AI tool official cli
Risk level
low
10/100

Posit Assistant ↗

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

Analysis summary

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

Posit data-science agent for Positron, RStudio and the terminal (pa), sharing ~/.posit/assistant for settings, MCP servers, hooks, skills and memory

Why this entry scored 10 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is officially published, trust adjusts the score by -40. The entry declares no high-risk capabilities on its own, so capabilities add nothing. It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 10, placing it in the low band.

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Findings

  • Published by the vendor Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -40

Configuration surface

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

  • posit-assistant-global-settings global json
    Global settings (model, permissions, MCP servers, hooks)
    • win32${USERPROFILE}\.posit\assistant\settings.json
    • darwin${HOME}/.posit/assistant/settings.json
    • linux${HOME}/.posit/assistant/settings.json
  • posit-assistant-legacy-settings global json
    Legacy global settings (~/.positai, migrated on first launch of newer versions)
    • win32${USERPROFILE}\.positai\settings.json
    • darwin${HOME}/.positai/settings.json
    • linux${HOME}/.positai/settings.json
  • posit-assistant-project-settings project json
    Project settings, MCP servers and hooks (trusted workspaces only)
    • win32${PROJECT}\.posit\assistant\settings.json
    • darwin${PROJECT}/.posit/assistant/settings.json
    • linux${PROJECT}/.posit/assistant/settings.json
  • posit-assistant-user-skill global markdown-frontmatter
    Posit Assistant skills (user-scope)
  • posit-assistant-project-skill project markdown-frontmatter
    Posit Assistant project skills
  • posit-assistant-user-memory global markdown
    User memory file loaded into every conversation
    • win32${USERPROFILE}\.posit\assistant\AGENTS.md
    • darwin${HOME}/.posit/assistant/AGENTS.md
    • linux${HOME}/.posit/assistant/AGENTS.md