Executive summary
Read through the Production lens — the standard calibration. *Green* means good enough to run in production. The score is absolute and comparable across repos.
railsadminteam/rails_admin carries serious gaps (44%). Several issues below can materially affect correctness, security, or the cost of changing it — and propagate to everything that depends on it.
It is strongest in Architecture (97%) — the structure is clean and changes stay contained. Security (76%) is solid too.
The area that most needs attention is Readiness (22%) — releases are harder to depend on — versioning, release notes and dependency hygiene are thin, so consumers can't easily tell what changed or trust an upgrade. Code Health (57%) is the next concern — changes there are slower and more error-prone.
Leadership focus, highest impact first: 1 No tests found finding(s) in Test Distribution (Test Distribution); ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across… (Observability); tests that import the unreached modules (directly or through… (Test Coverage).
For scale: Hobby (~0 production lines); rebuilding it from scratch would take roughly ~0.1 person-years (~1 engineer). Approximate, ±~30%.
It builds on a genuinely strong Architecture foundation (97%); the priorities above are the highest-leverage way to bring the rest up to that level.
Code Health
57%
Adequate · gated by R1
Architecture
97% ★
Exemplary
Maturity
59%
Adequate · gated by M2
Readiness
22% ⚠
Critical · gated by D9, R4, R6, P2
Security
76%
Adequate · gated by D29
How the score is built — each lens's share of the headline
Width is the lens's weight in the worst-heaviest fold (the weakest area pulls hardest); colour is that lens's own band. A lens fixes the score in proportion to its width.
Readiness 22% · 47% weightCode Health 57% · 26% weightMaturity 59% · 14% weightSecurity 76% · 8% weightArchitecture 97% · 4% weight
Raise Readiness 22 → 70 (the Healthy floor) ⇒ headline 44 → ~63.
Code composition — where the lines go
Tests 100%
New since the last scan (35+)
- D8 · Coverage not measured — test suite did not build
- D15 · Hotspot: src/rails_admin/filter-box.js src/rails_admin/filter-box.js
- D15 · Hotspot: spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js
- D18 · Dimension evaluation failed
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D29 · High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml
- D35 · Change coupling: ui.js ↔ widgets.js src/rails_admin/ui.js
- R10 · Duplicated block (15 lines × 4 locations) src/rails_admin/filter-box.js
- R10 · Duplicated block (13 lines × 2 locations) spec/dummy_app/app/frontend/entrypoints/rails_admin.js
- R10 · Duplicated block (9 lines × 3 locations) spec/dummy_app/app/assets/javascripts/rails_admin/custom/ui.js
- R2 · Complex function applyDrag (cyclomatic 29, cognitive 44) spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file src/rails_admin/widgets.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file src/rails_admin/filter-box.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file src/rails_admin/filtering-select.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file src/rails_admin/remote-form.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file src/rails_admin/ui.js
- R4 · No test reaches this file src/rails_admin/nested-form-hooks.js
- R7 · Dead file (~235 LoC) spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js
- R7 · Dead file (~17 LoC) spec/dummy_app/app/frontend/entrypoints/rails_admin.js
- R7 · Dead file (~16 LoC) spec/dummy_app/app/javascript/rails_admin.js
- R7 · Dead file (~9 LoC) spec/dummy_app/app/assets/javascripts/rails_admin/custom/ui.js
- R7 · Dead file (~5 LoC) spec/dummy_app/config/webpack/development.js
- R7 · Dead file (~5 LoC) spec/dummy_app/config/webpack/production.js
- R7 · Dead file (~5 LoC) spec/dummy_app/config/webpack/test.js
- R8 · Unused dependency '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free'
- P2 · No structured logging
Top priorities
1
Resolve the 1 No tests found finding(s) in Test Distribution.
2
Adopt ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across the projects.
3
Add tests that import the unreached modules (directly or through their public entry).
Diagnosis — what's actually going on
Highest-leverage move
Of everything flagged, the best return on effort is: Resolve the 1 No tests found finding(s) in Test Distribution. The rest can wait behind it.
