IDE extension community
Risk level
medium
50/100

Bito ↗

Bito is a community-maintained IDE extension from Bito. Anomity scores its risk at 50 out of 100 (medium).

filesystem:read filesystem:write network:outbound

Analysis summary

Bito is a community-maintained IDE extension from Bito. Anomity scores its risk at 50 out of 100 (medium).

Bito provides AI chat, code explanation, test generation, and an AI code review agent inside VS Code and JetBrains, positioned around review and comprehension as much as generation.

It reads the workspace, writes generated code and tests when accepted, and calls its hosted service, so it declares filesystem read and write plus outbound network. Test generation is the feature worth a caveat: generated tests that pass against current behaviour lock in that behaviour, bugs included, which is useful as a regression harness and misleading as evidence of correctness.

Why this entry scored 50 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is community-maintained, trust adjusts the score by -10. Declared high-risk capabilities add +10 (capped at +30). It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 50, placing it in the medium band.

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Findings

  • Established community project Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -10
  • 1 high-risk capability: filesystem:write High
    Contribution to score: +10

Capabilities

Every capability the entry declares, with the security implication of each.

  • filesystem:read Filesystem read
    Can read files on the host system. Used for context, indexing, or analysis.
  • filesystem:write Filesystem write
    Can create, edit, or delete files on the host system. High-impact capability — anything from helpful edits to planting persistence.
  • network:outbound Outbound network
    Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access.