Is Citadel safe to use?

Citadel has an HVTrust score of 63.1/100 (Grade C), ranked #74 of 351 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Citadel?

Citadel scores 63.1/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 923 GitHub stars and is categorized under Agent Skills.

Citadel

SethGammon/Citadel

The operating layer for Claude Code + OpenAI Codex: persistent project memory, intent routing, safety hooks, cost telemetry, and parallel agent fleets.

Agent Skills JavaScript Listed MIT

Is Citadel safe? Promising trust profile, but some evidence still deserves review.

OSSF Scorecard 7.2 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 50%

Last push yesterday

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In detail: Citadel scores 63.1/100 (Grade C), ranked #74 of 351 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 7.2/10; 50% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-25. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How Citadel compares in Agent Skills

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Citadel’s 63.1.

Where the 63.1 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Agent Skills average

63.1 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Citadel Agent Skills average (351 agents)

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

11.5 / 25

3.4 above avg 8.1

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

0.6 below avg 11.4

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

14.6 / 17

2.4 above avg 12.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

19.4 / 20

5.2 above avg 14.2

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

7.1 / 20

1.9 below avg 9.0

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

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

Recent Changes

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → declared

Maintainer Checklist

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

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74.9

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#74

In Agent Skills

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 2026-09-26

Activity & Reach

Stars

923

Forks

Last Push

2026-09-25

yesterday

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

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HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▼4

was #70

Analysis

Activity Inputs

74.9 / 100

StarsRepository reach

17.8 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

24.9 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

23.2 / 25

CommunityFork signal

8.9 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

7.2 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 20, 2026

Signed Commits

50%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 4

CI-Tests 10

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 2

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 10

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies 6

SAST 10

Security-Policy 10

Signed-Releases 0

Token-Permissions 9

Vulnerabilities 10

Common questions about Citadel

Citadel has a mixed signal profile. Some trust indicators are present, others are missing. Whether it is safe for your use case depends on which gaps matter to you — review the breakdown below before adopting in production.

Does Citadel publish package provenance?

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

Does Citadel have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Citadel has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 7.2/10. 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 Citadel actively maintained?

Actively maintained. The repository was pushed to within the last 1 day(s).

What license does Citadel use?

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

Are Citadel's commits signed?

50% of the last 100 commits to Citadel 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.

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

medium confidence

Declared

MCP support appears present, but direct server implementation is less certain.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

medium confidence

1 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Anthropic

Credential signal: No explicit API-key/config marker detected.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Declared

Declared plugin/integration 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 Citadel'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.

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → declared

Maintain Citadel?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Citadel 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

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 56 spots (#14 → #70)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 10.8pts (52.3 → 63.1)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #14

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#49 → #62)

2026-08-27

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 6.8/10

2026-08-27

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-08-27

Rank Moved

Rank rose 123 spots (#152 → #29)

2026-08-27

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 38.3pts (23.6 → 61.9)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 79 spots (#73 → #152)

2026-08-11

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #67

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