using-husk

using-husk is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from husk-security/husk. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,430 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for using the locally installed Husk security scanner through MCP tools or the command line. It checks projects and home directories for vulnerable packages, leaked secrets, risky automation, and AI or MCP configuration issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing cached scan results, finding vulnerable or compromised packages, detecting exposed secrets, checking GitHub Actions and hooks, and inspecting AI or MCP configuration risks.
Why use it?
It helps identify security problems on the machine while keeping file contents, paths, and secrets local; package names and versions may be sent to public advisory databases unless offline mode is used.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the husk plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/husk-security/husk/using-husk
Any agent
npx skills add husk-security/husk --skill using-husk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/husk-security/husk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install husk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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 using-husk

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,430 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00087 $0.02430
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00243

Measured 4d ago against content hash f9c8e787abb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-husk 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 4d 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.

integrations/plugin/skills/using-husk/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using husk

Husk is a developer security scanner installed on this machine. It scans projects and the home directory for vulnerable/compromised packages (~68 package ecosystems: npm, PyPI, cargo, Go, OS package managers, editor extensions, MCP servers, and more), leaked secrets, risky automation (GitHub Actions, git hooks, install scripts), and AI/MCP config issues. Unless --offline is set, scans send discovered package names and versions to public advisory databases (OSV.dev, npm, PyPI, GitHub); file contents, paths, and secrets never leave the machine. Cloud features (account, inventory sync, telemetry) are strictly opt-in and the scanner is complete without them.

Prefer the MCP tools

If the husk MCP server is connected, use its tools instead of the CLI:

Tool What it does
husk_status Summary of the latest cached scan: timestamp, roots, severity counts, category counts, provider status. Call this first.
husk_findings List cached findings, sorted by severity. Filters: min_severity, category, path_contains, limit (default 50).
husk_packages Packages discovered in the cached scan with their manifest paths. Filters: ecosystem, name_contains, limit.
husk_fix Read-only plan of the safe-fixable subset, each item classified auto_safe/confirm/manual. Never writes; apply changes with your own tools (or husk fix --apply for the auto-safe subset).
husk_scan Run a fresh scan of given paths (defaults to cwd) and cache it. Options: home, offline, include_home_inventory (defaults false here, unlike the CLI).
husk_policy Read the committed project policy (.husk/policy.toml) for a path: blocked/allowed package coordinates, suppressed finding ids, CI threshold. Call before installing/recommending a dependency to respect the team's decisions; no scan needed.
husk_ledger Read the personal trust-ledger history (~/.husk/ledger.jsonl) of past approve decisions + a chain-integrity flag, so you don't re-flag what the user already triaged. Optional limit (default 50).
husk_guide Read scan-backed guidance with baseline/recommendation kind, severity, control status, local evidence, related finding/remediation ids, steps, options, and sources. Progress requires read plus verified/completed/dismissed.
husk_guide_update Mark a guide item read/complete/dismiss/clear (optional reason), persisted to husk's own state file (~/.husk/guide.json).
husk_feedback Send free-text product feedback about husk to the husk developers (message required, optional contact reply email). Sends only the message, the contact, and the husk version. Ask the user before sending on their behalf.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 4d ago First seen · 142 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A f9c8e787abb4

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using-husk is a skill published in the GitHub repository husk-security/husk (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,430 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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