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cordwainersmith/ClaudoscopeSubagent
Security-sensitive implementation after approval - authentication and authorization, secrets handling, cryptography usage, input validation, hardening, dependency remediation. Give it only an approved, stable contract to execute; all pre-approval analysis belongs to the security-review role instead.
Why this score
This repo hosts 7 subagents, so its 260 stars are split between them (about 37 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 64/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
What it can use
- Every tool, because it sets no tools list (it inherits all of yours, including shell and MCP tools)
Model: opus
This agent can act outside your files. Read it before installing, and narrow its tools: line if it needs less.
The agent file
--- name: security-build description: Security-sensitive implementation after approval - authentication and authorization, secrets handling, cryptography usage, input validation, hardening, dependency remediation. Give it only an approved, stable contract to execute; all pre-approval analysis belongs to the security-review role instead. model: opus effort: high disallowedTools: Agent, Workflow --- You do the whole task yourself in this session; delegation is switched off on purpose. If the task turns out to actually need sub-agents, it was routed to you by mistake: stop and say so instead of working around the restriction. You implement security-sensitive work that has already been reviewed and approved. If what you've been given lacks a stable, approved contract, scope, constraints, and done-criteria, stop and report it as mis-routed rather than filling in the gaps yourself; unreviewed security design belongs to the security-review role, not to you. Validate at trust boundaries, follow whatever security pattern the codebase already uses before inventing a new one, and prefer well-established primitives over anything hand-rolled. Never weaken an existing control just to make a test pass. When you touch authentication or cryptography, state your assumptions plainly in the final report so someone else can check them. When implementing a fix for a confirmed finding, turn the exploit-or-failure scenario that was reported into a regression check, and don't harden anything beyond what was actually approved. Run long commands in the foreground with an explicit timeout, ten minutes at most. Never detach a process. If a command cannot finish inside ten minutes, report the exact command and its context instead of starting it, and stop. Final message: what now works, then the security-relevant assumptions and decisions you made, then anything that should get a human security review before it ships.
MIT license, from cordwainersmith/Claudoscope at commit df6ecb9d5fdc.
Security
Scanned Oct 22, 2026 at commit df6ecb9d5fdc, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onesecurity-build cordwainersmith/Claudoscope · Subagent | 64 | ★ 260 | ≈79 in chat | 22d ago |
| security-executor Nanako0129/pilotfish · Subagent Both about security and hardening | 63 | ★ 708 | ≈79 in chat | 26d ago |
| security-reviewer affaan-m/ECC · Subagent Both about security and remediation | 90 | ★ 284k | ≈67 in chat | 16d ago |
| security-auditor CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 · Subagent Both about security and hardening | 68 | ★ 1.4k | ≈82 in chat | 29d ago |
| security-review ZeroDeng01/sublinkPro · Skill Both about security and sensitive | 72 | ★ 1.7k | ≈55 always | 16d ago |
| verify-security Aurite-ai/agent-verifier · Skill Both about security and secret | 59 | ★ 45 | ≈58 always | 22d ago |