Grades are a hygiene check, not a security guarantee.

Codex, Plugin

Gpt Helper

Skills-only plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Compatibility: Not stated.

Grade C

One Medium finding. Read the findings 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 12edc146f6f9, unchanged since the check below.

PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED

Why this grade

  • PERMISSION_SHELL_UNDECLARED Medium

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

    plugins/gpt-helper/skills/verify-before-answer/coop/coop_helper.py, line 178 result = subprocess.run(

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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

    plugins/gpt-helper/skills/verify-before-answer/coop/coop_helper.py, line 178

    result = subprocess.run(

    plugins/gpt-helper/skills/verify-before-answer/coop/test_coop_helper.py, line 215

    result = 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

    plugins/gpt-helper/skills/verify-before-answer/coop/coop_helper.py, line 212

    blocked = {".env", ".ssh", ".aws", ".azure", ".kube", ".gnupg", ".codex", ".claude"}

    plugins/gpt-helper/skills/verify-before-answer/coop/coop_helper.py, line 219

    if path.is_symlink() or name in blocked or name.endswith((".pem", ".key")) or name.startswith(".env."):

    plugins/gpt-helper/skills/verify-before-answer/coop/test_coop_helper.py, line 163

    (project / ".env").write_text("SECRET=value")

  • 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.

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Note

Hygiene check of commit 12edc146f6f9. 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: 12edc146f6f932ee1886899d9741662e2d31ccdd

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