tiny-engineer — security grade SAFE, quality 67/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 67/100

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 →

by jamro · Agent Tool · ★ 353

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About tiny-engineer

Tiny Engineer Give your AI coding agent a body. Tiny Engineer is an open-source, 3D-printable desktop robot that physically acts out what an AI coding agent is doing: reading, thinking, coding, finishing tasks. It runs on an ESP32 over Wi-Fi and exposes a simple REST API, so any tool that can make an HTTP request can drive it. Watch the demo · Build your own · How it works · API Why? AI coding agents increasingly spend long stretches working on their own. I wanted to see what mine was doing without staring at the IDE. So I built a slightly ridiculous desk robot: instead of another spinner or status line, there is a tiny teammate sitting next to me, visibly reading, thinking, and typing while the agent works. How it works An AI agent works; an integration turns that into events; the robot’s REST API on your LAN receives them; the hardware moves and reacts. How it connects Cursor — Cursor Agent → Cursor hooks → → HTTP over Wi-Fi Antigravity CLI — Antigravity Agent → lifecycle hooks → → HTTP over Wi-Fi Bring your own — Claude, Codex, or any other agent → your script/plugin/app → HTTP REST Both hit the same Tiny Engineer REST API ().

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Quick Facts

Stars353
Forks41
LanguageC++
CategoryAgent Tool
Quality Score67.1566647623298/100
Open Issues4
Last Updated2026-09-20
Created2026-08-21
Platformsclaude-code
Est. Tokens~18k

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with tiny-engineer for enhanced workflows:

  • AntigravityProxyLauncher — semantic(0.16)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (56%)
  • headroom — semantic(0.18)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (51%)
  • AGENTS-COLLECTION — semantic(0.27)+complementary+similar_pop+shared_platform (49%)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is tiny-engineer?

tiny-engineer is A small desktop robot that brings an AI coding assistant to life, physically acting out when it reads files, thinks, writes code, and finishes work.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 353 GitHub stars.

What programming language is tiny-engineer written in?

tiny-engineer is primarily written in C++. It covers topics such as ai-agents, antigravity, claude-code.

How do I install or use tiny-engineer?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the tiny-engineer GitHub repository at github.com/jamro/tiny-engineer. The project has 353 stars and 41 forks, indicating an active community.

What are the best alternatives to tiny-engineer?

The top alternatives to tiny-engineer on Agent Skills Hub include antigravity-skills, awesome-agent-skills, agent-skills-cli. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

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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