IDE extension community
Risk level
high
75/100

Sourcegraph Cody ↗

Sourcegraph Cody is a community-maintained IDE extension from Sourcegraph. Anomity scores its risk at 75 out of 100 (high). It matches 1 dangerous capability combination.

filesystem:read filesystem:write network:outbound credentials:access

Analysis summary

Sourcegraph Cody is a community-maintained IDE extension from Sourcegraph. Anomity scores its risk at 75 out of 100 (high). It matches 1 dangerous capability combination.

Cody is Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant, distinguished from peers by tight integration with the Sourcegraph code-graph platform — it can pull context from any repository indexed by a Sourcegraph instance, not only the file currently open. That makes it particularly effective on large monorepos and across services owned by different teams. It is distributed for VS Code, JetBrains, and the Sourcegraph web app.

Declared capabilities include reading workspace files, writing edits back to files when the developer accepts a suggestion, making outbound network requests to either Sourcegraph's hosted Cody service or a self-hosted Sourcegraph instance, and accessing the user's Sourcegraph and provider API credentials. Shell execution is not requested by the extension itself, though some agent workflows in newer versions can run commands when explicitly opted in.

Cody is community trust in the catalog because Sourcegraph is not a marketplace-publisher trust authority. The combination of filesystem write plus credential access matches the credential-theft dangerous combination; the recommended posture is to use a workspace-scoped Sourcegraph account, prefer the self-hosted deployment for sensitive codebases, and review which repositories are indexed before granting Cody access.

Why this entry scored 75 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 +20 (capped at +30). It matches 1 dangerous capability combination, which contributes additional severity weight. The clamped result is 75, placing it in the high band.

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Findings

  • Established community project Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -10
  • 2 high-risk capabilities: filesystem:write, credentials:access Critical
    Contribution to score: +20
  • Credential theft risk (high) High
    Evidence
    Filesystem write combined with credentials access can plant persistent credential stealers.
    Contribution to score: +15

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.
  • credentials:access Credentials access
    Reads provider API keys, OAuth tokens, or other secrets from the host keychain or environment.

Dangerous combinations matched

Capability pairings that compound into well-known attack patterns.

  • Credential theft risk high
    Filesystem write combined with credentials access can plant persistent credential stealers.
    filesystem:write credentials:access