formax: Terminal-first AI assistant for software engineering tasks (inspired by Claude Code v2.0.67)

by yusifeng · Agent Tool · ★ 191

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How to install formax

npm i -g @yusifeng/formax@beta

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 68/100

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.

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

Stars191
Forks7
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score68/100
Open Issues1
Last Updated2026-07-24
Created2025-12-30
Platformsclaude-code, cli, node
Est. Tokens~15k

About formax

Formax English | 简体中文 Formax is an open-source implementation of a Claude Code-style AI assistant for software engineering tasks, with both TUI and GUI workflows. It is inspired by (but not affiliated with) Claude Code v2.0.67. Some behaviors are implemented by observation (for example, network traces) rather than upstream source code.

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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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