Grades are a hygiene check, not a security guarantee.

Claude Code, Skill

Paper Fetch

Use when the user wants to download a paper PDF from a DOI (or title, resolved to a DOI first).

Compatibility: Not stated.

Grade B

Minor issues only, no Medium or High. Worth a quick look at the findings below before installing.

Graded by PlugVetRubric v2

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

Rescanned at commit 448a9d362418, unchanged since the check below.

NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST

Why this grade

  • NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST Low

    Makes a network call whose host is not written as a fixed address.

    scripts/fetch.py, line 362 with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:

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.

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What was checked

Plain notes from the hygiene checks.

  • Permissions

    Pass

    No shell or command execution found, and no extra permission was declared.

  • Install and update

    Pass

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

  • Network

    Concern

    can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address.

    NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST

    scripts/fetch.py, line 362

    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:

    scripts/fetch.py, line 409

    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:

    scripts/fetch.py, line 1056

    def fetch(

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    scripts/fetch.py, line 1410

    AL=1), also attempts a publisher-direct fetch (publisher_direct source) using the calle

    scripts/fetch.py, line 1418

    "description": "DOI to fetch (positional). Use '-' to read DOIs line-by-line from stdin.",

    scripts/fetch.py, line 1812

    ap.add_argument("doi", nargs="?", help="DOI to fetch (e.g. 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2). Use '-' to read from stdin.")

    scripts/fetch.py, line 1900

    r = fetch(

    SKILL.md, line 58

    | `doi` | - | DOI to fetch (positional). Use `-` to read a single DOI from stdin |

  • Secrets

    Pass

    No read of a credential file or secret environment variable found.

  • Agent instructions

    Pass

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

  • Obfuscation

    Pass

    No encoded or minified payload found.

  • Licence

    Note

    no licence file found.

    LICENCE_MISSING

    No file path was stored.

    no licence file found.

  • Maintainer activity

    Pass

    The latest commit is within the last 365 days.

Note

Hygiene check of commit 448a9d362418. can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address. no licence file found.

Date and source

Date checked:

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github.com

Commit graded: 448a9d36241897f1fa09d8d740df6062d64d9036

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