Is Whale safe to use?

Whale has an HVTrust score of 51.0/100 (Grade C), ranked #912 of 1325 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Whale?

Whale scores 51.0/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 929 GitHub stars and is categorized under Coding Agents.

Whale

usewhale/Whale

Whale — blazingly fast, terminal-first AI coding agent for DeepSeek. ~98% prompt cache hit rate, 1M context, MCP tools, dynamic workflows.

Coding Agents Go Listed MIT

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

OSSF Scorecard 4.3 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 32%

Last push 46d ago

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In detail: Whale scores 51.0/100 (Grade C), ranked #912 of 1325 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage B (3 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 4.3/10; 32% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-08-11. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How Whale compares in Coding Agents

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Whale’s 51.0.

Where the 51.0 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Coding Agents average

51.0 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Whale Coding Agents average (72 agents)

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

7.0 / 25

2.2 below avg 9.2

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

1.0 below avg 11.8

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

12.2 / 17

in line with avg 11.9

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

8.9 / 20

5.9 below avg 14.8

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

8.4 / 20

3.8 below avg 12.2

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 10 spots (#901 → #911)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 4.3/10. 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.

Refresh maintenance signals The repo was last pushed 46 days ago. Fresh activity helps separate stable projects from stale ones.

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45.1

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#53

In Coding Agents

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 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 →

Rank Trend

2026-08-11 2026-09-26

Activity & Reach

Stars

929

Forks

Last Push

2026-08-11

46 days ago

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

npm

HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▼1

was #911

Analysis

Activity Inputs

45.1 / 100

StarsRepository reach

17.8 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

18.6 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

0.0 / 25

CommunityFork signal

8.7 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

4.3 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 24, 2026

Signed Commits

32%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 6

CI-Tests 10

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 5

Contributors 0

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging 10

Pinned-Dependencies 0

SAST 0

Security-Policy 4

Signed-Releases 0

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 0

Common questions about Whale

Public trust evidence for Whale 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 Whale publish package provenance?

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

Does Whale have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Whale has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 4.3/10. 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 Whale actively maintained?

Slowing down. Last push was 46 days ago — keep an eye on whether activity resumes.

What license does Whale use?

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

Are Whale's commits signed?

32% of the last 100 commits to Whale 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

None detected

No clear third-party provider dependency detected.

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

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

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to Whale'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

2026-09-03

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: extension-based → declared

2026-09-03

Provider Removed

Runtime surface shrank — no longer detected: DeepSeek

Maintain Whale?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Whale 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 10 spots (#901 → #911)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank rose 134 spots (#1030 → #896)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 27.1pts (24.1 → 51.2)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #1030

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-20

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 33 spots (#854 → #887)

2026-09-18

Rank Moved

Rank rose 11 spots (#863 → #852)

2026-09-12

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#843 → #853)

2026-09-11

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 17 spots (#826 → #843)

2026-09-09

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 72 spots (#752 → #824)

2026-09-09

Activity Score Changed

Activity score down 6pts (54 → 48)

2026-09-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#742 → #752)

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 63 spots (#679 → #742)

2026-09-06

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 52 spots (#627 → #679)

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 146 spots (#481 → #627)

2026-09-05

Activity Score Changed

Activity score down 8pts (66 → 58)

2026-09-04

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 29 spots (#452 → #481)

2026-09-03

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: extension-based → declared

2026-09-03

Provider Removed

Runtime surface shrank — no longer detected: DeepSeek

2026-09-03

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 55 spots (#397 → #452)

2026-09-01

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 4.3/10

2026-09-01

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-09-01

Rank Moved

Rank rose 588 spots (#978 → #390)

2026-09-01

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 25.3pts (35.9 → 61.2)

2026-08-31

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 39 spots (#939 → #978)

2026-08-30

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 47 spots (#892 → #939)

2026-08-29

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 49 spots (#843 → #892)

2026-08-28

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 24 spots (#819 → #843)

2026-08-27

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 25 spots (#794 → #819)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 101 spots (#693 → #794)

2026-08-16

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 17 spots (#666 → #683)

2026-08-10

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #660

GitHub → npm: @usewhale/whale

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