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Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor plugin for xhostd — deploy applications, sites, and services.

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 77da89d218a9.

SECRETS_PATH_CREDENTIAL

Why this grade

  • SECRETS_PATH_CREDENTIAL Medium

    Mentions a credential store path (~/.ssh, id_rsa, .npmrc, .aws/credentials, credentials.json, .netrc).

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/getting-started.md, line 65 ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -f ~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519 # only if the file is absent

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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. can reach recipe-node-docs.xhostd.app. The description does not name that host. can reach recipe-python-docs.xhostd.app.

    NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST NETWORK_UNNAMED_HOST NETWORK_NAMED_HOST

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/api-reference.md, line 673

    curl -sS --fail-with-body -X PUT \

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-git.md, line 76

    XHOSTD_GIT_TOKEN="$(curl -sS --fail-with-body -X POST \

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-index.md, line 90

    curl -sS https://<app>-<account>.xhostd.app/

    Show more

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-recipes-app-node.md, line 286

    $ curl -sS https://recipe-node-docs.xhostd.app/

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-recipes-app-node.md, line 289

    $ curl -sS "https://recipe-node-docs.xhostd.app/api/echo?q=hello"

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-recipes-app-python.md, line 265

    $ curl -sS https://recipe-python-docs.xhostd.app/

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-recipes-app-python.md, line 268

    $ curl -sS "https://recipe-python-docs.xhostd.app/api/echo?q=hello"

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-recipes-blob.md, line 420

    $ curl -sS --fail-with-body -X PUT \

  • Secrets

    Concern

    reads a credential or environment file.

    SECRETS_ENV_READ SECRETS_PATH_CREDENTIAL

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-recipes-blob.md, line 128

    WRITE_TOKEN = os.environ.get("WRITE_TOKEN", "")

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/getting-started.md, line 65

    ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -f ~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519 # only if the file is absent

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/getting-started.md, line 66

    # then: register_ssh_key(public_key=<content of ~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519.pub>, label="this machine")

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    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/getting-started.md, line 69

    GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i ~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519 -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" git push xhostd-ssh HEAD:master

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-git.md, line 125

    ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -f ~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/references/guide-git.md, line 143

    GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i ~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519 -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" git push xhostd-ssh HEAD:master

    plugins/xhostd/README.md, line 92

    - `ssh-keygen`, which creates `~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519` once, when that file

    plugins/xhostd/skills/xhostd/SKILL.md, line 77

    S2. If `~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519` exists, go to S3. Otherwise make a keypair in a subprocess — `ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -f ~/.ssh/xhost_ed25519` — so the private half goes straight

  • 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 77da89d218a9. can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address. can reach recipe-node-docs.xhostd.app. The description does not name that host. can reach recipe-python-docs.xhostd.app. reads a credential or environment file.

Date and source

Date checked:

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Commit graded: 77da89d218a9cc23f7e20bce6bb7daac8db396ec

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