Chown Tool

Perform chown-tool operations from the command line.

Security Scan

The skill is internally consistent: a small CLI wrapper for chown with no unexpected network activity, environment variables, or install steps.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description match the included code and SKILL.md. The Python script implements a simple chown operation (owner and file arguments) consistent with the claimed purpose.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md only documents CLI usage and examples. The runtime behavior (scripts/chown.py) operates only on the provided file argument and does not read unrelated files, environment variables, or contact external endpoints.

Install Mechanism

No install specification or external downloads. The skill is instruction-only with an included small script; nothing is written to disk by an installer.

Credentials

No environment variables, credentials, or config paths are requested. The script uses standard system libraries (pwd, grp, os) appropriate for mapping user/group names to IDs.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill is not always-enabled and is user-invocable (normal). However, chown is a privileged operation: if this skill is executed with elevated/system privileges it can change ownership of arbitrary files. This is an inherent risk of a chown utility rather than an incoherence in the skill.

Assessment

This skill appears to be what it claims: a tiny chown CLI. Before installing, inspect the script (already included) and confirm you trust it. Be aware that chown requires appropriate system privileges to succeed — do not grant the agent or this skill elevated (root) permissions unless you intend to allow file ownership changes. If you want to limit risk, run it in a sandbox or only allow manual (user-initiated) invocation rather than autonomous invocation by an agent.

Chown - CLI Utility

Command-line utility for chown operations.

Quick Start

chown-tool --help

Features

• Standard command-line interface
• Common flags and arguments
• Pipe and redirect compatible
• Shell integration

Examples

# Show help
chown-tool --help

# Basic usage
chown-tool [options] [arguments]

# Pipe input
echo "input" | chown-tool [options]