Is Strands Agents safe to use?

Strands Agents has an HVTrust score of 91.7/100 (Grade A), ranked #6 of 1283 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Strands Agents?

Strands Agents scores 91.7/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 6.9k GitHub stars and is categorized under Agent Frameworks.

Strands Agents

strands-agents/harness-sdk

Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any

Agent Frameworks Python Grade A Listed Apache-2.0

91.7/100

Rank #6 of 1283

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Listing state

Listed

Evidence coverage

Grade B · 3/5 signals

Last push

2026-08-11 · 0d ago

Recent change

No recent signal change

Is Strands Agents safe? Strands Agents scores 91.7/100 (Grade A), ranked #6 of 1283 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage B (3 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: its packages ship with cryptographic provenance; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 5.5/10; 100% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-08-11. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

Ranked neighbours in Agent Frameworks

#2 Vercel AI SDK — 96.4 (A) → #3 LangGraph — 93.0 (A) → #5 OpenAI Agents SDK (JS) — 89.2 (A) → #6 Cloudflare Agents — 88.5 (A) →

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Improve safety / integrity to lift the weakest part of the trust profile.

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 5.5/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

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87.0

Activity sub-score · out of 100

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade A 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 →

Activity & Reach

Stars

6.9k

Forks

1.0k

Last Push

2026-08-11

today

Commits (4 wk)

221

Downloads (7d)

7,805,889

npm+pypi

HN mentions (30d)

—

Open Issues

468

Rank Change

was #6

Analysis

HVTrust Dimensions vs Agent Frameworks

91.7 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Strands Agents Agent Frameworks average (118 agents)

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

19.4 / 25

11.3 above avg 8.1

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

18.0 / 18

6.4 above avg 11.6

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

13.2 / 17

1.6 above avg 11.6

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

20.0 / 20

5.6 above avg 14.4

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

18.4 / 20

7.0 above avg 11.4

Activity Inputs

87.0 / 100

StarsRepository reach

23.0 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

25.0 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

25 / 25

CommunityFork signal

14.0 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

Verified

npm, pypi attestation

OSSF Scorecard

5.5 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Aug 10, 2026

Signed Commits

100%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 5

CI-Tests 10

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 10

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow 0

Dependency-Update-Tool 10

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging 10

Pinned-Dependencies 2

SAST 3

Security-Policy 10

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 0

Is Strands Agents safe?

Public supply-chain signals for Strands Agents are strong: it has multiple independent trust indicators in place. This does not replace your own security review, but Strands Agents carries less obvious unverified-evidence risk than projects with thin signals.

Does Strands Agents publish package provenance?

Yes. Strands Agents's package releases carry build provenance attestations, which cryptographically link the published package back to its source repository and CI workflow.

Does Strands Agents have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Strands Agents has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 5.5/10. 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 Strands Agents actively maintained?

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

What license does Strands Agents use?

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

Are Strands Agents's commits signed?

100% of the last 100 commits to Strands Agents 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.

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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

Strands Agents 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

medium confidence

Extensions

Extension based plugin/integration surface detected.

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

Maintain Strands Agents?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Strands Agents 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

2026-07-08

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 5.4/10

2026-07-08

Rank Moved

Rank rose 30 spots (#34 → #4)

2026-07-08

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 8.7pts (82.7 → 91.4)

2026-07-07

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #34

GitHub → PyPI: strands-agents npm: @strands-agents/sdk

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