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Risk level
low
10/100

Tau ↗

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

Analysis summary

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

Minimal terminal coding agent (PyPI tau-ai) with durable sessions, skills, and provider catalog under ~/.tau

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.

  • tau-settings global json
    General settings (trust default, shell prefix)
    • win32${USERPROFILE}\.tau\settings.json
    • darwin${HOME}/.tau/settings.json
    • linux${HOME}/.tau/settings.json
  • tau-providers global json
    Provider/model preferences
    • win32${USERPROFILE}\.tau\providers.json
    • darwin${HOME}/.tau/providers.json
    • linux${HOME}/.tau/providers.json
  • tau-user-skill global markdown-frontmatter
    User-scope Tau skills
  • tau-project-skill project markdown-frontmatter
    Project-scope Tau skills (<cwd>/.tau/skills)