Vellum Assistant
An AI Assistant that’s easy to setup, does your work 24/7, knows your preferences and gets better over time.
Is Vellum Assistant safe? Promising trust profile, but some evidence still deserves review.
Compare Vellum Assistant
How does it stack up against its Memory & Knowledge neighbours?
Pick any agent to compare →In detail: Vellum Assistant scores 67.8/100 (Grade B), ranked #418 of 1378 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage A (4 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 6.0/10; 100% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-10-18. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →
How Vellum Assistant 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.
- Publish build provenance for its packagesnpm publish --provenance from CI +14.7 → 82.5 A · #11 of 51
- Raise the OSSF Scorecard from 6.0 to 9.0lowest checks: CII-Best-Practices 0, SAST 0, Signed-Releases 0 +6.2 → 74.0 B · #16 of 51
Chain of custody
Scanners check what the code says. This traces who ships Vellum Assistant and whether that has changed: from the source repository, through how changes are reviewed and released, to the package you install. These are the checks for OWASP ASI04 Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities.
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Source Signed
github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant, MIT, last pushed 2026-10-18. 100% of the last 100 commits carry a verified signature, so changes trace to a verified account.
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Review and release Mixed
OpenSSF Scorecard rates the repository's practices 6.0/10 (scanned Oct 19, 2026). The checks that decide who can get a change released:
- Code Review1
- Branch Protection5
- Signed Releases0
- Dangerous Workflow10
- Token Permissions0
- Pinned Dependencies9
All 18 Scorecard checks
Binary-Artifacts 9Branch-Protection 5CI-Tests 10CII-Best-Practices 0Code-Review 1Contributors 10Dangerous-Workflow 10Dependency-Update-Tool 10Fuzzing 10License 10Maintained 10Packaging 10Pinned-Dependencies 9SAST 0Security-Policy 10Signed-Releases 0Token-Permissions 0Vulnerabilities 0 -
Published packages Not linked
- npm vellum No source link declared No build attestation
Without a build attestation, nothing proves the published files were built from this repository.
Changes to this chain
No change to package provenance, package source links, Scorecard coverage or license in HVTracker's daily snapshots of Vellum Assistant.
Evidence behind this score
Coverage A: 4 of 5 independent evidence types found.
- GitHub repository data
- Package downloads
- Supply-chain checks
- Public actions (missing)
- Community mentions
Verify this score yourself
Every build re-issues Vellum Assistant’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 Vellum Assistant compares in Memory & Knowledge
- #23 Code-Graph-RAG 69.4 +1.6
- #24 WeKnora 68.5 +0.7
- #25 Vellum Assistant 67.8 this agent
- #26 CodeGraphContext 67.8 ±0
- #27 Quivr 66.8 −1.0
Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Vellum Assistant’s 67.8.
Where the 67.8 comes from
HVTrust dimensions vs the Memory & Knowledge average
67.8 / 100 · 100.0% confidenceVellum Assistant Memory & Knowledge average (51 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 B reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage A is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (4 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →
Rank Trend
Activity & Reach
Analysis
Activity Inputs
79.8 / 100Common questions about Vellum Assistant
Does Vellum Assistant publish package provenance?
Does Vellum Assistant have an OpenSSF Scorecard?
Is Vellum Assistant actively maintained?
What license does Vellum Assistant use?
Are Vellum Assistant'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 →
- MCP signal live
- External deps live
- Tool / plugin surface live
- Package provenance drift live
Maintain Vellum Assistant?
For maintainers
HVTrust scores Vellum Assistant 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 Memory & Knowledge
GitHub REST API (repo, commits, stars, forks, license) · npm Registry (downloads, provenance) · OpenSSF Scorecard CLI · Algolia HN Search API
Each agent's signals refresh once daily across 6 staggered batches. Methodology v4.4 · Raw JSON