check-artifact-reputation

check-artifact-reputation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 50 tokens per session (370 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A security workflow for checking whether a file, package, URL, certificate, or vendor has trustworthy origins and known threat reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record artifact identity, compare local and official vendor evidence, review threat-intelligence results, and account for privacy, stale data, and false positives.
Why use it?
It helps investigate suspicious artifacts without treating popularity, a valid signature, or a clean lookup as proof that something is safe.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the cybersecurity-skills plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to record artifact identity, compare local and official vendor evidence, review threat-intelligence results, and account for privacy, stale data, and false positives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/check-artifact-reputation
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 gaelic-ghost/socket --skill check-artifact-reputation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cybersecurity-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 370 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00050 $0.00370
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c89c191f6ffe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-artifact-reputation scanned grade A with 0 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/cybersecurity-skills/skills/check-artifact-reputation/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Check Artifact Reputation

Overview

Gather provenance and intelligence without treating popularity, valid signing, a clean lookup, or a vendor label as a safety verdict. Prefer local identity and vendor sources before sending data to third parties.

Read references/reputation-evidence.md for source ordering and interpretation.

Workflow

  1. Fix identity.

    • Record artifact hashes, signer/certificate, exact version, source URL, domain, resolved destinations, and acquisition time.
  2. Check local evidence.

    • Inspect quarantine/provenance, signature/notarization, known installation records, local security detections, and expected vendor distribution paths.
  3. Check authoritative sources.

    • Prefer vendor advisories, release checksums/signatures, certificate status, official repositories, and current platform security sources.
    • Date each lookup.
  4. Decide whether external intelligence is appropriate.

    • Explain whether the service receives only a hash/domain or may upload/retain the artifact.
    • Obtain explicit approval before sending private artifacts, URLs, customer data, or unknown binaries.
  5. Correlate results.

    • Record detection names, engines/sources, first/last seen, submission context, prevalence, relations, and conflicting classifications.
    • Distinguish “not present” from “known benign.”
  6. Feed behavior analysis.

    • Use reputation to prioritize static/dynamic checks, not replace them.

Output

Return identity, sources/date, privacy decision, reputation observations, conflicts, interpretation limits, confidence effect, and next behavioral check.

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 40 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A c89c191f6ffe

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check-artifact-reputation is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 370 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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