skill-installer

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Audited by Socket on Aug 3, 2026

1 alert found:

Anomaly
AnomalyLOW
scripts/install-skill-from-github.py

This module appears to be a functional GitHub-based installer that fetches and installs arbitrary repository content chosen by user input. It does not show overt malware behavior (no exfiltration, credential theft, or hidden execution) within the provided code. The security risk is mainly supply-chain and operational: it executes git based on user-controlled ref/paths, downloads and extracts third-party ZIP archives, and then copies untrusted directories into the local filesystem after only minimal validation (SKILL.md presence). ZIP extraction includes a basic boundary check against path traversal, but additional archive safety (symlink/hardlink/resource exhaustion) and stronger integrity verification (commit pinning/signatures/hashes) are not evident in this module.

Confidence: 63%Severity: 52%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Aug 3, 2026, 10:38 AM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/hhushhas%2Fskillbox-registry%2Fskill-installer%2F@b73cf0b2594a4ad4654986b99ad0ead88fd055ca627f7f44451da089e4be7e0b
Security Audit — socket — skill-installer