Traceroot
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Is Traceroot safe? Promising trust profile, but some evidence still deserves review.
Compare Traceroot
How does it stack up against its Observability & Evaluation neighbours?
Pick any agent to compare →In detail: Traceroot scores 61.8/100 (Grade C), ranked #630 of 1378 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 7.4/10; 55% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-10-17. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →
How Traceroot could raise its score
Each line changes one public signal and recomputes with the live scoring function. The gains don't add up exactly, because the score is capped near the top.
- Raise the OSSF Scorecard from 7.4 to 9.0lowest checks: CII-Best-Practices 0, Fuzzing 0, SAST 0 +3.3 → 65.1 B · #15 of 27
- Sign every commit55% signed today +2.3 → 64.1 C · #15 of 27
Chain of custody
Scanners check what the code says. This traces who ships Traceroot and whether that has changed: from the source repository, through how changes are reviewed and released, to the code you run. These are the checks for OWASP ASI04 Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities.
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Source Partly signed
github.com/traceroot-ai/traceroot, NOASSERTION, last pushed 2026-10-17. 55% of the last 100 commits carry a verified signature; the rest can't be tied to a verified identity.
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Review and release Strong
OpenSSF Scorecard rates the repository's practices 7.4/10 (scanned Oct 17, 2026). The checks that decide who can get a change released:
- Code Review10
- Branch Protectionn/a
- Signed Releasesn/a
- Dangerous Workflow10
- Token Permissions10
- Pinned Dependencies4
All 18 Scorecard checks
Binary-Artifacts 10Branch-Protection -1CI-Tests 10CII-Best-Practices 0Code-Review 10Contributors 10Dangerous-Workflow 10Dependency-Update-Tool 10Fuzzing 0License 9Maintained 10Packaging 10Pinned-Dependencies 4SAST 0Security-Policy 10Signed-Releases -1Token-Permissions 10Vulnerabilities 0 -
Published packages None
No registry package. Traceroot is used from its repository, so what you run is whatever you check out: pin a release tag or commit.
Changes to this chain
No change to package provenance, package source links, Scorecard coverage or license in HVTracker's daily snapshots of Traceroot.
Evidence behind this score
Coverage C: 2 of 5 independent evidence types found.
- GitHub repository data
- Package downloads (missing)
- Supply-chain checks
- Public actions (missing)
- Community mentions (missing)
Verify this score yourself
Every build re-issues Traceroot’s score as an Ed25519-signed credential, valid for 7 days. You can check it offline against HVTracker’s published key; if anyone changes a number after signing, verification fails.
What this score doesn’t check
It covers who ships the code, not what the code does. It doesn’t read tool descriptions or prompts for injected instructions, watch runtime behaviour, or find bugs nobody has disclosed yet. For that, run a content scanner before you connect it, such as Cisco MCP Scanner or Snyk Agent Scan.
How Traceroot compares in Observability & Evaluation
- #13 Giskard 67.0 +5.2
- #14 Holmesgpt 65.5 +3.7
- #15 Traceroot 61.8 this agent
- #16 Helicone 61.4 −0.4
- #17 OpenLIT 60.5 −1.3
Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Traceroot’s 61.8.
Where the 61.8 comes from
HVTrust dimensions vs the Observability & Evaluation average
61.8 / 100 · 100.0% confidenceTraceroot Observability & Evaluation average (27 agents)
Quick Trust Read
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
Activity & Reach
Analysis
Activity Inputs
78.8 / 100Common questions about Traceroot
Does Traceroot publish package provenance?
Does Traceroot have an OpenSSF Scorecard?
Is Traceroot actively maintained?
What license does Traceroot use?
Are Traceroot's commits signed?
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
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 →
- database
- MCP signal live
- External deps live
- Tool / plugin surface live
- Package provenance drift live
Detected changes to Traceroot'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.
Maintain Traceroot?
For maintainers
HVTrust scores Traceroot 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.
Reputation Timeline
Signal history
Embed Badge Badge guide for maintainers →
For maintainers
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Other agents in Observability & Evaluation
GitHub REST API (repo, commits, stars, forks, license) · OpenSSF Scorecard CLI
Each agent's signals refresh once daily across 6 staggered batches. Methodology v4.4 · Raw JSON