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v1.1.0

Find and evaluate Claude skills for specific use cases using semantic search, Anthropic best practices assessment, and fitness scoring. Use when the user ask...

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byMisha Kolesnik@tenequm·duplicate of @tenequm/x402-development
MIT-0
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LicenseMIT-0 · Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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Purpose & Capability
The SKILL.md clearly implements a GitHub-centric search-and-install workflow that depends on the GitHub CLI (gh), jq, base64, date, grep, curl, git clone, npm/pip and other shell tooling. The registry metadata declares no required binaries or credentials. That is incoherent: a tool that calls gh and clones repos should at minimum declare the dependency on gh and the likely need for GitHub authentication (GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN). The skill also assumes write access to a .claude/skills directory on disk, which is not reflected in required config paths.
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Instruction Scope
SKILL.md instructs the agent to search GitHub, fetch SKILL.md files, clone repositories, download whole skill directories, and — in the 'complex' path — prompt to run remote setup.sh, run npm install and pip install, and execute arbitrary shell scripts from third-party repos. Those actions go well beyond passive evaluation: they fetch and can execute remote code and modify local filesystem state. The instructions do not constrain or require verification of downloaded scripts prior to execution.
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Install Mechanism
Although the skill has no formal install spec (instruction-only), the provided installation workflow recommends cloning arbitrary GitHub repos, copying files into the agent's skill directory and running setup scripts and dependency installers. That is a high-risk download-and-execute pattern (clone → run setup.sh / npm / pip) from potentially untrusted sources. The guidance does not require verifying release hosts, checksums, or limiting execution to known/trusted repositories.
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Credentials
The skill does not declare required environment variables, but its workflows rely on the GitHub CLI and API which typically require authentication (GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN) to avoid rate limits and to access private repos. It also assumes permission to read/write .claude/skills and to run package managers. Requesting no credentials in metadata while instructing operations that commonly require tokens and broad filesystem access is disproportionate and misleading.
Persistence & Privilege
always:false (good). However, the skill's recommended workflow installs third-party skill files into .claude/skills, may overwrite existing installations, and can run setup/install scripts that persist software or change environment state. While that capability is consistent with an installer/evaluator tool, it elevates the blast radius because arbitrary repositories can cause persistent changes if users accept prompts.
What to consider before installing
This skill's description (find/evaluate GitHub skills) matches the code in SKILL.md, but the instructions assume utilities and permissions that are not declared and include downloading and executing third-party setup scripts. Before installing or letting the agent run this skill: 1) Require the skill to declare dependencies (gh, jq, git, curl, etc.) and the need for a GitHub token (GH_TOKEN) with limited scope; 2) Do not allow automatic execution of setup.sh or automated npm/pip installs — inspect downloaded setup scripts and dependency manifests manually in a sandbox first; 3) Prefer a read-only preview mode (fetch and display SKILL.md content) rather than automatic clone+install; 4) If you must install, do it on an isolated machine/container and limit credentials to least-privilege tokens; 5) If the vendor cannot explain why no binaries or env vars are required, treat the skill as untrusted.

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MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.

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