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Plainfile

Last updated 2026-08-17 · benchmark checked 2026-09-21 · unchanged since 2026-08-17 — deterministic & reproducible

Plainfile sells single-file Python CLI tools for release hygiene checks.

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Legit.Show scored Plainfile 67/100 on 2026-09-21, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/plainfile-surge-sh/2026-09-21

Is Plainfile production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Plainfile 67 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Plainfile (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 100/100
• Accessibility — 100/100
• Security — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 92/100
• Standards — 85/100
• Discoverability — 45/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 313 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap.

Who it's for

Software developers · DevOps engineers · CI/CD pipeline managers · Release managers · Python developers

Pricing

£5 per CLI tool; £9 for Release Digest Builder script; £7 for Issue 0 digest pack

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from plainfile.surge.sh's own website on 2026-08-17.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-21.

Put together from public information, without Plainfile's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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