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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.

ScannedSubagentSource: GitHub
260 stars Updated 22d ago License MIT Context ≈84 tokens in your chat
64popular

Why this score

Stars11/35
Usage (forks)3/15
Upkeep25/25
License15/15
Owner history10/10

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

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