No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
policy-sentry has 4.1M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.15.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of beautifulsoup4, click and orjson. It is used by 7 tracked packages, including cloudsplaining, actionscope and consoleme.
GitHub topics include aws, iam and cloud.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
68
Adoption
80
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,134,425
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
4,134,425
Stars
2,157
Stars per 1k downloads
0.52
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
•
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
138,192
Month daily avg
137,814
Momentum
+0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
84 days ago
Total releases
85
Releases/year
12.6
•
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
59
Monthly downloads
4,134,425
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
56
Issue Burden
1.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
38.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
69d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
44.7K
macOS
350
Windows
149
Python Versions
3.12
57.6%
24.9K
3.11
15.1%
6.5K
3.14
11.1%
4.8K
3.13
8.8%
3.8K
3.10
7.4%
3.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
37.7K
US
2.
GB
1.1K
GB
3.
IE
1.1K
IE
4.
DE
1.0K
DE
5.
NL
1.0K
NL
6.
IN
634
IN
7.
FR
458
FR
8.
AU
431
AU
9.
SG
395
SG
10.
CN
319
CN
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
October 9, 2019
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.15.2
Total Releases
85
Contributors
59
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh