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Security Scan

The skill's requests and instructions are coherent with its stated purpose: it is an instruction-only wrapper that tells the agent to install and use a third-party Python CLI (langskills-rai) to search an offline skills database.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description (search an evidence-backed skills DB) align with the instructions: they require python3 and instruct the user to pip install langskills-rai and run a CLI search. The declared GitHub metadata matches the described purpose.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md only instructs installing a package and running the langskills-rai CLI (skill-search and bundle-install). It does not direct reading unrelated files, accessing extra environment variables, or exfiltrating results to unexpected endpoints. Note: bundle-install may download and write domain bundles to the local project directory (expected behavior for populating an offline DB).

Install Mechanism

The registry contains no automated install spec (lowest-risk). The SKILL.md tells the user to run pip install langskills-rai. Installing a third-party Python package runs arbitrary code from that package and may download additional bundles; this is expected but you should vet the package source (PyPI/GitHub) before installing.

Credentials

No environment variables, credentials, or config paths are requested or required in the SKILL.md. The skill's needs are minimal and proportional to a CLI search tool.

Persistence & Privilege

always:false and no special persistence or cross-skill config modification are requested. The skill does not ask to be force-enabled; agent autonomy defaults remain unchanged.

Assessment

This skill is an instructions-only integration that delegates runtime work to a third-party Python package (langskills-rai). Before installing or running it: (1) verify the package and source (PyPI entry and the referenced GitHub repo) to ensure they match and are trustworthy; (2) install inside a virtualenv to limit effects to a contained environment; (3) be aware bundle-install will likely download data files and write them into your project directory — review where it stores bundles and how large they are; (4) inspect the package code (or its repository) if you want to be sure it doesn't perform unexpected network calls or collect unrelated system data. The static scanner had no files to analyze (SKILL.md only), so vetting the external package is the main remaining step.

Search 119,608 evidence-backed skills covering 62K+ research papers and 23K+ coding/tech sources — all offline via FTS5 SQLite.

When to Use

• User asks for best practices, how-tos, or techniques on a technical topic
• You need evidence-backed knowledge (not LLM-generated guesses)
• Research tasks that benefit from academic or real-world source citations

First-Time Setup

pip install langskills-rai
# Install matching bundles for the current project or pick a domain:
langskills-rai bundle-install --auto

Search Command

langskills-rai skill-search "<query>" [options]

Parameters

Flag	Description	Default
--top N	Number of results	5
--domain <d>	Filter by domain	all
--min-score N	Minimum quality score (0-5)	0
--content	Include full skill body	off
--format markdown	Output as Markdown	text

Example

langskills-rai skill-search "CRISPR gene editing" --domain research --top 3 --content --format markdown

Reading Results

Each result includes: title, domain, quality score (0-5), source URL, and optionally the full skill body. Higher scores indicate stronger evidence chains.

Available Domains

linux · web · programming · devtools · security · cloud · data · ml · llm · observability · research-arxiv · research-plos-* · research-elife · research-other

Tips

• Use --content --format markdown to get copy-paste-ready skill text
• Combine --domain with --min-score 4.0 for high-quality results
• Run bundle-install --auto in a project directory to install only relevant domains