auditing-editor-extension-workspace-trust SKILL.md skillA
auditing-editor-extension-workspace-trust from unboundcompute/security-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-editor-extension-workspace-trust@git:20260825.70f8609Pins git:20260825.70f8609 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- unboundcompute/security-agent-skills
- Path
skills/auditing-editor-extension-workspace-trust/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260825.70f8609, committed Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 9,810 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Audit an editor or IDE extension for actions it runs on untrusted workspace contents, after the workspace-trust capability and activation events are resolved. Covers a task, debug preLaunchTask, or command that auto-runs on folder open, a tool path or command template read from workspace settings and executed, a workspace-trust bypass where a risky operation runs in restricted mode, a language server that loads or executes a workspace-declared binary, repo-controlled data reaching a shell or…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Auditing editor extension workspace trust: what an untrusted repository makes the editor do on open An editor extension turns dangerous the moment merely opening a cloned repository makes it run code the repository controls. The threat is not a user choosing to run something; it is a drive-by, a hostile `.vscode/tasks.json`, a `settings.json` that names the compiler binary, an activation event that fires on folder open and shells out before the user has trusted anything. You audit it by resolving, per risky action, whether a workspace-trust gate or an explicit user gesture stands between the untrusted repo and the execution sink. The discipline is separating an action that genuinely fires on open from one that needs a deliberate click, and a value read from workspace settings from one read from user or global settings a repo cannot set. ## When to use - You are reviewing an editor or IDE extension manifest, its activation events, and its trust capability. - The extension reads workspace configuration, runs tasks, or resolves a tool or binary path from a repo. - You want to know whether opening a hostile repository executes code before the user trusts it. ## Scope check …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-editor-extension-workspace-trust@sha256:9bc580edac885643The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260825.70f8609, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2ehkxbcdkrbordg7)
3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 25, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9810 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
unboundcompute/security-agent-skills · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2ehkxbcdkrbordg7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/auditing-editor-extension-workspace-trust GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9bc580edac88564365f5fa3587f240cc63efaa5990f1aa858280d06ffd32001c
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.