At a glance — Code Health
The Good
D1 · .NET / C#
Cyclomatic Complexity
9.1
D2 · .NET / C#
Cognitive Complexity
8.8
D3 · .NET / C#
God Classes
10.0
D4 · .NET / C#
Code Duplication
10.0
R10 · React / TS
Code Duplication
7.9
R2 · React / TS
Cyclomatic Complexity
8.7
R3 · React / TS
Large Files
8.6
X1 · Repo
Async correctness
10.0
X3 · Repo
Exception handling
10.0
X4 · Repo
Structured logging
10.0
The Bad
The Ugly
At a glance — Architecture
The Good
The Bad
At a glance — Maturity
The Good
At a glance — Readiness
The Good
The Ugly
At a glance — Security
The Good
Security & Compliance — OWASP Top-10 mapping
| OWASP category | Findings | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| A03:2021 — Injection | 25 | High / Critical |
| A05:2021 — Security Misconfiguration | 1 | Medium |
Roadmap
First, address the single missing test case in the Test Distribution to ensure comprehensive coverage. Next, implement structured logging using ILogger or Serilog across all projects to improve observability and debugging capabilities. Then, expand test coverage by adding tests for all unreached production modules to ensure code quality. Finally, enhance the development workflow by adding missing tooling scripts to CI and implementing automated rollback strategies for deployments.
| Do this | Helps | Effort | Dimension |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolve the 1 No tests found finding(s) in Test Distribution. | +21.5 pts | Low | Test Distribution |
| Adopt ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across the projects. | +21.5 pts | Medium | Observability |
| Add tests that import the unreached modules (directly or through their public entry). | +21.5 pts | Medium | Test Coverage |
| Add the missing tooling (eslint, tsc) as package.json scripts and run them in CI. | +20.8 pts | Medium | Tooling |
| Add readiness/liveness probes and a rolling-update (or blue/green) strategy so a bad release is caught and rolled back automatically. | +19.1 pts | Medium | Deployment & Rollback |
| Stamp a version (csproj <Version>, a VERSION file, or GitVersion) or tag releases with semver so builds and releases are traceable. | +19.1 pts | Medium | Release Hygiene |
| Migrate the remaining .js/.jsx files to TypeScript. | +4.7 pts | Medium | Type Safety |
| Delete the dead files and unused exports — every line is maintenance cost and rebuild-estimate inflation with zero runtime value. | +4.7 pts | Medium | Dead Code |
File quality
| File | Score | Band | Worst signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| .github/workflows/test.yml | 4.4 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag |
| .github/workflows/code-ql.yml | 5.1 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag |
| app/helpers/rails_admin/application_helper.rb | 5.8 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: weak-hashes-md5 |
| spec/controllers/rails_admin/main_controller_spec.rb | 5.8 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: tainted-url-host |
| app/controllers/rails_admin/main_controller.rb | 6.9 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): Medium: avoid-redirect |
| spec/dummy_app/app/controllers/players_controller.rb | 7.2 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): High: check-unscoped-find |
| src/rails_admin/filter-box.js | 7.8 | Mixed | Cyclomatic Complexity: append (cyclomatic 32) |
| lib/rails_admin/config/actions/delete.rb | 7.9 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): Medium: check-http-verb-confusion |
| lib/rails_admin/config/actions/edit.rb | 7.9 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): Medium: check-http-verb-confusion |
| lib/rails_admin/config/actions/new.rb | 7.9 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): Medium: check-http-verb-confusion |
| spec/dummy_app/app/controllers/application_controller.rb | 7.9 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): Medium: missing-csrf-protection |
| spec/dummy_app/config/initializers/secret_token.rb | 7.9 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): Medium: check-rails-session-secret-handling |
| spec/rails_admin/config_spec.rb | 7.9 | Mixed | Static Analysis (SAST): Medium: missing-csrf-protection |
| src/rails_admin/widgets.js | 8.5 | Near-clean | Cognitive Complexity: (anonymous) (cognitive 32) |
| src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js | 8.5 | Near-clean | Cognitive Complexity: _query (cognitive 18) |
| src/rails_admin/ui.js | 8.5 | Near-clean | Change Coupling: Change coupling: ui.js ↔ widgets.js |
| spec/dummy_app/Dockerfile | 9.3 | Near-clean | IaC & Container Security: Low IaC: DS-0026 |
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. 40 of 42 evaluated dimensions are computed purely by tools and static analysis (confidence 1.0); 2 documentation/naming judgement(s) are LLM-assisted and labelled advisory. Overall confidence is 0.6 — 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 — 42 dimensions across the health lenses
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How to trust any code-health report — three questions
- 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, 33 of 39 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 |
| jscpd | Code duplication | — | ✓ deterministic |
| Coverage (coverlet / dotnet-coverage) | Line & branch coverage | 10.0.301 | ✓ deterministic |
| NuGet / dotnet | Outdated, vulnerable & deprecated dependencies | 10.0.301 | ✓ deterministic |
| git / LibGit2Sharp | Churn hotspots, knowledge concentration, history | 2.43.0 · 0.31.0 | ✓ deterministic |
| gitleaks · semgrep · trivy · checkov | 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
- D18 Solution Shape — evaluation did not complete — Dimension evaluation failed — excluded from the score.
