vet-plugin

vet-plugin is a skill for Claude Code from ericfitz/skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,117 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security review guide for plugins and other add-ons used by AI agents. It checks their source, permissions, and code for suspicious behaviour before installation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review add-ons from marketplaces, GitHub, or other sources before installing or running them.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk of installing code that steals credentials, sends data elsewhere, accesses private files, or changes the system unexpectedly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the security plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review add-ons from marketplaces, GitHub, or other sources before installing or running them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericfitz/skills/vet-plugin
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ericfitz/skills --skill vet-plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericfitz/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for vet-plugin

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericfitz/skills/vet-plugin/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericfitz/skills/vet-plugin)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for vet-plugin

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericfitz/skills/vet-plugin"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericfitz/skills/vet-plugin.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,117 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.01117
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00447
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 97e51019ab60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vet-plugin scanned grade A with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

• Requests elevated/sudo permissions

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

• curl/wget to unknown URLs
security/skills/vet-plugin/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin Vetter 🔒

Security-first vetting protocol for AI agent plugins. Never install a plugin without vetting it first.

When to Use

  • Before installing any plugin from a marketplace
  • Before running plugins from GitHub repos
  • Anytime you're asked to install unknown code

Vetting Protocol

Step 1: Source Check

Questions to answer:
- [ ] Where did this plugin come from?
- [ ] Is the author known/reputable?
- [ ] How many downloads/stars does it have?
- [ ] When was it last updated?
- [ ] Are there reviews from other agents?

Step 2: Code Review (MANDATORY)

Read ALL files in the plugin. Check for these RED FLAGS:

🚨 REJECT IMMEDIATELY IF YOU SEE:
─────────────────────────────────────────
• curl/wget to unknown URLs
• Sends data to external servers
• Requests credentials/tokens/API keys
• Reads ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, ~/.config without clear reason
• Accesses MEMORY.md, USER.md, SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md
• Uses base64 decode on anything
• Uses eval() or exec() with external input
• Modifies system files outside workspace
• Installs packages without listing them
• Network calls to IPs instead of domains
• Obfuscated code (compressed, encoded, minified)
• Requests elevated/sudo permissions
• Accesses browser cookies/sessions
• Touches credential files
─────────────────────────────────────────

Step 3: Permission Scope

Evaluate:
- [ ] What files does it need to read?
- [ ] What files does it need to write?
- [ ] What commands does it run?
- [ ] Does it need network access? To where?
- [ ] Is the scope minimal for its stated purpose?

Step 4: Risk Classification

Risk Level Examples Action
🟢 LOW Notes, weather, formatting Basic review, install OK
🟡 MEDIUM File ops, browser, APIs Full code review required
🔴 HIGH Credentials, trading, system Human approval required
⛔ EXTREME Security configs, root access Do NOT install

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 143 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 97e51019ab60

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vet-plugin is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericfitz/skills (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,117 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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