IDE extension official
Risk level
low
20/100

JetBrains AI Assistant ↗

JetBrains AI Assistant is an officially published IDE extension from JetBrains. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

filesystem:read filesystem:write network:outbound

Analysis summary

JetBrains AI Assistant is an officially published IDE extension from JetBrains. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

JetBrains' first-party AI plugin, bundled across IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, and the rest of the IDE family. It provides completion, chat with project context, commit-message generation, and refactoring suggestions built on the IDE's own program model rather than on plain text — which is why its suggestions understand types and call hierarchies that a token-level tool cannot see.

It reads the project, applies edits when accepted, and sends context to JetBrains' AI service, so it declares filesystem read and write plus outbound network. Being vendor-published it takes the official trust adjustment. The setting that matters for a security review is which files are excluded from context collection: IDE-integrated assistants see everything the IDE has indexed, including configuration files that were never meant to leave the machine.

Why this entry scored 20 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. Declared high-risk capabilities add +10 (capped at +30). It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 20, placing it in the low band.

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Findings

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