by getkern · Agent Tool · ★ 460
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cargo install --git https://github.com/getkern/kern getkern --locked
pip install kern-sandbox # PyPI · needs the `kern` binary above, on PATH or $KERN_BINTaken from the project's README on GitHub.
None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.
The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.
| Stars | 460 |
| Forks | 12 |
| Language | Rust |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Quality Score | 68/100 |
| Last Updated | 2026-11-01 |
| Created | 2026-07-18 |
| Platforms | docker, rust |
| Est. Tokens | ~26k |
kern: a fast, rootless sandbox and virtual resource runtime. Run any workload in a real container, including an agent's tool-call or AI-generated code. A real, kernel-enforced container in 3.5 ms, out of one static binary with no daemon. 0 RAM at rest · no daemon, no socket, nothing to start · one static binary, its only Rust dependency
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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