- D30 Dependency Vulnerabilities — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D32 Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D36 Supply-chain Provenance & Signing — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
- D37 Vulnerability-disclosure Policy — scanner not present in this environment — The backing tool was not installed where this scan ran, so this dimension was not scored. Install the tool (or run in the hosted environment, where it is always present) for a graded result.
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 (jscpd) — it finds copy-paste, not semantic duplication expressed differently. Committed machine-written code (EF migration scaffolds, *.Designer.cs, model snapshots) is EXCLUDED — its repetition is the tool's, not the team's — so the score reflects hand-written duplication only; the generated footprint is reported separately under Solution Shape.
- D5 Coupling: Coupling is measured between projects/assemblies — runtime coupling through DI, reflection, messaging or shared databases is invisible to a static reference graph.
- 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.
- D12 Dependency Hygiene: Dependency health reads manifests and lockfiles — a vulnerability in a vendored/copied dependency, or risk from how a dependency is actually used, is outside this view.
- 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.
- D16 Bus Factor: Bus-factor is a time-decayed model of commit attribution (who has recently, repeatedly worked a file), not comprehension — pairing, review and reading-without-committing spread knowledge it can't see; bot commits and shared accounts still distort it.
- 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.
- 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").
- D31 IaC & Container Security: IaC scanning checks Dockerfiles/Terraform/Kubernetes against best-practice rules — it cannot see the live cloud account, runtime configuration, or drift between the committed config and what is actually deployed.
- D33 JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities: JS/npm CVE matching reads package manifests and lockfiles — risk from how a dependency is used, and advisories not yet published, fall outside this scan.
- D34 Knowledge Freshness: Freshness is decayed commit RECENCY, not comprehension — code read often but rarely committed reads as orphaned, and stable code that genuinely needs no changes is penalised the same as forgotten code; bot/squash commits distort it like the bus factor.
- 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.
- 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
1 method(s) exceeded the cyclomatic complexity threshold of 15; the worst was append at 32.
append (cyclomatic 32)src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:9
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D2 · Cognitive Complexity
5 method(s) exceeded the cognitive complexity threshold of 15; the worst was (anonymous) at 32.
(anonymous) (cognitive 32)src/rails_admin/widgets.js:8
append (cognitive 30)src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:9
_query (cognitive 18)src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js:278
What to do
- Resolve the 1 (anonymous) (cognitive 32) finding(s) in Cognitive Complexity — start with widgets.js. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Resolve the 1 append (cognitive 30) finding(s) in Cognitive Complexity — start with filter-box.js. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Resolve the 1 _query (cognitive 18) finding(s) in Cognitive Complexity — start with filtering-multiselect.js. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
- Enforce Cognitive Complexity in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
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D3 · God Classes
0 god class(es) detected.
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D4 · Code Duplication
0 duplicated block group(s) detected.
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D5 · Coupling
0 projects, 0 dependency cycle(s), 0 unstable depended-on project(s).
What to do
- Enforce Coupling in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
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D9 · Test Distribution
No test projects found.
No tests found
What to do
- Resolve the 1 No tests found finding(s) in Test Distribution. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
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D12 · Dependency Hygiene
0 outdated, 0 vulnerable, 0 deprecated packages.
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D13 · Secret Scanning
Secret scan ran and found no leaked secrets.
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D15 · Churn × Complexity Hotspots
Top hotspots: src/rails_admin/filter-box.js (1×32=32); spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js (1×29=29)
Hotspot: src/rails_admin/filter-box.js src/rails_admin/filter-box.js
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D16 · Bus Factor
No source file's living knowledge is concentrated in a single author.
