performing-vulnerability-scanning-with-nessus
100 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Performs authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability scanning using Tenable Nessus to identify known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, default credentials, and missing patches across network infrastructure, servers, and applications. The scanner correlates findings with CVE databases and CVSS scores to produce prioritized remediation guidance. Activates for requests involving vulnerability scanning, Nessus assessment, patch compliance checking, or automated vulnerability detection.
What this skill can do
We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'performing-vulnerability-scanning-with-nessus' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'performing-vulnerability-scanning-with-nessus' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named performing-vulnerability-scanning-with-nessus already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/plurigrid/asi' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '293ce9f76e3abcd5ba18db284688bc0d9ac6691d' -- 'plugins/asi/skills/performing-vulnerability-scanning-with-nessus' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/asi/skills/performing-vulnerability-scanning-with-nessus' ~/.agents/skills/'performing-vulnerability-scanning-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/'performing-vulnerability-scanning-with-nessus' ~/.claude/skills/'performing-vulnerability-scanning-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.
Badge for your README
[](https://zalavijaysinh.github.io/skilltrust/repos/plurigrid/asi/)
Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 293ce9f | 100 |