Is Riff safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Riff on public evidence — tashan score 37.0/100, it is currently active. 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 Riff?

Configure it from its source repository — it is a remote / registry server.

2 GitHub contributors, source: benjaroy/riff.

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Riff

plugin

Riff is a plugin made up of nine opinionated skills for writing personal essays with Claude. The idea behind it is to treat writing with AI as a process to be supported instead of a product to be created, and to keep the writer in charge at every step of the way. Together, the skills form a pipeline so a user can start working with raw notes and get to a finished piece, but each skill also encourages time for pausing and reflection when appropriate. A persistent style profile built from a user's

Works with: Claude Code (native)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

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Install (Claude Code):

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install riff@claude-community

thin

“says what it does, not how to use it — 0 tool docs, 0 worked examples”

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tashan score: 37.0
Instruction depth: 38.0 (thin — shallow — says what it does, not how to actually use it)
Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 62.0
Freshness: 56.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
GitHub stars: 27
Contributors: 2
License: MIT

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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?