Does artex use paid AI services?

Can use Anthropic or OpenAI. Its settings have keys for these paid APIs. Its README says whether one is required.

Is artex still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change 4 days ago.

How widely used is artex?

New, little track record. 597 stars, 1 months old, by an organization. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

How to install artex on macOS (failsafe-security/artex)

failsafe-security/artex

Source-built, locally bound FailSafe distribution of ARTEX (v0.3.15)

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (AGPL-3.0).
Paid AI services?: Can use Anthropic or OpenAIIts settings have keys for these paid APIs. Its README says whether one is required.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 4 days ago.
How widely used?: New, little track record597 stars, 1 months old, by an organization. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

Requirements: Docker Engine with Compose v2, and about 5 GB of free disk (the browser stack and Chromium account for most of the image size). If your Docker installation only provides the standalone docker-compose command, substitute it for docker compose below; make detects either.

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

Open http://127.0.0.1:8787 and complete the first-run setup. If you left the LLM key blank, configure a provider in the console before starting a scan.

Check status and logs:

docker compose --env-file .env.safe -f docker-compose.safe.yml ps
docker compose --env-file .env.safe -f docker-compose.safe.yml logs -f artex

Stop without deleting data:

docker compose --env-file .env.safe -f docker-compose.safe.yml down

Delete everything, including the database and ARTEX data:

docker compose --env-file .env.safe -f docker-compose.safe.yml down -v

Parts list

1×Go 1.26.3runtime

1×Docker tool

11× settings in .env

POSTGRES_USER
POSTGRES_PASSWORDsecret
POSTGRES_DB
ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDERoptional
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYsecretoptional
OPENAI_API_KEYsecretoptional
ARTEX_LLM_MODELoptional
ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URLoptional
ARTEX_LLM_PROXYoptional
ARTEX_LLM_STREAMoptional
NORMA_RIPGREP_NO_INSTALLoptional

Contact

failsafe-security/artex

Before you start

Your setup manual for artex

What's inside

Handy for

Yes, it runs on macOS

Start here

6 steps on macOS

Clone the repository

Install the required runtimes

Configure environment variables

Install dependencies

Run it

Run the tests

From the README: Quick start

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