repocheck-cli 0.3.0

Scan any GitHub repo and get an instant engineering health report card.

repocheck

Scan any public GitHub repo and get an instant engineering health report card — README quality, CI/CD, test presence, dependency hygiene, license, commit activity, and issue hygiene, scored A–F.

$ repocheck pallets/flask

╭─ repo ──────────────────╮
│ pallets/flask           │
│ ★ 68234  ⑂ 16200  Python│
╰──────────────────────────╯
╭─ overall health score ──╮
│ 91/100  (A)              │
╰───────────────────────────╯

Check               Score  Grade
README Quality        100    A
CI/CD                  90    A
Test Presence          85    B
Dependency Hygiene     80    B
License               100    A
Commit Activity        95    A
Issue Hygiene          85    B

Install

pip install repocheck-cli

Usage

# owner/repo shorthand
repocheck pallets/flask

# full URL also works
repocheck https://github.com/psf/requests

# detailed reasoning behind every score
repocheck torvalds/linux -v

# machine-readable output (for CI pipelines, scripts)
repocheck your-org/your-repo --json

Higher rate limits

GitHub's anonymous API limit is 60 requests/hour. repocheck makes ~8 requests per scan, so you'll hit that fast without auth. Set a token to bump it to 5,000/hour:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_token_here
repocheck your-org/your-repo

No special scopes needed — a basic personal access token works fine for public repos.

What it checks

Check	What it looks at
README Quality	Presence, length, install/usage sections, badges, code blocks
CI/CD	GitHub Actions workflows, legacy CI configs
Test Presence	Test directories, test config files, declared test scripts
Dependency Hygiene	Manifest presence, version pinning, lockfiles
License	OSS license presence and type
Commit Activity	Recency and message quality of recent commits
Issue Hygiene	Open issue count and staleness

Each check is scored 0–100 and the overall score is an average across all seven.

Why

Most "is this repo any good" judgments are vibes-based — a glance at stars, maybe the README. repocheck turns that into a repeatable, objective-ish checklist you can run on your own repos before sharing them, or use to quickly evaluate a dependency before adopting it.

Local development

git clone https://github.com/Ahmed0754/repocheck
cd repocheck
pip install -e ".[dev]"
repocheck pallets/flask

License

MIT