yml --config /opt/semgrep-rules/watchdog-sast.yml --json --quiet --timeout 10 --timeout-threshold 3 --metrics off . | 21 | artifacts/raw/semgrep.json |
| D30 · Dependency Vulnerabilities | none (dependency manifest found, not scanned for vulnerabilities here) | — | none (dependency manifest found, not scanned for vulnerabilities here): not applicable — Not scored — no dependency manifest in a supported ecosystem was read for this repository. A gap in the analyzer's language coverage, NOT a finding that the repository is free of vulnerable dependencies (a Python pyproject.toml/requirements.txt (pip/uv/Poetry) — not scanned yet). | 0 | — |
| D31 · IaC & Container Security | trivy | — | trivy: not applicable — No Infrastructure-as-Code or container manifests found (Dockerfile, Docker Compose, Terraform, Kubernetes/Helm, CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep, Ansible); nothing to scan. | 0 | — |
| D32 · Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) | semgrep | — | semgrep: not applicable — No personal data was found crossing a boundary the PII/GDPR ruleset checks — nothing written to a log or console sink, placed in a URL or query string, or persisted to browser storage. That is a clean result for the LEAK surface only: this ruleset detects personal data escaping, it does not inventory the personal data a repository holds, so it is not evidence that this repository has no personal-data surface. The personal-data map (Appendix C) and the C1-C5 compliance cards are what speak to that. | 0 | — |
| D37 · Vulnerability-disclosure Policy | disclosure | — | disclosure: not applicable — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md/.markdown/.rst/.txt at root or under .github/.forgejo/.gitea/docs, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed. | 0 | — |
| D40 · Network Egress Confinement | runtime-hardening | — | runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; network egress policy is a cluster-native control that may live at the platform/firewall layer, so there is nothing to assess here. | 0 | — |
| D41 · Kernel & Syscall Confinement | runtime-hardening | — | runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; seccomp/AppArmor/SELinux confinement is a workload-level control, so there is nothing to assess here. | 0 | — |
| D42 · Runtime Threat Enforcement | runtime-hardening | — | runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; runtime threat-detection and admission-control policy are cluster-level controls, so there is nothing to assess here. | 0 | — |
| D43 · Malicious Dependencies | none (dependency manifest found, not scanned for vulnerabilities here) | — | none (dependency manifest found, not scanned for vulnerabilities here): not applicable — Not scored — no dependency manifest in a supported ecosystem was read for this repository. A gap in the analyzer's language coverage, NOT a finding that the repository is free of vulnerable dependencies (a Python pyproject.toml/requirements.txt (pip/uv/Poetry) — not scanned yet). | 0 | — |