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How minimal helps

  • Box egress audit trail 2 releases · 7 other sources · first seen Nov 2026
  • Box secret storage 7 other sources · first seen Nov 2026
  • Box egress proxy 4 releases · 1 other source · first seen Nov 2026

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Features

10 capabilities

Built from minimal's releases, docs, README and our own runs. “Seen” marks the month we first spotted a release the vendor didn't date. Group names and tags are our labels.

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What minimal offers you

  • Administrative audit log2
  • Command-line interface1
All capabilities 10 capabilities
Box egress audit trail shipped suggested Read and verify the hash-chained, tamper-evident audit log of proxy decisions made for a box, with optional merging of parent chains for a full history. 2 releases · 7 other sources · first seen Nov 2026

Suggested capability: LLM application tracing. This is our guess, not confirmed.

Also counts toward: Administrative audit log

release

  • Adds min box audit to read a box's audit trail, min box audit --parent to merge parent chains, min doctor to report an edited audit chain, and min box spec to list each store reference with its authorities.⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠ release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Carry an edited-audit-chain warning into min doctor. release-1e236070 · Nov 2026 · source · release history

example 7 total

  • Inspect a box's proxy-enforced audit trail and merge its parent chain for a full history. min box audit --parent mybox release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source
  • Inspect the full hash-chained audit trail for a box, merging in its parent chain, to verify no decisions were tampered with. min box audit --parent mybox release-1e236070 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Review the tamper-evident audit trail for a box, merging its parent's history, to verify every proxy egress decision made during an agent session. min box audit --parent <box-name> release-46d9e530 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Inspect a box's full audit trail, merging parent chains, to verify no proxy decisions were tampered with. min box audit --parent mybox release-47eba5d3 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Inspect a box's full audit trail, merging in its parent chain, to verify no decisions were tampered with. min box audit --parent release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Review every proxy decision recorded for a box, merging its parent chain, to audit egress activity. min box audit --parent mybox release-f6fcbab7 · Nov 2026 · source
Box secret storage shipped suggested Store named secret tokens scoped to a box so agents can retrieve them at runtime without the raw values appearing in the box spec, environment, or session. 7 other sources · first seen Nov 2026

Suggested capability: Data tokenization. This is our guess, not confirmed.

example 7 total

  • Manage a secret token inside a box — store it once, then list to confirm it is registered. min secret set MY_API_TOKEN min secret list release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source
  • Store a GitHub token as a named secret so a box can retrieve it at runtime without it ever appearing in the toml. min secret set GH_TOKEN release-1e236070 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Store a secret scoped to a box so the agent can access it without it appearing in the environment directly. min secret set MY_API_KEY release-47eba5d3 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Store a GitHub token as a named secret in a box so agents can use it without it being pasted into the session environment. min secret set GH_TOKEN release-46d9e530 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Store a secret in a box so an agent can access it without a manually pasted credential. min secret set MY_API_KEY release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Store a secret token that a box can retrieve at runtime without the agent seeing the raw value. min secret set MY_API_TOKEN release-f6fcbab7 · Nov 2026 · source
Box egress proxy shipped Run a Box Egress Proxy that issues leaf certificates under a name-constrained root and signing CA, holds proxy keys in the host Secure Enclave, enforces egress policy per box, and limits client key registration to bound registry surface. 4 releases · 1 other source · first seen Nov 2026

Also counts toward: Administrative audit log

release

  • Adds the bep crate implementing a Box Egress Proxy that issues leaf certificates under a name-constrained root and signing CA, holds proxy keys in the host Secure Enclave, maintains a hash-chained audit log per proxy decision, rotates the signing CA through a control socket, starts beside gvproxy so git and gh… release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Proxy runtime-published ports like a direct connection in minimald. release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Block UDP port 443 for boxes whose QUIC stance is blocked, enforced both at the host and from a blocked cohort's own leaves. release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Issue leaf certificates under a name-constrained root and signing CA; rotate the signing CA under an unchanged root, including rotation through the control socket. release-46d9e530 · Nov 2026 · source · release history

example

  • Limit how many client keys the Box Egress Proxy will register before refusing new ones, to bound the registry surface. bep serve --max-client-keys 50 release-1e236070 · Nov 2026 · source
Box store-reference inspection shipped suggested List every store reference a box declares together with the authorities bound to each, to audit egress policy before activating or granting a session. 1 release · 3 other sources · first seen Nov 2026

