FAROS AI Agent
A blueprint-driven AutoResearch runtime for orchestrating AI research workflows from idea generation and experiments to paper writing and peer review.
FAROS is an open-source ai agent by OpenNSWM-Lab, written mainly in Python, with 3,042 GitHub stars and the MIT license. Its code was last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Scan summary: scanned Nov 5, 2026 at commit 60ce4bc. No capabilities flagged by our checks. Scan policy
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60ce4bc · Nov 5, 2026 ScannedStatic, secrets and dependency checks completed with no critical findings.
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- mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.fastapi@0.109.0: 2 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2024-38, PYSEC-2024-38
backend/requirements-dev.txt - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.python-multipart@0.0.6: 18 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-1850, PYSEC-2026-1851, PYSEC-2026-1852, PYSEC-2026-3036, PYSEC-2026-3037 +13 more
backend/requirements-dev.txt - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.httpcore2@2.9.1: 2 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-3844, PYSEC-2026-3844
backend/requirements-dev.txt - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.httpx2@2.9.1: 10 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-3845, PYSEC-2026-3846, PYSEC-2026-3847, PYSEC-2026-3848, PYSEC-2026-3849 +5 more
backend/requirements-dev.txt - mediumMedium. Worth checking, often a vulnerable dependency or a setup problem.starlette@0.35.1: 14 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2026-161, PYSEC-2026-1941, PYSEC-2026-1943, PYSEC-2026-2280, PYSEC-2026-2281 +9 more
backend/requirements-dev.txt - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.pygments@2.9.0: 2 known vulnerabilitiesPYSEC-2023-117, PYSEC-2026-2987
backend/requirements-dev.txt - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.No manifest declaring network access and environment variables (agent.json)
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