Read 2026-10-23
agno-agi/agno: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in agno-agi/agno's code and history at 6d5af04: its licence, security advisories, releases, review practice, tests, dependencies and operations. Every finding cites the file and line it rests on. The full report also covers the team and asks the questions the code cannot answer.
| Dimension | Rating |
|---|---|
| Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance | strong |
| Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | adequate |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | adequate |
| Security & Reliability Posture | adequate |
| Observability & Operations | adequate |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
LICENSE: Relicensed: MPL-2.0 → Apache-2.0 (2025-09-09).github/pull_request_template.md:28: states a policy on AI-generated contributions
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongCommit messages are templated rather than written
adequate32% of commit subjects are exact repeats of another subject, and subject length varies by only 25.7 characters. A log written by someone explaining their reasoning to a future reader does not look like this. The log is therefore weak evidence of intent, whatever the code is like.
| 736× 'README' |
| 116× 'update' |
| 32× 'fix: validation' |
libs/agno/agno/workflow/workflow.py is 12,110 lines, 134× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 90 lines. 111 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 12,110. Size is not a defect on its own — some problems genuinely live in one place — but these are where merge conflicts, review fatigue and single-owner knowledge concentrate, and they are the first thing that slows an inheriting engineer down.
libs/agno/agno/workflow/workflow.py:1 — 12,110 lines (134× median) |
libs/agno/agno/team/_run.py:1 — 10,518 lines (116× median) |
libs/agno/agno/db/postgres/postgres.py:1 — 9,961 lines (110× median) |
libs/agno/agno/db/sqlite/sqlite.py:1 — 8,890 lines (98× median) |
libs/agno/agno/db/postgres/async_postgres.py:1 — 7,236 lines (80× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
adequate26% of commit subjects say nothing about the change
adequate1,470 of 5,757 subjects are either under twelve characters or one of the standard placeholders — wip, fix, update. The history is therefore not usable for reconstructing why a decision was taken, which is the main thing an inheriting engineer needs it for. It says nothing about code quality and a great deal about how much context transfers with the asset.
| 1,470/5,757 low-content subjects (25.5%) |
| 'v2.0.60' |
| 'README' |
| 'v2.0.60' |
| 'v2.0.61' |
Tests are retried until they pass
adequateThe suite is configured to retry failing tests (.github/workflows/test_on_release.yml); 8 tests are individually marked to retry. A retry turns a flaky test green without saying why it failed, so a green build means the tests passed eventually. Ask how many retries a typical run needs, and which tests need them.
.github/workflows/test_on_release.yml:33 — test retry |
libs/agno/pyproject.toml:464 — test retry |
libs/agno/tests/integration/agent/test_async_tool_calling.py:156 — test retry |
Product & Engineering Maturity
adequateFixes are 52% of recent work, up from 34%
adequateIn the last two quarters 52% of commits were fixes, against 34% in the quarters before. Rising fix work usually means quality debt is coming due, and it takes time that new work would have had.
| 56%, 48%, 45%, 42%, 41%, 35%, 20%, 21% |
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate3 credential-shaped strings in the tree sit in tests, examples, documentation or local development settings
adequateStrings shaped like credentials appear only where fakes are usual: test fixtures, examples, documentation, placeholders and local stacks. They are almost always fakes. Ask someone to confirm that none of them works anywhere, because a real key in a development file is still a real key.
| 3 cited: Slack token, where fakes are usual |
1 Dockerfile runs the application as root
adequateNo USER instruction switches away from root, so the process runs with full privileges inside the container. It is a one-line fix and an ordinary expectation, which is why its absence is worth asking about: it usually says more about whether anyone has reviewed the deployment than about this container specifically.
cookbook/frameworks/sandbox/Dockerfile — runs as root |
The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate3 third-party CI actions are referenced by a tag or branch rather than a commit, so they run whatever that tag points to on the day; 40 steps pipe a download straight into a shell. Tags have been moved to malicious commits in real supply-chain attacks, and a piped script is whatever the server returns that minute. Pinning to a commit is the fix, and it is small.
