Is Smart Ralph safe to use?

Smart Ralph has an HVTrust score of 53.8/100 (Grade C), ranked #179 of 351 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Smart Ralph?

Smart Ralph scores 53.8/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 550 GitHub stars and is categorized under Agent Skills.

Smart Ralph

tzachbon/smart-ralph

Spec-driven development with smart compaction. Claude Code plugin combining Ralph Wiggum loop with structured specification workflow.

Agent Skills Shell Listed MIT

Is Smart Ralph safe? Thin or incomplete trust evidence. Review carefully before production use.

OSSF Scorecard 4.5 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 69%

Last push 10d ago

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In detail: Smart Ralph scores 53.8/100 (Grade C), ranked #179 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 4.5/10; 69% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-16. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How Smart Ralph compares in Agent Skills

#177 Ai Website Cloner Template 54.2 +0.4
#178 Cc Wf Studio 54.1 +0.3
#179 Smart Ralph 53.8 this agent
#180 Terrashark 53.7 −0.1
#181 Claude Skills Journalism 53.7 −0.1

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Smart Ralph’s 53.8.

Where the 53.8 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Agent Skills average

53.8 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Smart Ralph Agent Skills average (351 agents)

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

9.1 / 25

1.0 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

12.3 / 17

in line with avg 12.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

15.3 / 20

1.1 above avg 14.2

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

6.6 / 20

2.4 below avg 9.0

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

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

Recent Changes

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 16 spots (#163 → #179)

2026-09-24

Rank Moved

Rank rose 26 spots (#189 → #163)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 4.5/10. 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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60.6

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#179

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

550

Forks

Last Push

2026-09-16

10 days ago

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

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HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

was #179

Analysis

Activity Inputs

60.6 / 100

StarsRepository reach

16.4 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

23.6 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

12.5 / 25

CommunityFork signal

7.9 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

4.5 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 16, 2026

Signed Commits

69%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 6

CI-Tests 9

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 0

Contributors 0

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies 0

SAST 0

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 10

Common questions about Smart Ralph

Public trust evidence for Smart Ralph 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 Smart Ralph publish package provenance?

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

Does Smart Ralph have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Smart Ralph has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 4.5/10. 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 Smart Ralph actively maintained?

Maintained. Last push was 10 days ago.

What license does Smart Ralph use?

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

Are Smart Ralph's commits signed?

69% of the last 100 commits to Smart Ralph 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

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 Smart Ralph'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

Maintain Smart Ralph?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Smart Ralph 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

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 16 spots (#163 → #179)

2026-09-24

Rank Moved

Rank rose 26 spots (#189 → #163)

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

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 68 spots (#121 → #189)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 9.6pts (42.4 → 52.0)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #121

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#142 → #155)

2026-09-03

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 21 spots (#115 → #136)

2026-09-01

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#103 → #113)

2026-08-31

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#93 → #103)

2026-08-30

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#82 → #93)

2026-08-29

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 15 spots (#67 → #82)

2026-08-28

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 12 spots (#55 → #67)

2026-08-27

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-08-27

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 5.1pts (46.5 → 51.6)

2026-08-27

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 13pts (44 → 58)

2026-08-26

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 3.8/10

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank rose 83 spots (#132 → #49)

2026-08-26

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 27.3pts (19.2 → 46.5)

2026-08-16

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 14 spots (#110 → #124)

2026-08-11

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #110

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