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performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a security skill usually runs scanners and checks websites.

By mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (GitHub) · security · 35,906 stars · scanned at commit 54a7988

Plan and run authenticated (credentialed) vulnerability scans with scanners such as

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a security skill.

Found in 3 places.

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

Reads your saved credentials, such as SSH keys or .env files

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 2 places.

Sends data to these websites: nessus

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a security skill.

Found in 3 places.

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

Safer alternatives

Low-risk skills in the same category (security) that look related. Check that one does what you need.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '54a798831d2266a3ca61ce68a7acb80b81160d57' -- 'skills/performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan' ~/.agents/skills/'performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan' ~/.claude/skills/'performing-authenticated-vulnerability-scan' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

DateVersionScore
2026-11-0854a798857
2026-11-0754a798857