
SkillSpector
AI security scanner for agent skills
Worth a timeboxed spike before you bet on it.
Small teams using AI agents and skills
Manual security reviews of AI code
May require significant customization and integration effort
Run SkillSpector on a small subset of existing AI skills
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Maintainers describe it as: “Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply-chain risks in Claude Code, Codex, and MCP skills before you install them.”
SkillSpector, in short
- Should a small team use SkillSpector?
- Pilot it. Worth a timeboxed spike before you bet on it. Small teams using AI agents and skills
- What does SkillSpector actually do?
- AI security scanner for agent skills
- What does SkillSpector replace?
- Manual security reviews of AI code
- What is the downside of SkillSpector?
- May require significant customization and integration effort
- Can SkillSpector be used in a commercial product?
- Its licence is Apache-2.0, which is permissive and generally fine for commercial use. Confirm against the LICENSE file in the repository.