Grades are a hygiene check, not a security guarantee.

Claude Code, Skill

Baseline Skills

Three Agent Skills that give any AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, and anything else that speaks the open Agent Skills format) a working default for secure, well-set-up software, without you having to w

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Grade C

One Medium finding. Read the report before installing.

Graded by PlugVetRubric v2

Not a guarantee. A hygiene check of the source at the commit shown, not a security audit.

PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED

Why this grade

  • PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED Medium

    Runs shell commands that the manifest or description does not mention.

    skills/pre-merge-check/scripts/check_dependencies.py, line 30 return subprocess.run(cmd, cwd=cwd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=TIMEOUT_SECONDS)

Any High, or two or more Medium findings, give D. One Medium gives C. Low findings or a security Note give B. Each code names a finding behind the letter.

Grades are a hygiene check of the source at the commit shown, on the date checked, not a security audit or a guarantee. The free directory grades are automated. Before release, a PlugVet engineer reviews every paid report and any grade we hold back, including all F grades, against the source code and the evidence we quote.

What was checked

Plain notes from the hygiene checks.

  • Permissions

    Concern

    requests shell access. No manifest field names shell or command execution.

    PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED

    skills/pre-merge-check/scripts/check_dependencies.py, line 30

    return subprocess.run(cmd, cwd=cwd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=TIMEOUT_SECONDS)

    skills/pre-merge-check/scripts/scan_secrets.py, line 72

    out = subprocess.run(

  • Install and update

    Pass

    No install-time script found, and dependencies are pinned or absent.

  • Network

    Pass

    No network call found.

  • Secrets

    Concern

    reads a credential or environment file.

    SECRETS_PATH_DOTENV

    skills/project-baseline-setup/scripts/scan_baseline.py, line 18

    SECRET_GITIGNORE_PATTERNS = [".env", "*.pem", "*.key", "*.p12", "*.pfx"]

    skills/project-baseline-setup/scripts/scan_baseline.py, line 40

    ENV_EXAMPLE_NAMES = [".env.example", ".env.sample", "env.example"]

    skills/project-baseline-setup/scripts/scan_baseline.py, line 127

    missing.append(".env.example")

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    .gitignore, line 3

    *.pyc

    README.md, line 18

    | [`project-baseline-setup`](skills/project-baseline-setup) | Scaffolds a new project (README, `.env.example`, `.gitignore`, ADR folder, a lightweight security checklist) or audits

    skills/project-baseline-setup/SKILL.md, line 3

    description: Scaffolds a new project with baseline engineering hygiene (README, .env.example, .gitignore covering secret files, a dependency lockfile check, an architecture-decisio

    skills/project-baseline-setup/SKILL.md, line 33

    (`.env`, `*.pem`, `*.key`, etc.) to the existing file, don't replace it.

    skills/project-baseline-setup/SKILL.md, line 61

    - **`.env.example` missing**: scan the codebase for environment variable

  • Agent instructions

    Pass

    No instruction to ignore earlier instructions or to hide a step.

  • Obfuscation

    Pass

    No encoded or minified payload found.

  • Licence

    Pass

    A licence file is present (LICENSE).

  • Maintainer activity

    Pass

    The latest commit is within the last 365 days.

Note

Hygiene check of commit 4a1a53e1cc55. requests shell access. No manifest field names shell or command execution. reads a credential or environment file.

Date and source

Date checked:

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github.com

Commit graded: 4a1a53e1cc555a258297c4a5823da3dc689b79ff

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