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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BlackBar ⚠️ Independent third-party tool — not affiliated with Blacksmith. "Blacksmith" and the Blacksmith logo are trademarks of their respective owners. BlackBar is a personal project that talks to the Blacksmith status feed and dashboard the same way your browser does. A tiny native macOS menu bar app that watches your Blacksmith CI runners and the public Blacksmith status page — so you know before the queue burns whether to merge, re-run, or take a walk. That's all it is. A green dot, a vCPU number, a tiny graph. No dock icon. No electron. No telemetry. No servers in between. What it shows Public status from — green when the forge is hot, orange when a region's wobbling. Active vCPU totalled ac
| Stars | 50 |
| Forks | 5 |
| Language | Swift |
| Category | AI Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 69.9950687480426/100 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-30 |
| Created | 2026-05-10 |
| Est. Tokens | ~16k |
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BlackBar is Your Blacksmith CI status, in your menu bar.. It is categorized as a AI Tool with 50 GitHub stars.
BlackBar is primarily written in Swift. It covers topics such as blacksmith, ci, macos.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the BlackBar GitHub repository at github.com/steipete/BlackBar. The project has 50 stars and 5 forks, indicating an active community.
BlackBar 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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