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          "points": 8.94,
          "reason": "Framework reading, adapted to a harness driven by a pipeline. MCP tools can be allowed per server prefix, and default MCP, skill, agent and config locations can each be switched off, with no deferred tool loading found (15). text, json and json-stream output and `--json-output-file`. Remote mode mentions a step limit, but no turn, time or spend cap for a headless run was documented (10). No exit codes. A Stop hook can end a task with a failure status, and StopFailure names the failure category (8). Sessions resume with `--session-id` or `--resume`, and worktrees isolate parallel sessions (14). One command with `--auth` and a dynamically chosen default model, a GitHub Action and GitLab CI, and no SDK (8). 15+10+8+14+8 = 55."
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          "points": 5.25,
          "reason": "Harness reading of the published rubric. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices and the US$1 credit are public without a login, but per-model credit rates and Junie API key usage rates weren't found (12). Junie Lite is free with a JetBrains account and no card (20). Judgement call. The docs present BYOK keys and custom endpoints such as Ollama as alternatives to a JetBrains sign-in, so a pipeline holding a provider key needs no JetBrains signup, but the headless page says a token is required and a Junie API key is created by hand at junie.jetbrains.com/cli (10). 0+12+20+10 = 42."
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          "ergonomics": "Framework reading, adapted to a harness driven by a pipeline. MCP tools can be allowed per server prefix, and default MCP, skill, agent and config locations can each be switched off, with no deferred tool loading found (15). text, json and json-stream output and `--json-output-file`. Remote mode mentions a step limit, but no turn, time or spend cap for a headless run was documented (10). No exit codes. A Stop hook can end a task with a failure status, and StopFailure names the failure category (8). Sessions resume with `--session-id` or `--resume`, and worktrees isolate parallel sessions (14). One command with `--auth` and a dynamically chosen default model, a GitHub Action and GitLab CI, and no SDK (8). 15+10+8+14+8 = 55.",
          "maintenance": "Release 26.10.12 (3659.7) on 16 October 2026 (30). What's New lists builds on 6, 12, 13, 15 and 16 October alone, npm shows weekly versions from March, and the repository has 1,133 tags in 90 days, most of them nightly builds (20). A GitHub tracker with 6 open and 75 closed issues and 4 open and 40 closed pull requests, a public YouTrack project with 30 issues resolved in 30 days against 67 opened, mostly without replies on recent CLI reports, and a Discord server. Response times on GitHub couldn't be read (13). No SDK and no registry entry. The GitHub Action is at v1 and GitLab CI is documented, and ACP is kept current (6). Closed source with no workflow files in the repository, so no CI or dependency health to read. The installer checks sums, and npm is five weeks behind the release feed (3). 30+20+13+6+3 = 72.",
          "payments": "Harness reading of the published rubric. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices and the US$1 credit are public without a login, but per-model credit rates and Junie API key usage rates weren't found (12). Junie Lite is free with a JetBrains account and no card (20). Judgement call. The docs present BYOK keys and custom endpoints such as Ollama as alternatives to a JetBrains sign-in, so a pipeline holding a provider key needs no JetBrains signup, but the headless page says a token is required and a Junie API key is created by hand at junie.jetbrains.com/cli (10). 0+12+20+10 = 42.",
          "reliability": "Local-package reading, the same as the other closed-source harnesses. Install scripts for macOS, Linux and Windows on x86-64 and ARM64, a Homebrew tap and npm, with SHA-256 sums checked against a published feed, but the script carries on without a sum for an unlisted version and npm sits five weeks behind at 3110.7.0 (17). No public CI or test suite. No source is published and the repository has no workflow files (0). The GitHub tracker the README names had 6 open and 75 closed issues and 4 open and 40 closed pull requests on 18 October, though response times couldn't be read. JetBrains' YouTrack project JUNIE, which covers the plugin too, had 1,127 unresolved of 1,928 issues, with 67 opened and 30 resolved in the 30 days to 18 October, and most recent CLI reports had no reply (12). What's New dates every build, but entries are one line and no breaking change is called out, and versions are a date plus a build number. Retired flags are listed as deprecated compatibility options (6). JetBrains said Junie left Beta on 17 June 2026, but the headless page dated 15 October still calls the CLI an EAP, and hooks and sandbox mode are EAP-only (10). 17+0+12+6+10 = 45.",
          "schema": "Framework reading. A CLI reference that lists every flag with examples, documented formats for the allowlist, config.json, custom model profiles and hook payloads, and ACP as the editor protocol. No schema for the json or json-stream output was found, and the OpenAPI covers only update metadata (12). llms.txt exists and claims Markdown by content negotiation, but docs pages came back as HTML with `Accept: text/markdown` and llms.txt doesn't index them (6). Pages say when to use ACP and when not, and how trust works in each launch mode, but the headless page doesn't say what happens when an action needs approval (13). Output formats, effort levels, channels and allowlist actions are enumerated, though the effort values differ between the CLI reference and the model page (11). Examples throughout and nine StopFailure categories in the hooks page, but no exit codes or error format (8). A dated release list and dated docs pages (12). 12+6+13+11+8+12 = 62.",
          "security": "Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing), five lines. A browser login, a long-lived Junie API key with no scopes we found, or provider keys passed as flags or environment variables. The CLI's statistics default isn't stated (13). The allowlist asks before terminal commands, MCP tools, edits outside the project, reads outside it and secret files, and checks every part of chained, nested and multi-line commands. Brave mode is interactive only. Sandbox mode limits writes and hides `~/.ssh`, but it's EAP-only, off by default, missing on Windows, and leaves the network open by default (12). Interactive runs keep an untrusted project's MCP servers, hooks and skills unloaded and a project can't widen the sandbox, but one-shot, piped, ACP and Gateway runs trust every project by design, and the docs say to run them only in trusted projects (9). `/usage` shows per-session cost and sessions are stored, and PreToolUse hooks in batch runs can log or block tools, but they're EAP, and no audit log for the CLI was found (7). A coordinated disclosure policy (updated 10 October 2026) and a security.txt contact, CVEs published through NVD and a fixed-issues page (OSV lists no advisory for @jetbrains/junie, and the repository has no SECURITY.md), discretionary rewards with no formal bounty, and SOC 2 per the Junie homepage (15). 13+12+9+7+15 = 56.",
          "transparency": "Proprietary, with clear terms. The JetBrains AI Terms of Service (version 2.1, effective 30 September 2025) name AI Assistant and Junie, though the Junie EAP terms from December 2024 still call Junie a plugin (15). The terms rule out training on inputs without consent and list AI subcontractors with 30 days' notice of new ones (page updated 29 September 2026, naming OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and SpaceXAI for Junie). The AI FAQ says nothing persists unless detailed data collection is on, retained up to a year, and that it's on by default for non-commercial licences. Security monitoring keeps data for an unstated limited period (22). The terms promise 30 days' email notice before JetBrains AI is discontinued, but Junie Lite's model may change without notice and model aliases change without a stated period (10). A per-run override for anonymous statistics is documented, with no stated default and no list of what is sent (10). 15+22+10+10 = 57."