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D19 · Documentation Quality
The single README is a solid project landing page for the RailsAdmin engine: it shows gem badges and links to docs, a live demo, features, installation steps, and an upgrade note. The document also references architecture/dependency files (Devise, CanCanCan, PaperTrail) in its Features list and ends with a clipped clip marker before Upgrading from 2.x; the outline confirms all those sections exist and are not to be flagged as missing. A companion README.txt adds a brief styling tip but is thin on content.
What to do
- Improve Documentation Quality — currently 7.0/10. — The single README is a solid project landing page for the RailsAdmin engine: it shows gem badges and links to docs, a live demo, features, installation steps, and an upgrade note. The document also references architecture/dependency files (Devise, CanCanCan, PaperTrail) in its Features list and ends with a clipped clip marker before Upgrading from 2.x; the outline confirms all those sections exist and are not to be flagged as missing. A companion README.txt adds a brief styling tip but is thin on content.
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D21 · Naming Consistency
0 naming inconsistencies across 0 sampled symbols.
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D26 · Project Cohesion
No projects to assess.
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D27 · Navigability
Too little code to assess navigability.
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D28 · Secrets (history)
gitleaks scanned the full history AND the current working tree and found no secrets.
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D29 · Static Analysis (SAST)
25 finding(s): 0 critical, 17 high, 8 medium, 0 low.
High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/code-ql.yml:28
Medium: avoid-redirect app/controllers/rails_admin/main_controller.rb:85
What to do
- Resolve the 17 High finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with test.yml (9), code-ql.yml (3), application_helper.rb (2). — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (17 issue-level).
- Resolve the 8 Medium finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with main_controller.rb (2), application_controller.rb, config_spec.rb. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (8 warning-level).
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D31 · IaC & Container Security
1 finding(s): 0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 1 low.
Low IaC: DS-0026spec/dummy_app/Dockerfile
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D33 · JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities
No known-vulnerable JS/npm dependencies.
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D34 · Knowledge Freshness
Every significant source file has living knowledge — recently and meaningfully worked.
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D35 · Change Coupling
Strongest change-coupling: ui.js↔widgets.js 50%
Change coupling: ui.js ↔ widgets.jssrc/rails_admin/ui.js
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Frontend & cross-cutting dimensions
AX5 · Architecture & structure
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M1 · Documentation (README)
What to do
- Add a 'Testing' section to the root README — how to run the test suite.
- Add an 'Architecture' / 'How it works' section to the root README — the high-level shape.
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M2 · Architecture documentation
- No Architecture Decision Records found — decisions aren't captured for future maintainers.
- No C4/PlantUML/Mermaid diagram or architecture.md — the high-level shape isn't documented.
What to do
- Start an ADR log (docs/adr/) recording significant decisions and their rationale.
- Add a C4 context/container diagram (Structurizr, PlantUML or Mermaid) or an architecture.md overview.
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M3 · Folder & project structure
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M4 · Documentation accuracy
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P1 · CI/CD gates
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P2 · Observability
- No ILogger/Serilog usage found — production issues will be hard to diagnose.
What to do
- Adopt ILogger (or Serilog) and log at meaningful points across the projects.
- Consider OpenTelemetry tracing/metrics and a health-check endpoint for operability.
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P3 · Security & performance tooling
What to do
- Enable Dependabot/Renovate or a dependency-review gate.
- Add gitleaks/trufflehog in CI to block PRs that introduce committed secrets.
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P4 · Deployment & Rollback
- Deployment automation exists but no readiness/liveness probes, rolling-update strategy, lifecycle hooks or migration job were evidenced — a bad release is harder to detect and reverse.
What to do
- Add readiness/liveness probes and a rolling-update (or blue/green) strategy so a bad release is caught and rolled back automatically.
- Add an approval/environment gate (required reviewers / protection rules) before production promotion.
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P6 · Release Hygiene
What to do
- Stamp a version (csproj <Version>, a VERSION file, or GitVersion) or tag releases with semver so builds and releases are traceable.
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R1 · Type Safety
- 0 typed · 28 plain JS
What to do
- Migrate the remaining .js/.jsx files to TypeScript.
