# Pieces for Developers

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

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/extension/pieces-for-developers
- **Kind:** IDE extension
- **Publisher:** Pieces
- **Trust level:** community
- **Risk score:** 50/100 (medium)
- **Website:** https://pieces.app
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/extension/pieces-for-developers

## Description

Pieces captures snippets, context, and workflow history into a local repository an assistant can draw on, with a long-term memory feature that records what you were working on across applications.

It reads and writes local storage and reaches the network for model calls, so it declares filesystem read and write with outbound network. The memory feature is the reason it is worth reviewing carefully rather than installing casually: a tool that continuously records developer activity across applications builds a detailed corpus of what was on screen, which is valuable to the developer and would be equally valuable to an attacker who reached the machine.

## Why it scored 50

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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Established community project | -10 | trust offset |  |
| 1 high-risk capability: filesystem:write | +10 | high |  |

Clamped result: **50/100**, band **medium**.

## Capabilities

| Capability | Name | Security implication |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `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. |

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Source: Anomity Catalog (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