sindresorhus/awesome
documentation 451.3k stars
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/ 100
Last analyzed: April 3, 2026
Dimension Scores
Individual health dimension scores for this repository
Security 20
Testing 30
Documentation 45
Architecture 100
DevOps 30
Maintenance 56
Detailed Findings
Security 20/100
✗ Security policy (SECURITY.md) No SECURITY.md — add a vulnerability disclosure policy
✗ Pinned dependencies (Actions SHA) 0/1 action refs pinned to SHA (0%) — pin actions to full commit SHA for supply-chain safety
✗ Token permissions No workflow has an explicit `permissions:` block — defaults to write-all
✗ Dependency update automation No Dependabot or Renovate config found
✗ Code ownership No code ownership file — add CODEOWNERS or OWNERS for review enforcement
✓ No committed .env files No .env files committed
✗ .gitignore present No .gitignore — secrets and build artifacts may be committed
✓ CI workflows (branch protection proxy) GitHub Actions found (likely branch protection in place)
Testing 30/100
✓ CI workflow (for automated checks) GitHub Actions detected
✗ Markdown linting (markdownlint / pymarkdown) No markdownlint config — consider adding for consistent formatting
✗ Link checking (lychee / markdown-link-check) No link checking — broken links erode list quality
✗ Spell check (cspell / aspell / codespell) No spell checker configured
Documentation 45/100
✗ README quality No README found (.md, .rst, or plain)
✓ LICENSE file License: CC0-1.0
✓ CONTRIBUTING guide Contributing guide found
✗ CHANGELOG No CHANGELOG — users can't see what changed between versions
✗ Documentation directory or API docs No docs/ directory or API.md
✓ Repository description Description: "😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics"
Architecture 100/100
✓ README structure (headings + table of contents) README.md found (consider adding a table of contents)
✓ Organized file structure (category directories) Subdirectories found for category organization
✓ Contributing guidelines (CONTRIBUTING.md) CONTRIBUTING.md found
✓ License (LICENSE file) LICENSE file found
✓ Consistent formatting (.editorconfig / markdownlint) Formatting config found
DevOps 30/100
✓ CI/CD pipeline (automated checks) GitHub Actions
✗ Issue templates (for contribution requests) No issue templates — contributors lack guidance for submitting new entries
✗ PR template (for new additions) No PR template — contributors lack a checklist for new entries
✗ Automation tools (awesome-lint / scripts / Makefile) No automation scripts or awesome-lint — consider adding for quality control
Maintenance 56/100
✓ Last commit recency Last commit 0 day(s) ago — actively maintained
✗ Open issue freshness Median open issue age: 2894 day(s) — stale issues accumulating (oldest sampled: 3720 days)
✗ Recent releases No GitHub releases or tags found but repo has recent commits — no release process
✓ Bus factor Bus factor 2 — moderate (sindresorhus, davisonio). More contributors would reduce risk.
✓ Community adoption (stars) 451,298 stars — strong community adoption
✗ Maintainer funding No FUNDING.yml found (not penalized)