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R10 · Code Duplication
- src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:227 · src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:239 · src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:247 · src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:265 — filter-box.js:227
- spec/dummy_app/app/frontend/entrypoints/rails_admin.js:3 · spec/dummy_app/app/javascript/rails_admin.js:2 — rails_admin.js:3
- src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js:46 · src/rails_admin/filtering-select.js:24 — filtering-multiselect.js:46
- src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js:153 · src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js:169 — filtering-multiselect.js:153
- src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js:345 · src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js:360 — filtering-multiselect.js:345
- spec/dummy_app/app/assets/javascripts/rails_admin/custom/ui.js:1 · spec/dummy_app/app/frontend/entrypoints/rails_admin.js:9 · spec/dummy_app/app/javascript/rails_admin.js:8 — ui.js:1
- src/rails_admin/widgets.js:152 · src/rails_admin/widgets.js:204 — widgets.js:152
- src/rails_admin/widgets.js:187 · src/rails_admin/widgets.js:233 — widgets.js:187
What to do
- Extract the duplicated blocks into shared functions/components.
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R2 · Cyclomatic Complexity
- Branch-heavy code is where defects cluster — extract decisions into smaller functions. (×4) — filter-box.js:9, jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js:20, filter-box.js:210, …
What to do
- Break down the listed branch-heavy functions; aim P95 cyclomatic ≤ 5.
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R3 · Large Files
What to do
- Split the oversized components into smaller, focused ones.
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R4 · Test Coverage
- No test imports this module directly or transitively — its behavior is unverified. (×8) — widgets.js, filtering-multiselect.js, filter-box.js, …
What to do
- Add tests that import the unreached modules (directly or through their public entry).
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R6 · Tooling
- test ✗ · lint ✓ · typecheck ✗
What to do
- Add the missing tooling (eslint, tsc) as package.json scripts and run them in CI.
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R7 · Dead Code
- Unreachable from the 2 application, 5 tooling and 0 test entry point(s) detected in this repo. Gate removals on your build/type-check — an undetected custom entry would make these reachable.
- no import path from any entry point (2 application, 5 tooling, 0 test roots considered) (×7) — jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js, rails_admin.js, rails_admin.js, …
What to do
- Delete the dead files and unused exports — every line is maintenance cost and rebuild-estimate inflation with zero runtime value.
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R8 · Dependency Hygiene
- Declared in the root/package.json but never imported anywhere in that package or its workspace members — dead weight and attack surface. Verify against build tooling before removing. (×2)
What to do
- Remove unused dependencies, declare unlisted imports explicitly, and demote type-/test-only packages to devDependencies.
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R9 · Circular Imports
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X1 · Async correctness
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X3 · Exception handling
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X4 · Structured logging
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Reference — by lens
| Lens | Score | Rating | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code Health | 57% | Adequate — gated by R1 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Architecture | 97% | Exemplary | Strongest area. |
| Maturity | 59% | Adequate — gated by M2 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Readiness | 22% | Critical — gated by D9, R4, R6, P2 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
| Security | 76% | Adequate — gated by D29 | Capped at Fair by a Critical contributor — resolve it before relying on this lens. |
Not included — 61 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 — no DI registrations detected
- AX10 Code composition — no source files detected — code composition not applicable
- AX2 Stateful singletons — no singleton implementations detected
- AX3 Project dependency cycles — no csproj graph available
- AX4 Dependency direction — no csproj graph available
- AX6 Interface segregation — no public interfaces
- 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
- AXB2 Runtime readiness — no data
- C1 Data Protection — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- C2 Access Controls — No access-control surface detected in the analyzed source — no web/app surface to authorize (no HTTP API or web-UI project) and no authorization code at all (no [Authorize]/policies, no imperative guard methods). Access control is therefore N/A here — this is a library/CLI, which is authorized by its CALLER, 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 the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- C4 Data Retention — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- C5 Data-Subject Rights — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
- D10 Test Quality — ~14050 lines of test code exist on disk but weren't loaded from the analyzed solution (excluded from the .sln, or co-located/using a test attribute not loaded here), so test quality couldn't be assessed. Include the tests in the analyzed solution to enable this check.
