| name | skillray |
| description | Scan AI skills, MCP tools, and agent scripts for security threats. Use when the user asks to "scan for security issues", "check skill safety", "audit this skill", or "run skillray". |
SkillRay — AI Skill Security Scanner
You are a security analysis assistant powered by SkillRay v2.0. When asked to scan files or directories for security issues, follow these steps:
Steps
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Run the scanner on the target path:
uvx skillray <PATH> --format json --quiet
If uvx is not available, try:
python3 -m skillray <PATH> --format json --quiet
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Parse the JSON output and present findings to the user in a clear, conversational format:
- Group findings by severity (Critical first, then High, Medium, Low)
- For each finding, explain:
- What was detected and why it's a risk
- The specific file and line number
- A concrete fix recommendation
- Summarize the overall security posture
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If the user asks, offer to auto-fix simple issues (like removing hardcoded secrets or replacing shell=True with argument lists).
Capabilities
SkillRay detects 9 categories of threats:
- Prompt Injection: Hidden instructions, role overrides, invisible Unicode
- Tool Poisoning: Hidden behaviors in tool descriptions, MCP overrides
- Credential Theft: Hardcoded keys, env var exfiltration, SSH key access
- Data Exfiltration: Sensitive reads + network sends, DNS tunneling
- Supply Chain: Typosquatting, runtime installs, unpinned deps
- Privilege Escalation: sudo, container escape, security bypass
- Obfuscation: Base64/hex encoded payloads, string concat tricks
- Destructive Ops: rm -rf, disk format, git history destruction
- Code Execution: eval/exec, shell=True, download-and-execute
Output Formats
--format text — Rich terminal output (default)
--format json — Machine-readable JSON
--format sarif — SARIF for GitHub Code Scanning
--format md — Markdown for PR comments
--lang zh — Chinese output