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A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

Is anchore/grype beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, anchore/grype merged 29 of 47 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

Stars
13k
Forks
914
Open beginner issues
1
Indexed issues
351
Avg merge
1d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
45
Dominant language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 13, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
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How to contribute to anchore/grype

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  4. Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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