esf: Engineering Software Factory - open source, self-hosted, local AI first

by mitkox · Codex Skill · ★ 199

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How to install esf

git clone https://github.com/mitkox/esf.git

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

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 67/100

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

Stars199
Forks34
LanguageGo
CategoryCodex Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score67/100
Last Updated2026-10-19
Created2026-09-19
Platformsclaude-code, codex, go
Est. Tokens~17k

About esf

ESF — Engineering Software Factory A self-hosted software factory that runs coding agents in isolated CubeSandbox microVMs, verifies their changes, and preserves the patch and execution evidence. Temporal coordinates the workflow and sandbox cleanup. ESF is an independent fork of Machinist by Owain Lewis.

Compatible Skills

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  • factory — semantic(0.56)+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (59%)
  • Finn-loop — semantic(0.39)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (58%)
  • paxm — semantic(0.22)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (58%)

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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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