I Ranked 171 AI Agents by Trust — Here's What I Found About Safety and Transparency
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AI agents are everywhere. LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, Dify, n8n - there are hundreds of open-source agent frameworks now, and the list keeps growing. But here's the question nobody is asking: which ones can you actually trust? I spent the last month building HVTracker, an open trust registry that scores 171 AI agents across five dimensions: Activity, Adoption, Transparency, Safety, and Identity. This post shares what I found. The Problem Most developers pick an AI agent framework based on GitHub stars and vibes. Stars measure popularity, not trustworthiness.