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I built a free GitHub Action that scores your repo health — and auto-updates your README
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I built a free GitHub Action that scores your repo health — and auto-updates your README

via Dev.toOssama Hashim

Ever looked at a repo and thought: "Is this actually well-maintained, or does it just look like it is?" I had that thought one too many times — so I built DevLens . What is DevLens? DevLens is a GitHub Action that gives your repository a health score from 0 to 100 , auto-injects a live badge into your README, and sends a weekly analytics digest to Discord. It's 100% free. Runs entirely inside GitHub Actions. Zero vendor lock-in. Forever. vs. Code Climate ($37/dev) · LinearB ($49/dev) · GitClear ($15/dev) DevLens costs $0. The 7 Health Dimensions DevLens scores your repo across 7 weighted dimensions: Dimension Weight What it checks 📝 README Quality 20% Length, sections, badges, code examples, keywords 🔥 Commit Activity 20% Push frequency over last 90 days 🌿 Repo Freshness 15% Days since last push 📚 Documentation 15% LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, CHANGELOG, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, SECURITY, docs/ ⚙️ CI/CD Setup 15% GitHub Actions workflows present 🎯 Issue Response 10% Closed vs open issue ratio ⭐ Comm

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