isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines
The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++
45.4k stars · 5.6k forks · CSS
This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 3 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 5
- Human commits, 365 days
- 26
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Aug 6, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 6, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 3
- Last release
- Jun 19, 2017 (9 years ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 15 days
Responsiveness: of 3 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 3 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 26 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 8
- Contributors
- 326
Top committers
- hsutter: 35% of commits
- jwakely: 19% of commits
- cubbimew: 8% of commits
- bgloyer: 4% of commits
- bliznyukartem: 4% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 23, 2015 to Oct 14, 2015: about 3.2k more stars than usual, peak 644 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Jan 1, 2016 to Jan 2, 2016: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 22, 2016 to Apr 25, 2016: about 424 more stars than usual, peak 189 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 12, 2016 to Sep 14, 2016: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 3, 2018 to Jan 4, 2018: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 8, 2018 to Mar 12, 2018: about 464 more stars than usual, peak 238 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 18, 2018 to Jun 20, 2018: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 22, 2019 to Apr 23, 2019: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 7, 2019 to May 9, 2019: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 15, 2019 to Oct 17, 2019: about 104 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 27, 2022 to Jul 30, 2022: about 167 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 1, 2022 to Dec 1, 2022: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 16, 2023 to Sep 27, 2023: about 570 more stars than usual, peak 161 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- No license found
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy