Skill audit report

skill-validator Audit report.

Validate SKILL.md files against the Agent Skills spec and Claude Code extensions. Run on new or modified skills before committing.

EXPERIMENTAL · REVIEWNeeds reviewGenerated Aug 23, 2026Heuristic metadata audit
70
Audit
63
Trust
57
Quality
66
Security
100
Maintain
92
Install

OpenAgentSkill Trust Score

63
Manual review

OpenAgentSkill Trust Score

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

GitHub adoption

WARN

48

33 GitHub stars

Stars/forks activity

WARN

43

33 stars, 3 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata

Recent maintenance

PASS

100

2d since push

License clarity

WARN

42

Unknown

README/SKILL.md completeness

PASS

86

Metadata includes enough usage and workflow context

Dependency/runtime risk

INFO

64

command execution surface, database surface

Install availability

PASS

92

npx skills add shipshitdev/skills --skill skill-validator

Install command safety

PASS

92

standard package or runtime install path

Permission surface

FAIL

36

shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

Repository evidence

PASS

86

https://github.com/shipshitdev/skills/tree/master/.agents/skills/skill-validator

Review status

INFO

66

AI review data available

Agent Proven outcomes

INFO

54

No agent outcome data yet

Checks

Install and adoption review

5 Passed · 17 Needs review

Install path

92

PASS

npx skills add shipshitdev/skills --skill skill-validator

Repository

88

PASS

https://github.com/shipshitdev/skills/tree/master/.agents/skills/skill-validator

License

45

CHECK

Unknown

Maintenance

100

PASS

2d since push

AI review

55

CHECK

Repository license is unknown, which may affect redistribution clarity.

README/SKILL.md completeness

86

PASS

Usable description available

Dependency risk

64

CHECK

command execution surface, database surface

Install command safety

92

PASS

standard package or runtime install path

Permission surface

36

FIX

shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

Stars/forks activity

43

FIX

33 stars, 3 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata

Adoption

42

CHECK

33 GitHub stars

Warnings

  • License is unclear
  • Permission surface may require sandboxing
  • Repository license is unknown, which may affect redistribution clarity.
  • The skill references internal scripts and memory files (e.g., scripts/validate-skill-sync.sh, memory/system/skill-standards.md) that are not included in the provided excerpt, but this is acceptable as the SKILL.md itself is complete.
  • Low GitHub adoption signal
  • Quality score needs review
  • Permission surface needs review: shell or command execution, filesystem or document access
  • GitHub adoption: 33 GitHub stars
  • Stars/forks activity: 33 stars, 3 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata
  • License clarity: Unknown
  • Permission surface: shell or command execution, filesystem or document access

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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