# Nanocoder

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

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/nanocoder
- **Kind:** AI tool
- **Publisher:** Nano Collective
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 10/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://docs.nanocollective.org/nanocoder
- **Last updated:** 2026-11-01
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/agent/nanocoder

## Description

Community-built open-source terminal coding agent with bring-your-own local or hosted models, MCP servers, hooks, skills and subagents

## 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.

- `nanocoder-user-config` — User config (providers, nanocoder.* settings and hooks)
    - win32: `${APPDATA}\nanocoder\agents.config.json`
    - darwin: `${HOME}/Library/Preferences/nanocoder/agents.config.json`
    - linux: `${HOME}/.config/nanocoder/agents.config.json`
- `nanocoder-user-mcp` — User MCP servers (.mcp.json in the Nanocoder config dir)
    - win32: `${APPDATA}\nanocoder\.mcp.json`
    - darwin: `${HOME}/Library/Preferences/nanocoder/.mcp.json`
    - linux: `${HOME}/.config/nanocoder/.mcp.json`
- `nanocoder-project-config` — Project config (agents.config.json at the project root; project hooks run after directory trust)
    - win32: `${PROJECT}\agents.config.json`
    - darwin: `${PROJECT}/agents.config.json`
    - linux: `${PROJECT}/agents.config.json`

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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