- D11 Test Reliability — Test reliability not included
- D14 License Compliance — license scan produced no result — the tool ran but its JSON output could not be parsed; the offline NuGet fallback resolved nothing
- D17 Explicit Debt — the C# workspace loaded 0 projects, so explicit-debt density could not be measured
- D18 Solution Shape — Dimension evaluation failed
- 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 — No exposed public API
- D23 Boundary Type-Coupling — Zero projects and zero LoC mean the codebase is trivial and has no structure to justify boundaries.
- D24 Comment Value — No inline comments to assess — comment value is not applicable here.
- D25 ADR Conformance — no ADRs to check
- D30 Dependency Vulnerabilities — No .NET solution found; no NuGet dependencies to scan for vulnerabilities.
- D32 Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) — No PII/GDPR ruleset is bundled (the public p/gdpr semgrep pack was retired) — data compliance is not assessed in this scan.
- D36 Supply-chain Provenance & Signing — The CI pipeline builds and tests but publishes no released artifact — no package publish, container push, GitHub release or deployment step. Supply-chain provenance, signing and SBOM attest RELEASED artifacts, so there is nothing to attest here. Add them to the release pipeline when this repo starts shipping artifacts (a NuGet package, a container image, a GitHub release).
- D37 Vulnerability-disclosure Policy — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md, .github/SECURITY.md, docs/SECURITY.md, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed.
- D38 OSV Dependency Vulnerabilities — Scanner failed to run — not a clean result
- D39 IL Efficiency — The target did not build, so no IL was available to measure.
- D6 Cohesion (LCOM4) — No production classes were analyzable, so cohesion (LCOM4) was not measured (the solution likely failed to load or has no production code).
- D7 Architectural Integrity — no checkable ADRs and no dependency cycles — architectural integrity not assessed
- D8 Code Coverage — Coverage not measured — test suite did not build
- DM1 Domain Modelling — not run — only 1/3 markers (7 value object(s))
- ED1 Event-Driven — not run — 0/3 markers found
- ED5 Idempotency — no mutating command handlers or message consumers detected — idempotency check not applicable
- ES1 Event Sourcing — not run — 0/3 markers found
- GD1 Unfinished & placeholder code — no source files
- IC1 Incompleteness & stubs — no C# methods found
- P12 CI test-gate honesty — no data
- P5 DR & Backup — not evidenced — repo shows no backup/RTO/RPO controls; absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control
- P7 Outbound HTTP resilience — not applicable — this isn't a service/API/worker
- P8 Schema migrations — no EF Core usage detected
- P9 Domain vs controller coverage — no coverage report found on disk — run tests with `--collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"` (or in CI) to enable this cross-layer check
- PF1 Benchmark discipline — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
- PF2 Allocation hygiene — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
- PF3 Async & latency hygiene — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
- R11 Import Boundaries — No recognizable feature-sliced/layered src layout — boundary rules not applicable.
- R5 Dependency Freshness — no package-lock.json — dependency freshness not measured (would require an npm lockfile); JS/npm CVEs are scored in D33 (JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities)
- S1 Web-Security Posture — No web surface detected in the analyzed source — no HTTP API or web-UI project (no controllers/minimal-API endpoints, no Razor/Blazor views) and no web middleware (HTTPS redirection, HSTS, security headers, cookies). Transport security, security headers, secure cookies, CSRF/input-validation and middleware-order controls are therefore N/A here — this is a library/CLI/worker, not a web app. Crypto hygiene was still checked and found nothing to flag. If this codebase becomes web-facing, the dimension reactivates automatically.
