pao: Agent-optimized output for PHP testing tools

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Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 68/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars491
Forks16
LanguagePHP
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score68/100
Open Issues1
Last Updated2026-04-22
Created2026-03-26
Est. Tokens~27k

About pao

PAO is agent-optimized output for PHP tools. It works with any PHP project — Laravel, Symfony, Laminas, vanilla PHP, or anything else that uses PHPUnit, Pest, Paratest, PHPStan, or Laravel Artisan. It detects when your tools are running inside an AI agent — Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, Gemini CLI, and others — and replaces the verbose, human-readable output with compact, super minimal, structured...

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with pao for enhanced workflows:

  • php-sdk — semantic(0.32)+complementary+same_lang (46%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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