From: protectai <github.com/protectai>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject:

ModelScan

Release: v0.8.8 (2026-02-18)Commit: 61fcec9License: Apache-2.0

Scans model files for unsafe code such as pickle payloads before you load them.

safety scannerv0.8.8releaseModelScanPythonApache-2.0

FactsLicenseApache-2.0LanguagePythonKindsafety scannerRelease2026-02-18PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsLinks to the projectpermissive

$ pip install modelscan
# use with Freeweights
$ modelscan -p ./<file>

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

Scans model files for unsafe code such as pickle payloads before you load them.

Kind: safety scanner
License: Apache-2.0
Language: Python
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
Latest release: v0.8.8 (2026-02-18)
Repository: protectai/modelscan

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ pip install modelscan
# use with Freeweights
$ modelscan -p ./<file>

$ pip install modelscan

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-14. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Scan a downloaded model

$ modelscan -p ./<file>

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can run (8665)

135M-lc-100k-rope-12B a2-rl-e2egit_large-50-32B a3-rl-DCAgent_exp_rpt_e2egit-large-15-8B a3-rl-DCAgent_exp_rpt_e2egit-v2-10-8B a3-rl-DCAgent_exp_rpt_pymethods2test-large-80-8B a3-rl-DCAgent_exp_rpt_unitsyn-python-large-10-8B a3-rl-DCAgent_mix_h2_language_proportional-65-8B a3-rl-DCAgent_mix_h4_binary_easy-50-8B a3-rl-laion_exp_rpt_ghactions-v3-20-8B a3-rl-laion_nemotron-gym-agent-calendar-80-8B abacusai_Smaug-Humanizer-GGUF ablation-pymethods2test-seqmean-arm0-tis-15-8B Accio-Lab_occamy-1.0-GGUF ACE-Step ACE-Step-v1-3.5B AesCode-32B AesCode-32B-GGUF AesCode-8B AesCode-8B-GGUF AFM-4.5B AFM-4.5B-Base AFM-4.5B-ONNX AgentCPM-Explore-GGUF AgentCPM-Report AgentCPM-Report-GGUF agentica-org_DeepCoder-14B-Preview-GGUF agentica-org_DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview-GGUF agentica-org_DeepSWE-Preview-GGUF Agents-A1-4B ai_vs_real_image_detection AI-Anime-Image-Detector-ViT AI-Anime-Image-Detector-ViT-ONNX AI21-Jamba-Reasoning-3B AI21-Jamba2-Mini ai21labs_AI21-Jamba-Reasoning-3B-GGUF ai21labs_AI21-Jamba2-Mini-GGUF ai9stars_G9v3-3B-GGUF alamios_Mistral-Small-3.1-DRAFT-0.5B-GGUF AlchemistCoder-L-7B AlchemistCoder-L-7B-GGUF Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Ornith9-Summaries-LoRA-r128 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Ornith9-Summaries-LoRA-r64 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Qwen27-Knowledge-Units-LoRA-r128 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Qwen27-Summaries-LoRA-r128 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Qwen27-Summaries-LoRA-r64 Alexandria-Gemma-4-E4B-it-Qwen27-Knowledge-Units-LoRA-r128 Alibaba-NLP_Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-GGUF all-MiniLM-L6-v1 all-MiniLM-L6-v2 all-MiniLM-L6-v2-4bit all-mpnet-base-v1 ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview allenai_Olmo-3-7B-Instruct-GGUF allenai_Olmo-3-7B-Think-GGUF allenai_Olmo-3.1-32B-Instruct-GGUF allenai_Olmo-3.1-32B-Think-GGUF allenai_olmOCR-2-7B-1025-GGUF allenai_olmOCR-7B-0225-preview-GGUF allenai-specter AM-Thinking-v1

and 8605 more.

License

License: Apache-2.0
Class: Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: protectai <github.com/protectai>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: ModelScanRelease: v0.8.8 (2026-02-18)Commit: 61fcec9License: Apache-2.0

Repository: protectai/modelscan
Pinned release: v0.8.8, 2026-02-18
Release commit: 61fcec9c2a37c24c1fb12d84ede30fe248a364bd
Default branch: main 61fcec9c2a37c24c1fb12d84ede30fe248a364bd
Fetched: 2026-11-14
Takedowns: None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

8665 catalog models. See the list