agentu

v1.19.1 suspicious
5.0
Medium Risk

A harness-engineered AI agent runtime with tool isolation, self-correction, and permission scoping

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits high obfuscation risk due to the presence of eval and obfuscated imports, which can be used to execute arbitrary code. While there are no clear signs of malicious intent from other checks, the combination of these factors raises concerns about potential vulnerabilities.

  • High obfuscation risk (7/10)
  • Incomplete author metadata
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: The observed network calls appear to be normal API interactions, possibly for fetching tags or updates, but could indicate external dependencies.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected.
  • Obfuscation: The use of eval and obfuscated imports suggests potential for code execution and may indicate an attempt to bypass security measures.
  • Credentials: No clear evidence of credential harvesting patterns detected.
  • Metadata: The author's information is incomplete and they may be new or inactive, raising some suspicion but not enough to conclude malice.

📦 Package Quality Overall: Low (4.6/10)

◈ Medium Test Suite 6.0

Partial test coverage signals detected

  • 1 test file(s) detected (e.g. __init__.py)
◈ Medium Documentation 5.0

Some documentation present

  • Detailed PyPI description (15451 chars)
○ Low Contributing Guide 2.0

No contributing guide or governance files found

  • No CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, or governance files found
◈ Medium Type Annotations 5.0

Partial type annotation coverage

  • 288 type-annotated function signatures detected in source
◈ Medium Multiple Contributors 5.0

Limited contributor diversity

  • 1 unique contributor(s) across 100 commits in hemanth/agentu
  • Single author but highly active (100 commits)

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls score 9.0

Found 6 network call pattern(s)

  • t json as _json req = urllib.request.Request(f"{api_base.rstrip('/')}/api/tags") with url
  • '/')}/api/tags") with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=2) as resp: models_data = _
  • " try: async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session: async with session.get(
  • self._llm_session = aiohttp.ClientSession() return self._llm_session async def _raw_llm_c
  • model} async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session: async with session.post(
  • self._http_session = aiohttp.ClientSession() return self._http_session async def send_requ
Code Obfuscation score 6.0

Found 3 obfuscation pattern(s)

  • pression): return str(eval(expression)) return "Invalid expression" def save_repo
  • session.last_accessed = __import__("time").time() await websocket.send_json(
  • session.last_accessed = __import__("time").time() done_payload["session_info"] = s
Shell / Subprocess Execution

No shell execution patterns detected

Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

Registered Email Domain

Email domain looks legitimate: gmail.com>

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History

Repository hemanth/agentu appears legitimate

Maintainer History score 4.0

2 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

💡 AI App Starter Prompt

Use this prompt to build a project with agentu
Your task is to create a Python-based mini-application that leverages the 'agentu' package to manage and control a set of AI agents performing various tasks within a secure and isolated environment. This application will serve as a proof-of-concept for managing complex workflows involving multiple AI agents while ensuring security and reliability.

The mini-application will consist of three main components:
1. An Agent Manager: This component will use 'agentu' to initialize, start, stop, and monitor AI agents. Each agent will have its own defined role and permissions, managed through 'agentu'.
2. A Task Scheduler: This will define and schedule tasks for the agents to perform. Tasks can range from simple data processing to more complex operations like running machine learning models on datasets.
3. A Monitoring Interface: This interface will allow users to view the status of each agent, including their current task, progress, and any errors encountered.

Key Features:
- Secure isolation between agents using 'agentu', ensuring that one agent's failure does not affect others.
- Self-correction mechanisms implemented through 'agentu' to automatically recover from minor issues without human intervention.
- Permission scoping enforced by 'agentu' to ensure that agents only access resources they are authorized to use.
- A user-friendly monitoring interface that provides real-time updates on the status of all agents.

Utilizing 'agentu':
- Use 'agentu' to initialize and manage the lifecycle of each agent, including setting up their roles and permissions.
- Leverage 'agentu's tool isolation feature to run each agent in a separate, sandboxed environment to prevent interference between agents.
- Implement self-correction capabilities provided by 'agentu' to handle common failures autonomously.
- Ensure that each agent has limited access to resources according to the permissions defined by 'agentu'.

Your goal is to demonstrate how 'agentu' can be effectively used to build robust, secure, and efficient multi-agent systems.