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Tarsier

🐒 Tarsier-AI Accessibility Trees as a Portable Semantic Representation for Agentic GUI Control The "Playwright" for Cross-Platform Desktop & Web Apps.

Compatibility: Not stated.

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 f548f9d1afb3, 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.

    examples/chrome_youtube_demo.py, line 50 subprocess.Popen(args)

Any High, or two or more Medium findings, give D. One Medium gives C. Low findings or a security Note give B. Each code names a finding behind the letter.

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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. can delete files.

    PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED PERMISSION_DELETE_FILES

    examples/chrome_youtube_demo.py, line 50

    subprocess.Popen(args)

    examples/chrome_youtube_demo.py, line 53

    subprocess.Popen([chrome_path, "https://www.youtube.com"])

    examples/smart_wait_demo.py, line 24

    subprocess.Popen("notepad.exe")

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    examples/ultimate_github_demo.py, line 87

    os.remove(save_filepath)

    examples/vscode_demo.py, line 18

    subprocess.Popen('code --new-window', shell=True)

    tarsier/core/desktop.py, line 126

    subprocess.Popen(executable)

    tarsier/core/desktop.py, line 223

    subprocess.Popen(["open", executable])

    tarsier/core/desktop.py, line 228

    subprocess.Popen(["open", "-b", executable])

  • Install and update

    Concern

    dependencies are not pinned.

    INSTALL_UNPINNED

    requirements.txt, line 2

    pyautogui>=0.9.54

  • Network

    Pass

    No network call found.

  • Secrets

    Concern

    reads a credential or environment file.

    SECRETS_ENV_READ SECRETS_PATH_DOTENV

    examples/gemini_agent.py, line 12

    # Load environment variables from .env file

    examples/gemini_agent.py, line 437

    gemini_key = os.environ.get("GEMINI_API_KEY")

    .gitignore, line 29

    # Environments

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    .gitignore, line 45

    #Personal use

    README.md, line 206

    We provide a complete out-of-the-box autonomous agent in [gemini_agent.py](examples/gemini_agent.py). It uses your Gemini API key (loaded from your local `.env` file) to execute a

    README.md, line 210

    Configure your [.env](.env) file:

  • 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.

Note

Hygiene check of commit f548f9d1afb3. requests shell access. No manifest field names shell or command execution. can delete files. dependencies are not pinned. reads a credential or environment file.

Date and source

Date checked:

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github.com

Commit graded: f548f9d1afb37edcce1d814a40939a83f47643d4

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