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What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on Twitter changes. (For example, want to know when something interesting has happened in the world of Machine Learning? Huginn will watch the term "machine learning" on Twitter and tell you when there is a spike in discussion.) Watch for air travel or shopping deals Follow your project names on Twitter and get updates when people mention them Scrape websites and receive email when they change Connect to Adioso, HipChat, FTP, IMAP, Jabber, JIRA, MQTT, nextbus, Pushbullet, Pushover, RSS, Bash, Slack, StubHub, translation APIs, Twilio, Twitter, and Weibo, to name a few.
No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
| Stars | 50,055 |
| Forks | 4,308 |
| Language | Ruby |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 66.8050080628616/100 |
| Open Issues | 701 |
| Last Updated | 2026-10-13 |
| Created | 2013-03-10 |
| Platforms | browser, ruby |
| Est. Tokens | ~15k |
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huginn is Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 50.1k GitHub stars.
huginn is primarily written in Ruby. It covers topics such as agent, automation, feed.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the huginn GitHub repository at github.com/huginn/huginn. The project has 50.1k stars and 4308 forks, indicating an active community.
huginn is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. 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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