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# MegaLinter

🦙 MegaLinter analyzes 50 languages, 22 formats, 21 tooling formats, excessive copy-pastes, spelling mistakes and security issues in your repository sources with a GitHub Action, other CI tools or locally.

## Decision context

- Status: active
- ToolVitals score: 97/100
- Health score: 97/100
- Shipping score: 97/100
- Score mode: verdict
- Data confidence: 90/100
- Source coverage: 85/100
- Last evidence check: 2026-09-15

## Classification

- Use case: Security Scanning (security-scanning)
- Category: Security & Compliance (security)
- Tool mode: Source-visible project
- Openness: OSI-approved OSS
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Tags: open-source, apex, autofix, azure-pipelines, best-practices, code-quality, formatter, gitlab-ci, golang, groovy, java, jenkins, kotlin, linter, linters, markdown

## Public repository signals

- Repository: [oxsecurity/megalinter](https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter)
- Stars: 2586 (adoption context only)
- Forks: 310
- Open issues: 37
- Last commit date: 2026-09-14
- Releases in 90 days: 3

## Source receipts

- [Official website](https://megalinter.io/) — checked 2026-09-15
- [Source repository](https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter) — checked 2026-09-15

## Discovery status

- Search indexable: yes
- Reason: sufficient tool evidence

## Interpretation limits

- ToolVitals scores summarize bounded public maintenance, shipping, openness, and evidence signals. They are not user-review ratings.
- GitHub stars and related popularity metrics are adoption context, not quality evidence.
- Missing values mean not collected or not confidently established; they do not mean zero.
- Public signals do not prove security, uptime, support quality, customer satisfaction, or production suitability.
- Verify material decisions against the linked first-party sources and your own requirements.