safe-install-checklist

safe-install-checklist is a skill for Codex from jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills. It costs 50 tokens per session (342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for deciding whether an agent skill is safe to install and how to install it with only the access it needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check the source and version, inspect installation requirements, set approval gates, choose a limited-access installation path, and plan follow-up checks.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk of unreviewed instructions, scripts, dependencies, secrets, data movement, and excessive permissions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps check the source and version, inspect installation requirements, set approval gates, choose a limited-access installation path, and plan follow-up checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeremylongworth-source/agentskills/safe-install-checklist
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 jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills --skill safe-install-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeremylongworth-source/agentskills/safe-install-checklist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeremylongworth-source/agentskills/safe-install-checklist.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 342 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 $0.00342
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured 7d ago against content hash fbd7fe88b0a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

safe-install-checklist 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 7d 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.

skills/safe-install-checklist/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Safe Install Checklist

Core Workflow

  1. Identify source, version, publisher, install method, host, and intended use.
  2. Confirm the skill was reviewed for instructions, scripts, dependencies, secrets, data movement, and required permissions.
  3. Recommend least-privilege install options: pin version, copy manually, inspect before enabling, disable scripts, or run read-only first.
  4. Define approval gates for write access, network access, MCP scopes, customer data, production systems, and outbound messages.
  5. List post-install checks and re-review triggers.
  6. Conclude with approve, approve with changes, block, or defer.

Safety Rules

  • Do not recommend installing unreviewed third-party skills into a privileged agent environment.
  • Do not make GitHub CLI, Codex, or any one host the only safe path.
  • Do not approve auto-updating skill sources for high-risk workflows without a re-review process.

Deliverable Shape

For safe install recommendations, provide:

  • Source and version
  • Intended host and install method
  • Pre-install checks
  • Required mitigations
  • Least-privilege install path
  • Approval gates
  • Post-install checks
  • Recommendation

References

  • Read references/safe-install-checklist.md when producing install guidance or reviewing whether a skill is safe to enable.
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. 7d ago First seen · 46 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A fbd7fe88b0a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

safe-install-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills (1 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 342 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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