        },
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            "what": "llms.txt",
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            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "quickstart and CLI overview",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "headless mode",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-headless.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "CLI reference",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/parameters.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "environment variables",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/environment-variables.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "action allowlist",
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            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "configuration and project trust",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli-configuration.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "ACP",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli-acp.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "hooks",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli-hooks.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "EAP",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli-eap.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "BYOK",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/byok.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "custom models",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/custom-llm-models.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "Junie Lite",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-lite.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "MCP configuration",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli-mcp-configuration.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "remote mode",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli-remote-mode.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "GitHub Action",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-on-github.html",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "What's New",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/whats-new",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "homepage and pricing",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "public OpenAPI",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/openapi.json",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "install script",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/install.sh",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "release feed",
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jetbrains-junie/junie/main/update-info.jsonl",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "README",
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JetBrains/junie/main/README.md",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "npm registry",
            "url": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@jetbrains/junie",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "npm downloads",
            "url": "https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/@jetbrains/junie",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "leaving Beta post, 17 June 2026",
            "url": "https://blog.jetbrains.com/junie/2026/06/junie-coding-agent-out-of-beta/",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "JetBrains AI Terms of Service",
            "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/jetbrains-ai-service/",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "Junie EAP terms",
            "url": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/tos-eap",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "AI service providers",
            "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/jetbrains-ai/service-providers/",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "JetBrains AI FAQ",
            "url": "https://lp.jetbrains.com/ai-ides-faq/",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "JetBrains AI store prices",
            "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/store/ai/",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "coordinated disclosure policy",
            "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/coordinated-disclosure/",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "security.txt",
            "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/.well-known/security.txt",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "NVD search for Junie",
            "url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=Junie",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "JetBrains AI status incidents",
            "url": "https://status.jetbrains.cloud/api/v2/incidents.json",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "YouTrack JUNIE issues",
            "url": "https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/api/issues?query=project:%20JUNIE",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "RDAP jetbrains.com",
            "url": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/jetbrains.com",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          },
          {
            "what": "GitHub repository counts, tags and advisories, read through shields.io badge counts, a blobless git clone and api.osv.dev",
            "url": "https://github.com/JetBrains/junie",
            "seen": "2026-10-18"
          }
        ],
        "openQuestions": [
          "unchecked: CI results and maintainer response times on JetBrains/junie. Counts, tags, workflow files and OSV advisories come from our GitHub record",
          "unchecked: per-model AI Credit rates and Junie API key usage pricing. junie.jetbrains.com/cli and the tokens page render only with JavaScript, so plan prices come from the data embedded in the JetBrains AI store page",
          "What a headless run does when an action needs approval, since `--brave` is interactive only and the headless page is silent",
          "Whether a headless run works with only a BYOK key or a custom endpoint and no JetBrains sign-in, given the headless page says a token is required",
          "The CLI's default for anonymous usage statistics and what it sends",
          "Whether the CLI is GA. JetBrains said Junie left Beta on 17 June 2026, while the headless page dated 15 October 2026 still says EAP",
          "What the Gateway launch mode named on the headless page is. No page for it was found",
          "The repository's first commit is 7 April 2025, and no tag date earlier than the npm version of 2 March 2026 was available to set firstReleased from"
        ]
      },
      "negative": -3,
      "negativeNotes": [
        "2026-10-15. CVE-2026-111091, high (CVSS 7.8, CWE-829). Code execution was possible through an untrusted project's MCP server configuration in Junie CLI before 26.8.3. Fixed and published through NVD and JetBrains' fixed-issues page, inside six months (https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=Junie). -2",
        "2026-04-17. CVE-2026-41153, medium (CVSS 5.8 from JetBrains). Command execution through a malicious project file in JetBrains Junie before 252.549.29, a plugin build number. Judgement call, 1 point, since the IDE plugin and the CLI run the same agent per JetBrains' 17 June 2026 post. Fixed and published (https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=Junie). -1"
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        "ACP mode (`junie --acp true`) for editors, plus a GitHub Action and GitLab CI integration",
        "Junie Lite is a free model tier with no card, and BYOK keys or a local endpoint avoid JetBrains billing",
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        "No documented exit codes, output schema or turn and spend cap for headless runs",
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        "Set `JUNIE_API_KEY` (from junie.jetbrains.com/cli) or a provider key such as `JUNIE_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` in CI. The default sign-in opens a browser",
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