Audit of 35 public SKILL.md files flags 16 for risk rules
11/07/2026 — 11/07, 02:18·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- The authors took 20 skills from Anthropic's official skills repository plus 15 from the community skill set superpowers, then ran a single r…
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On November 7, 2026, a post titled "Scanned 35 SKILL.md files: 16 triggered risk rules" appeared on DEV Community. The authors pulled 35 real, public SKILL.md files — 20 from Anthropic's official skills repository and 15 from superpowers, one of GitHub's most popular community skill collections — and ran all of them through the same set of checking rules, one file at a time.
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The authors ran a single set of checks against 35 real, public SKILL.md files: 20 skills from Anthropic's official skills repository plus 15 from the community collection superpowers. Sixteen of them tripped at least one rule, 10 of those being Anthropic's own skills. The full methodology is documented and, the authors say, reproducible in under a minute.
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