Is Orkas safe to use?

Orkas has an HVTrust score of 60.9/100 (Grade C), ranked #611 of 1325 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Orkas?

Orkas scores 60.9/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 2.1k GitHub stars and is categorized under Multi-Agent Systems.

Orkas

Orkas-AI/Orkas

Orkas is an open-source, local-first AI desktop app: a commander LLM directs specialist sub-agents, and runs your installed coding CLIs — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes — as local sessions. Agents self-evolve via reflection and skill crystallization. BYO keys. macOS / Windows /…

Multi-Agent Systems TypeScript Listed MIT

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

OSSF Scorecard 5.2 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 33%

Last push today

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In detail: Orkas scores 60.9/100 (Grade C), ranked #611 of 1325 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 5.2/10; 33% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-26. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How Orkas compares in Multi-Agent Systems

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Orkas’s 60.9.

Where the 60.9 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Multi-Agent Systems average

60.9 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Orkas Multi-Agent Systems average (38 agents)

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

8.2 / 25

in line with avg 8.4

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

in line with avg 11.2

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

12.9 / 17

0.8 above avg 12.1

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

20.0 / 20

7.6 above avg 12.4

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

8.0 / 20

2.1 below avg 10.1

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 → marketplace

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

2026-09-23

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 5.2/10. 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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79.0

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#13

In Multi-Agent Systems

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

2.1k

Forks

Last Push

2026-09-26

today

Commits (4 wk)

121

Downloads (7d)

—

HN mentions (30d)

—

Open Issues

Rank Change

▼1

was #610

Analysis

Activity Inputs

79.0 / 100

StarsRepository reach

20.0 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

25.0 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

25 / 25

CommunityFork signal

9.0 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

5.2 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 19, 2026

Signed Commits

33%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 8

Branch-Protection 0

CI-Tests 10

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 6

Contributors 0

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies 10

SAST 0

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases 0

Token-Permissions 10

Vulnerabilities 8

Common questions about Orkas

Orkas 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 Orkas publish package provenance?

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

Does Orkas have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Orkas has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 5.2/10. 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 Orkas actively maintained?

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

What license does Orkas use?

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

Are Orkas's commits signed?

33% of the last 100 commits to Orkas 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

high confidence

Implemented

Orkas appears to expose MCP server capabilities.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

None detected

No clear third-party provider dependency detected.

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

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Marketplace

Marketplace 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 Orkas'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 → marketplace

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

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For maintainers

HVTrust scores Orkas 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 → marketplace

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

2026-09-23

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 246 spots (#360 → #606)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 11.1pts (49.7 → 60.8)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #360

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-15

Rank Moved

Rank rose 26 spots (#621 → #595)

2026-09-11

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 14 spots (#609 → #623)

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 36 spots (#564 → #600)

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 72 spots (#486 → #558)

2026-09-04

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#475 → #486)

2026-09-03

Rank Moved

Rank rose 15 spots (#490 → #475)

2026-09-02

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#479 → #490)

2026-09-01

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#469 → #479)

2026-08-31

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 26 spots (#443 → #469)

2026-08-28

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 4.2/10

2026-08-28

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-08-28

Rank Moved

Rank rose 541 spots (#984 → #443)

2026-08-28

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 32.5pts (24.4 → 56.9)

2026-08-27

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 25 spots (#959 → #984)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 89 spots (#870 → #959)

2026-08-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 24 spots (#894 → #870)

2026-08-22

Rank Moved

Rank rose 13 spots (#912 → #899)

2026-08-21

Rank Moved

Rank rose 21 spots (#933 → #912)

2026-08-20

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Rank dropped 17 spots (#916 → #933)

2026-08-19

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#903 → #916)

2026-08-17

Rank Moved

Rank rose 16 spots (#920 → #904)

2026-08-16

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 16 spots (#904 → #920)

2026-08-15

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 26 spots (#878 → #904)

2026-08-12

Rank Moved

Rank rose 14 spots (#881 → #867)

2026-08-10

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #906

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