portless
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 23, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONPERSISTENCECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSNO_CODE
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill provides instructions for the
portless trustcommand, which modifies the system's root trust store by adding a local CA certificate. It also notes that the proxy auto-elevates withsudoon macOS and Linux to bind to privileged ports like 443. - [PERSISTENCE]: The
portless service installcommand is documented as a way to register a native startup service usinglaunchd,systemd, or Windows Task Scheduler, ensuring the proxy remains active across system reboots. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The documentation guides the agent to perform various shell-level operations, including modifying the
/etc/hostsfile viaportless hosts syncand managing background processes through theportless runandportless aliassubcommands. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill directs the agent to install the
portlesspackage from external registries like NPM or Homebrew. These references point to official repositories from Vercel Labs. - [NO_CODE]: The skill consists exclusively of instructional markdown files and does not contain any executable scripts or local code files.
Audit Metadata