skill-vetter

skill-vetter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,011 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-vetter, MIT.

A security review process for AI-agent skills, which are reusable instruction and code packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review skills from sources such as GitHub or ClawdHub before running or installing them.
Why use it?
It helps detect unsafe permissions, hidden network requests, credential collection, suspicious code, and unexplained system changes before installation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to review skills from sources such as GitHub or ClawdHub before running or installing them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing/19-skill-vetter
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 subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing --skill 19-skill-vetter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for skill-vetter

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,011 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 100% 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 $0.00042 $0.01011
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00505
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00101

Measured 8d ago against content hash e8eb7583355c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-vetter 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 8d 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

• Requests elevated/sudo permissions

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

• curl/wget to unknown URLs
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to skill-vetter — 0 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.

agent-meta/19-SKILL-VETTER/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Vetter 🔒

Security-first vetting protocol for AI agent skills. Never install a skill without vetting it first.

When to Use

  • Before installing any skill from ClawdHub
  • Before running skills from GitHub repos
  • When evaluating skills shared by other agents
  • Anytime you're asked to install unknown code

Vetting Protocol

Step 1: Source Check

Questions to answer:
- [ ] Where did this skill come from?
- [ ] Is the author known/reputable?
- [ ] How many downloads/stars does it have?
- [ ] When was it last updated?
- [ ] Are there reviews from other agents?

Step 2: Code Review (MANDATORY)

Read ALL files in the skill. Check for these RED FLAGS:

🚨 REJECT IMMEDIATELY IF YOU SEE:
─────────────────────────────────────────
• curl/wget to unknown URLs
• Sends data to external servers
• Requests credentials/tokens/API keys
• Reads ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, ~/.config without clear reason
• Accesses MEMORY.md, USER.md, SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md
• Uses base64 decode on anything
• Uses eval() or exec() with external input
• Modifies system files outside workspace
• Installs packages without listing them
• Network calls to IPs instead of domains
• Obfuscated code (compressed, encoded, minified)
• Requests elevated/sudo permissions
• Accesses browser cookies/sessions
• Touches credential files
─────────────────────────────────────────

Step 3: Permission Scope

Evaluate:
- [ ] What files does it need to read?
- [ ] What files does it need to write?
- [ ] What commands does it run?
- [ ] Does it need network access? To where?
- [ ] Is the scope minimal for its stated purpose?

Step 4: Risk Classification

Risk Level Examples Action
🟢 LOW Notes, weather, formatting Basic review, install OK
🟡 MEDIUM File ops, browser, APIs Full code review required
🔴 HIGH Credentials, trading, system Human approval required
⛔ EXTREME Security configs, root access Do NOT install

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 8d ago First seen · 139 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A e8eb7583355c

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skill-vetter is a skill published in the GitHub repository subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,011 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to skill-vetter, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.