IDE extension community
Risk level
medium
50/100

Tabby ↗

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

filesystem:read filesystem:write network:outbound

Analysis summary

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

Tabby is a self-hosted, open-source coding assistant: you run the inference server, and the editor extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, and Vim talk to it. No code reaches a vendor because there is no vendor endpoint.

The extension reads workspace context and writes accepted completions, talking to a server you control. That makes it one of the lowest-risk assistants in the catalog for organisations whose main concern is code leaving the perimeter. The trade-offs are operational rather than security-related — you own the GPU, the model updates, and the uptime — and the honest note is that self-hosted models generally trail hosted frontier models in suggestion quality.

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.