Is Garak safe to use?

Garak has an HVTrust score of 58.7/100 (Grade C), ranked #338 of 1308 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Garak?

Garak scores 58.7/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 9.0k GitHub stars and is categorized under Security & Guardrails.

Garak

leondz/garak

the LLM vulnerability scanner

Security & Guardrails Python Grade C Listed Apache-2.0

58.7/100

Rank #338 of 1308

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Listing state

Listed

Evidence coverage

Grade A · 4/5 signals

Last push

2026-08-21 · 4d ago

Recent change

Rank +3

Is Garak safe? Garak scores 58.7/100 (Grade C), ranked #338 of 1308 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage A (4 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 5.0/10; 76% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-08-21. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

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Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

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

Recent Changes

2026-08-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 18 spots (#356 → #338)

2026-08-24

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 20 spots (#336 → #356)

2026-08-22

Rank Moved

Rank rose 21 spots (#353 → #332)

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 5.0/10. 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.

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86.1

Activity sub-score · out of 100

In Security & Guardrails

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 A is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (4 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-08-11 2026-08-25

Activity & Reach

Stars

9.0k

Forks

1.2k

Last Push

2026-08-21

4 days ago

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

14,434

pypi

HN mentions (30d)

Open Issues

237

Rank Change

▲18

was #356

Analysis

HVTrust Dimensions vs Security & Guardrails

58.7 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Garak Security & Guardrails average (20 agents)

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

10.1 / 25

1.0 above avg 9.1

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

1.4 below avg 12.2

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

12.8 / 17

0.9 above avg 11.9

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

19.3 / 20

3.0 above avg 16.3

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

15.0 / 20

5.0 above avg 10.0

Activity Inputs

86.1 / 100

StarsRepository reach

23.7 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

24.4 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

23.5 / 25

CommunityFork signal

14.3 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

5.0 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Aug 24, 2026

Signed Commits

76%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 3

CI-Tests 10

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 7

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies 0

SAST 0

Security-Policy 10

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 2

Is Garak safe?

Garak 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 Garak publish package provenance?

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

Does Garak have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Garak has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 5.0/10. 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 Garak actively maintained?

Actively maintained. The repository was pushed to within the last 4 day(s).

What license does Garak use?

Garak ships under Apache-2.0. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are Garak's commits signed?

76% of the last 100 commits to Garak 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

None detected

No MCP server signal detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

high confidence

8 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Credential signal: API keys or service config markers documented.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Declared

Declared plugin/integration surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

high confidence

Warning

1 package source mismatch detected

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 Garak'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.

2026-06-05

Drift Warning Raised

Package-provenance drift warning: package metadata no longer clearly points at this repo

Maintain Garak?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Garak 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

2026-08-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 18 spots (#356 → #338)

2026-08-24

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 20 spots (#336 → #356)

2026-08-22

Rank Moved

Rank rose 21 spots (#353 → #332)

2026-08-19

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 15 spots (#334 → #349)

2026-08-17

Rank Moved

Rank rose 17 spots (#353 → #336)

2026-08-13

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 24 spots (#332 → #356)

2026-08-12

Rank Moved

Rank rose 15 spots (#347 → #332)

2026-08-10

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 19 spots (#336 → #355)

2026-08-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 85 spots (#249 → #334)

2026-08-04

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#195 → #208)

2026-08-02

Rank Moved

Rank rose 10 spots (#209 → #199)

2026-07-24

Rank Moved

Rank rose 28 spots (#235 → #207)

2026-07-24

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 8pts (79 → 88)

2026-07-21

Rank Moved

Rank rose 14 spots (#247 → #233)

2026-07-15

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 20 spots (#215 → #235)

2026-07-13

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 28 spots (#182 → #210)

2026-06-24

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#92 → #103)

2026-06-05

Drift Warning Raised

Package-provenance drift warning: package metadata no longer clearly points at this repo

2026-05-29

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 9.9pts (57.2 → 67.1)

2026-05-28

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 25pts (62 → 87)

GitHub → PyPI: garak

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