# praetorian-inc/gokart

A static analysis tool for securing Go code

Repository: https://github.com/praetorian-inc/gokart
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gokart
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: golang, security, static-code-analysis, static-analysis, security-tools
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-01-23T01:14:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1843, "days_push": 954, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2157, forks 106 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:19.751965+00:00)

## What it is
GoKart is a static analysis (SAST) tool for Go that detects vulnerabilities using SSA-form source-to-sink taint tracing. It reduces false positives by determining whether variable inputs are actually attacker-controlled or constant-equivalent.

## Use cases
- scan go code for security vulnerabilities
- find sql injection in golang source
- reduce false positives in go static analysis
- run sast on go repositories in ci
- trace taint from user input to dangerous sinks in go

## When to choose
- you need low-false-positive vulnerability scanning for Go codebases
- you want taint tracking that understands constants and variable assignments
- you prefer a simple installable CLI scanner

## When to avoid
- your project is not written in Go
- you need dynamic or runtime security testing
- you need broad language coverage in one tool

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, vulnerability-scanning, parser
- domain: security, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: static-analysis, golang, sast, taint-analysis, ssa, code-scanning, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- praetorian-inc/gokart (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:19.751965+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:50:25.709610+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/praetorian-inc/gokart (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:19.751965+00:00, sha ff1c9711aed1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.