Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot
The first real AI developer
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What happened. On 2025-08-24, a malicious commit (065ee8eb, message "Revert 'Implemented weekend discount'") was pushed to this repository, disguised as a routine revert. It was publicly reported on 2026-06-08 by an external security researcher, and the malicious files were removed on 2026-06-11. What it did. The commit added a hidden loader (core/telemetry/hooks.py) that started automatically whenever the program ran (wired in through core/telemetry/init.py). That loader silently downloaded the Bun JavaScript runtime and used it to execute an obfuscated payload (core/telemetry/runtime.bin). The payload is a Shai-Hulud-class supply-chain worm: it harvests credentials and secrets from the machine (cloud/AWS keys, GitHub and npm tokens, SSH keys, and similar) and can use the stolen access to spread to other projects. What this means for you. The code only executed if GPT Pilot was actually run — simply having a copy you never ran is not affected. If you cloned and ran GPT Pilot from…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- 🔒 Security notice
- 🧑✈️ GPT PILOT 🧑✈️
- GPT Pilot doesn't just generate code, it builds apps!
- Visit Pythagora.ai for more info
- 👉 Examples of apps written by GPT Pilot 👈
- 🔌 Requirements
- 🚦How to start using gpt-pilot?
- If you're new to GPT Pilot:
- 🔎 Examples
- PostgreSQL support
- 🧑💻️ CLI arguments
- List created projects (apps)
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What this repository does
The first real AI developer
Repository facts
- Owner
- Pythagora-io
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 33,646
- Forks
- 3,453
- Open issues + pull requests
- 255
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2023-08-16T11:56:07.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-06-18T18:38:25.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai, codegen, coding-assistant, developer-tools, gpt-4, research-project
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