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janitor-security
Heuristic security scan of installed skills — prompt-injection phrases, hidden unicode instructions, credential-store access, network-pipe-to-shell and payload-smuggling patterns. Use when the user asks 'are my skills safe', wants to scan skills for prompt injection or malware patterns, or before trusting a newly installed skill. Trigger with '/janitor-security'.
plugins/community/skills-janitor/skills/janitor-security/SKILL.md
Source commit 0500b275e963c027f6b410e8c49c0446945c574e
What was checked
- Matches the observed repository HEAD
- Yes
- Scanner rules are current
- No
- Repository scan complete
- No
- Skill scan complete
- No
- Observed behavior
- Not checked yet
- Last checked
- Nov 12, 2026
These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.
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Repository context
- Repository stars (not skill ratings)
- 2,917
- Repository last updated
- Nov 12, 2026
- License
- MIT
Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.
- ai Repository topic
- automation Repository topic
- claude-code Repository topic
- devops Repository topic
- mcp Repository topic
- ai-agents Repository topic
- anthropic Repository topic
- claude-code-plugins Repository topic
- developer-tools Repository topic
- llm Repository topic
- skills Declared skill tag
- security Declared skill tag
- prompt-injection Declared skill tag
- audit Declared skill tag
- maintenance Declared skill tag
- security Derived category
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# Security Scan
Heuristic scan of skill content for prompt-injection and malicious patterns.
## Overview
A skill is text your agent trusts: its SKILL.md is read as instructions and its scripts run on your machine. Public research (Snyk's ToxicSkills, 2026) found prompt injection in roughly a third of tested community skills. This scan flags the known bad shapes across every installed skill, in every scope (user, project, codex, plugin):
- **Injection phrases** — "ignore all previous instructions", "do not tell the user"
- **Hidden instructions** — imperative text in HTML comments (invisible when rendered), zero-width/bidi unicode between plain characters
- **Payload smuggling** — large decodable base64 blobs in markdown
- **Dangerous scripts** — network piped into a shell (`curl … | bash`), decode-and-execute, credential-store access (`~/.ssh`, `~/.aws`, keychain), URL shorteners, plain-HTTP calls, uploads of variable data
Findings are heuristics, not proof: a RISK verdict means "read this before trusting it". Legit tools trip these rules too (e.g. an installer that pipes curl into bash) — the point is that YOU see it and decide.