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Review the CANARY score, rationale, and supporting evidence.
The forecast comes from the frozen champion configuration applied to the newest panel month; the signals beneath it describe the plugin's current state and are not part of the validated forecast.
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CANARY forecast · as of 2026-06
branch-api
Activity-recency clocks + Contributor dynamics · Logistic Regression: the frozen champion fold model (oot_champion/fold_2025-11, trained on months before 2025-11, labels as known 2025-12) applied to the newest month of the panel. Inference only; no outcome for this month is known yet.
Read the rank, not the score. The score is the model's raw output and is not a probability: on the holdout the champion's mean score is about 0.5 against an observed advisory rate of 1 percent. Across the pre-registered holdout, reviewing the top fifth of plugins by this ranking caught about half of the advisories that followed.
Honest track record
Where branch-api ranked before each window
Activity-recency clocks + Contributor dynamics · Logistic Regression, embargoed rolling backtest: the rank this plugin held among every scored plugin at each forecast date, using only what was knowable then. Shaded months are the pre-registered holdout.
Scored at 32 forecast dates; on average in the top 1.2% of plugins (top 0.69% across the holdout). No advisory followed any of those dates within six months.
| Holdout month | Score | Rank | Share of panel | What followed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 77.3% | 15 of 2,053 | top 0.68% | none within six months |
| 2025-08 | 75.2% | 16 of 2,053 | top 0.73% | none within six months |
| 2025-09 | 74.8% | 16 of 2,053 | top 0.73% | none within six months |
| 2025-10 | 75.5% | 13 of 2,053 | top 0.58% | none within six months |
| 2025-11 | 74.2% | 12 of 2,053 | top 0.54% | none within six months |
| 2025-12 | 73.8% | 19 of 2,053 | top 0.88% | none within six months |
Current-state context
Supporting signals
Maintenance history, governance artifacts, SLSA provenance and known advisories in dependencies, read from the plugin's current public state. A practitioner's dashboard, not part of the validated forecast.
Key risk signals
- No advisories found in local dataset.
- Latest release: 2026-02-04.
- Requires Jenkins core 2.504.3.
- Last commit: November 2, 2026 — live data from GitHub.
- No SECURITY.md — vulnerability reporting process undocumented (+3).
- No Dependabot or GitHub Actions detected — limited automated maintenance (+3).
- Dependency risk: 1 of 5 dep(s) have advisories; worst: cloudbees-folder (CVSS 8.0).
- Plugin health score 100/100 — acceptable maintenance posture.
Feature details (34 keys)
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"max_cvss_base_score_observed": null,
"max_cvss_severity_label_observed": null,
"swh_present": true,
"swh_days_since_last_commit": 0.0,
"swh_commit_count": 19859,
"swh_has_security_md": false,
"swh_has_dependabot": false,
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"security_warning_count": 0,
"active_security_warning_count": 0,
"release_timestamp": "2026-02-04T17:14:32+00:00",
"days_since_release": 277,
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"caffeine-api",
"cloudbees-folder",
"commons-lang3-api",
"ionicons-api",
"scm-api"
],
"dependency_total": 5,
"dependency_risk_points": 6,
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"worst_dep_max_cvss": 8.0,
"worst_dep_id": "cloudbees-folder",
"worst_dep_latest_advisory_date": "2023-08-16"
},
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"1 advisories (+2).",
"Max CVSS 8.0 (+4)."
]
}
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"healthscore_date": "2026-02-04T18:31:33.283718Z",
"healthscore_collected_at": "2026-02-28T16:43:20+00:00",
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}
}JSON payload
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"score": 7,
"reasons": [
"No advisories found in local dataset.",
"Latest release: 2026-02-04.",
"Requires Jenkins core 2.504.3.",
"Recent commit activity (0 days ago) suggests active maintenance.",
"No SECURITY.md — vulnerability reporting process undocumented (+3).",
"No Dependabot or GitHub Actions detected — limited automated maintenance (+3).",
"Dependency risk: 1 of 5 dep(s) have advisories; worst: cloudbees-folder (CVSS 8.0).",
"Plugin health score 100/100 — acceptable maintenance posture."
],
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"max_cvss_severity_label_observed": null,
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"commons-lang3-api",
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