IDE extension community
Risk level
medium
50/100

Tabnine ↗

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

filesystem:read network:outbound credentials:access

Analysis summary

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

Tabnine is one of the original AI code completion extensions, predating most of its current competitors and notable for offering both cloud-hosted and fully on-premises deployment models. It supports VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, Neovim, Eclipse, and several other editors, and ships with enterprise features around codebase indexing, single-tenant deployment, and air-gapped model hosting.

The extension reads source files in the open workspace to assemble context for completions and chat, makes outbound network requests to Tabnine's hosted model or to a self-hosted Tabnine endpoint, and accesses stored credentials for the user's Tabnine account. It does not request filesystem write access for completions — accepted suggestions are inserted by the IDE itself — and does not execute shell commands.

Tabnine is a community trust level in Anomity's catalog because it is not a marketplace-first-party vendor. The credential + outbound network pairing is shared with most coding assistants and is not by itself a dangerous combination, but teams with strict data-handling requirements should evaluate the self-hosted plan rather than the SaaS one.

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: credentials:access 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.
  • 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.