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 [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/coredns/coredns.svg)](https://hub.docker.com/r/coredns/coredns)
 [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/coredns/coredns)](https://goreportcard.com/report/coredns/coredns)
 [![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1250/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1250)
+[![OpenSSF Scorecard](https://api.scorecard.dev/projects/github.com/coredns/coredns/badge)](https://scorecard.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/coredns/coredns)
 
 CoreDNS is a DNS server/forwarder, written in Go, that chains [plugins](https://coredns.io/plugins).
 Each plugin performs a (DNS) function.