Suggested capability: Data access governance. This is our guess, not confirmed.

release

  • Adds min box audit to read a box's audit trail, min box audit --parent to merge parent chains, min doctor to report an edited audit chain, and min box spec to list each store reference with its authorities.⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠ release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history

example

  • Review every store reference a box declares along with the authorities bound to each, to audit egress policy before activating a session. min box spec release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Review all store references and their declared authorities for a box before granting additional egress. min box spec mybox release-47eba5d3 · Nov 2026 · source
  • Review every store reference a box declares, with the authorities each one carries, before activating a session. min box spec mybox release-2d06816e · Nov 2026 · source
GitHub authentication for boxes shipped Sign in to GitHub via OAuth so grant boxes can reach GitHub through the Box Egress Proxy using a git credential helper, without a manually pasted PAT in the environment. 3 releases · 1 other source · first seen Nov 2026

release

  • Sign in to GitHub and finish the OAuth flow on a real page with min login, with repository choice offered during sign-in. release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Sign in to GitHub through the published App and manage credentials with min login; logout deletes the sign-in and refuses every reference to it. release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Ship a git credential helper inside grant boxes so agents can reach GitHub without a manually pasted PAT. release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source · release history

example

  • Sign in to GitHub so grant boxes can reach GitHub through the Box Egress Proxy without a PAT in the environment. min login release-f6fcbab7 · Nov 2026 · source
OpenTelemetry tracing shipped suggested Opt in to OpenTelemetry export with local spooling across the CLI, daemon, and VM guest, carrying one trace per request end-to-end. 3 releases · first seen Nov 2026

Suggested capability: LLM application tracing. This is our guess, not confirmed.

release

  • Add opt-in OpenTelemetry export with local spooling across mlog, min, minimald, and minvmd, carrying one trace per request through CLI, daemon, and VM guest. release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Carry telemetry spool and redact telemetry settings automatically when running min bug. release-1e236070 · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Bundle the telemetry spool and redacted telemetry settings in min bug reports. release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source · release history
QUIC blocking shipped Block UDP port 443 for boxes whose QUIC stance is set to blocked, enforced at the host and from a blocked cohort's own leaves, with the helper named during post-install network configuration. 2 releases · first seen Nov 2026

release

  • Name the QUIC block helper in min finalize-install for post-install network configuration. release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history
  • Block UDP port 443 for boxes whose QUIC stance is blocked, enforced both at the host and from a blocked cohort's own leaves. release-3c2b2a73 · Nov 2026 · source · release history
Vulnerability reporting shipped Submit a suspected vulnerability report to the project directly from the local telemetry spool using the diagnostic command. 1 release · 1 other source · first seen Nov 2026

Also counts toward: Command-line interface

release

  • Report a suspected vulnerability to the project with --security on the diag command. release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history

example

  • Submit a suspected vulnerability report from the local telemetry spool. min bug --security release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source
Persistent box naming shipped Keep box names answerable across reboots and across a second VM. 1 release · first seen Nov 2026

release

  • Keep box names answering across a reboot and a second VM. release-6a01d5ae · Nov 2026 · source · release history
Non-Rust dependency auditing shipped Report non-Rust dependency pins and bump locked commits for packages in scripts to keep dependency references current. 1 release · first seen Nov 2026

release

  • Report non-Rust dependency pins and bump the locked_commit for packages in scripts. release-46d9e530 · Nov 2026 · source · release history

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Command line

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Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
  6. Community health
  7. Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
  8. Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
  9. Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
  10. Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply

Nine scores for minimal, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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  • Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
  • Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
  • Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
  • Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
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