Week 45, updated 2 Nov 2026

Coding agents magpie

Is magpie safe?

Short answer: No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of yetone/magpie found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. It does list 5 high-severity advisories in runtime dependencies, which don't change the label. Automated scan of commit a4916ae on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

Updated : the last week its score, rank or safety result changed.

Menu-bar app to switch which model your coding agents use (e.g. Codex on DeepSeek).

  • 27,879 stars
  • pushed 2 Nov
  • MIT
  • Go

github.com/yetone/magpie · usemagpie.ai

51score out of 100

#28of 52 overall#9in Coding agents▲ 2 vs Week 44

  • Maintenance 30%77
  • Adoption 30%12
  • Docs 20%69
  • Community 20%–
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Score over the last 4 weeks: 48, 47, 49, 51.

No issues found

All checks clean in the scan of 2 Nov 2026.

How this score works

Each part is a percentile among all 52 tracked tools, so 50 is average for this list. Community is not measured yet; the score uses the other 80%.

  • Maintenance: Last push 2 Nov 2026. Last 10 GitHub releases within 1 day (about 270 per 30 days), latest release 2 Nov 2026. Median 5.8 h to close an issue (37 closed issues).
  • Adoption: 27,879 stars (70%), 2,367 forks (30%).
  • Docs: README 24,043 characters, 20 headings, 6 code blocks, install section: yes.

Methodology

#9 of 14 in Coding agents

Ranked by score. The yellow row is this tool.

Coding agents, Week 45score 0–100, safety
  1. 1Gemini CLI#4 overall70Caution
  2. 2OpenCode#5 overall70No issues found
  3. 3OpenHands#10 overall68Caution
  4. 4Claude Code#11 overall65No dependencies scanned
  5. 5Cline#12 overall65Caution
  6. 6Codex#16 overall58Caution
  7. 7deepseek-harness#17 overall57Caution
  8. 8KiroCrew#27 overall52Caution
  9. 9magpie#28 overall51No issues found
Show the other 5
  1. 10Continue#43 overall37Caution
  2. 11goose#44 overall36Caution
  3. 12Aider#45 overall31Caution
  4. 13codex-plugin-cc#48 overall29No issues found
  5. 14Roo Code#51 overall23Caution

Safety scan, 2 Nov 2026

Automated scan of commit a4916ae, 6,231 files. Not a manual audit.

No issues found

  • 0Critical dependency advisories5 high, 5 medium, 0 low. OSV, runtime dependencies only.
  • 1Install hooksnpm scripts that run on install; none downloads remote content.
  • 0Remote-code patternsFor example eval(fetch(…)).
  • 5Agent files checked0 phrases flagged for review.
  • 8curl | sh installersIn docs or program code. Information only.
Why this label?

No issues found by the automated scan.

Known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV): 0 critical, 5 high, 5 medium, 0 low, 9 unrated

Also found (informational, does not change the label):

  • 5 high-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
  • 1 npm install hook, none downloading remote content
  • Program code runs a curl|sh style installer (3 occurrences, e.g. internal/agent/install.go)
  • Documents curl|sh style installer (5 occurrences, e.g. README.md)

Notes:

  • Telemetry/analytics references in code: telemetry, posthog

Automated scan of commit a4916ae on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit. 6,231 files checked. What we check

Repo activity

From the GitHub API, fetched 2 Nov 2026.

  • 10+Releases, 90 daysLatest v0.1.2685, 2 Nov
  • 6hMedian issue closeOver 37 closed issues
  • 27.9kStars+6,156 since 26 Oct
  • 2.4kForks2,751 open issues
  • 2026Repo created23 Sept 2026
30 days ago2 Nov
10 releases in the last 30 days, one mark each (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries).

10 releases in the last 30 days (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries):

Questions about magpie

Answers use this week's StackGrade data.

Is magpie safe to use?

No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of yetone/magpie found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. It does list 5 high-severity advisories in runtime dependencies, which don't change the label. Automated scan of commit a4916ae on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

How does StackGrade score magpie?

magpie scores 51 out of 100 in Week 45: #28 of 52 tracked tools overall and #9 in Coding agents. The score combines maintenance (77), adoption (12) and docs (69) as percentiles among all 52 tracked tools; community (20% weight) is not measured yet, so the score uses the other 80%. It is not a hands-on test and it is separate from the safety label.

What are the alternatives to magpie?

The highest-scored other tools in Coding agents this week: Gemini CLI (70, Caution), OpenCode (70, No issues found), OpenHands (68, Caution), Claude Code (65, No dependencies scanned). StackGrade has not tested them hands-on.

What licence does magpie use?

The licence listed for yetone/magpie is MIT. Read the licence text before commercial use.

Compare and use it

All facts and sources
Type
AI tool
License
MIT
Language
Go
Created
23 Sept 2026
Owner
yetone (User)
Forks
2,367
Homepage
usemagpie.ai

GitHub description: “Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.”

Sources: github.com/yetone/magpie, api.github.com/repos/yetone/magpie, raw.githubusercontent.com/yetone/magpie/main/README.md. Fetched 2 Nov 2026.

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