hermes-desktop-companion

Warn

Audited by Socket on Sep 12, 2026

1 alert found:

Security
SecurityMEDIUM
SKILL.md

SUSPICIOUS. The skill's broad capabilities mostly match a desktop companion for a powerful agent, but the install path is high-risk: unsigned binaries from a personal GitHub repo, RPM installs with --nogpgcheck, SmartScreen/quarantine bypass instructions, and temporary passwordless sudo. Data flows to many official third-party services are expected for this product class, and I found no direct credential exfiltration or hidden pre-execution malware behavior. Overall this looks more like a high-risk community desktop wrapper with weak install trust and transitive skill-loading risk than confirmed malicious content.

Confidence: 89%Severity: 76%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Sep 12, 2026, 06:51 PM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/reason-machines%2Fhermes-skills%2Fhermes-desktop-companion%2F@4f874b879f7ec5ee3374192f00a849dc9253b6c8ffef5039f7efab80ad0c6a5a
Security Audit — socket — hermes-desktop-companion