IDE extension community
Risk level
medium
50/100

Sourcery ↗

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

filesystem:read filesystem:write network:outbound

Analysis summary

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

Sourcery reviews and refactors code in the editor, originally focused on Python and later broadened, suggesting concrete simplifications with a preview of the rewritten form rather than a general comment.

It reads project files and applies refactors on acceptance, so it declares filesystem read and write, with outbound network for its hosted analysis. Mechanical refactoring is a good fit for automation because the transformations are behaviour-preserving by construction — the risk is the accumulation of many small accepted changes in a single commit, which is hard to review as a unit. Keep refactor commits separate from behavioural ones.

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.