Edsl AI Agent
Design, conduct and analyze results of AI-powered surveys and experiments. Simulate social science and market research with large numbers of AI agents and LLMs.
Edsl is an open-source ai agent by expectedparrot, written mainly in Python, with 511 GitHub stars and the MIT license. Its code was last updated Nov 1, 2026.
Scan summary: scanned Nov 5, 2026 at commit 8d4f236. Seen able to run shell commands, run dynamic code. Scan policy
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8d4f236 · Nov 5, 2026 ScannedStatic, secrets and dependency checks completed with no critical findings. BuildsIt installed from a fresh machine.
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Findings (49)
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.code-execution issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.code-execution issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- highHigh. Something risky that needs a close look before you install.dependencies issueDetails are available to the maintainer after claiming this listing.
- mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
edsl/base/base_class.py:664 - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.Very long encoded string literal. Often used to hide a payload.
edsl/cli_commands/study_resources/create_css.py:10 - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
edsl/utilities/graph_renderer.py:193 - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
edsl/utilities/graph_renderer.py:196 - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
ep_workflow/state.py:455 - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.azure-core@1.36.0: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-1208
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.dnspython@2.8.0: 1 known vulnerabilityGHSA-45c3-73f7-pv4m
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.fsspec@2025.12.0: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-4217
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.json-repair@0.28.4: 1 known vulnerabilityGHSA-xf7x-x43h-rpqh
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.lxml@6.0.2: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-87
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.pyasn1@0.6.1: 9 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-1810, PYSEC-2026-2263, PYSEC-2026-3455, PYSEC-2026-3456, PYSEC-2026-3457 +4 more
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.restrictedpython@7.4: 3 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-1874, PYSEC-2026-3917, PYSEC-2026-4161
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.setuptools@71.1.0: 3 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2025-49, PYSEC-2026-3447, GHSA-xmj3-9gf7-h52w
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.starlette@0.38.6: 7 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-161, PYSEC-2026-1941, PYSEC-2026-1943, PYSEC-2026-2280, PYSEC-2026-2281 +2 more
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.torch@2.9.1: 4 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-139, PYSEC-2026-2286, GHSA-qfhq-4f3w-5fph, GHSA-rrmf-rvhw-rf47
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.tornado@6.5.2: 17 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2025-265, PYSEC-2025-266, PYSEC-2025-267, PYSEC-2026-140, PYSEC-2026-2287 +12 more
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.urllib3@1.26.20: 7 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-141, PYSEC-2026-1994, PYSEC-2026-1996, PYSEC-2026-1998, PYSEC-2026-1999 +2 more
poetry.lock - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.virtualenv@20.35.4: 20 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-2009, PYSEC-2026-4011, PYSEC-2026-4012, PYSEC-2026-4013, PYSEC-2026-4014 +15 more
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.In tests/examples/docs: Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
scripts/test_benchmarks.py:55 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.In tests/examples/docs: Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
scripts/test_benchmarks.py:59 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.In tests/examples/docs: Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
scripts/test_benchmarks.py:63 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.In tests/examples/docs: Runs shell commands. Fine for some tools, but it means the agent can run anything your user can.
scripts/test_benchmarks.py:67 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.Possible example credential in docs/tests: generic-api-key2 matches in this file
tests/caching/test_CacheEntry.py:49 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.Possible example credential in docs/tests: generic-api-key441 matches in this file
tests/serialization/data/0.1.25.json:1 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.Possible example credential in docs/tests: generic-api-key470 matches in this file
tests/serialization/data/0.1.26.json:1 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.Possible example credential in docs/tests: generic-api-key
tests/language_models/test_model.py:203 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.Possible example credential in docs/tests: generic-api-key454 matches in this file
tests/serialization/data/0.1.24.json:1 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.Possible example credential in docs/tests: generic-api-key489 matches in this file
tests/serialization/data/0.1.23.json:1 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.Possible example credential in docs/tests: generic-api-key445 matches in this file
tests/serialization/data/0.1.22.json:1 - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.filelock@3.20.0: 4 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-1374, PYSEC-2026-1375, GHSA-69hj-f68j-2879, GHSA-8mx5-7m5m-r77g
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.idna@3.11: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-215
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.multidict@6.7.0: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-4244
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.pygments@2.19.2: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-2987
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.pylint@3.3.9: 1 known vulnerabilityGHSA-22qq-2fwx-7p67
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.pypdf2@3.0.1: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-1835
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.pytest@7.4.4: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-1845
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.python-dotenv@1.2.1: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-2270
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.requests@2.32.5: 1 known vulnerabilityPYSEC-2026-2275
poetry.lock - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.No manifest declaring network access and environment variables (agent.json)
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