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Grade C

One Medium finding. Read the findings before installing.

Graded by PlugVetRubric v2

Not a guarantee. A hygiene check of the source at the commit shown, not a security audit.

Rescanned at commit c1064c0ce569, unchanged since the check below.

PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED

Why this grade

  • PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED Medium

    Runs shell commands that the manifest or description does not mention.

    src/readless/tts.py, line 21 _active_proc: subprocess.Popen | None = None

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What was checked

Plain notes from the hygiene checks.

  • Permissions

    Concern

    requests shell access. No manifest field names shell or command execution.

    PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED

    src/readless/tts.py, line 21

    _active_proc: subprocess.Popen | None = None

    src/readless/tts.py, line 109

    _active_proc = subprocess.Popen(

    src/readless/tts.py, line 164

    _active_proc = subprocess.Popen(

  • Install and update

    Note

    README documents an installer that pipes a download into a shell. The docs document an installer that pipes a download into a shell.

    INSTALL_DOCUMENTED_INSTALLER

    README.md, line 23

    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh # macOS / Linux

    README.zh.md, line 23

    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh # macOS / Linux

    commands/setup.md, line 20

    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

  • Network

    Pass

    No network call found.

  • Secrets

    Note

    reads an environment variable.

    SECRETS_ENV_READ

    src/readless/config.py, line 194

    key = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY") or raw.get("openai_api_key") or ""

    src/readless/config.py, line 195

    el_key = os.environ.get("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY") or raw.get("elevenlabs_api_key") or ""

  • Agent instructions

    Pass

    No instruction to ignore earlier instructions or to hide a step.

  • Obfuscation

    Pass

    No encoded or minified payload found.

  • Licence

    Pass

    A licence file is present (LICENSE).

  • Maintainer activity

    Pass

    The latest commit is within the last 365 days.

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Note

Hygiene check of commit c1064c0ce569. requests shell access. No manifest field names shell or command execution. README documents an installer that pipes a download into a shell. The docs document an installer that pipes a download into a shell. reads an environment variable.

Date and source

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Commit graded: c1064c0ce569be47a048797ea03b7d8aeec0d787

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