- SC1 Supply-chain hygiene — no data
- X2 Cancellation propagation — no async methods found
- X5 Nullable reference types — no NRT-eligible projects
Appendix A — Findings (grouped)
Issue — 18 finding(s)
D29 · Static Analysis (SAST)
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/code-ql.yml:28
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/code-ql.yml:32
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/code-ql.yml:37
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:151
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:153
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:162
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:188
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:202
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:211
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:213
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:223
- High: github-actions-mutable-action-tag .github/workflows/test.yml:225
- High: weak-hashes-md5 app/helpers/rails_admin/application_helper.rb:245
- High: weak-hashes-md5 app/helpers/rails_admin/application_helper.rb:251
- High: tainted-url-host spec/controllers/rails_admin/main_controller_spec.rb:525
- High: tainted-url-host spec/controllers/rails_admin/main_controller_spec.rb:567
- High: check-unscoped-find spec/dummy_app/app/controllers/players_controller.rb:5
D18 · Solution Shape
- Dimension evaluation failed
Warning — 16 finding(s)
D29 · Static Analysis (SAST)
- Medium: avoid-redirect app/controllers/rails_admin/main_controller.rb:85
- Medium: avoid-redirect app/controllers/rails_admin/main_controller.rb:87
- Medium: check-http-verb-confusion lib/rails_admin/config/actions/delete.rb:27
- Medium: check-http-verb-confusion lib/rails_admin/config/actions/edit.rb:19
- Medium: check-http-verb-confusion lib/rails_admin/config/actions/new.rb:19
- Medium: missing-csrf-protection spec/dummy_app/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:3
- Medium: check-rails-session-secret-handling spec/dummy_app/config/initializers/secret_token.rb:14
- Medium: missing-csrf-protection spec/rails_admin/config_spec.rb:279
D15 · Churn × Complexity Hotspots
- Hotspot: src/rails_admin/filter-box.js src/rails_admin/filter-box.js
- Hotspot: spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js spec/support/jquery.simulate.drag-sortable.js
D1 · Cyclomatic Complexity
- append (cyclomatic 32) src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:9
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
- (anonymous) (cognitive 32) src/rails_admin/widgets.js:8
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
- append (cognitive 30) src/rails_admin/filter-box.js:9
D2 · Cognitive Complexity
- _query (cognitive 18) src/rails_admin/filtering-multiselect.js:278
D35 · Change Coupling
- Change coupling: ui.js ↔ widgets.js src/rails_admin/ui.js
D8 · Code Coverage
- Coverage not measured — test suite did not build
Recommendation — 4 finding(s)
D11 · Test Reliability
- Test reliability not included
D31 · IaC & Container Security
- Low IaC: DS-0026 spec/dummy_app/Dockerfile
D38 · OSV Dependency Vulnerabilities
- Scanner failed to run — not a clean result
D9 · Test Distribution
- No tests found
Info — 1 finding(s)
D22 · Internal API Consistency
- No exposed public API
Appendix B — Reproduction & audit trail
| Dimension | Tool | Version | Command | Findings | Raw output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D28 · Secrets (history) | gitleaks | — | gitleaks detect --no-banner --report-format json --report-path /dev/stdout --exit-code 0 --source . | 0 | artifacts/raw/gitleaks-history.json |
| D29 · Static Analysis (SAST) | semgrep | — | semgrep --config /opt/semgrep-rules/security-audit.yml --config /opt/semgrep-rules/owasp-top-ten.yml --json --quiet --timeout 0 --metrics off . | 25 | artifacts/raw/semgrep.json |
| D30 · Dependency Vulnerabilities | dotnet (no .NET solution) | — | dotnet (no .NET solution): not present in this environment | 0 | — |
| D31 · IaC & Container Security | trivy | — | trivy config --format json --quiet . | 1 | artifacts/raw/trivy-config.json |
| D32 · Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) | semgrep | — | semgrep: not applicable — No PII/GDPR ruleset is bundled (the public p/gdpr semgrep pack was retired) — data compliance is not assessed in this scan. | 0 | — |
| D33 · JS/npm Dependency Vulnerabilities | trivy | — | trivy fs --scanners vuln --format json --quiet --severity CRITICAL,HIGH,MEDIUM,LOW --skip-dirs **/bin/** --skip-dirs **/obj/** . --skip-db-update | 0 | — |
| D36 · Supply-chain Provenance & Signing | provenance | — | provenance: not applicable — The CI pipeline builds and tests but publishes no released artifact — no package publish, container push, GitHub release or deployment step. Supply-chain provenance, signing and SBOM attest RELEASED artifacts, so there is nothing to attest here. Add them to the release pipeline when this repo starts shipping artifacts (a NuGet package, a container image, a GitHub release). | 0 | — |
| D37 · Vulnerability-disclosure Policy | disclosure | — | disclosure: not applicable — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md, .github/SECURITY.md, docs/SECURITY.md, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed. | 0 | — |
| D38 · OSV Dependency Vulnerabilities | osv-scanner | — | osv-scanner --format json --recursive . | 0 | — |