3 findingsStatic scanned
Runs OpenAI's Codex coding agent locally on your computer from the command line.
71.3M installs/moApache-2.0
Codewhale
hmbown · Agent
Codewhale is a terminal coding agent written in Rust, with both a terminal interface and a command line. It works with many model providers, including DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Hugging Face and local vLLM, SGLang and Ollama, and it speaks natively to Anthropic Claude and OpenAI. Tools are approval-gated, with OS sandboxing and side-git snapshots you can roll back to. The package is a launcher that downloads and checks the native program for your platform.
Written by ooruby from the README of codewhale 0.10.1.
Not claimed by its maker. Is this yours? Prove it and answer the findings
Why it's useful
You get a terminal coding agent that is not tied to one model provider and can roll back what it changed.
What you could do with it
- Run a coding agent in your terminal against a model served locally through Ollama.
- Set up another provider such as OpenRouter or Hugging Face with a one-line auth command.
- Undo an agent's edits by restoring an earlier side-git snapshot.
Written from its documentation: what it says it can do, not what our checks found.
Maintenance
Not measuredNo release date is on record for this package yet. The nightly publisher check records one as it reaches each npm package, about once every ten nights.
Release activity only: it says nothing about quality or safety, and a finished small package can be fine without releases. How it is measured
- Command execution is bounded
- inventory
- node child_process (test/native-host-receipt.test.js:8)
- synchronous shell execution (test/native-host-receipt.test.js:30)
- synchronous shell execution (test/native-host-receipt.test.js:88)
- synchronous shell execution (test/native-host-receipt.test.js:101)
- An inventory of where the code starts another program, not a verdict on this row: whether each one runs a fixed program or whatever it is handed takes a reading by hand.
- Licence and provenance
- finding
- no LICENCE file at the root (.)
- Data handling disclosed
- finding
- no statement of what it reads, writes or sends (README.md)
Published because it was found. A finding is information about where the limits are, not a verdict that the software is unsafe.
What this does not cover
- Everything. Treat it as you would software from anywhere else.
Receipt history: every signed receipt for every version of this listing, and what changed between them.
In its maker's words
Terminal coding agent for supported hosted and local models. One runtime on your machine. Rust, MIT.
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Static scanned
- What it establishes
- Its published package, or for a hosted server its source repository at a recorded commit, was read file by file, without running it, by every check in our current scan.
- What it does not
- How it behaves when it runs, or anything the scan does not read yet: several rubric checks, the repository's history, and compiled code in folders named dist or build. For a hosted server, that the endpoint runs the code that was read. The ooruby Index sets out exactly what was read.
- Exactly what was read
- Version 0.10.1, the file with digest sha512-Jx/mSgDj0UBjgcLbIWbT2+P+Y+KJGe35I3m2lquVfjGlY+6vLjUWBeXetrxfjoRpCo2hhb4J9RDWCo18Sjh98Q==, as the registry publishes it. A published version cannot be replaced, so this names the same bytes for anyone who checks.
- Authentication
- Runs locally. No hosted endpoint is listed for this package. You run it on your own machine, so there is no endpoint of ours to authenticate against.
Adding it
Run it with:
npx -y -p codewhale@0.10.1 codewPinned to 0.10.1, which is the version the findings above were found in. Drop the version to take whatever is newest, and the report on this page stops describing what you installed.
Where this came from
- Registry
- npm
- Package
- codewhale
- Version read
- 0.10.1
- Resolved
- 2026-10-10
Built from source, attested
npm publishes a signed statement that this exact package was built from the repository below, at this commit. It is verifiable without taking our word for it.
- Repository
- github.com/codewhale-hq/codewhale
- Commit
- fead51eeea0f
- Built by
- github.com/actions/runner/github-hosted
- Registry publish attestation
- signed by npm · 2026-10-10
- Checked
- 2026-10-10
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It renders the current rung (static scanned) and links back here, where what that does and does not establish is one click away. It updates itself as the evidence deepens.
[](https://ooruby.com/market/codewhale)About this listing
- Kind
- Agent
- Category
- Developer tools
- Pricing
- Free
- Sandbox
- No
- Hosted
- No
- Updated
- 2026-10-10
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