macos-malware-triage SKILL.md skillA
macos-malware-triage from iamakbarsha1/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/macos-malware-triage@git:20261024.d153ccePins git:20261024.d153cce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iamakbarsha1/whetstone
- Path
skills/macos-malware-triage/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261024.d153cce, committed Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 9,354 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
Use when asked to check a running macOS machine for compromise, malware, or unwanted persistence — "is my Mac infected", "did I get hacked", "check this laptop", "something is watching me", "scan this machine", "what's in my login items", "why is that process running at boot". The target is the live host, not a source repository: a repo-scoped security review reads code you are about to ship, this reads the state of a machine already running. An improvised host sweep has no manifest, so its…
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
# macOS Malware Triage **Type:** Open-source — client-agnostic methodology, no project-specific detail. **Created by akbarsha — https://github.com/iamakbarsha1** Distilled from a host-level compromise check that had to be improvised because every security skill in the installed library was scoped to source repositories — the two root-only checks it skipped surfaced only at the end, and nothing in the report said they had been skipped. **Licence:** Released under CC BY 4.0 — share and adapt for any purpose with credit. Full text: `LICENSE` at the repository root. **Feedback & Support:** If a rule here proves wrong or needs sharpening, open an issue on the repository or contact the author at the profile link above. If the problem is the agent not following a rule below rather than the rule itself, that's an execution failure — acknowledge and correct it. ## The core rule An improvised host check produces a report that looks identical whether it was thorough or not. Coverage collapses to whatever you happened to recall, and nothing in the output records what you never ran. So fix the axes before the first command — platform protections, persistence at every scope, code …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/macos-malware-triage@sha256:a6483431a794a75cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.d153cce, 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_k5vkt36csg4z5bfo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 24, 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 (9354 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
iamakbarsha1/whetstone · 4 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k5vkt36csg4z5bfo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iamakbarsha1/whetstone/macos-malware-triage GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a6483431a794a75c2decc21d7ee0d43740c6be3a6d4bd8f3259122274f98541b
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.