.github/workflows/claude.yml:58 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/release.yml:56 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/test_on_release.yml:55 — download piped into a shell |
23 outbound calls can wait forever
adequate23 HTTP calls use a client with no timeout (Python `requests` without `timeout=`, or Go's default client). When a dependency slows down, each one holds a worker until the connection gives up, and enough of them take the service down with the dependency.
cookbook/02_agents/12_multimodal/audio_input_output.py:17 — outbound call without a timeout |
cookbook/02_agents/12_multimodal/audio_sentiment_analysis.py:29 — outbound call without a timeout |
cookbook/02_agents/12_multimodal/audio_to_text.py:23 — outbound call without a timeout |
31 SQL statements built from strings
adequate31 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters. 2 of them put a value into the string; in the rest, what the code shows going in is a table or column name, a constant, or something the line does not show. Ask whether any value reaches these strings, rather than a parameter.
cookbook/data_labeling/_05_text_pairwise_preference/jury_hardened.py:66 — SQL built from a string |
libs/agno/agno/db/clickhouse/clickhouse.py:551 — SQL built from a string |
cookbook/05_agent_os/chart_responses/agentos_platform_dashboard.py:189 — SQL built from a string |
1 deserialiser that can run code
adequate1 places read data with a deserialiser that executes what it reads (pickle). That is safe on data the system wrote itself and remote code execution on anything else. Ask where each one's input comes from.
libs/agno/agno/utils/pickle.py:26 — code-executing deserialiser |
12 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 47 high or critical in what ships
adequate12 of 65 locked dependencies match 102 published advisories in OSV, 48 of them rated high or critical. A lockfile says which version is installed, not whether the flawed code is reachable from this product, so each needs a look. Most are fixed by an upgrade, and the advisory names the version.
cookbook/91_tools/mcp/mcp_toolbox_demo/uv.lock — anyio 4.9.0: GHSA-82r6-8w77-94w6 (critical), fixed in 4.14.2 |
cookbook/91_tools/mcp/mcp_toolbox_demo/uv.lock — certifi 2025.7.14: GHSA-6q48-6c7w-9gw2 (critical), fixed in 2026.10.19 |
cookbook/91_tools/mcp/mcp_toolbox_demo/uv.lock — gitpython 3.1.45: GHSA-284h-m62q-gf8w (critical), fixed in 3.1.59 |
7 places insert HTML from a variable without sanitising it
adequate7 places set HTML from a value that is neither a literal nor passed through a sanitiser. Where the value can come from a user, that is stored cross-site scripting, and it is the first thing a buyer's security review looks for in a frontend.
cookbook/05_agent_os/26_authorization/console.html:438 — HTML from a variable |
cookbook/05_agent_os/26_authorization/console.html:505 — HTML from a variable |
cookbook/05_agent_os/26_authorization/console.html:548 — HTML from a variable |
Relicensed: MPL-2.0 → Apache-2.0 (2025-09-09)
adequateThe root licence changed 1 time(s). Code taken under earlier terms stays under them; check which terms any fork or customer relied on.
9 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 4 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-10-12. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. Whether 4 of them are fixed in the code you ship could not be told from this history: its version is only known to be at least 3.1.10. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 2 records name agno with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2025-8665, CVE-2026-37003).
| 2026-10-12: CVE-2026-108816 (low): A vulnerability was found in agno-agi agno up to 3.0.6. Affected by this vulnerability is the function run_python_code of the file python.py of the component Py |
| 2026-10-12: CVE-2026-108817 (low): A vulnerability was determined in agno-agi agno up to 3.0.9. Affected by this issue is the function agno.CodingTools.run_shell in the library libs/agno/agno/too |
| 2026-10-12: CVE-2026-108818 (moderate): A vulnerability was identified in agno-agi agno up to 2.7.3/3.0.6. This affects the function get_authentication_dependency of the file auth.py. Such manipulatio |
| 2026-10-12: CVE-2026-108819 (moderate): A security flaw has been discovered in agno-agi agno up to 3.0.6/3.1.1. This vulnerability affects the function exec of the component Agent Orchestration Layer. |
| 2026-10-12: CVE-2026-108820 (low): A weakness has been identified in agno-agi agno up to 3.0.6/3.1.1. This issue affects the function member_agent.run in the library libs/agno/agno/team/_default_ |
Observability & Operations
adequateNo structured logging library is in use
adequateNothing references a structured logging library. Logs that are written to be read by a person are not searchable by a machine, which means incident response here is proportional to how well someone remembers the codebase rather than to what the tooling can find.
| searched 6,337 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 0 matched |
No error reporter is wired in
adequateNothing in the service initialises an error reporter (Sentry, Rollbar, Bugsnag, Honeybadger or an APM agent). An exception in production reaches a person only if someone is reading the logs, which usually means a customer reports it first.
| no error reporter initialised |
1 of 2 deployed images carry no version, or `latest`
adequate1 images in the deployment configuration are named without a version or as `latest`. A redeploy can change the software without a commit, a rollback has nothing to roll back to, and nobody can say from the repository what is running.
cookbook/91_tools/mcp/mcp_toolbox_demo/docker-compose.yml:4 — image without a version |
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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