package-triage SKILL.md skillA
package-triage from dreadnode/capabilities is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/package-triage@git:20260504.2a64374Pins git:20260504.2a64374 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dreadnode/capabilities
- Path
capabilities/secure-software/skills/package-triage/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260504.2a64374, committed May 4, 2026
- Size
- 3,921 bytes
- Repository stars
- 22
- License
- MIT
Triage a suspicious or newly encountered software package end-to-end using Spectra Assure Community reports, OSV vulnerability data, OpenSSF Scorecard, and static inspection. Use when the user asks to "triage a package", "investigate this library", "is this npm/pypi/gem safe", or supplies a purl or package name.
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
# Package Triage Playbook Goal: produce a short, evidence-backed verdict on whether a specific package version is safe to adopt — malware risk, known CVEs, supply-chain hygiene, and anything surprising in the artifact itself. ## 1. Establish identity Pin down the *exact* artifact: 1. Resolve the user's input to a canonical purl. Examples: - "lodash 4.17.21" → `pkg:npm/lodash@4.17.21` - "requests" (no version) → use `spectra_get_package` to get the latest published version, then pin. - A SHA256 → use `spectra_search_packages` with the hash to find packages that match or *contain* it. 2. If the user supplies only a partial purl or a vague name, run `spectra_search_packages` first and confirm which result they mean before spending cycles. Record: `purl`, `version`, `repo URL` (from the community report), and the expected artifact hash. ## 2. Pull the Spectra Assure Community report Use `spectra_get_version_report` with the purl and version. Note: - Overall verdict and quality score. - Malware / malicious behaviour detections and any YARA-family hits. - Vulnerability counts (critical / high / medium / low) and the specific CVEs called out. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/package-triage@sha256:538c37ecacff4a8fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260504.2a64374, 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_zokbisbc2zpyh2j5)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 4, 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 (3921 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
dreadnode/capabilities · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zokbisbc2zpyh2j5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dreadnode/capabilities/package-triage GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/538c37ecacff4a8f039b73adc7c3f4df8ced581ec566fc88c7f5fe68978339bc
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.