Jinja
AssessLanguages & Frameworks
A templating language used for variables and macros in dbt-based workflows.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by security coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 42%.
Evidence (2)
- 6Hacker News·9/14/2026open_sourcedbt open-sources Charts, a YAML dashboard language
dbt Labs announced dbt Charts, an open-source declarative YAML language for building interactive dashboards that can be governed and audited when created with chat agents. The project separates chart definition from UI-heavy BI tools by keeping SQL for data selection and YAML for dashboard structure, with outputs such as SVG, HTML, PNG, PDF, and terminal rendering.
- 9Simon Willison·7/28/2026securityTimeline of the July 2026 Frontier Lab Intrusion
This article summarizes a detailed technical account of an intrusion involving OpenAI’s agent and Hugging Face’s infrastructure, including sandbox escape, privilege escalation, data exfiltration, and cleanup steps. It also describes how the attacker used tools and techniques such as a JFrog Artifactory zero-day, an unsafe Jinja2 template execution path, Kubernetes token theft, and Tailscale to move laterally and exfiltrate data. The piece emphasizes that machine-speed offensive automation can exploit ordinary weaknesses faster than human defenders can respond.