Is Privateer Agent safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Privateer Agent on public evidence — tashan score 69.0/100, it is currently active, note: a single primary maintainer (bus-factor risk), no known advisories against the current release, its declared dependencies reach: network. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Privateer Agent?

In Claude Code: run `claude mcp add privateer-agent -- npx -y privateer-agent`. In Cursor / Claude Desktop, add it to mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json.

Who maintains Privateer Agent?

source: privateer-agent/privateer-agent.

‹ The Index

Privateer Agent

npm

Privacy-first terminal coding agent — bring your own model across 20 providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Google, local Ollama…). Safe-by-default permissions, MCP, sub-agents, workflows, and verifiable TEE inference. Built on the Pi toolkit.

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

Work: Agent configuration

Who it is for: Agent operator

Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add privateer-agent -- npx -y privateer-agent

solid

“6 worked examples, 1 tools documented; short of deep on per-tool docs; read with 1 linked doc(s)”

This grade is wrong ›

tashan score: 69.0
Instruction depth: 65.0 (solid — documents the job properly, with examples you could follow)
Adoption: 1.5k/wk
Upkeep: 72.0
Freshness: 96.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active
License: MIT

Security audit

Every finding is shown in full — which advisory, the version that fixes it, and the exact command run at install time. Nothing in this audit is behind a licence.

No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 0.12.37 — this package, not its dependency tree

Makes network requestsfrom declared dependencies

Can carry remote content into your agentit can pull third-party text into the model's context — treat what it returns as untrusted input

Signed build provenancepublished from public CI with an attestation

What changed recently

2026-08-17 privateer-agent published 0.12.13, was 0.12.7 A new release is available.
2026-08-19 privateer-agent published 0.12.15, was 0.12.13 A new release is available.
2026-08-27 privateer-agent published 0.12.25, was 0.12.15 A new release is available.

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The whole series behind any row, back to the first day we measured it
The replacement, named — not just the news that something died
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