# failsafe-security/artex

> A source-built, locally bound distribution of ARTEX, an open-source multi-agent security testing harness, created after a backdoor was found in the official Docker image.

- Magnitude: 6.1 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 398 total · +73 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:03–11:13 UTC, ≈ 162 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Go · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-11-10 · Last push: 2026-11-11
- GitHub: https://github.com/failsafe-security/artex · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/failsafe-security/artex

## Useful for

- Deploy a local harness for authorized pentesting of your own systems
- Verify the build against known implant indicators via make verify
- Run an autonomous agent for network scanning with nmap and browser-driven recon

## How to get started

```sh
cp .env.safe.example .env.safe
chmod 600 .env.safe
# edit .env.safe: set POSTGRES_PASSWORD and, optionally, an LLM key
docker compose --env-file .env.safe -f docker-compose.safe.yml up -d --build
```

Copied as is from the “quick start” section of the README. GitNova has not run these commands: check them in the original before running: https://github.com/failsafe-security/artex#readme

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:03–11:13: 325 → 398 stars (+73). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +162 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 398 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #29.
- About 90 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @magnologan (401 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 118
- Issues and pull requests: 3
- Watchers: 6
- Average over the last week: 105 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 12

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-10 … 2026-11-14: 126, 11, 41, 184, 73

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-13 5.3, 11-14 6.1

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #29

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 11:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.