Is AI Town safe to use?

AI Town has an HVTrust score of 50.5/100 (Grade C), ranked #899 of 1328 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for AI Town?

AI Town scores 50.5/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 10.5k GitHub stars and is categorized under Needs review.

AI Town

a16z-infra/ai-town

A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where A

Needs review TypeScript Grade C Listed MIT

50.5/100

Rank #899 of 1328

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Listing state

Listed

Evidence coverage

Grade C · 2/5 signals

Last push

2026-08-26 · 14d ago

Recent change

Rank +7

Is AI Town safe? AI Town scores 50.5/100 (Grade C), ranked #899 of 1328 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage C (2 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 4.0/10; 27% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-08-26. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

Ranked neighbours in Needs review

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Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Publish package provenance or release attestations for stronger supply-chain evidence.

Recent Changes

2026-09-09

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 16 spots (#883 → #899)

2026-09-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#873 → #883)

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 42 spots (#831 → #873)

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 4.0/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

Publish provenance Add package provenance or release attestations so users can verify where shipped artifacts came from.

Increase signed commits Raise the share of verified-signed commits to make maintainer identity and release history easier to trust.

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70.2

Activity sub-score · out of 100

In Needs review

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade C reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage C is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (2 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-08-11 2026-09-09

Activity & Reach

Stars

10.5k

Forks

1.2k

Last Push

2026-08-26

14 days ago

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

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HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▼16

was #883

Analysis

HVTrust Dimensions vs Needs review

50.5 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

AI Town Needs review average (11 agents)

Safety / Integrity50% OSSF Scorecard · 30% provenance · 20% signed commits

6.3 / 25

2.3 below avg 8.6

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

in line with avg 10.8

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

11.9 / 17

in line with avg 12.4

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

13.9 / 20

1.3 below avg 15.2

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

9.6 / 20

in line with avg 9.1

Activity Inputs

70.2 / 100

StarsRepository reach

24.1 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

23.1 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

8.7 / 25

CommunityFork signal

14.3 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

4.0 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 6, 2026

Signed Commits

27%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 6

CI-Tests 0

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 2

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow -1

Dependency-Update-Tool 10

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 5

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies 0

SAST 0

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions -1

Vulnerabilities 0

Is AI Town safe?

Public trust evidence for AI Town is thin: several supply-chain signals are missing or weak. This does not mean the project is unsafe — it means an outside observer cannot easily verify the usual integrity checks. Treat with extra scrutiny.

Does AI Town publish package provenance?

No published build provenance is currently detected for AI Town. This is common for open-source projects but means consumers cannot independently verify that the package on the registry matches the GitHub source.

Does AI Town have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

AI Town has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 4.0/10. The Scorecard checks for branch protection, signed releases, dependency updates, fuzzing, code review, and other supply-chain hygiene items. See the full check breakdown on this page.

Is AI Town actively maintained?

Maintained. Last push was 14 days ago.

What license does AI Town use?

AI Town ships under MIT. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are AI Town's commits signed?

27% of the last 100 commits to AI Town are verified-signed (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, or GitHub's signing flow). Signed commits help confirm that code was authored by who the commit claims.

Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.

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AI agent surface

MCP, providers, tool surface

Scored in HVTrust

These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →

MCP Server Support

None detected

No MCP server signal detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

high confidence

3 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Credential signal: API keys or service config markers documented.

Tool / Plugin Surface

None detected

No clear plugin system or broad tool surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

N/A

No package source configured

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

MCP signal live
External deps live
Tool / plugin surface live
Package provenance drift live

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to AI Town's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.

2026-08-12

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: declared → none

2026-07-17

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: Replicate, Together AI

Maintain AI Town?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores AI Town from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.

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Reputation Timeline

Signal history

2026-09-09

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 16 spots (#883 → #899)

2026-09-08

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Rank dropped 10 spots (#873 → #883)

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 42 spots (#831 → #873)

2026-09-06

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Rank dropped 13 spots (#818 → #831)

2026-09-05

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Rank dropped 59 spots (#759 → #818)

2026-09-04

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Rank dropped 29 spots (#730 → #759)

2026-09-03

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-09-02

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 34 spots (#687 → #721)

2026-09-01

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Rank dropped 14 spots (#673 → #687)

2026-08-31

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Rank dropped 37 spots (#636 → #673)

2026-08-30

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Rank dropped 15 spots (#621 → #636)

2026-08-29

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Rank dropped 41 spots (#580 → #621)

2026-08-28

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Rank dropped 16 spots (#564 → #580)

2026-08-27

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Rank dropped 19 spots (#545 → #564)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank rose 38 spots (#583 → #545)

2026-08-26

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 6.3pts (42.9 → 49.2)

2026-08-26

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 19pts (53 → 72)

2026-08-24

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 12 spots (#572 → #584)

2026-08-22

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Rank rose 11 spots (#582 → #571)

2026-08-13

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Rank dropped 10 spots (#547 → #557)

2026-08-12

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: declared → none

2026-08-10

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 20 spots (#537 → #557)

2026-08-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 162 spots (#372 → #534)

2026-07-29

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#344 → #355)

2026-07-17

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: Replicate, Together AI

2026-07-15

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 25 spots (#303 → #328)

2026-07-14

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 15 spots (#288 → #303)

2026-07-13

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 35 spots (#253 → #288)

2026-07-01

Grade Changed

Trust grade C → D

2026-06-24

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 29 spots (#199 → #228)

2026-06-23

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-06-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 12 spots (#187 → #199)

2026-06-18

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 3.4/10

2026-06-18

Rank Moved

Rank rose 57 spots (#226 → #169)

2026-06-18

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 28.2pts (21.3 → 49.5)

2026-06-16

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 3.1pts (18.2 → 21.3)

2026-06-16

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 15pts (52 → 67)

2026-06-15

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust down 3.2pts (21.4 → 18.2)

2026-06-15

Activity Score Changed

Activity score down 15pts (67 → 52)

2026-06-13

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 3.0pts (18.4 → 21.4)

2026-06-13

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 15pts (52 → 67)

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