Haystack AI Agent
by deepset-aiOpen-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
Haystack is an open-source ai agent by deepset-ai, written mainly in Python, with 26,897 GitHub stars and the Apache-2.0 license. Its code was last updated Oct 31, 2026. The latest PyPI release is haystack-ai 3.5.0, published Nov 10, 2026, with 152,155 downloads last week.
Scan summary: scanned Nov 5, 2026 at commit 8ed1ee6. No capabilities flagged by our checks. 1 published advisory for its package. Scan policy
What Haystack can touch
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Run shell commandsNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Run dynamic codeNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Read or write filesNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Read environment and secretsNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Control a web browserNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Connect to databasesNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Read or send messagesNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Touch money or tradingNot seen in this scan
- Our checks did not find this. The tool may still do it.Connect to the internetNot run in this scan
"Not seen" means our checks did not find it, and the tool may still do it. Covers commit 8ed1ee6, Nov 5, 2026. See the scan policy.
Before you install Haystack
AgenticMart scanned Haystack on Nov 5, 2026 with automated checks for hidden code, known-malicious packages, leaked secrets and vulnerable dependencies. The result covers one commit under our scan policy, so review what access you give it and check any advisories shown here.
What it can access
- An AI agent decides its own next steps and calls whatever tools you give it, so its risk depends on the access you grant.
Before you install
- Pin the version you reviewed instead of always installing the latest release.
- Read the tool list or scripts before the first run, and keep approval prompts on for actions that write, send or delete.
- Maintained by deepset-ai on GitHub, 26,897 stars and 3,378 forks. Popularity is not proof of safety.
- Last code change: Oct 31, 2026.
- Open-source license: Apache-2.0.
Published advisories for haystack-ai
From the OSV database, for this PyPI package. Check that your installed version is past any fix.
- CVE-2024-41950Insecure Jinja2 templates rendered in Haystack Components can lead to RCEFixed in 2.3.1.
Haystack is an open-source ai agent by deepset-ai, written mainly in Python. Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
At a glance
- Stars
- 27k
- Forks
- 3.4k
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Created
- Nov 2019
- Last update
- Oct 31, 2026
- Type
- AI Agent
- Price
- Free
Topics
Questions about Haystack
What is Haystack?
Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
Who maintains Haystack?
Haystack is maintained by deepset-ai on GitHub (deepset-ai/haystack). AgenticMart lists it from public repository data.
Is Haystack safe to use?
AgenticMart scanned Haystack on Nov 5, 2026 with automated checks for hidden code, known-malicious packages, leaked secrets and vulnerable dependencies. The result covers one commit under our scan policy, so review what access you give it and check any advisories shown here.
What license does Haystack use?
It is published under the Apache-2.0 license.
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