frontend-tooling-trust-gate

frontend-tooling-trust-gate is a skill for Codex from TheGoat395/Codex-Skills. It costs 15 tokens per session (381 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety check for tools and packages used in frontend and website work. It reviews their source, maintenance, permissions, and installation steps before you install or recommend them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify npm packages, GitHub repositories, templates, plugins, scripts, and agent tools, then decide whether to install them, inspect them manually, avoid them, or choose a safer alternative.
Why use it?
It helps avoid suspicious, outdated, or unsafe tools that could access private files, tokens, cookies, or run unwanted installation scripts.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to classify npm packages, GitHub repositories, templates, plugins, scripts, and agent tools, then decide whether to install them, inspect them manually, avoid them, or choose a safer alternative.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thegoat395/codex-skills/frontend-tooling-trust-gate
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 TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill frontend-tooling-trust-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheGoat395/Codex-Skills

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
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 381 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00015 $0.00381
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 5d ago against content hash e4ba9fea0c6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontend-tooling-trust-gate scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

5. Look for preinstall/postinstall scripts, broad permissions, telemetry, token requests, cookie access, or curl-to-shell commands.
skills/frontend-tooling-trust-gate/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Frontend Tooling Trust Gate

Use this skill before installing or recommending a repo, package, MCP, plugin, template, or script.

Trust Classes

  • preferred: official or clearly reputable.
  • acceptable: useful, maintained, and reasonably transparent.
  • inspect manually: promising but insufficiently verified.
  • avoid: suspicious, stale, unsafe, or low-quality.
  • unknown risk: not enough evidence.

Inspection Checklist

  1. Prefer official sources, verified orgs, and vendor-maintained repos.
  2. Inspect README specificity, license, SECURITY.md, recent commits, releases, issues, and package registry links.
  3. Inspect package.json, scripts, dependencies, and install instructions.
  4. Use npm view <package> repository license version time maintainers when npm metadata matters.
  5. Look for preinstall/postinstall scripts, broad permissions, telemetry, token requests, cookie access, or curl-to-shell commands.
  6. Prefer project-local installs for frontend tools and libraries.
  7. Avoid global installs unless the tool is an agent-wide CLI and the user explicitly approves it.
  8. Never expose API keys, browser cookies, SSH keys, tokens, or private files to unknown tools.

Decision Output

Return:

  • source and type
  • trust class
  • evidence
  • red flags
  • install stance: install, project-local only, do not install, or needs user auth
  • safer official alternative if rejected

Scope and evidence

Apply to frontend tooling adoption only. Reuse recent verified adoption decisions if no relevant version, source, permission or requirement changed. Stale maintenance is a factor, not proof of malice. Existing authorization covers routine approved installs; spending and external commitments keep their actual boundaries.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago Changed · +4 lines · -61 tokens per session e4ba9fea0c6b
  2. 11d ago First seen · 39 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A e752d7093939

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frontend-tooling-trust-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheGoat395/Codex-Skills (122 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 381 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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