Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
This is a bounded read-only Etherscan contract-review skill with optional user-approved CLI setup and disclosed API-key handling.
Install only if you want Codex to retrieve and explain verified smart-contract source from Etherscan-compatible explorers. Expect network requests and possible prompts to install or authenticate etherscan-cli. Do not paste API keys into chat; if you choose persistent CLI login, protect the local plaintext config file the CLI creates. The skill should not sign transactions, connect wallets, broadcast transactions, or run retrieved contract code.
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Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
Require a contract address and chain before starting retrieval. If either is missing, ask for the missing input.
Accept optional focus areas such as architecture, integration, permissions, asset flow, a specific function, a source file, a maximum depth, whether API authentication is already configured through a secret-safe mechanism, or a local source repository for comparison. Never ask the user to provide an API-key value in chat.
## Safety Boundaries
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
Use this reference only when a trusted `etherscan` executable is unavailable on `PATH`. Do not execute a same-named binary discovered only in the current working directory.
1. Detect the operating system, architecture, and active shell without asking the user when they are available from the environment. Check read-only whether relevant package managers or runtimes are already available; do not install prerequisites implicitly.
2. Read the live **Install** section of https://github.com/etherscan/etherscan-cli/ immediately before offering installation. Treat the repository as authoritative for supported operating systems, architectures, installation channels, prerequisites, and commands.
3. Present a numbered menu containing only the repository's installation methods applicable to the detected OS. Label missing prerequisites, distinguish persistent installations from one-shot methods such as `npx`, and include a final option to decline installation and use the Etherscan API directly. Do not collapse the menu into a yes/no prompt.
4. Show the exact command or repository-prescribed manual procedure for every option. Preserve command spelling, arguments, URLs, shell, ordering, and verification steps exactly as documented; do not translate commands between shells or substitute an unofficial package manager.
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
Use this reference only when a trusted `etherscan` executable is unavailable on `PATH`. Do not execute a same-named binary discovered only in the current working directory.
1. Detect the operating system, architecture, and active shell without asking the user when they are available from the environment. Check read-only whether relevant package managers or runtimes are already available; do not install prerequisites implicitly.
2. Read the live **Install** section of https://github.com/etherscan/etherscan-cli/ immediately before offering installation. Treat the repository as authoritative for supported operating systems, architectures, installation channels, prerequisites, and commands.
3. Present a numbered menu containing only the repository's installation methods applicable to the detected OS. Label missing prerequisites, distinguish persistent installations from one-shot methods such as `npx`, and include a final option to decline installation and use the Etherscan API directly. Do not collapse the menu into a yes/no prompt.
4. Show the exact command or repository-prescribed manual procedure for every option. Preserve command spelling, arguments, URLs, shell, ordering, and verification steps exactly as documented; do not translate commands between shells or substitute an unofficial package manager.
No suspicious patterns detected.