rafter-skill-review

rafter-skill-review is a skill for Claude Code from Raftersecurity/rafter-cli. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,342 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A security-review skill for third-party agent files such as skills, MCP manifests, editor rules, and agent configuration. It treats installing these files as a security-sensitive action because they may gain access to files, commands, or the network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a local path or Git URL before installing, loading, recommending, or forwarding the third-party asset.
Why use it?
It helps detect secrets, risky shell commands, suspicious URLs, obfuscation, and unsafe instructions before copying or sharing an agent asset.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Cursor.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is rafter skill review ./third-party-skill/ --json > report.json.

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Raftersecurity/rafter-cli
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raftersecurity/rafter-cli/rafter-skill-review

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 5.1 $0.00094 $0.01342
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00134

Measured yesterday against content hash 0c8a0ed76496, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

rafter-skill-review scanned grade C 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 yesterday.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

description: "REQUIRED before copying any third-party SKILL.md, MCP manifest, Cursor rule, or agent config into this machine or forwarding one to a user. Installing a skill grants Read/Bash/network under your identity —

Makes network callslowCapability

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

description: "REQUIRED before copying any third-party SKILL.md, MCP manifest, Cursor rule, or agent config into this machine or forwarding one to a user. Installing a skill grants Read/Bash/network under your identity —
node/resources/skills/rafter-skill-review/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rafter Skill Review — Vet Before You Install

Skills are executable context. Installing one gives it Read, sometimes Bash, sometimes network — with your identity and your files. Treat installation the way you treat curl | sh: don't.

Before you copy any third-party SKILL.md, MCP manifest, Cursor rule, or agent extension into your machine, run this skill.

This skill replaces rafter agent audit-skill (still usable but deprecated — emits a stderr warning and aliases to rafter skill review).


Step 0: Always run the deterministic pass first

rafter skill review <path-or-git-url>            # emits JSON to stdout
rafter skill review <path> --format text         # human-readable summary

The command:

  • pulls the skill (if a URL, does a shallow clone into a temp dir),
  • runs rafter secrets over the tree,
  • extracts URLs, high-risk shell patterns, obfuscation signals,
  • reads SKILL.md frontmatter (allowed-tools, version, etc.),
  • prints a structured JSON report — see shared-docs/CLI_SPEC.md §rafter skill review.

Exit code 0 means the deterministic pass found nothing. That does NOT mean the skill is safe. LLM prompt injection, sneaky data practices, and authorship fraud are invisible to regex. Always follow up with the Choose-Your-Adventure branch below.


Choose Your Adventure

Pick exactly one branch. Read only that sub-doc — do not flood your context with all six.

(a) I am installing a brand-new skill

Use this when: you've never had this skill on this machine, and you want to know if it's safe to install for the first time.

Walk in order:

  1. Read docs/authorship-provenance.md — who wrote it, how old, how signed, how widely installed. Stop early if provenance is weak.
  2. Read docs/malware-indicators.md — grep for obfuscation, binary blobs, postinstall scripts, known-bad URL patterns.
  3. Read docs/prompt-injection.md — scan prose for hidden instructions, zero-width characters, conflicting directives in long files.
  4. Read docs/data-practices.md — which files/paths does it read and write, what network calls, does it silently escalate via allowed-tools.
  5. Read docs/telemetry.md — phone-home URLs, analytics SDKs, anonymous-but-trackable IDs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. yesterday First seen · 107 lines · 94 tokens per session scan C 0c8a0ed76496

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rafter-skill-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Raftersecurity/rafter-cli (27 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,342 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.

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