syncthing-setup

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 25, 2026

Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill employs various system commands including brew, curl, lsof, cp, and mv to manage the installation of Syncthing, verify its status, and configure its parameters. These operations are standard for software setup and service management.\n- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill uses the Homebrew package manager (brew install syncthing) to fetch the necessary software from its official repository. This is a trusted and well-known source for macOS software.\n- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: An automated scan identified a command piping the output of a curl call to python3. Detailed analysis confirms this is a benign operation used to parse JSON data from the local Syncthing API at 127.0.0.1:8384. The command uses the -c flag with a hardcoded script to extract the device ID, ensuring that the remote response content is treated as data rather than executable code.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Apr 25, 2026, 12:08 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — syncthing-setup