# Codewhale

> Codewhale is an officially published AI tool from Codewhale. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/codewhale
- **Kind:** AI tool
- **Publisher:** Codewhale
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 10/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://codewhale.net/
- **Last updated:** 2026-11-01
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/agent/codewhale

## Description

Open-source Rust terminal coding agent with MCP, skills, and multi-provider models

## Why it scored 10

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Published by the vendor | -40 | trust offset |  |

Clamped result: **10/100**, band **low**.

## Configuration surface

Files this tool reads on the host. Anything written here changes what the agent does next.

- `codewhale-global-config` — Global TOML configuration (models, hooks, auth)
    - win32: `${USERPROFILE}\.codewhale\config.toml`
    - darwin: `${HOME}/.codewhale/config.toml`
    - linux: `${HOME}/.codewhale/config.toml`
- `codewhale-mcp` — Global MCP servers
    - win32: `${USERPROFILE}\.codewhale\mcp.json`
    - darwin: `${HOME}/.codewhale/mcp.json`
    - linux: `${HOME}/.codewhale/mcp.json`
- `codewhale-user-skill` — User-scope skills
- `codewhale-project-mcp` — Workspace MCP servers (.codewhale/mcp.json, loaded once the workspace is trusted)
    - win32: `${PROJECT}\.codewhale\mcp.json`
    - darwin: `${PROJECT}/.codewhale/mcp.json`
    - linux: `${PROJECT}/.codewhale/mcp.json`
- `codewhale-project-config` — Project-scoped config overlay
    - win32: `${PROJECT}\.codewhale\config.toml`
    - darwin: `${PROJECT}/.codewhale/config.toml`
    - linux: `${PROJECT}/.codewhale/config.toml`

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Source: Anomity Security Database (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json