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72.3k stars · 2.1k forks · Go

Healthy

Healthy: no known risks in the checks that ran.

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

Complete

Steady

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 7
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 63%
Last commit: Jun 1, 2026 (4 months ago)
Last human commit: Mar 26, 2026 (6 months ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: Jun 1, 2026 (4 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 15 hours

Responsiveness: of 14 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Most commits in the last year come from bots.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 7 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 3
Contributors: 202

Top committers

ChristopherHX: 43% of commits
cplee: 29% of commits
dagecko: 14% of commits
golang-not-rust: 14% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Mar 18, 2020 to Mar 19, 2020: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 87 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 22, 2021 to Jul 23, 2021: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 22, 2021 to Aug 24, 2021: about 322 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 25, 2022 to Jan 27, 2022: about 133 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 26, 2022 to Sep 27, 2022: about 183 more stars than usual, peak 172 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 18, 2022 to Oct 19, 2022: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 26, 2022 to Dec 8, 2022: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 923 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 31, 2023 to Aug 4, 2023: about 802 more stars than usual, peak 348 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 20, 2023 to Nov 23, 2023: about 423 more stars than usual, peak 267 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 9, 2024 to Feb 12, 2024: about 266 more stars than usual, peak 212 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 7, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025: about 128 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 14, 2025 to Apr 18, 2025: about 447 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 26, 2025 to May 2, 2025: about 506 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 18, 2025 to May 23, 2025: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 480 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 4, 2025 to Jul 4, 2025: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 23, 2025 to Jul 23, 2025: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 9, 2025 to Dec 10, 2025: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jan 6, 2026 to Jan 6, 2026: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.9 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

github.com/nektos/act (GO): latest v0.2.89, published Jun 1, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.9 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: nektos/act, deps.dev: Go github.com/nektos/act

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2