Is SimpleEnglish safe to use?

SimpleEnglish has an HVTrust score of 56.8/100 (Grade C), ranked #138 of 359 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for SimpleEnglish?

SimpleEnglish scores 56.8/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 3.6k GitHub stars and is categorized under Agent Skills.

SimpleEnglish

Repository

Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical

Agent Skills Python Listed MIT

Is SimpleEnglish safe? Promising trust profile, but some evidence still deserves review.

OSSF Scorecard 3.2 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 77%

Last push yesterday

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In detail: SimpleEnglish scores 56.8/100 (Grade C), ranked #138 of 359 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage C (2 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 3.2/10; 77% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-30. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How SimpleEnglish could raise its score

Each line changes one public signal and recomputes with the live scoring function. The gains don't add up exactly, because the score is capped near the top.

Raise the OSSF Scorecard from 3.2 to 9.0lowest checks: Branch-Protection 0, CII-Best-Practices 0, Contributors 0 +12.2 → 69.0 B · #39 of 359
Sign every commit77% signed today +1.2 → 58.0 C · #126 of 359

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How SimpleEnglish compares in Agent Skills

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks SimpleEnglish’s 56.8.

Where the 56.8 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Agent Skills average

56.8 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

SimpleEnglish Agent Skills average (359 agents)

Safety / Integrity50% OSSF Scorecard · 30% provenance · 20% signed commits

7.8 / 25

in line with avg 8.0

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

0.6 below avg 11.4

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

11.2 / 17

1.0 below avg 12.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

18.8 / 20

4.6 above avg 14.2

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

8.5 / 20

in line with avg 9.0

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Publish package provenance or release attestations for stronger supply-chain evidence.

Recent Changes

2026-09-30

Rank Moved

Rank rose 14 spots (#149 → #135)

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#134 → #147)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 3.2/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

Publish provenance Add package provenance or release attestations so users can verify where shipped artifacts came from.

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77.8

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#138

In Agent Skills

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade C reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage C is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (2 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-09-29 2026-10-01

Activity & Reach

Stars

3.6k

Forks

135

Last Push

2026-09-30

yesterday

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

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HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▼3

was #135

Analysis

Activity Inputs

77.8 / 100

StarsRepository reach

21.4 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

24.9 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

21.5 / 25

CommunityFork signal

9.9 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

3.2 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 29, 2026

Signed Commits

77%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 0

CI-Tests 4

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 1

Contributors 0

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 0

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies 0

SAST 0

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 10

Common questions about SimpleEnglish

SimpleEnglish has a mixed signal profile. Some trust indicators are present, others are missing. Whether it is safe for your use case depends on which gaps matter to you — review the breakdown below before adopting in production.

Does SimpleEnglish publish package provenance?

No published build provenance is currently detected for SimpleEnglish. This is common for open-source projects but means consumers cannot independently verify that the package on the registry matches the GitHub source.

Does SimpleEnglish have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

SimpleEnglish has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 3.2/10. The Scorecard checks for branch protection, signed releases, dependency updates, fuzzing, code review, and other supply-chain hygiene items. See the full check breakdown on this page.

Is SimpleEnglish actively maintained?

Actively maintained. The repository was pushed to within the last 1 day(s).

What license does SimpleEnglish use?

SimpleEnglish ships under MIT. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are SimpleEnglish's commits signed?

76% of the last 100 commits to SimpleEnglish are verified-signed (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, or GitHub's signing flow). Signed commits help confirm that code was authored by who the commit claims.

Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.

AI agent surface

MCP, providers, tool surface

Scored in HVTrust

These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →

MCP Server Support

None detected

No MCP server signal detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

medium confidence

1 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Anthropic

Credential signal: No explicit API-key/config marker detected.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Declared

Declared plugin/integration surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

N/A

No package source configured

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

MCP signal live
External deps live
Tool / plugin surface live
Package provenance drift live

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to SimpleEnglish's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

Maintain SimpleEnglish?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores SimpleEnglish from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.

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Reputation Timeline

Signal history

2026-09-30

Rank Moved

Rank rose 14 spots (#149 → #135)

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#134 → #147)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

2026-09-23

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 42 spots (#91 → #133)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 11.9pts (44.3 → 56.2)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #91

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-07

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 3.1/10

2026-09-07

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank rose 200 spots (#310 → #110)

2026-09-07

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 31.7pts (24.9 → 56.6)

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#295 → #305)

2026-09-03

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#277 → #290)

2026-09-02

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#267 → #277)

2026-09-01

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 6pts (70 → 76)

2026-08-31

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#253 → #264)

2026-08-30

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 26 spots (#227 → #253)

2026-08-29

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 31 spots (#196 → #227)

2026-08-28

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 19 spots (#177 → #196)

2026-08-27

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 17 spots (#160 → #177)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 80 spots (#80 → #160)

2026-08-17

Rank Moved

Rank rose 10 spots (#91 → #81)

2026-08-16

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #91

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