---
title: "GitHub repository due diligence for coding agents: evaluate whether a public or open-source repository is safe and maintained enough to adopt using license, maintenance, release freshness, activity, project health, and risk signals."
method: POST
path: "/v1/github-repo-preflight"
tags: ["github", "repo", "repository", "open", "source", "evaluate", "safe", "maintained", "maintenance", "license", "release", "freshness", "due", "diligence", "coding", "agent", "project", "health", "risk", "adopt"]
---

# GitHub repository due diligence for coding agents: evaluate whether a public or open-source repository is safe and maintained enough to adopt using license, maintenance, release freshness, activity, project health, and risk signals.

`POST /v1/github-repo-preflight`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.salt19.com`
- URL: `https://api.salt19.com/v1/github-repo-preflight`
- Auth: none required

GitHub repository due-diligence and adoption preflight for coding agents. Evaluate a public repository for maintenance activity, release freshness, archive or disabled state, declared license, issue activity, popularity signals, and repository risk before cloning, installing, integrating, or depending on it.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- object
  - `repo` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful paid result

## Other responses

- `402`: x402 payment required

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/salt19/apis/salt19-agent-utility-grid.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/salt19/apis/salt19-agent-utility-grid/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/salt19/apis/salt19-agent-utility-grid/revisions/c2520ca8ffbf?raw)