NousResearch/CodeLlama-13b-hf-flash warn
Weights only ship in a format that can run code when loaded; loading it runs custom code from the repo; no license declared — no usage rights by default. Plus 1 more issue.
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Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-26Weights battery2026-08-26Behavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-26 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics — no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-2632,016-token embedding scanned · 134 undertrained · pickle audit clean |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-26 · published from a community scan.
medium Pickle-serialized weights, no safetensors
Weights ship only as pickle-based files (pytorch_model-00001-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.bin). Loading pickle executes arbitrary code from the file — prefer a safetensors release or load in a sandbox.
How to fix
Convert the weights to safetensors before loading them anywhere that matters.
- Do not load the pickle files in-process — pickle deserialization executes arbitrary code from the file.
- Convert locally in a sandbox: `pip install safetensors` and use `safetensors.torch.save_file` on a state dict loaded with `torch.load(..., weights_only=True)` (refuses most code-execution payloads), or use Hugging Face's `convert.py` space/script.
- Pin the exact revision hash you converted from, and load only your converted safetensors artifact from then on.
medium Repo ships executable Python (trust_remote_code)
The repository contains custom code files that run in-process when loaded with trust_remote_code=True. Pin the revision hash and review the code before loading.
How to fix
Review and pin the custom code; never float on `main` with trust_remote_code=True.
- Read every `.py` file in the repo before first load — this code runs in your process.
- Pin the revision: `from_pretrained(model_id, revision="<commit sha>", trust_remote_code=True)` so a later push can't swap the code under you.
- Prefer a version of the architecture already in `transformers` if one exists, which removes the remote-code requirement entirely.
medium No license declared
The model card declares no license. You have no usage rights by default — treat as all-rights-reserved until the owner clarifies.
How to fix
Get a license from the owner or pick a licensed alternative — this is a legal gap, not a technical one.
- With no declared license you have no usage rights by default; treat the weights as all-rights-reserved.
- Open an issue or discussion on the repo asking the owner to declare a license, or use the licensed upstream/parent model instead.
medium Undertrained (glitch) token surface in vocabulary
Embedding-norm scan flagged 134 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median of 1.602), including 16 plain-ASCII strings that can appear in ordinary input as identifiers — e.g. "<0xFF>", "<0xFC>", "<0xFB>", "<0xFA>", "<0xFE>", "<0xFD>", "Mediabestanden", "<EOT". In models where this class was tested behaviorally, such tokens silently rewrote user input into confident, schema-valid, wrong output. These are candidates from the weights alone; behavioral confirmation requires the behavioral battery.
How to fixruntime guardweight-level
Keep the affected token strings out of the model's input — the scan-derived runtime guard carries this model's exact blocklist.
- Fetch this model's guard artifact (`/api/v1/guard/<owner>/<model>`): the confirmed corrupting tokens and the low-norm candidate list, derived from the published scan.
- Screen inbound text with it (the `@ingotai/guard` package is a reference implementation) and route flagged records to a different model or human review — verbatim-copy tasks on flagged strings are the failure mode.
- The underlying cause is undertrained embeddings in the weights; a true fix is weight-level (continued pretraining on the affected tokens) — that is not a patch, it's a training job.
info Pickle static analysis clean
Opcode-level parse of pytorch_model-00001-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.bin (no code executed) found only standard serialization globals (3 distinct, all torch/collections/numpy). Pickle remains an executable format — this verifies the current bytes, not future uploads; prefer a safetensors release.
Remediation guidance addresses the documented findings only. It is evidence-driven repair, not a safety certification of the model.
Fingerprint
The durable profile of this model: measured weights-and-metadata facts, rebuilt on every scan and battery run. Updated 2026-08-26.
| architecture | llama · 40 layers · 5120-dim |
| vocabulary | 32,016 tokens |
| license | none declared |
| serialization | no safetensors pickle custom code |
| chat template | none |
| glitch-token surface | 134 undertrained candidates, 16 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | LlamaForCausalLM |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 13 — pickle: pytorch_model-00001-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.bin |
| revision | f59f35917c33 |
| HF snapshot | 124 downloads · 1 likes · updated 2023-08-24 · captured 2026-08-25 |
| pickle audit | pytorch_model-00001-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00002-of-00003.bin, pytorch_model-00003-of-00003.bin — 3 standard global(s) |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,016×5120 |
| embedding norms | median 1.6022 · mean 1.5431 |
| lineage check | no claimed base model |
| glitch-token samples | "<0xFF>", "<0xFC>", "<0xFB>", "<0xFA>", "<0xFE>", "<0xFD>", "Mediabestanden", "<EOT", "Normdaten", "regnig", "Genomsnitt", "<SUF" |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-25 21:52 | 75s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-25 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, zero-template-token-scan, pickle-static-analysis, lineage-norm-correlation |
| embedding tensor | model.embed_tokens.weight · F16 · 32,016×5120 |
| glitch surface | 134 undertrained, 16 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | not checked (no claimed base model) |
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