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scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus
77 / 100 · Review before installing
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
Tenable Nessus is the industry-leading vulnerability scanner used to
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 2 places.
Connects to the internet
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a security skill.
Found in 15 places.
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- skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/SKILL.md, line 135
curl -k -X GET https://localhost:8834/scans/<SCAN_ID> \ - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/SKILL.md, line 150
curl -k -X POST "https://localhost:8834/scans/<SCAN_ID>/export" \ - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/agent.py, line 45
resp = requests.request(method, url, json=data, headers=headers, - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 49
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 63
requests.delete(url, headers=self.headers, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 69
response = requests.get(url, headers=self.headers, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 107
response = requests.post(url, headers=self.headers, json=payload, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 118
response = requests.post(url, headers=self.headers, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 129
response = requests.get(url, headers=self.headers, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 185
response = requests.post(url, headers=self.headers, json=payload, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 195
status_resp = requests.get(status_url, headers=self.headers, verify=self.verify_ssl) - skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus/scripts/process.py, line 202
download_resp = requests.get(download_url, headers=self.headers, verify=self.verify_ssl)
Downloads and installs other software
The author does not mention this.
Found in 2 places.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '54a798831d2266a3ca61ce68a7acb80b81160d57' -- 'skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus' ~/.agents/skills/'scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus' && 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/'scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus' ~/.claude/skills/'scanning-infrastructure-with-nessus' (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
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|
| 2026-11-08 | 54a7988 | 77 |
| 2026-11-07 | 54a7988 | 77 |