Safe?Works?Worth it?

Every week a new AI tool goes viral. We read its code, run it in a locked-down sandbox, give it real work, and tell you whether to install it.

Example runtrending/agent-tool ★ 41.2k this week
  1. $ sv quarantine trending/agent-tool
  2. static review0 critical, 2 warnings
  3. networkoff
  4. installok in 14 s
  5. task 1: refactor a modulepassed
  6. task 2: fix a real bugfailed
  7. cost$0.41
Safe
4/5
Works
3/5
Worth it
3/5

Latest verdicts

Every verdict comes with the test log and the video, plus what's still in the sandbox.

Case SV-004

HyperFrames

Write a video as HTML, CSS and animation, render it to MP4 with a headless browser. Built so a coding agent can do the writing.

Coding toolHeyGen (open source, Apache-2.0)

Install it
Case SV-002

Scrapling

A Python scraping framework with fetchers, a browser, spiders, an MCP server and elements that try to keep working after a site's layout changes.

ScraperD4Vinci (open source, BSD-3)

Use with care
Case SV-001

Cloudflare security-audit-skill

An agent skill that splits a security audit into six phases, and makes a different agent try to disprove every bug before it is reported.

Agent skillCloudflare

Verdict pendingVideo Dec 1

How a tool gets a verdict

The striped line is the sandbox wall. Untrusted code only ever runs inside it.

  1. 1

    Read the code first

    Install scripts, dependencies, hidden network calls, look-alike packages. If something looks wrong, it never runs. It goes to quarantine.

  2. Inside the sandbox
    2

    Install it, locked down

    Docker or a throwaway server. Network off wherever possible, no real keys. Never on our own machine.

    3

    Give it real work

    Tasks a real user would give it, recorded on screen. We count what passed, what failed and what it cost.

  3. 4

    Write the verdict

    Safe, Works and Worth it, each out of 5. Then one call: install it, use it with care, or skip it.

Rules we don't break

Two verdicts a week

Tuesday: one tool, tested in full. Friday: the five most viral tools of the week, checked fast. Want a repo checked? Suggest it and vote.

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