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Cloudflare Agents vs Haystack

Haystack leads on trust: 96.4/100 (Grade A) against 90.2/100 (Grade A), a 6.2-point gap. Haystack leads on supply-chain integrity and transparency.

A Cloudflare Agents 90.2

Build and deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare

cloudflare/agents · #26 overall · #7 Agent Frameworks · coverage B (3/5)

Cloudflare Agents doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

A Haystack 96.4

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search…

deepset-ai/haystack · #1 overall · #1 Agent Frameworks · coverage B (3/5)

Choose Haystack if supply-chain integrity and transparency matter most.

+5.1Safety / Integrity: OSSF Scorecard 9.3 against 5.2
+3.5Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 9.3 against 5.2

Where they differ

19.0

Safety / IntegrityHaystack +5.1

24.1

12.9

TransparencyHaystack +3.5

16.4

17.8

AdoptionCloudflare Agents +0.3

17.5

+2.6

Runtime calibrationCloudflare Agents +2.1

+0.5

2 dimensions identical: Identity 18.0 · Maintenance 19.9 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Cloudflare Agents and Haystack, two Agent Frameworks projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	Cloudflare Agentscloudflare/agents	Haystackdeepset-ai/haystack
HVTrust score	90.2	96.4
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	B	B
Overall rank	#26	#1
Rank in Agent Frameworks	#7	#1
GitHub stars	5.9k	26.9k
Last updated	1d ago	1d ago
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	5.2 / 10	9.3 / 10
License	MIT	Apache-2.0
Downloads	3.4M/wk	141k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	19.0	24.1
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	12.9	16.4
Maintenance / 20	19.9	19.9
Adoption / 20	17.8	17.5
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Implemented	Declared
External providers	2 — Anthropic, OpenAI	1 — OpenAI
Requires API keys	No	No
Plugin surface	extensions	plugins
Provenance drift	Match	Match

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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, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →