Pilot it+659 this week14,975 · 1,255 forks

AI security scanner for agent skills

Worth a timeboxed spike before you bet on it.

Who it's for

Small teams using AI agents and skills

What it replaces

Manual security reviews of AI code

The catch

May require significant customization and integration effort

Your first hour

Run SkillSpector on a small subset of existing AI skills

The numbers

Stars14,975
Forks1,255
Stars added (7d)+659
Open issues79
LanguagePython
LicenceApache-2.0
Last pushUpdated 2 days ago
Project age5 months old

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.

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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.

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Stars, forks, licence and last-push data from the public GitHub API, refreshed August 26, 2026. The verdict is NoizeOff's editorial opinion for a team of 2–20, not advice from the project's maintainers, and not legal advice on licensing. We are not affiliated with NVIDIA.

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