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 →
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Sidecar You might never open your editor again. Status: Ready for daily use. Please report any issues you encounter. Documentation · Getting Started Overview Sidecar puts your entire development workflow in one shell: plan tasks with td, chat with AI agents, review diffs, stage commits, review past conversations, and manage workspaces—all without leaving Sidecar. Quick Install macOS (recommended) This builds from source and avoids macOS Gatekeeper warnings. Linux / Other More options: Binary downloads · Manual install Requirements macOS, Linux, or WSL Go 1.21+ (only if building from source) Quick Start After installation, run from any project directory: Suggested Use Split your terminal horizontally: run your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) on the left and sidecar on the right. ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ Claude Code / Cursor │ Sidecar │ │ │
| Stars | 1,072 |
| Forks | 81 |
| Language | Go |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 70.0486185732205/100 |
| Open Issues | 28 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-14 |
| Created | 2025-12-26 |
| Platforms | claude-code, cli, go |
| Est. Tokens | ~17k |
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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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