Is Honcho safe to use?

Honcho has an HVTrust score of 73.5/100 (Grade B), ranked #237 of 1328 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Honcho?

Honcho scores 73.5/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 7.1k GitHub stars and is categorized under Memory & Knowledge.

Honcho

plastic-labs/honcho

Memory library for building stateful agents

Memory & Knowledge Python Grade B Listed AGPL-3.0

73.5/100

Rank #237 of 1328

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Listing state

Listed

Evidence coverage

Grade B · 3/5 signals

Last push

2026-09-08 · 0d ago

Recent change

Rank +3

Is Honcho safe? Honcho scores 73.5/100 (Grade B), ranked #237 of 1328 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage B (3 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 6.5/10; 91% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-08. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

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What Would Improve It

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

Recent Changes

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 14 spots (#227 → #241)

2026-09-05

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Qdrant

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 55 spots (#172 → #227)

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 6.5/10. 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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85.9

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#12

In Memory & Knowledge

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade B reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage B is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (3 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-08-16 2026-09-08

Activity & Reach

Stars

7.1k

Forks

875

Last Push

2026-09-08

today

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

128,644

pypi

HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▲4

was #241

Analysis

HVTrust Dimensions vs Memory & Knowledge

73.5 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Honcho Memory & Knowledge average (44 agents)

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

12.7 / 25

1.2 above avg 11.5

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

1.6 below avg 12.4

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

14.0 / 17

1.1 above avg 12.9

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

19.7 / 20

2.2 above avg 17.5

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

16.1 / 20

2.6 above avg 13.5

Activity Inputs

85.9 / 100

StarsRepository reach

23.1 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

25.0 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

24.1 / 25

CommunityFork signal

13.7 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

6.5 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 8, 2026

Signed Commits

91%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 5

CI-Tests 10

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 9

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging 10

Pinned-Dependencies 0

SAST 8

Security-Policy 10

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 8

Vulnerabilities 0

Is Honcho safe?

Honcho 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 Honcho publish package provenance?

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

Does Honcho have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Honcho has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 6.5/10. 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 Honcho actively maintained?

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

What license does Honcho use?

Honcho ships under AGPL-3.0. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are Honcho's commits signed?

91% of the last 100 commits to Honcho 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

high confidence

6 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Credential signal: API keys or service config markers documented.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

1 tags

Broad capability areas detected.

database

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

high confidence

Match

Published package metadata matches the tracked repo

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 Honcho'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.

2026-09-05

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Qdrant

Maintain Honcho?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Honcho 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

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 14 spots (#227 → #241)

2026-09-05

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Qdrant

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 55 spots (#172 → #227)

2026-09-04

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 17 spots (#155 → #172)

2026-08-31

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 17 spots (#130 → #147)

2026-08-30

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 6.4/10

2026-08-30

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → B

2026-08-30

Rank Moved

Rank rose 686 spots (#816 → #130)

2026-08-30

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 33.1pts (40.4 → 73.5)

2026-08-29

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 47 spots (#769 → #816)

2026-08-28

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 25 spots (#744 → #769)

2026-08-27

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 21 spots (#723 → #744)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 98 spots (#625 → #723)

2026-08-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 11 spots (#636 → #625)

2026-08-16

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #642

GitHub → PyPI: honcho-ai

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