autogen: A programming framework for agentic AI

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How to install autogen

pip install -U "autogen-agentchat" "autogen-ext[openai]"
pip install -U "autogenstudio"

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 63/100

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. Full audit →

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.

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Quick Facts

Stars61,604
Forks9,326
LanguagePython
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseCC-BY-4.0
Quality Score63/100
Open Issues1123
Last Updated2026-10-28
Created2023-08-18
Platformspython
Est. Tokens~18k

About autogen

AutoGen AutoGen is a framework for creating multi-agent AI applications that can act autonomously or work alongside humans. Important: if you are new to AutoGen, please checkout Microsoft Agent Framework. AutoGen will still be maintained and continue to receive bug fixes and critical security patches. Read our announcement. Installation AutoGen requires Python 3.10 or later.

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How this security grade is produced

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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