Caveat verdict

better-skill-audit

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🟠 Risky
Significant risk patterns flagged — automated deep scan, not behavioral proof.

The skill is deprecated and no longer maintained, which could potentially lead to security issues.

⚠ Flagged for review — coarse, uncorroborated signal, not a confirmed exploit. Review the config yourself before installing.

Automated static analysis — not a human review. Caveat flags capabilities, not confirmed intent, and can produce false positives. Disagree with this verdict? Use Dispute below.

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Findings (4)

Pattern match high

Pipe to bash — executes piped content as shell commands

references/check-rules.md · prose · downgraded · |bash

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

references/check-rules.md · prose · downgraded · subprocess.run(

Pattern match low

Python urllib.request — network access

references/check-rules.md · prose · downgraded · urllib.request

Pattern match low

Python os.environ.get — reads environment variable

references/check-rules.md · prose · downgraded · os.environ.get(

Why the tier is capped

Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class A/B/D). Final tier capped at Caution — cannot be lifted by any downgrade, example-payload opt-in, or allowlist.

Permissions & capabilities

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

process_exec

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