Is varlock safe to install?

Yes — varlock is safe to install, with something worth knowing. Sonnet 5 read every file varlock ships from wrsmith108/varlock-claude-skill on 7 September 2026 and found nothing that acts against the person installing it; the static scan of its 26 rules grades it A.

Reviewed by Sonnet 5 on 7 September 2026 · a grade is what a scan and a reading found, not a guarantee · how this works

What the reviewer found

Varlock secrets-hygiene skill: 'cat .env | grep SECRET' and the API-key curl are both explicit NEVER-DO-THIS examples the skill tells Claude to avoid, and the install curl pulls the vendor's own installer from varlock.dev, the tool's own domain.

What was read

The file as it ships in wrsmith108/varlock-claude-skill:

What the static scan said

The scan flagged 3things. The reviewer kept 0 and dismissed 3 as false.

How this review was made

Sonnet 5 read the files above on 7 September 2026 and answered three questions: is it dangerous to whoever installs it, is each scanner finding real, and what should the installer know. The verdict is bound to the file's hash; when the file changes, it is scanned afresh and reviewed again. A script that changes while the definition does not is not re-reviewed — that is a known gap. How the scan and the review work.

Produced by agentmods.dev · Sonnet 5 · 7 September 2026

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