skill-safety-audit
Audit third-party Agent Skills before installation. Use when the user wants to inspect a Codex, Claude Code, or SKILL.md-based skill, GitHub skill repository, install script, or local skill folder for malicious instructions, secret access, dangerous shell commands, prompt injection, persistence, network exfiltration, or install-time risk.
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- June 1, 2026 at 11:41
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- Audit third-party Agent Skills before installation. Use when the user wants to inspect a Codex, Claude Code, or SKILL.md-based skill, GitHub skill repository, install script, or local skill folder for malicious instructions, secret access, dangerous shell commands, prompt injection, persistence, network exfiltration, or install-time risk.
# Skill Safety Audit
Use this skill to audit Agent Skills before installation. It is conservative by default: a `REVIEW` verdict is acceptable when behavior may be legitimate but needs human inspection. Version `1.1.0` adds Python AST checks, entropy/obfuscation heuristics, dependency risk checks, allowlists, reproducible report metadata, CI exit codes, and Claude Code hook/MCP scanning.
## Workflow
1. Identify the target: local skill folder, single `SKILL.md`, GitHub repo URL, or GitHub `/tree/<ref>/<path>` URL.
2. Do not run any code from the target. Do not execute install scripts, package scripts, hooks, or copied commands.
3. Run the static auditor:
```bash
python scripts/audit_skill.py <target> --format markdown
```
Useful v1.1 options:
```bash
python scripts/audit_skill.py <target> --ref <commit-sha>
python scripts/audit_skill.py <target> --rules ./custom-rules.json
python scripts/audit_skill.py <target> --since v1.0.0
python scripts/audit_skill.py <target> --ignore-file .skillaudit-ignore
```
4. Read `SKILL_SECURITY_REPORT.md` and `skill_security_report.json`.
5. Report the verdict first: `SAFE`, `REVIEW`, or `DANGEROUS`, followed by the risk score, exit code, reproducibility metadata, top findings, capability mismatch table, and install recommendation.
## Verdict Policy
- `SAFE`: no high or critical findings and low score.
- `REVIEW`: suspicious behavior exists, but the evidence is not enough to reject the skill automatically.
- `DANGEROUS`: critical behavior appears, such as secret access, dangerous shell execution, persistence, or code paths that can exfiltrate data.
CLI exit codes are `SAFE=0`, `REVIEW=1`, `DANGEROUS=2`, and runtime/input error `3`.
Never tell the user a skill is safe if the report says `REVIEW` or `DANGEROUS`. If the user asks whether to install it, recommend installation only for `SAFE`; for `REVIEW`, recommend reading the cited files first; for `DANGEROUS`, recommend not installing.
## Notes
- GitHub URL support downloads source only. The auditor must not execute third-party code.
- The scanner is static and conservative. It can produce false positives.
- `expected-capabilities` and `.skillaudit-ignore` can suppress low/medium expected findings, but suppressed findings remain visible in the report.
- For a final security decision, combine this report with manual review of the cited files.
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