Skill audit report

Effective Shell Audit report.

Text, samples and website for my 'Effective Shell' series.

EXPERIMENTAL · REVIEWNeeds reviewGenerated Aug 3, 2026Heuristic metadata audit
79
Audit
74
Trust
78
Quality
77
Security
88
Maintain
92
Install

OpenAgentSkill Trust Score

74
Strong shortlist

OpenAgentSkill Trust Score

The Trust Score helps an agent decide whether a skill is safe enough to shortlist before installation.

GitHub adoption

INFO

76

774 GitHub stars

Stars/forks activity

INFO

71

774 stars, 93 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata

Recent maintenance

PASS

88

2mo since push

License clarity

WARN

42

Unknown

README/SKILL.md completeness

INFO

74

Public metadata needs stronger README/SKILL.md context

Dependency/runtime risk

INFO

72

command execution surface

Install availability

PASS

92

npx skills add dwmkerr/effective-shell

Install command safety

PASS

92

standard package or runtime install path

Permission surface

INFO

62

shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

Repository evidence

PASS

86

https://github.com/dwmkerr/effective-shell

Review status

PASS

88

AI review data available

Agent Proven outcomes

INFO

54

No agent outcome data yet

Checks

Install and adoption review

7 Passed · 7 Needs review

Install path

92

PASS

npx skills add dwmkerr/effective-shell

Repository

88

PASS

https://github.com/dwmkerr/effective-shell

License

45

CHECK

Unknown

Maintenance

88

PASS

2mo since push

AI review

88

PASS

Approved with no listed issues

README/SKILL.md completeness

84

PASS

Usable description available

Dependency risk

72

CHECK

command execution surface

Install command safety

92

PASS

standard package or runtime install path

Permission surface

62

CHECK

shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

Stars/forks activity

71

CHECK

774 stars, 93 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata

Adoption

88

PASS

774 GitHub stars

Warnings

  • License is unclear
  • Quality score needs review
  • License clarity: Unknown

Method

This report combines public metadata, AI review output, repository freshness, install readiness, OpenAgentSkill events, quality scoring, trust checks, and the agent safety gate. It is not a full source-code security review.

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