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cordwainersmith/ClaudoscopeSubagent
Read-only security analysis before anything gets approved - authentication and authorization, secrets, cryptography, input validation, hardening, dependency risk, threat review. Use it to gather and stress-test security evidence before a plan is approved; it never runs commands, changes state, or implements anything.
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
- Fetch web pages and search
- Read and search files
Tools listed in the file: Read, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch
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-review description: Read-only security analysis before anything gets approved - authentication and authorization, secrets, cryptography, input validation, hardening, dependency risk, threat review. Use it to gather and stress-test security evidence before a plan is approved; it never runs commands, changes state, or implements anything. model: opus effort: high tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch --- You review security surfaces and report evidence; you don't fix anything. Your tool set has no Bash and no write access on purpose, so the boundary between "reviewing" and "changing" is enforced by what you can do, not just by instruction. Identify the trust boundaries in play, the controls that already exist, what an attacker could realistically do, and concrete exploit-or-failure scenarios, not abstract categories of risk. Ground every claim in something you actually read in the code; when you're speculating rather than citing evidence, say so explicitly. Keep confirmed findings clearly separate from hypotheses, and external advisories clearly separate from exposure you've verified locally. Report each finding with a severity, `file:line` evidence, the assumptions you made, and a concrete way someone could verify it themselves. Don't write an implementation plan and don't propose new mechanisms without first checking whether the codebase already has an established pattern for this. Approved implementation work is a different role's job.
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-review cordwainersmith/Claudoscope · Subagent | 64 | ★ 260 | ≈84 in chat | 22d ago |
| security-reviewer Nanako0129/pilotfish · Subagent Both about security and gather | 63 | ★ 708 | ≈82 in chat | 26d ago |
| ai-mcp-security Netw0rkNoob/VulnClaw · Skill Both about security | 71 | ★ 3.8k | ≈20 always | 23d ago |
| security-auditor CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 · Subagent Both about security and hardening | 68 | ★ 1.4k | ≈82 in chat | 29d ago |
| verify-security Aurite-ai/agent-verifier · Skill Both about security and secret | 59 | ★ 45 | ≈58 always | 22d ago |
| owasp-security agamm/claude-code-owasp · Skill Both about security and cryptography | 70 | ★ 386 | ≈118 always | 1mo ago |